Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on

[YouKnowWho]

DS1 has never had a cute cake.  Ice cream sundaes, popsicles, Enjoy Life cookies with dollops of icing.

He knows my limitations and never complains.  It makes me love him all the more.

(Which I really needed to remember today since DH told me my meatloaf tasted like poo due to his "diet" restrictions).

[SilverLining]

Today.  I feel like there's a giant target on my back....and instead of darts, I'm getting hit with guilt.

Ya!  This is fun for me too. 

[ajasfolks2]

Need to remind myself to go back to Whole Foods and buy some Ataulfo mangoes and prepare and freeze them so son could use for possible food challenge this summer.

So much yummier than the other mangoes . . . but am also wondering if I should get some of both varieties so he can food challenge both?

Hmmmm . . . might not be bad idea.

[CMdeux]

While cleaning my kitchen this morning, I suddenly realized that with food allergies in our lives, we have the following situation--

"safe breakfast" always means that somebody isn't sleeping in.

Hot fresh bread?  Means that someone has been up FOR HOURS. 

Meh.

On the other hand, I'm also pretty convinced that most people don't actually understand what I mean by 'hot, fresh bread.'  So maybe that's okay.

[twinturbo]

One of my friends sent me a wonderful Mother's Day gift. A really beautiful, too-expensive-she-shouldn't-have box of nuts delivered to my house. Good thing I had DH open it outside.

[CMdeux]

I refused to purchase my avid bookworm of a DD a book today.  A promising-looking book about social/cultural constructivism, actually-- which I initially was perfectly happy to get her.

Why?


It was THIS book.

Those who have been around a while will no doubt recognize this author's name and claim to 'fame' (well, okay, infamy is more like it).


I explained why with a message with the subject line:  Why no book by Christakis will ever darken my door

and explained that some things never die.  Hatred borne of righteous anger.  Evil.  That sort of thing.  This is both, obviously.

Gosh, that still makes my blood boil and it's been YEARS. 

I also went on (probably in a fit of pettiness, it's true) to explain why people who aren't actually smart enough to get MD's and PhD's...( er.... and truth be told, most people in med schools and grad programs would argue that this particular linkage is incorrect, as that should be "or" LOL) are the only ones that think that an MD/PhD program is "better" than one or the other.  Nobody else is much fooled by them, and they make both lousy researchers AND lousy clinicians, because the programs are effectively watered down versions of both things, and not really good for much but producing mediocrity to begin with.   

[Janelle205]

I'm sick.  I want soup.  And I don't want to have to make it.

Prepared soup does not exist for the soy-allergic, for the most part.  And it definitely does not exist and the grocery store that is close to my house.  And it kind of defeats the purpose if I have to make a special trip to a different store.





It probably doesn't help that what I really want is Campbell's chicken and stars, the sick food of my childhood (and I was sick a lot).  Never going to happen.

[YouKnowWho]

Hugs Janelle    I so understand that problem, I truly do.

I wish I knew a way to mail safe soup to you

[CMdeux]

Stuff like 37 tons crab meat dumped on Utah freeway
used to just strike me as funny and peculiar.

Now, not-so-much.

More like:

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Or maybe that's

[twinturbo]

I treat milk trucks on the highway with the same respect (and stopping distance) as I do fuel trucks. Someone spilled beer at Target and we had to decide real quick whether that much hops and barley in the air or on the floor was going to be a problem.

[YouKnowWho]

Three ice cream parties, cupcakes out the wazoo, more candy.

Why do I send my kids to school?  And yeah, that is just next week to celebrate the last days of school 

[hezzier]

I think we might have you beat YKW.  Notice came home saying there were 5 May birthdays and 6 summer birthdays to be celebrated before the end of school.  The notice came out with 22 days left which mean if everyone signed up (I told the teacher we were not participating), there would be a treat every other day.  This does not include the popsicle they were given for doing a good job in the 2nd grade musical.  It also doesn't involve the popsicle to be given out for field day as well as one for the 2nd grade round up day (which is essentially a repeat of field day for only 2nd graders).  Unbelievable...here's a math problem for you...How much junk food can the school cram into my child before the end of school?


I can't wait for it to be over

[Macabre]

I was thinking of you Hezz.  That is just so unbelievable. So unbelievable.

[GoingNuts]

For the past several months I've been grocery shopping like other people do; trying something new if it looks interesting, putting things in my cart as if on autopilot.

DS returns from college tonight, and this week's shopping was back to label checking, not buying the kind of bread I like, and being angry about how much stuff is made on shared equipment. 

[SilverLining]

humour is different when you have allergies.

I was flipping through news stations.  HLN was showing a short clip "The Human Factor" it was about the twins Evan and Erik that invented the Auvi-Q.

Why did it make me laugh?  because it was brought to you by Honey Nut Cheerios.