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13 Food Allergy Back to School Tips
“Katie, go to bed already. It’s almost past midnight.” My husband used to say that to me amusedly the night before the first day of school. We are both educators, so he understood that I was always a bundle of excitement and nerves at the beginning of the school year. I loved setting up my…
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How to Plan a Food Allergy Road Trip
Oh, road trips! How I adore thee…..and dread thee simultaneously. 😂 When I was a kid, long road trips were the absolute best! My parents would wake my brother and I up around 2 in the morning on the day we were leaving. To my dad, beating the traffic was essential. And of course, my…
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The Food Allergy Mom Book List
How am I going to talk to my son about his food allergies? This question became ever persistent in my thoughts after our first year as a food allergy family. The first year had felt like I was drinking from a fire hose. I knew basically nothing about food allergies prior to my sons’s diagnosis.…
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4 Ways to Manage Food Allergies at BBQs
My awesome husband, Mark, is a legit carnivore. He loves meat so much that he was probably a T-Rex in his past life! Seriously! Hence, we are constantly grilling, smoking, and searing a variety of meats in our home. For me personally, one of the toughest parts of living the food allergy life is not…
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11 Ways We Manage Eczema
Eczema is an old family friend. She used to visit me when I was a kid, and now she enjoys random pop-up visits with my daughter. Her stays are way too leisurely and she tends to complicate almost every fun summer activity that I plan. She’s long outgrown her welcome, but sadly, she’s taken up…
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How to Plan a Flight with Food Allergies
“As soon as I saw you, I knew you would be an adventure of a lifetime.” – Winnie the Pooh I love that quote. I feel that exact way when I look at my two children. They are so full of life, eager to learn, and ready to explore all the wonderful places they read about…
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How To Talk To Kids About Food Allergies
I don’t want to scare him. When my son was diagnosed with a peanut allergy as an 8 month old, I was terrified. Suddenly, food was now a threat. I was thrown head first into the world of label reading, hand washing, EpiPen remembering, home cooking, and constantly worrying. But I am his mom. And…
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How We Handled a Food Allergy Mom Trip
Well, we finally did it! Lauren and I went on a trip together, just us two food allergy moms. A few months ago, we were thrilled to receive an invitation to attend the Food Allergy Meet Up in Brea, California from the Instagram account @allergicemma (click HERE for their website) a food allergy ambassador for…
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6 Things No One Told Us About EpiPens
Have any of you seen the 1990 monster comedy “Tremors” starring Kevin Bacon and Reba McEntire? If you have not seen it, I highly suggest adding it to your watch list! There’s comedy, romance, cheesy scares, and just the right amount of character underdevelopment. PERFECTION. To claim that I LOVE this movie series is an…
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How to Make a Food Allergy Emergency Kit
Okay, so I’m 100% that weirdo that literally lives on sci-fi movies. My favorite genre? Alien invasion and monster movies! 😍 Seriously, I want to go make some popcorn just writing about it! One of my all time favorite movies is Tremors II: Aftershocks. It’s about underground monsters that come up through the soil or…
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