Jens Gluten Free Blog

School orientation is always a bit awkward, even more so when you know that at some point you will have to have THE conversation.

There never is a right time to discuss your child’s food sensitivity. One the one hand you want to give the teacher the chance to get to know your child without any preconceived notions. You don’t want to label your child upfront as the boy with the food allergy, or the girl with celiac disease. On the other hand you need to know that your child will be safe from day one of school.

I realize that when it comes to food limitations my family pretty much wins first prize. But it also occurs to me that some of you might have some similar limitations. Eggs is an extremely common food allergy (one of the big and 1 out of approximately 100 people have celiac disease, so there is bound to be some of you who will need to bake both without eggs and without gluten.