Are you a parent of a child newly diagnosed with food allergies? How about some answers to your que
Originally posted on WEGO Health:My son was diagnosed with his food allergies at 10 months of age. When the allergist told me that he was allergic to wheat, rye, barley, oat, eggs, dairy, peanuts and tree nuts my first thought was "What am I going to feed this child"? I was so lost and so scared and I had no idea what to do. No one else I knew had a food allergy child and I didn't know where to turn. Unfortunately, as wonderful as our allergist is, he is not very helpful in this area. He showed me pamphlets from The Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network and I did get in touch with them and purchased as much information as I c

And so it begins
Yesterday morning we woke up to this:It's gone now. But it will be back.I'm not ready for snow and Old Man Winter.

Happy Thanksgiving
(photo from Microsoft Clip Art - this is not my table. I'm not that talented)Wishing you all a wonderful and blessed (and allergy safe!) Thanksgiving Day!Wishing: Safe travels to those that are on the road, safety always to those that are spending Thanksgiving keeping our country safe, and happiness to all.I am thankful for too many things to list here. My life is so full and God has blessed me with so much. I may not always remember to say "thank you" and I may not alw

Buttermilk
I mentioned in yesterdays post that my buttermilk has "modified food starch" in it. I'm so naive that I thought buttermilk was just milk. Goes to show you, you can't get lax on that label reading. But I called the dairy this morning at 7:30 am to see if they knew (at this point I'd throw out the buttermilk, but I'm just curious) and the receptionist had no idea so she put me through to the plant. They didn't know either, so "Mike" told me to call back later as he had to go look it up. I just spoke to Mike and he said that it's corn. Good for us, bad for the corn avoiders. I think from now on I'll go back to making my own (I thought I was b

Oh for the love of corn bread!
Corn bread is going to get me this Thanksgiving. I'm just hoping that it doesn't get the Little Man....I got a note from his teacher that the Kindergarten, along with the first grade, is making a "friendship stew" for Thanksgiving. Each child was asked to bring in an ingredient. We were asked to bring in "chopped apples". Even though the "stew" is supposed to be mostly fruit (fresh fruit, dried fruit, canned fruit, etc) I can't take it for granted that it will be safe for the Little Man. So I stopped by the class this afternoon to ask the teacher what is in the stew and he said it was basically just fruit, so I told him to look for a container of safe "stew" in the Little M