Food Recalls For Gluten Free Foods

It’s amazing just how often there are recalls for different products. You may have heard about toys from China with lead paint; Toyota’s numerous recalls over the last year for unsafe cars; and, certain brands of dog food, which were actually killing pets across the nation. Not to mention hundreds of...read more

Autism and the Gluten-Free Casein-Free Diet

I don’t think I will ever forget that far away look in his big brown eyes. When my daughter was two I brought her to a Mommy and Me music class run by a friend. There were six of us in the class: my daughter and I, my friend and her son, and one other mother with her daughter. My friend had all...read more

Gluten-Free Banana Cream Pie

Last week I found this great recipe for banana cream pie on the Jell-O website that I easily adapted to the gluten-free diet.  It’s easy (those are the only kind I make), fun to do with kids, and a great way to get them to eat their bananas (if they don’t pick them out when you are not...read more

55% of Celiacs Don’t Stick to their Gluten-Free diet

I opened the door to my daughter’s pre-school and peeked in.  I spotted my daughter munching on some potato chips that I left at school for when all the other kids were eating food with gluten.  If she was eating them it meant there must be a party of some kind that I forgot about.  I was probably...read more

Gluten-Free, Egg-Free, Dairy-Free, Nut-Free Fudge

I spent over an hour making caramel squares this weekend.  I had found the recipe in a gluten-free cookbook and I was thrilled to see that it was an egg-free recipe.  I made it my pet project for the morning and  boasted to my kids that they would have the yummiest treat that afternoon.  I really got...read more

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