May 12-18, 2019 is Food Allergy Awareness Week. While those of us with food allergies consistently make efforts to educate, and advocate all year long, Food Allergy Awareness Week provides us with a unique opportunity to come together for a common cause. For last year’s Food Allergy Awareness Week, I wrote a post entitled 10…
Category: Life With Food Allergies
10 Easy Ways to Eat Gluten-free for Less (And How We Lowered our Grocery Budget by $600 a Month!)
Since I started blogging, I have had a lot of people coming to me with the same complaint: “I need to eat gluten free, but it’s too expensive.” I’ve even had people confess that they keep eating foods that make them sick, simply because they are less expensive. This is both heartbreaking, and concerning for…
5 Things I am Thankful for as a Food Allergy Parent
Thanksgiving was yesterday. In light of that fact, I decided to put together a list of things that I am thankful for. This list is obviously not all inclusive. Instead, my focus is on things that I am thankful for that pertain to our life with food allergies. Here are 5 things that I am…
5 Tips for Managing Food Allergies During the Holidays
When I first started writing this post, I had given it the tentative title of “5 Tips for Surviving the Holiday Season with Food Allergies,” but that just didn’t sit well with me. It nagged at me for a little while before I realized why—I don’t want my readers to just survive during the holiday…
10 Important Food Allergy Facts I Wish Everyone Knew
Here is another Food Allergy Awareness themed post for you to share with your friends during Food Allergy Awareness Week (or anytime, really! We can always educate and advocate, even when the week is over). The following are ten food allergy facts that I wish everyone knew: Food allergies can be life threatening [and epipens…
10 Things I Wish People Knew About Life as a Food Allergy Parent
Yesterday was both Mother’s Day, and the start of National Food Allergy Awareness Week. It is in the spirit of both of these events that I felt compelled to compile this list. Being a mother can be difficult as well as rewarding, and being a food allergy mom comes with its own unique challenges. I…
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Welcome to Food Allergy Mama Bear, a site I created to share recipes, and tips with other Food Allergy Mama Bears. Whether you are here for you, your child [children], or both, I hope that by sharing what I have learned, I can make navigating through the world of allergy friendly cuisine just a little bit easier for you.
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