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A diagnosis of food allergies comes with loss and grief. There’s the real heavy stuff such as the anxiety that creeps in around normal everyday activities like sending your food-allergic child to school for the first time. There’s academic stuff like learning to read labels and developing the routine of ensuring you’ve always got that auto-injector in reach. Then there are the things that may seem trite at first blush—“Will I ever be able to eat a bagel again?” Here's the good news: it gets easier. Managing food allergies becomes part of your normal day-to-day rhythms and routines. You’ll still...

Regardless of your cultural or religious background, food is often at the center of traditional holiday celebrations. However, when you’re managing food allergies, just because it’s tradition doesn’t mean it’s easy. In fact, some of those food-related holiday traditions can make celebrating stressful and overwhelming.  As we approach Easter and Passover, it’s worth taking a moment to explore why food is core to our celebrations and how we can navigate the holiday season with food allergies safely. Symbolism & Rituals Some holiday food traditions are rooted deeply in symbolism and ritual. Passover provides plenty of examples of this. The charoset...

When the words “food allergies” first become part of your family’s health vocabulary, your mind starts to run through all the various ways food is an integral part of our culture. You think of holidays and parties and snacks after little league games and school cafeterias and dinner dates and on and on and on. How will you keep you or your loved one safe in a world that centers its socialization around food?  Understandably, your focus becomes navigating that part of your world. You learn to read labels. You develop a list of questions to ask hosts about the...

While the rest of the US is scrambling to find breakfast alternatives that don’t involve eggs, those of us managing the diets of a food allergic family already have a leg up on the process. We’re already well versed at adapting recipes to avoid specific common ingredients. We scour the internet for alternatives. We experiment to see which options work best. We think beyond the cereal box and the gallon of milk.  We may not have all the answers, but we know where to find them. For example, the following recipes for breakfast nix not just egg, but also other...