PEANUT PRIVILEGE

Peanut privilege, it’s a real thing! Now before you start screaming at me and rolling your eyes at this post, please take a minute and really hear me out. Nobody wants to have a food allergy. It’s true, food allergies of any kind stinks! However, if you live with food allergies other than peanut…

Allergen Cross-contamination with a Keurig? Maybe!

Peanut Free Does Not Mean It’s safe

I know some in the food allergy community don’t understand why I…

No Such Thing As Allergy Safe

Many parents with kids with dairy, egg and other food allergies can tell you our frustration with companies and events that claim to be allergy free or allergy friendly. While they refer to their products and/or company as allergy free or allergy friendly, they are often…

Everything A Dairy Allergy Mom is Sick of Saying!

We hear a lot about peanut allergies in the media. However, many people have no clue about true dairy allergies. I have also been told that the media just don’t find dairy allergies as important. Through this post I hope to shine a light on what life is like.

Media Fails to Recognize All Anaphylactic Food Allergies

Written by Harriet Spitzer Picker

Last night, I was angry. Really angry. I couldn’t take in the NY Times piece, “Boarding Now: Parents of Children with Food Allergies” by Roni Carin Rabin. So much of her…

Trick or Treat with Food Allergies? Just Wear Gloves!

What The Public Needs To Know About Dairy Allergies

Recently, all of the major news outlets picked up the story about the teenager who died in the Uk eating a meal that contained dairy. The story is tragic, on the boy’s 18th birthday and he asked all the right questions.

Peanut Allergy Fears at the Children’s Museum

Recently, it was announced that Stonewall Kitchen has opened a PB & J Café in…