Saturday is St. Patrick’s Day. Wouldn’t it be fun to celebrate with a beautiful rainbow shaped fruit salad like this one at Homemade Serenity? My kids would love this!
Archive for March, 2012
Make a Fruit Rainbow for St. Patrick’s Day!
March 15th, 2012 
Nancy 
Posted in Allergy Friendly Recipes, Fun with Food, Sweets and Treats 
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March 14th, 2012 Nancy 
Welcome back to Allergy-Free Wednesday – a weekly allergy-friendly party! If you missed last week’s entries check them out here! I’ve started pinning all my top-8 free favorites to a new Pinterest board called Allergy Free Wednesdays Favorites. You don’t have to have a Pinterest account to see it, but if you do have a Pinterest account make sure you are following the new board! Here are this weeks favorites:
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Traveling with Food Allergies Food, Part Two
March 13th, 2012 Nancy 
Last week I received an e-mail from a Real Food, Allergy Free reader asking for traveling help. She is planning to take a road trip at the end of the month. Her son has severe food allergies, so stopping at restaurants is not an option. You can read her e-mail and part one of the series here.
Here are some of my ideas to take with you or pick up on the way. If you don’t want to make all of your snacks, you can find some great deals on allergy-friendly snack food here. Please share your favorite allergy-friendly travel foods in the comment section.
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Ground Beef and Potato Hash
March 12th, 2012 Nancy 
I was feeling a little under the weather this weekend. When lunchtime sneaked up on me, I needed to fix something simple. I found a package of ground beef in the fridge and sprouting potatoes in the pantry. Ground beef hash it was.
Ground beef hash is a frugal, kid and allergy friendly meal can be thrown together quickly. The secret to good hash is to season it liberally, otherwise it can be rather bland.
Some of the kids topped their ground beef hash with cheese and some of them topped it with ketchup. Three out of four of them had two helpings.
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Amazon Deals (3/9):Quinoa, Millet, GF Oats and All Purpose Flour, Organic Dried Apples and More!
March 9th, 2012 Nancy Please double-check the ingredient label for your particular allergens.
I am excited about this weeks gluten-free and allergy-friendly Amazon deals, including some awesome warehouse deals! It looks like the UPS man will be visiting my house soon!
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Gluten-Free Saver: 51% Off Gluten-Free Sampler Pack From King Arthur Flour
March 9th, 2012 Nancy 
The current offer at Gluten-Free Saver is 51% off Six-Mix Gluten-Free Sampler Pack From King Arthur Flour! $26 will get the following delivered straight to your door:
1. Gluten-Free Bread Mix
2. Gluten-Free Pancake Mix
3. Gluten-Free Muffin Mix
4. Gluten-Free Chocolate Cake Mix
5. Gluten-Free Cookie Mix
6. Gluten-Free Brownie Mix
While all of these mixes are free from the most common allergens: wheat, nuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, soy, eggs, and dairy, the mixes may require eggs and/or dairy for baking.
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{Guest Post} From Pain to Purpose: How I Became the “Grocery Geek”
March 7th, 2012 Nancy 
Please welcome Christy Pooschke, owner and operator of Grocery Geek. I asked Christy to share her amazing story of overcoming Fibromyalgia. I hope it will encourage you as much as it did me.
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All of my life, all I’ve wanted to do is to help people. I can remember sneaking out to the TV room late at night when I was a little girl and watching those shows where you can adopt a starving child in Africa for a few bucks each month…and pretty much save their life. I used to sit there and cry watching those poor children with bugs crawling all over them, and I so wished that my parents would “adopt” them. Even at a young age, it was hard for me to see that there were people out there who were hungry and sick and suffering; and I just couldn’t accept that there could be such injustices in the world. I desperately wanted to DO something to help them!
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Kitchenaid 6 Qt. Mixer $193.99 (Regularly $499.99)!
March 7th, 2012 Nancy 
If you’ve been looking for a Kitchenaid mixer deal, this is for you! Right now the KitchenAid KP26M1PSL Professional 600 Series 6-Quart Stand Mixer, Silver
There is a $40 rebate plus free magazine subscription here. If you read the fine print, you can chose to receive $24 instead of the magazine. If you look in the very right bottom of the rebate form it says
If you do not wish to receive the magazine and would like to request a refund of the subscription ($24 introductory value), please mail a copy of this rebate submission by 4/24/12 with your name and address to: Time Customer Service, Inc., P.O. Box 62160, Tampa, FL 33662-2160.
I’m not sure how long this deal will last so grab it while you can.
Thanks Passionate Penny Pincher!
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Posted in Amazon Deals, Deals & Steals Comments Off on Kitchenaid 6 Qt. Mixer $193.99 (Regularly $499.99)!Allergy-Free Wednesday (3/7)
March 6th, 2012 Nancy
Welcome back to Allergy-Free Wednesday – a weekly allergy-friendly party! If you missed last week’s entries check them out here! I’ve started pinning all my top-8 free favorites to a new Pinterest board called Allergy Free Wednesdays Favorites. You don’t have to have a Pinterest account to see it, but if you do have a Pinterest account make sure you are following the new board! Here are this weeks favorites:
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Traveling with Food Allergies, Part One
March 6th, 2012 Nancy 
I received the following email from a Real Food, Allergy Free reader:
…I wanted to ask you if you had any suggestions for allergy friendly foods to take on a road trip. We are going out of town later this month and staying in a hotel for a few days. My son is 20 months and has life threatening allergies to egg, milk, wheat, peanuts, and soy.
We can’t feed him anything from a restaurant (except applesauce) because of potential cross-contamination, so I’m planning on packing all his food. I’m still nursing so milk isn’t a problem for him. I will definitely be bringing the banana chocolate chip muffins along as those are his favorite and I thought the pouch tuna packets for protein. Any other ideas?
I thought it was an excellent and timely question with spring break coming in just a few weeks. I’ll share my thoughts, and I’d love for you all to jump in with your ideas in the comment section. Look for part two of this article which includes lists of foods that travel well and meals that can be prepared in a hotel room. This should be fun!