Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on

[PurpleCat]

DS2 who has no food allergies experienced a season of mouth itchies with grapes about 3 or 4 years ago.  After 3 different tries the pediatrician said to avoid for a year.  The next year he could eat them just fine.  The pediatrician thinks it was what the grapes were treated with rather than the grapes.  He eats them all the time now.

[Macabre]

Wow. That is interesting PC.

[notashrimpwimp]

Living with food allergies means making a decision between inclusion and safety and then answering questions while trying to remain polite yet distant from encroaching food.

Living with food allergies means remembering everything you can't eat/touch/be in the same room with.

[YouKnowWho]

Finally made GF wacky cupcakes and they were awesome.  Where has this recipe been all my life??  I honestly had no idea they were GF which made them even better!

[hezzier]

YKW- can you post in recipes?  I have a friend that just went GF on the advice of her doctor.

[YouKnowWho]

Done - I included the link and my modified additions.  I know Krasota uses other flour blends as well. 

[PurpleCat]

Feeling helpful when a mom I don't know very well calls for advice about her child eating in the school cafeteria and later the same day a school nurse (from another district) calls to ask my opinion about some accommodations.

[GoingNuts]

  PC!

[Macabre]

I ate bread outside my house twice (yes, twice) last week.  And I could go years without that happening, outside of Wendy's. 

At the Speech banquet, they served Sister Schubert's dinner rolls. There is no sesame in the factory, and when I asked about sesame, they said they'd need to get back with me because they needed to check the "natural flavors" (or something like that), because they knew sesame could hide there. 

<swoon>

And DH and I went out to eat Saturday night at Surly Brewing Company, and they served King's HAwaiian Rolls with the brisket plate I got. Cornbread was a side. Well, I haven't seen cornbread (and real cornbread) on a menu sense leaving Virginia.  And rarely there.  So yep--I got both the cornbread side and the rolls. That and brisket made my meal.    And some amazing beer.

TWICE bread out! 

[SilverLining]

I sent an e-mail asking if this company labels when there is a risk of cross-contamination with my allergens.

Here is the response I got.

With regards to allergens, our labels on our products specify those that are present. Our company and all our suppliers do our best in avoiding cross contamination however, declaring and getting our facilities certified as "nut-free", "peanut-free", or "sesame free", entails much more and we opt instead, to go with our current practice of declaring allergens available in the product`s ingredients.
I hope this answers your inquiry.

Well...no, it doesn't really answer my question. I was not not asking about a "free" certification. Just a considerate label of "may contain".  But I'll just assume your product is poison to me.

[CMdeux]

SO DH brought home a sizeable chunk of rhubarb-walnut bread-- he snickered and offered it to me, saying "I don't think that {DD} or I are going to be competing for any of THIS, but it's yours if you want it."

So I did-- and I waited until he had left this morning, figuring that DD16 has never had ANY problem with walnuts, and well-- coprocessing not much a thing with the nuts that we know she IS allergic to (Peanut, pistachio, cashew)-- and she's been around pecans, etc...

warmed it for 20 s in the microwave (this means not quite to room temperature-- and it was in the same container that it came in), and she, sitting in the adjacent room--


her nose started to POUR... sneezing, red eyes, sniffling





Guess we know, now.  I think I'll consider this her walnut challenge.  Right, then.  I'll just be adding THIS one to the medic-alert list.     Better to know, though, right??

RIGHT??

[Macabre]

Oh no!  Have you taken a flame thrower to the microwave? 

I'm sorry her list is now longer.

[ninjaroll]

I'll note it, too. We don't keep nuts in the house (as you know) but I make sure there's an inventory of allergen management that includes Sky.

[spacecanada]

Yes, better to know, and to find out this way than through accidental exposure elsewhere or out on her own.   

[GoingNuts]

Ay yi yi.  That is no bueno.  I'm so sorry CM and Sky.