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Managing food allergies – yours or for someone you love – can feel like a full-time job in its own right. It can feel overwhelming. It can be frustrating. Every time you think you have a handle on things, someone changes their manufacturing process or tweaks a recipe and now you’re back to square one in the challenge of finding safe staples for the family diet.  The holiday season, starting this week with Thanksgiving, can bring its own special set of challenges from social gatherings to navigating traditions to potlucks and cookie exchanges. During this stretch in particular, it can...

For most of us, holidays are steeped in traditions. But when we step back and consider what those traditions are, a good number of them are likely linked to food. There’s grandma’s famous strawberry pie recipe that must be made every 4th of July. It’s even brighter and a bigger “bang” than the fireworks. There’s the authentic shortbread cookie following a recipe that your spouse’s great-great-grandparent wrote down on a card before the family emigrated from Scotland so very many years ago. Christmas can’t occur without those cookies wrapped delicately in tissue paper and placed in tin canisters to hand...

Your child has been diagnosed with food allergies. It’s a lot to take in. Suddenly everything you know about caring for and nourishing your family has been flipped on its head. You’re spending more time than you ever thought possible food shopping as you pause in front of every potential purchase to scan labels for allergy statements once… twice… three times, just to be sure.  You’re slowly realizing that food allergens are in more than just food. That moisturizer you’re about to put on your hands, scan the label there, too. The lip balm – yes, check that one. Also...

Cool, crisp autumn air is just made for afternoons of whipping up scrumptious baked goods and deep dishes of warm comfort foods. Living with food allergies doesn’t mean you have to give up the culinary delights loaded with squashes and apples. It just means you need to experiment with ingredient swaps and new recipes.  Of course, sometimes you just roll your sleeves up and get cooking without taking the time to sort through egg alternatives and wheat substitutes. If today is one of those days, then good news, we’ve already done the digging for you. Try some of these recipes....