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My husband and I have spent the past several months discussing ways to help our family and to help the many other families dealing with food allergies. I have made it my mission to develop a public awareness campaign and launch my Not-for-Profit Agency, Food Allergy Support Services.

We are here to help families through first diagnosis, holiday stress, every day life, school and beyond.  We don’t like feeling alone & confused and neither does anyone else. Our support groups have been FANTASTIC! I don’t know what I would have done without them!

We want to take things to the next level. With the additional support of Assemblyman Mark Schroeder, Allergist Dr. Andrew Green and Dr. Hugh A. Sampson, Director of the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at Mt. Sinai Hospital NYC we are well on our way to exceeding our goals!

My first priority is to educate the public about food allergies. They need to understand our daily life, not as hysterial parents, but as parents who love their children and are doing everything they possibly can to make their world a safe place to live.

My next priority is to bring support services to parents of food allergy families.

• I want caseworkers available for families after every confirmatory food allergy appointment. They will meet with families at home & keep in touch with them as they learn to navigate life with food allergies
• We will provide Counseling to families on an individual and group basis. Anxiety &  food allergies are synonymous 
• If necessary we will take it a step further and provide psychological services for “every day” use. Sometimes we have bad days, there should be someone to listen
• Nutritional counseling will be available, not only for children with multiple food allergies, but for those parents who want to learn more about cooking healthy meals using foods they aren’t used to using
• We also want to provide transition counseling to families ready to plunge into a school setting, letting go of your food allergy child
• Of course our support groups will be going strong and hopefully the meetings will be better attended and more regular. With ample funding we should have the ability to attract excellent speakers…or hopefully educate some professionals to speak to us.
• Education will be a HIGH priority. We want food allergies to be in the continuing education curriculum for physicians, teachers, nurses, etc.  We will hold seminars for groups to help bring greater awareness of the dangers of food allergies
• And lastly, Food Allergy Support Services will have it’s own website & 800# to connect to it’s members & anyone who needs our services

I will never charge parents to use my services.  From time to time I may sell products through our site to help defray the cost of our programs, however I am hopeful donations from private sources will provide us with the ability to fulfill our goals and dreams!

Please think of Food Allergy Support Services and the many children it will help in the Buffalo area to expand their world one step at a time!

Yours Truly,

The Popek Family …Chris, Tom, Eddie & Sam

Canadian nut free facilities have been expanding and popping up in recent years as American neighbours watch in wonder. With the economic down turn, companies are unlikely to build in the US , especially with costs involved with insuring the facility is indeed nut free.

This has created a growing industry of companies that ship much wanted nut free from Canada to the US . Some of these companies started as candy shipping companies, then out of demand have categorized their nut free products. Most of these companies have grown out of the demand for Nut Free Canadian products. The newest shipper is Canadiannook, who only sells Canadian nut free products.

www.canadiannook.com
www.peanutfreeplanet.com
www.allerneeds.com
www.canadaonly.ca
www.halfpennybooksandmore.com
www.canadiansweets.com
www.panhandlepremium.com
www.jessebar.com

People with nut allergies tend to visit my nut free pages, people with gluten allergies tend to visit my gluten free pages. On the bottom of my nut free list are articles about nut allergies, bottom of my gluten free list are articles about avoiding gluten. So your welcome to submit an article about nut allergies.

I find a “free from” food or place, then and add it to the appropriate list. Sometimes companies E-mail me asking to be added to my nut free list, or milk free list or what ever list they belong to.

When I go grocery shopping I write down web sites off packaging, then search the sites to see if any of their products belong on any of my free from lists.

lot of my free from foods, and places I find with goggle, then try to organize in way to make them easier to find on my site.

Canadian nut free facilities have been expanding and popping up in recent years as American neighbours watch in wonder. With the economic down turn, companies are unlikely to build in the US , especially with costs involved with insuring the facility is indeed nut free.

This has created a growing industry of companies that ship much wanted nut free from Canada to the US . Some of these companies started as candy shipping companies, then out of demand have categorized their nut free products. Most of these companies have grown out of the demand for Nut Free Canadian products. The newest shipper is Canadiannook, who only sells Canadian nut free products.

www.canadiannook.com
www.peanutfreeplanet.com
www.allerneeds.com
www.canadaonly.ca
www.halfpennybooksandmore.com
www.canadiansweets.com
www.panhandlepremium.com
www.jessebar.com

People with nut allergies tend to visit my nut free pages, people with gluten allergies tend to visit my gluten free pages. On the bottom of my nut free list are articles about nut allergies, bottom of my gluten free list are articles about avoiding gluten. So your welcome to submit an article about nut allergies.

I find a “free from” food or place, then and add it to the appropriate list. Sometimes companies E-mail me asking to be added to my nut free list, or milk free list or what ever list they belong to.

When I go grocery shopping I write down web sites off packaging, then search the sites to see if any of their products belong on any of my free from lists.

lot of my free from foods, and places I find with goggle, then try to organize in way to make them easier to find on my site.