“I love lasagna!”  Ella says the other night after my first official decent attempt at a dairy free “lasagna.” So only if you gone without Ricotta cheese for a long time, this is pretty good!  The Eggplant, Artichoke and Yellow Squash puree makes a sticky bread like mixture to use between noodle layers.  Monday night [...]

You just do what you got to do when your kid has food allergies and their environment has been put at risk. No the camp did not guarantee a completely safe environment, we talked about best action plan and our family just made the best decision we could with the information we had. On Friday, [...]

Both kids off to camp this week and it’s working out…hard to believe it almost.  Heard about a camp last summer from a friend who has send her oldest daughter for many years and her youngest had just begun her first year.  She went on and on about how wonderful the programs and staff are [...]

What have I been up to?  What have you been up to? Since January, I’ve accepted the FAAN Walk for Food Allergy of Northern Virginia Chair position and have been working progressively on this annual event held here and also in 46 other cities across the country.  It’s a big job, really big, so I [...]

This time it’s Mama who gets the “Naughty Step!” I recently had another fantastic opportunity to interview a leading expert in children’s development, Jo Frost, who’s well known through her hit ABC show, SuperNanny. Now she is spokesperson for EIB Active, or Exercise-Induced Bronchospasm, where she helps spreads awareness about the importance of taking care [...]

I’m honored to have been asked to share a video here of, Dr. Keith Ayoob, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Associate Clinical Professor, Pediatrics, who recently visited the National Press Club, to speak on improving our children’s health through nutrition. He’s a regular contributor on ABC News, Good Morning America and CNN. He spoke about many subjects, [...]

Tonight FAAN @foodallergy hosted a Twitter party for tips, resources and recipes from the industry’s leaders.  Missed it?  No worries you can catch the highlights here on the @Storify page I created! I just love this web application.  Washington Post even used it to gather the Twitter chatter leading up to and after the Osama [...]

I give a big thank you to these…I shall take the high road and say…determined parents in Edgewater, FL to run a six year old child out of a school because of a life threatening disability!  Shock you a little?  Well the way I see it, nationwide our public schools are listening and watching.  This [...]

From Rocco Dispirito to Rachel Ray, I found inspiration for tonight’s dinner in more than “30 minutes” while 2 plus kids grazed for snacks, running in the front door and out the back door with the neighbor’s dog, quickly dropping temps flaring asthma and untimely phone calls to which I respond, “sorry not now, it’s [...]

Mi medicine cabinet is su medicine cabinet! When’s the last time you organized your emergency medicine cabinet? Maybe if you’re lucky (just a figure of speech of course) and you just have to keep your Epi-pens handy, but for us managing asthma and frequent skin reactions requires quite a bit of medicine storage. Ease of [...]