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Allergy Free Cookbooks-A Brief Review of My Cookbook Collection

admin October 29, 2014 1 Comment
Recently I received a free copy of the cookbook Finally, Food I Can Eat by Shirley Plant. This is more than a cookbook. It could be called a guide book. The first 45 pages are chuck full of all sorts of information ranging from food substitutes, food additives, replacements, common allergens, food combining, and food families etc. The rest of the book contains recipes in every category which are...

Living Without’s Gluten Free Holidays GIVEAWAY!!!!!

admin October 16, 2014 17 Comments
Living Without’s Gluten Free and More magazine has come out with a special Holidays edition. And you can get one for FREE! I have been granted permission to give away THREE copies of the holiday guide. I have already received my copy and read it front to back on the same day it came. I know I’ll be perusing it over and over the next few months. This Holidays guide is chuck full of 75 recipes...

Food at Marshall’s Department Store? You Bet!

admin October 6, 2014 0 Comments
I have some fun news for you! You can find allergy free, gluten free and health foods at Marshall's and TJ Maxx Department Stores. You can read all about the different finds and categories of food on this post I wrote for My Life With Food Allergies. Also shared at Allergy Free Wednesday. Gluten Free Wednesday.

All About Gluten Free Flours

admin September 1, 2014 0 Comments
There are a lot of gluten free grains (made into flour) available, but do you know what they really are? What their nutritional profile is? What they are used for? Check out my two part series on My Life With Food Allergies, describing all the gluten free flours I have in my freezer and refrigerator. What’s In Your Flour, Part One can be found here. What’s In Your Flour, Part Two can be found...

Happy Anniversary, Update on AFTK, and What’s Coming Soon

admin August 21, 2014 2 Comments
So today marks TWO years since I posted my first article/recipe.  Happy Anniversary or Happy Birthday, whatever you want to call it, to me a/k/a Allergy Free Test Kitchen!  It  has been fun.  I hope you have found this blog helpful, encouraging and yummy! So, the summer has been crazy and I feel I haven't posted as much as I have in the past.  Just when I thought things would settle down...

Five Cooking Shortcuts I Use

admin August 5, 2014 0 Comments
Do you feel overwhelmed with all the preparations it takes to get a meal on the table?  Cooking gluten free or allergy friendly can be a daunting task.  Maybe you are not gluten free or have allergies, but like to cook REAL FOOD!  That is time consuming too! Head on over to My Life With Food Allergies where I have an article posted with my five cooking shortcuts.  You can read the article...

Dairy Free Ice Cream by Kelly V. Brozyna- Cookbook Review

admin July 25, 2014 0 Comments
July is national ice cream month. So what better time to talk about a new dairy free ice cream cookbook!?!? (The author did not ask me to write this, I just chose too). As I happen to have a July birthday, my husband bought me the cookbook Dairy-Free Ice Cream – 75 Recipes Made Without Eggs, Gluten, Soy, or Refined Sugar.   I love reading and perusing through cookbooks, but I think it was...

10 Office Supplies Every (Allergy Free) Kitchen Needs

admin June 5, 2014 2 Comments
The following post first appeared on the blog My Life With Food Allergies where I am a contributor. If you have food allergies chances are you are cooking a lot. I found that there are ten office supplies I use frequently in my kitchen. 1. Three ring binders. These are perfect for storing all the recipes you print off of the internet. 2. Three ring binder dividers. These are the dividers with...

Gluten and Allergen Free Wellness Event Recap

admin June 2, 2014 0 Comments
I attended the Gluten and Allergen Free Wellness Event in St. Louis on Saturday. It was fun! There were speakers to listen to if you wished, and there were quite a few vendors there. Some I had heard of, but many I have not. We ate lots of samples…enough that we could skip lunch that day. Some of the standby companies were Enjoy Life and Udi’s. Just a few of the new products I found out about...