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5 Tips for Celebrating Easter & Passover With Food Allergies

5 Tips for Celebrating Easter & Passover With Food Allergies

Holidays often mean opportunities to gather with family and friends to celebrate. Whether you’re sitting down for a full meal or having something to drink and snack on, food is often a core component of our celebratory meetups. While we value time with those people we care about, the edible elements can present certain challenges for families managing food allergies. As we approach Easter and Passover, you may feel the stress of balancing holiday tradition with food allergies. I think I can help with that.

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Slow Cooker Meals: Allergy-Friendly Cooking for the Busy Cook

Slow Cooker Meals: Allergy-Friendly Cooking for the Busy Cook

Eating out often isn’t just bad for the budget, it’s also a challenge when you’re juggling food allergies. Finding a place that can safely feed your family can be more work than pulling a meal together. Take a deep breath and pull out your slow cooker. The following allergy-friendly recipes are easy to pull together in the morning before you dash out the door so you can return home later and be greeted by the yummy smells of dinner waiting for you.

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Beyond Food Allergies: Intolerance, FPIES, EoE, and OAS

Beyond Food Allergies: Intolerance, FPIES, EoE, and OAS

When you’re living with food allergies, you learn very quickly that one person’s experience with allergies doesn’t necessarily mirror the way other people respond to the same allergy. It can be easy, however, to assume that folks who experience health-related complications because of food all fall into a single category – allergic. That’s not exactly true. 

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Be My (Food-Allergy-Friendly) Valentine

Be My (Food-Allergy-Friendly) Valentine

Have you been by the holiday section at your favorite big box store lately? It’s loaded right now with red and pink hearts. In addition to the candy wrapped especially for the holiday, there are boxes of small cards with corny sayings destined for your school-aged children’s classrooms. Some of those boxes have a stash of sweet treats to be shared with each card. If you’re an allergy parent, this is where some degree of that allergy-related anxiety kicks in. Will your child be heartbroken when you dump the Valentine’s loot on the table and find nothing allergy-friendly in it?...

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