EASTER
Hello everyone! I have a few updates to make your Easter safe & fun!!! Just found Gimbal’s jelly beans at CVS. They are peanut, dairy, egg, gluten and gelatin free & kosher! Hershey’s chocolate bunnies not labeled as cross-contaminated with peanuts from Target Peeps are a peanut free food as well as PEZ!!! Wegmans chocolate [...]
PEZ
Pez will be in my Easter Basket this year! They use no peanuts in their facility…The Easter Bunny asked what kind we would like – 2 Thomas’ please!
Great Wolf Lodge Niagara Falls
Our family just returned from a fantastic, fun-filled weekend at Great Wolf Lodge http://www.greatwolf.com/niagara/waterpark. I happened upon their website last week, and found a GREAT deal on a Kid’s Camp room. On a whim I called the hotel & spoke with the chef. He assured me they would accomodate us at the buffet! I booked [...]
“Allergy Tales: A Birthday Party”
A local food allergy family, Carey Shoemaker & her husband, have just published our first children’s book: Allergy Tales: A Birthday Party. We struggled to find useful resources that would help us teach our son about his food allergy. Because I couldn’t find what I was looking for, I wrote a book for my son – and we [...]
“Allergy-Free Desserts”
This book comes to us from Self Magazine March 2010 Issue. http://www.amazon.com/Allergy-Free-Desserts-Gluten-free-Dairy-free-Egg-free/dp/0470448466/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268611281&sr=8-1 Elizabeth Gordon was an avid cook diagnosed with multiple food allergies, she founded Betsy & Claude Baking Co. and this is her first publication!
Food Allergy Friendly Colleges
Did anyone ever think they would see a post with this title? Recently, I received an email from WNY Food Allergy Connection linking me to an article by USA today http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-02-16-IHEdormfoodallergies16_ST_N.htm giving us hope for our college bound FA kids! The Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) premiered its College Network website in October 2009! It highlights [...]
NEW Not-for-Profit Food Allergy Support Services
Today has been a great day for my family. We have been working with the Buffalo News to develop a public awareness article regarding Food Allergies. It hit the papers today! To view the article please use the following link: http://www.buffalonews.com/185/story/632305.html My husband and I have spent the past several months discussing ways to help [...]