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Adapting your menu for allergies

(This is a portion of a longer blog post at our “A Gaggle of Girls”, blog)
Happy Celiac Disease Awareness Month!
Happy Food Allergy Awareness Week!
If you are living with food allergies, Celiac disease, food intolerances, or any other dietary restrictions, you are already used to adapting your menu. But what happens when one person wants [...]

Thanksgiving Dinner in Pictures

A feast fit for an allergic family

We might have dietary restrictions with allergies and celiac disease, but we don’t let that stop us from eating well!
Dinner:

Ginger Butternut Squash Soup
Bread
Stuffing
Candied Yams
Cranberry sauce
Mashed Potatoes
Roasted Brussels Sprouts
Gravy
oh, and Turkey!

Desserts:

Apple Crisp
Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie
Pumpkin Bars
Pumpkin Pie
Peach Pie Cake Cobbler

I hope all of you have had wonderful feasts that show how much yummmm you can get [...]

Early summer menu

As winter turned into spring, we started steaming more vegetables and roasting fewer. Now that spring is turning into summer, we’re avoiding the oven and using the crock pot more and more – it gives us a hot meal without a hot kitchen!
We’re also making more and more one-pot meals, or stove-top casseroles. [...]

Mid-February Menu

I just found the Gluten-free menu swap, which is being hosted this week by Gluten-free Red Sox fan. The theme for this week is Butternut Squash. I usually serve butternut squash as Ginger Butternut Squash soup. However, it can also be used in place of the pumpkin in Ingredient Free Pumpkin Bars. [...]

A few tips to help you on your Food Allergy trip

This post is part of the Food Allergy Blog Carnival
We’ve been living with dairy alternatives for 9 years now. We’ve been living gluten-free due to Celiac Disease for almost 5 years. We’ve been living berry-free for a bit over a year. In the past 9 years we’ve gone through times of needing [...]

Thanksgiving Dinner – celiac style

While we wait (im)patiently for the archives to re-appear, and I try desperately to cook without my recipes, I offer you proof of a wonderful gfcf, allergy-safe, gluten-free, celiac Thanksgiving!
We had:

Ginger Butternut Squash Soup (small picture)
Focaccia
Stuffing
Candied Yams
Cranberry sauce
Roasted Asparagus
Roasted Broccoli
Mashed Potatoes
Gravy
oh, and Turkey!

Don’t forget dessert:

Apple Pie
Chocolate Pecan Pie
Pumpkin Bars

Soon this will have links to all [...]

Young Chefs

I’m still dealing with fibromyalgia-like symptoms because of Chronic Lyme disease. I’m being treated, but the effects wax and wane – some days are better than others.
This evening, I couldn’t move my right arm or bend over, so the girls helped me with dinner made dinner while I supervised. Since they are 9, [...]

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