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Feeding Eden and Eleni’s Giveaway!

Eleni’s has teamed up with renowned allergy and parenting writer Susan Weissman to offer an exclusive contest for our Facebook fans! Snap a pic of your child enjoying any Eleni’s product, post it to our Facebook wall, and enter to win a 100% nut-free “Color Your Own” gift box AND a copy of Weissman’s new […]

Review: The NEW Nut Free Mom: A Crash Course in Caring for your Allergic Child

All my readers should be aware of a new resource: The NEW Nut Free Mom: A Crash Course in Caring for your Allergic Child I’m citing the product description below, but I must add that Jenny Kales, the author, is about as savvy about the challenges of  nut allergies as anyone I can think of. […]

Vacationing with Food Restrictions

Vacationing with any kind of food restriction is always tricky. And by tricky I mean, at times, scary. Before my family leaves on our annual spring vacation, I’m leaving my wisdom gained after 8 years of managing Eden’s allergies: How to Take a Spring Break Vacation or “Staycation” with Food Allergies When my son Eden […]

Pub Day! (But what does it mean?)

From what I can tell first time authors learn this term “Pub Day” way before they need to. If you’ve never published a book and had not aspired to, than Pub Day is a rather abstract concept.  Your agent tells you a date that barely registers because you are so worked up about all that […]

Fantasy Foods Contest

Fantasy Foods Contest Ends March 10th Send a photo of your favorite Fantasy Food using this form or post it on my Fantasy Foods Facebook page. On March 10th, I’ll choose my two favorite foods. If you win first prize, receive a free copy of FEEDING EDEN, scrumptious cupcakes “made to share” (free of nuts, […]

Healthy Turkey Chili

In honor of National Chili Day (yesterday) Brooklyn Allergy Mom submitted her Healthy Turkey Chili Recipe on my Fantasy Foods Facebook Page. It’s my Fantasy Food of  the week (see right).) I love a chili that’s more like chunky soup than stew. And I like how the tomato base provides a nice red color.  The recipe […]

What if parents stopped calling themselves names and just DID it?

Help! I Don’t Know What Kind of Parent I Am In the years since my son Eden was born and diagnosed with life threatening food allergies there has been a counter trend towards laid back parenting, often called “slow” or “free range” parenting. Lenore Skenazy championed this movement a few years ago when she wrote Why I […]

Finding the Right Doctor for Your Allergic Child

Just last week I got a call from a friend of a friend whose child was just diagnosed with food allergies. Phone calls like that remind me of how helpless I felt when Eden was diagnosed. One of our biggest issues was finding Pediatric Allergists to help us manage Eden’s allergic condition, for the long […]

Hope in Under 140 Characters

Many people assume Twitter attracts users around common health care issues for content sharing and information. After Tweeting about #FoodAllergies for several years, I’ve learned that Twitter is a place where I can go to feel better. Why? The conversation below illustrates. Note: The real-time prelude to these Tweets took place a few minutes prior. […]

Haunted By Food

Last week, in Psychology Today, I wrote about an unforgettable evening when I should have administered an Epipen to Eden — but I did not. That notion may seem strange or even careless but after reading my piece, Raise An Allergic Child And You May Be Haunted By Food, then again, it may not.