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Break out your teal shirt and get ready to raise some awareness! The week of May 10-16, 2020 is Food Allergy Awareness Week and that means its time to join the millions of others living with food allergies in sharing our stories to help others better understand the challenges we face.

When you’ve spent the day trying to help your son master math, while simultaneously reading through your daughter’s language arts assignment and attempting to brush your hair before your video conference, prepping dinner for the family later that evening can be enough to overwhelm you even if you’ve managed to maintain a fully stocked pantry. If you can relate, the following quick, easy, and yummy allergy-friendly recipes should help ease the load a little.

At a time when we’re all feeling a little on edge, social distancing through the holidays becomes another loss to mourn in a growing list of things we’ve lost to the pandemic. We know why we’re hunkered down at home and not gathering together to celebrate. We’re willing to follow those restrictions. We may just be a little sad about it. As allergy families well know, however, having to adapt traditions isn’t the end of the world. We know from experience that simple changes to “the way we’ve always done it” can yield new experiences. 

If you’ve been to a supermarket, you know that the combination of fear and preparing to comply with prolonged stay-at-home orders have resulted in empty shelves. From fresh meat to frozen vegetables, from paper goods to non-perishables, the supermarket is barren. That’s hard enough for any family to navigate, but those of us dealing with food allergies have an additional challenge.