Nut and Peanut Allergies

Enjoy Life Cookies

January 13, 2012

Enjoy Life recently sent me a few of their new varieties of cookies to try and we really enjoyed them. They sent me the Double chocolate Crunchy Cookie, the Chocolate Chip Crunchy Cookie, the Sugar Crunchy Cookie, and the Vanilla Honey Graham Crunchy Cookie and we loved them all. But I will say that the Crunchy Double Chocolate Cookie was [...]

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A Few Goals For 2012

January 3, 2012

Today I want to share a few goals that I have for gluten free and nut free cooking for 2012. I am hoping to accomplish many things, but here are just a few I wanted to highlight. My plan is to not only share them today, but keep you updated throughout the year on how [...]

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Looking Back At Gluten Free and Allergy Recipes and Life From 2011

December 31, 2011

Wow, is it really the last day of 2011! I thought today would be a good chance to look back at 2011 and what I have accomplished, and what I did not accomplish, as far as gluten free and allergy friendly eating goes. But, I want to first apologize for not posting more here in [...]

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Enjoy Life Granola and Chocolate

November 28, 2011

Life with food allergies is difficult. You can no longer just grab an item like cereal or candy from a store shelf and eat it. You have to read labels. And not just read labels, you have to make sure there are no cross contamination issues. Food and grocery shopping is just not the same. This [...]

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Food Allergies and Makeup

July 18, 2011

If you or someone in your family has food allergies you are used to reading every label that comes into your kitchen. It becomes second nature. Nothing goes into your mouth that you do not know what it is and where it came from. But what about other labels? I wrote last year about nut [...]

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Vacation

June 13, 2011

I spent last week visiting my family in Oregon. I had a great time visiting everyone. This week though it is back to reality and catching up on everything, so if I am a little quiet here that is why. I did enjoy a trip to Bob’s Red Mill while in Oregon. My sister and [...]

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Flourless Chocolate Cookies

May 25, 2011

These flourless chocolate cookies are so good and they are flourless, so they are perfect for gluten free cooking. Since going gluten free I have seen quite a few flourless cookie recipes, but many of them contain nuts or peanut butter, both of which we can no longer have. So, I set out to adapt [...]

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Real Life Update, A Pie, and More

May 14, 2011

I really have not meant to go this long without posting here in my allergy section, but it seems like the last few weeks that every time I tried to sit down and work on a recipe for my allergy section, life happened. We had the storm hit, an eleven year old with a broken [...]

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Freezer Smoothies

March 22, 2011

We all know the challenges of finding quick and easy food and snacks when dealing with food allergies. On the go type foods are often the hardest to figure out. I posted today on my main site about freezer smoothies. They have become my favorite on the go food. We recently went on a day [...]

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Thinking Outside The Box

March 19, 2011

One of the things that I have noticed about gluten and nut free cooking is that it has caused me to think outside the box. It has caused me to think differently about how I cook and what I cook. We eat food that I don’t think we would have tried before we went gluten [...]

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