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Dealing With Food Allergies – Two Books Giveaway

admin November 23, 2013 6 Comments
I recently attended a conference and received the books pictured below in my swag bag.   I want to pass them on to one of you who could really use them.   The one pictured on the left is Everyday Cool with Food Allergies by Michael Pistiner, MD.  This book with colorful pictures is one to read with your food allergic child to teach them things like how to say “no thank...

Fun Finds Friday – Van’s Natural Foods Crackers – Product Review

admin October 18, 2013 1 Comment
I have not tried too many gluten free crackers.  Many seem to have milk or eggs in them.  A few times I have tried to eat rice crackers.  But they are like cardboard wafers.  Not something that resembles a wheat cracker at all. Then I found these crackers made by Van’s Natural Foods at a Wal-Mart, but later have requested my local grocer to carry them and now they are.  I purchased these...

Fall Inspired Foods Recipe Round-Up

admin October 10, 2013 0 Comments
I have the pleasure to be a part of a Fall Inspired Food Blog Series.  Every day I have been tweeting and Facebooking (if that is a word) all about the other participants fall inspired recipes. I will be sharing a Sweet Potato Cupcake recipe tomorrow (Friday) that you simply will not want to miss.  I by far have the least healthy of the recipes, and oops...it's not vegan.  In other words, I...

How To Make A “Can” of Condensed Cream Of Chicken Soup – A Photo Tutorial

admin September 16, 2013 10 Comments
If you are wanting to make a casserole that uses condensed cream soups, you are out of luck if you are dairy or gluten free.   Or maybe you just ran out, don't want to run to the store, and would like to make your own.  Here is a step by step photo tutorial to help you out.  Making your own cream soups is much easier than one would think. 1.  Cook and cut up 1 to 1 1/2 cup chicken (use...

Fun Finds Friday – Local Honey Plus Why Local (Raw) Honey Is Better Than Traditional Store Bought

admin September 13, 2013 2 Comments
For this Fun Finds Friday I'm talking about a fun local find, how you could find it too, and why you should! For years now, while living in suburbia, I have driven past a house that is set back from the road and an older two story farm looking house with a lot of cars and trucks parked in back.   Placed behind a strip mall with no homes on either side, and much older and different style than...

Full Flavor Foods Giveaway!

admin September 2, 2013 12 Comments
Now that it is September, it’s time to start thinking about fall foods like soups and stews.  And what about a roast with a nice beef gravy?  Don’t forget that Thanksgiving turkey!  You’ll need good gravy, won’t you? Well, lucky for you, Full Flavor Foods, LLC is giving away ONE COMPLETE SET of their product line!  Yes, you can get something for free! Here are just a few images of...

Happy Birthday to Allergy Free Test Kitchen

admin August 21, 2013 12 Comments
Happy Birthday to Allergy Free Test Kitchen!   It was one year ago today that I published the first post.   The year was a learning curve and I’m still learning new things.  But, oh, what a fun year!   This flower cake was given to me for my birthday in July.  It was so awesome I just had to share the picture with you!  It's completely allergy free unless you are allergic to flowers. :)...

Go Veggie “Cheese” by Galaxy Nutritional Foods – Product Review

admin July 21, 2013 3 Comments
I’m all about saving us dairy free folks some money.  So I spent some of my own to see just how good this Go Veggie "cheese" by Galaxy Nutritional Foods is.  After all, it is priced a bit less than Daiya, so if it is good, I would switch.  Read on to see if I will just do that.   I made a pizza with black beans. The package claims it will melt and stretch.  Well, it melted TOO MUCH!  It...

So Delicious Vanilla Coconut Milk vs. Silk Pure Coconut

admin July 12, 2013 4 Comments
We always have a couple containers of vanilla flavored coconut milk in the house.  I usually buy So Delicious Vanilla Coconut Milk, but lately have purchased a few containers of Silk Pure Coconut Vanilla Coconut Milk.  I thought it would be fun to do a comparison.  The information is taken from the containers.   How they are the same:  Both state a serving size is 1 cup, have zero...

Produce Wash

admin June 16, 2013 2 Comments
It would be wonderful if we all could buy organic fruits and vegetables.  But for many it is not affordable or accessible.  Now I do not know if a produce wash is scientifically better than water for washing produce or not, but I do know that it eases my mind a little bit.      For strawberries, I usually mix a recipe of produce wash and soak the berries in it.  Then I drain them and rinse...