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Kids Food Allergies Blog » Blog Archive » Trick or Treat — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:03:53 +0000

[…] more inclined to bake cupcakes if I don’t have to make frosting too. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I really hate making […]

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:22:32 +0000

You mentioned that you would like to have nut free/dairy free candy. We buy dark chocolate from Vermont Nut Free. It is wonderful, great quality candy.

For snacks, there is Enjoy Life snack bars, Sunbutter on crackers or bread or Kinnickinnick muffins. M kids also love apples and other fruit as a snack.

I just discovered 2 other brands. 123GlutenFree and Allegeroo. There are lots of items on http://www.allergygrocer.com.

Like someone else said, it’s hard to find much nutrition in mass produced allergy free foods, but you can alter them with things like Sunbutter or Soy Nut Butter.

By: Kids Food Allergies Blog » Blog Archive » What Food Allergy Parents Are Looking For

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:00:34 +0000

[…] want to thank my fellow bloggers — ModernAllergyMom and Purple Mommy for responding to my call for food allergic parents to tell manufacturers what they are looking for by writing about products that they are able to buy for their food allergic children. I think […]

By: Kelly B

Kelly B — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:58:40 +0000

That would be amazing if snacks and cake mixes were allergy-free, easy to make, reasonably priced and even better if they were carried by our local, normal grocery store:)

I was thinking about the “snacks” that I bring when going to the park….. hmmm, carrot sticks, grapes, oh, and their favorite leftover, cold, plain pasta!!! I’ve gotten soo much grief (jokingly, of course) my the other mothers about bringing cold pasta…. but the funniest thing is that their kids like it too!!

By: modernallergymom

modernallergymom — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:27:04 +0000

I was so excted when I saw this article on the frint page! I totally agree. Since we have so many allergies every time I think I have found something new, there is a possible cross contamination. Since wheat is one of our allergens I shop a lot of gluten free foods. I often find that they are cross comtanimated with, egg, nuts or sesame. I am grateful for Enjoy Life Foods - they make foods that are free of the top 8 allergns. Mostly cookies and granola bars right now, but hopefully they will gro and expand their lines. I would like to add WHEAT FREE PRETZLES that do not “possibly contain sesame” etc etc.. I found a new new things at the health food store recently that I ma going to re cap on my blog. Thanks for getting this ball rolling - hopefully someone will pick it up!

By: LTFA Parent

LTFA Parent — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:10:25 +0000

That WaPo article mentioned the sale of peanut allergy dot com.

A large number of the former online forum members there have migrated to a free site they created (in 2007) at the following address:

http://allergy.hyperboards.com

http://www.foodallergysupport.com

Please join us there!

By: Amber

Amber — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:44:47 +0000

I wish there were more HEALTHY, allergen friendly options. It seems like every time I get the FAAN newsletter 80% of the recipes are for junk food and maybe one or two are for ‘real’ snacks or dinner ideas. If your diet is already limited the last thing you want to do is fill it with junk (i.e. fats, sugar, and other empty calories). I see the same trend with a lot of the allergen mass market stuff. Lots of emphasis on safe cookies, cakes, etc but litttle on meal stuff so I’m stuck making every meal and snack from scratch. Of course, that way is healthier but every now and then I’d like a little time off from the kitchen.