Tag: Kid Friendly

Allergy Friendly Pumpkin Pancakes

admin November 15, 2012 2 Comments
Pumpkin seems to be a fall favorite for many.  If you made these pumpkin donuts, you will have some pumpkin puree left.  What to do but make some pancakes? These pancakes are sure to be a hit.  And what is better?  They are free of the top eight food allergens!  But this recipe is adaptable.  Are you gluten free, but not on a milk free diet?  You can substitute the milk cup for cup.  Eat...

Apricot Glazed Green Beans

admin November 13, 2012 4 Comments
Green bean casserole is a popular Thanksgiving dish.  But with the cream soup and French fried onions it is not allergy friendly.  While I love green beans plain, that does not seem festive enough for Thanksgiving.    So I came up with a special way to fix green beans.  To me, it seems like a good holiday side dish.  However, this does not need to be limited to holiday dinners.  It could...

Fruity Cranberry Chutney

admin November 11, 2012 5 Comments
I love cranberries.  I could eat them year around.  Growing up, the grade school I attended always had a turkey supper fundraiser.  Each table would be set with about 2 ounces of cranberry sauce for a table of six or eight.  Even as a child, I thought that was ridiculous.  I could eat more than 2 ounces myself!    Cranberries are good for your urinary tract system, can help prevent plaque...

Chicken Pot Pie

admin November 9, 2012 0 Comments
Chicken Pot Pie.  Nothing says down home, comfort food like a pot pie.  And you can have it too!  Yep, that is right!  Even with food allergies one can enjoy this one dish meal.  Now it is a bit more work than buying a Marie Callender’s, but it is also way healthier!  Plus I think it is fun to make a pot pie and see the delight on the family faces at dinner time.  There is just...

A Milk Free Hot Chocolate Mix—Product Review

admin November 6, 2012 2 Comments
Finding a milk free hot chocolate mix is nearly impossible!  I have been looking for two plus years. I stumbled upon this quite by accident and thought I would share it with you so you do not have to visit store upon store only to get disappointed when you cannot find a milk free hot cocoa mix.  I found this Dark Chocolate Hot Cocoa Mix by Archer Farms at Target.  I am not trying to endorse...

Veloute Sauce

admin October 25, 2012 2 Comments
In my ongoing effort to make vegetables more exciting at our table, and a way to make broccoli tempting for a youngster, I began searching for a sauce.  I think it is safe to assume that most parents pair broccoli with cheese sauce for their young ones, but being milk free prevents that.  Or maybe you want to stretch your taste buds and ditch the cheese once in a while. Well, look no further....

Decadent (And Allergy Free) Must Have Chocolate Cake

admin October 23, 2012 39 Comments
Have I got a treat for you today!  A chocolate cake that is moist, decadent and allergy friendly.  Not only that, but it is easy to put together.  This is a must have recipe for any situation needing a cake; a birthday, anniversary, Sunday company, you name it.  No one will guess you are serving them an allergy free dessert!    This can also be made into cupcakes.  They freeze well and...

Pineapple Peach Smoothie

admin October 19, 2012 0 Comments
Since smoothies are big hit around my house I thought it would be time to share another one.  This one is so yummy you will want to guzzle it.    It’s creamy, thick, delicious and best of all, it is milk free! And even better, it has spinach in it.  What a better way to get that great leafy green in your diet than through a smoothie!  I have already written about the benefits of...

Dairy Free and Tree Nut Free Chocolate Spread

admin October 18, 2012 7 Comments
Nutella is super yummy, but it is also full of milk and very high in sugar.  Have you heard about the California woman who sued Nutella for misleading marketing?  She thought it was a health food based on the advertisement.  Personally, I think she could have easily read the jar label and realize that it was not a health food.  Nevertheless, I have seen the advertisement and it did sound...

Simple and Delicious Homemade Granola-Gluten Free and Allergy Free

admin October 14, 2012 17 Comments
I never ate granola pre-food allergy days.  In fact, I do not think I even gave it a thought.  But then, when food allergies hit and I had purchased about 5 new cookbooks, I started noticing that granola was in a lot of the books. One that caught my eye was in The Whole Foods Allergy Cookbook  by Cybele Pascal.  It seemed really easy.  And I was intrigued by Cybele’s use of unrefined...