Jens Gluten Free Blog

As a mother of children with multiple food allergies I understand the need for a “school plan.” A “school plan” is what we formulate so that we can be assured that our allergic children will be safe in school. It usually involves meeting with the principal, teachers, and other adults who will be supervising our children when we are not around.

The New York Times recently published an article about the high cost of gluten-free living (here’s the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/15/health/15patient.html). The article gives some useful advice about cutting costs. Most of their suggestions are standard ones like making things from scratch instead of buying mixes. But there was one suggestion that was new to me.

For many, summertime simply means fun-in-the-sun. For mothers of kids on a celiac diet it means much more. All those sessions you had in the fall with your child’s teacher, principal, and school nurse are worthless to you in the summer. Now you have to deal with something entirely different – camp!