Save green while going green! Summer Picnic Sale
What better way to spend a glorious, sunny day than packing a picnic and heading outdoors? Well, I can’t think of one. Picnics have always been a favorite pastime of mine (hence our name: Island...
View ArticleHow easy is it to pack a waste-free lunch? And why should you bother?
You’ve probably heard about packing a waste-free lunch. And in theory, it seems like a swell idea. But why should you really care? So what if a little bit of plastic gets tossed at the end of your...
View ArticleWhat is a 504 plan? And does my food allergic child need one?
If you’re a food allergy parent and you’ve spent any time online looking up back to school tips for allergy kids, chances are you’ve at least seen 504 Plans mentioned. But if you’re like I was before...
View Article5 Easy-to-Make, Healthy School Lunches — Dairy-, Egg- and Nut-free!
As if thinking of lunches for your kids in general wasn’t hard enough, we food allergy parents have the added task of thinking of safe lunches… that our kids will actually eat, and enjoy! Oh, what...
View ArticleWhy I’m homeschooling my allergic child & how it’s going so far
It wasn’t the easiest decision I’ve ever made. But it was a necessary one. My social butterfly of a daughter is being homeschooled for 6th grade, and I don’t feel like I had any other choice. She...
View ArticleAllergy-Friendly Halloween Candy Lists for 2016
Finding allergy safe Halloween candy can be tricky (haha, get it?), but it doesn’t have to be. My daughter is allergic to milk, eggs, peanuts and tree nuts, and I find it easiest to just avoid all top...
View ArticleDon’t let food allergies SCARE you!!! Allergy-friendly Halloween tips
If you have a child with food allergies, or if you have food allergies yourself, you know. Halloween can be scary — and not just because of that drooling zombie guy popping out at you in the haunted...
View Article9 Kitchen Hacks for Your Food Allergy Family
The other night, as I was making dinner for our family of five (even though one of us is too little to eat family dinner just yet…), it dawned on me that certain things that I do to keep my allergic...
View ArticleWashington D.C. with Food Allergies — How we did it! Part 1 (Plane travel &...
My two oldest kids have been begging — BEGGING — to go on a plane trip for, well, pretty much their entire lives. I knew we would eventually go somewhere someday, but in the past, being a single...
View ArticleWashington D.C. with Food Allergies — How we did it! Part 2 (What & where to...
Yesterday I posted about our recent trip to Washington D.C. and how to travel on a plane and find a place to stay when you’re dealing with food allergies. Today, I’ll break down how we found food,...
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