Disney ….coming soon
Just returned from our family trip to Disney…details to follow, soon!
Proposed Peanut Ban on Planes
The Associated Press has recently released an article regarding new federal regs to ban peanuts on planes. View the article in The Buffalo News: http://www.buffalonews.com/2010/06/11/1078880/ban-peanuts-on-planes-its-not.html
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 [...]
Traveling with my Food Allergic Kid
I wasn’t going to let our disappointing trip to the nut free ice cream parlour get me down! We traveled back to Toronto with a new goal – to find Richman’s 100% Nut Free Bakery!!! Located at 4119 Bathurst Street , Toronto, ON, M3H 3P4, (416) 636-9710 http://www.richmansbakery.ca/ , they offer everything a peanut/tree nut allergic family could want!!!
About 1/2 [...]
LonelyPlate.org
February 20, 2010 by peanutmom
Filed under News, Restaurants, Travel
My name is Sharona Schwartz. Until a year and a half ago, I was News Coverage Manager at CNN’s Washington Bureau where beyond my daily news responsibilities I produced many stories on food allergies with chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. You can find online some of the TV transcripts and CNN.com articles I wrote on [...]
Pittsburgh Travel
By Andrea: Peanut/Egg Mom
We took our first family out-of-town weekend trip and it was reaction free! We went to Pittsburgh and it included a MLB game (they were playing the Cardinals and my husband and son Walt are HUGE fans). We went to the zoo on Saturday and then to the baseball game on Sunday. [...]
Traveling with my Kids and Food Allergies
Our family recently took a trip to Toronto for a little family vacation. I will admit, I was nervous about food. We spent two nights in a boutique hotel my husband had stayed at before and knew what to expect. We chose against a family hotel because of the pets and ice cream bars.
Our first night we [...]
Food Allergy Summer Camp
As a parent of a child with food allergies, you have spent a great deal of time reading, networking, planning and preparing meals. It’s a lot of work but you can be confident it’s been done right. Perhaps one of your biggest challenges, however, is finding a way to give your child the independence they [...]
Why all the Canadian Info?
We’ve received several questions on this topic & the answer is, simply, they are better equipped than the US to manage food allergies – especially peanut!
Canada has recognized a serious problem within their county & has made great strides in creating Peanut Free manufacturing facilities, Food allergy friendly restaurants & hotels, plus a host of [...]
Canada Does It Again – “Allergy Friendly” Hotel and Restaraunt Listing
I spent some time researching our Allergy Friendly Canadian friends this weekend and arrived at Niagara Anaphylaxis Support &
Knowledge or www.nask.ca, since we’ve been amassing such great Canadian travel information I thought I would contact them to find out what else might be available to food allergy families. To my surprise, a whole lot more!
The email from Cindy at NASK is [...]