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School may look a lot different this year for most of our families. Regardless of whether your student is attending classes in-person, online, or some hybrid of the two, one thing has remained the same: the morning rush. Your child may be logging into class from the kitchen table, but that doesn’t mean you have gained time for a nice, leisurely breakfast. Quick, healthy options to get started on the right foot are still the order of the day.

There’s more to September than back to school. It’s also the kick-off of Pumpkin Spice Season. As with any food-based trend, however, finding an allergy-friendly alternative can be difficult, unless you’re ready to roll your sleeves up and make your own. Here’s the good news: You’ve got plenty of simple and delectable pumpkin spice recipes to pick from. A few of them can be found here. 

The coronavirus has added some new twists to the August routine you may have grown accustomed to. Now we’re trying to figure out what Back-to-School during a pandemic looks like. Your local school district may be releasing plans, then modifying and releasing updated plans. There are a lot more questions to navigate this year and the August routine that we’ve become comfortable with no longer applies. The following items are certainly not an exhaustive list, but they should help you get focused on some ideas that you may not have considered previously.

The tight supplies haven’t just impacted our food options at the point of purchase. Food manufacturers are also experiencing challenges in securing specific ingredients needed to produce their packaged goods. In order to continue producing their products, manufacturers may opt to make changes to their formulations, and that’s presenting an entirely new, potentially dangerous challenge for food allergy families.