Which egg substitute works best in baking cakes? (A 5th grade science project!)
It’s science fair time! I’ll be honest, last year, we totally phoned it in. We did the typical wait-until-the-last-minute thing, and the project kinda sucked. It was something about seeing how long it...
View ArticleWhat is a 504 plan? And does my food allergic child need one?
If you’re a food allergy parent and you’ve spent any time online looking up back to school tips for allergy kids, chances are you’ve at least seen 504 Plans mentioned. But if you’re like I was before...
View Article5 Easy-to-Make, Healthy School Lunches — Dairy-, Egg- and Nut-free!
As if thinking of lunches for your kids in general wasn’t hard enough, we food allergy parents have the added task of thinking of safe lunches… that our kids will actually eat, and enjoy! Oh, what...
View ArticleWhy I’m homeschooling my allergic child & how it’s going so far
It wasn’t the easiest decision I’ve ever made. But it was a necessary one. My social butterfly of a daughter is being homeschooled for 6th grade, and I don’t feel like I had any other choice. She...
View ArticleAllergy-Friendly Halloween Candy Lists for 2016
Finding allergy safe Halloween candy can be tricky (haha, get it?), but it doesn’t have to be. My daughter is allergic to milk, eggs, peanuts and tree nuts, and I find it easiest to just avoid all top...
View ArticleDon’t let food allergies SCARE you!!! Allergy-friendly Halloween tips
If you have a child with food allergies, or if you have food allergies yourself, you know. Halloween can be scary — and not just because of that drooling zombie guy popping out at you in the haunted...
View ArticleNeed a quick burst of protein? Enjoy Life Foods ProBurst Bites!
We could not have gotten these at a better time. Seriously! I have been wracking my brain for protein-based snacks for Jillian lately, and then we get a box of these little beauties on the doorstep....
View Article9 Kitchen Hacks for Your Food Allergy Family
The other night, as I was making dinner for our family of five (even though one of us is too little to eat family dinner just yet…), it dawned on me that certain things that I do to keep my allergic...
View ArticleWashington D.C. with Food Allergies — How we did it! Part 1 (Plane travel &...
My two oldest kids have been begging — BEGGING — to go on a plane trip for, well, pretty much their entire lives. I knew we would eventually go somewhere someday, but in the past, being a single...
View ArticleWashington D.C. with Food Allergies — How we did it! Part 2 (What & where to...
Yesterday I posted about our recent trip to Washington D.C. and how to travel on a plane and find a place to stay when you’re dealing with food allergies. Today, I’ll break down how we found food,...
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