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Author Topic: Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on  (Read 385302 times)

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Offline Macabre

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, FEB 2013
« Reply #60 on: February 20, 2013, 04:48:08 PM »
That's a really good point. Their price point is not sustainable for long I fear.
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Re: Living with Food Allergies, FEB 2013
« Reply #61 on: February 20, 2013, 05:28:19 PM »
... which is really sad.

This is why I feel it is SO important to THANK companies that aren't necessarily marketing to a niche-- but whose policies make them reliable and readily available choices in the existing marketplace.

Gimball's.  PhillySwirl.  Etc.   :yes:
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Re: Living with Food Allergies, FEB 2013
« Reply #62 on: February 20, 2013, 05:53:04 PM »
But it helps to sell in Whole Paycheck to convince those to part with that kind of money. 

DS1 - Wheat, rye, barley and egg
DS2 - peanuts
DD -  tree nuts, soy and sunflower
Me - bananas, eggplant, many drugs
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Re: Living with Food Allergies, FEB 2013
« Reply #63 on: February 24, 2013, 11:55:34 AM »
For anyone who wonders whether or not it's important to know if there are treenuts that your child is allergic to.... versus NOT (or at least 'not-that') allergic to...


DD's school Europe tour bus must be free of those anaphylaxis triggers that she is demonstrably aerosol/contact sensitive to (at least in a big way, KWIM?  Hives are one thing, but anaphylaxis rolling down the M40 somewhere south of Birmingham isn't ideal, to say the least.

The problem is that on a packed school tour, the kids HAVE to pack snacks.  They have to-- it's as much as 5-7 hours between meals, and there is a LOT of physical activity in that time.    Those snacks must be: a) lightweight, b) high energy, and c) shelf-stable.

Granola bars, energy bars, and nuts/seeds, right? 

Well, in that family of things it is REALLY important to avoid only those things which pose actual contact/inhalation risk to a person who is allergic.

For my DD, those things are cashews and peanuts.  Like, those things REALLY cannot be consumed within 5-10 feet of her, no matter how careful the handwashing or whatever is afterwards.

What this means, though, is that almond-based snacks are okay.   That's important for other people to know.

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, FEB 2013
« Reply #64 on: February 24, 2013, 03:49:35 PM »
Beyond thrilled!

Sign at entry to military commissary today:





Is this where I blame iPhone and cuss like an old fighter pilot's wife?

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, FEB 2013
« Reply #65 on: February 25, 2013, 09:51:33 PM »
You know I'm sooooo jealous, right? 
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DS: Peanuts

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, FEB 2013
« Reply #66 on: February 26, 2013, 12:08:03 PM »
Kind of freaking out.

Okay-- not "kind of."

I am quietly freaking out.  Close to hysteria, in fact.

I feel distinctly like the proverbial headless chicken, which when you think about it is a completely grisly image that ought to scare the crapola out of anyone....  and really, thinking about chickens at a time like this??  I need to be figuring out cell phone usage in Europe... I need to be reserving a hotel in London... I need to be adding things to my packing list... I need to be printing forms... I need to be dropping those forms off for the allergist...

I'm sort of paralyzed by the weight off the sum of all of those seemingly small details-- because forgetting ANY of them is going to be catastrophic-- or cost more time later, at the very least.  Even my LISTS have lists... and everytime I walk away from the computer (or pen and paper) to actually DO anything, I remember more things that belong on lists, and then I forget them as soon as I could write them down...  I'm doomed.

What. was. I. thinking??    :hiding:


« Last Edit: February 26, 2013, 12:09:36 PM by CMdeux »
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Re: Living with Food Allergies, FEB 2013
« Reply #67 on: February 26, 2013, 01:17:23 PM »
:heart:


Keep your eyes on the prize.
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Re: Living with Food Allergies, FEB 2013
« Reply #68 on: February 26, 2013, 01:39:56 PM »
Yay!  London hotel!  Near the train station!  Near the V&A museum!  Near the Tower!  Near Hyde Park!

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phones...phones... phones... I keep reminding myself that cell phones have made my life EASIER.  Really they have.  Must remind self of this again.    <muttering>
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Re: Living with Food Allergies, FEB 2013
« Reply #69 on: February 26, 2013, 01:43:20 PM »
CM,

I hope you & your dd have a great trip.   :grouphug: for all the stress.  Hardly anything is risk free, but you are on top of this allergy stuff.  Lists are good ... you're a great planner ... I'm excited for you and will be hoping that all goes smoothly.   :smooch:

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, FEB 2013
« Reply #70 on: February 26, 2013, 04:48:24 PM »
OH!  Have a wonderful time!  I'm jealous!

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Re: Living with Food Allergies, FEB 2013
« Reply #71 on: February 26, 2013, 05:31:36 PM »
With accepted offer on house and contingency nearly met

am realizing what a HUGE clean up we will have on inside of this home
as owners are nut lovers . . . oh the door and cupboard and handle and switch
cleaning!!

Perhaps cellphones could be programmed to do THAT?!
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Re: Living with Food Allergies, FEB 2013
« Reply #72 on: February 26, 2013, 06:08:08 PM »
Oy-- this is the real reason that I dread ever moving again, Ajas. 

SO glad that you found a new house, though-- YAY! 
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Re: Living with Food Allergies, FEB 2013
« Reply #73 on: February 26, 2013, 06:38:11 PM »
Ajas!! Congratulations!! I was pondering that just now when looking at some houses online.


CM--you mean, you can check out any time you want but you can never leave?  I think I might take that in that city!
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Re: Living with Food Allergies, FEB 2013
« Reply #74 on: February 26, 2013, 06:40:59 PM »
I think maybe we're all secretly hoping, actually.

It's a five minute walk from St. James Square.  <swoon>

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