If you’re like me, you love eating good food. (Who doesn’t?) You’re dealing with one or more food allergies or sensitivities and you don’t want to give up eating well. I’m here to say you don’t have to!
When my daughter was born with multiple food allergies, I discovered that there aren’t many cookbooks out there for people who are trying to avoid more than one food. There are a lot of milk-free cookbooks, for example, that are not very helpful if you also need to avoid soy. And some of the allergy cookbooks I tried had recipes that just didn’t work, or that weren’t appetizing to me. So I set out to create my own recipes for the types of food that I like to eat.
I am sharing the results of my trial and error in the kitchen with you as a gift. There are no ads on this blog, and I don’t earn any money from it. I just want to help make your food allergy journey a little easier.
The recipes in this blog are free of the top eight allergens for children: dairy, soy, nuts, peanuts, eggs, wheat, fish and shellfish. Most are also free of sesame and yeast and are low in naturally-occurring histamine. There are also many recipes here for people on a gluten-free or gluten-free/casein free diets. Many are vegan. All are surprisingly tasty and far from boring.
These recipes may not be appropriate for your family. For example, my daughter is not allergic to wheat so some of the recipes use kamut or spelt flour, which are relatives of wheat and should not be eaten by people with IgE-mediated allergies to wheat or with celiac disease. You will need to try your own experiments with gluten-free flours. Please check with your allergist before trying any new foods.
I’ve started a new category of recipes that conform to the Weight Watchers core plan. I guess it is proof that it is possible to eat well on an allergen-free diet that I need to watch my weight! These recipes are free of the top eight allergens and are also low-fat and high in whole grains and protein.
In addition to the recipes, this site features links to organizations and businesses dedicated to food allergies and some general musings about life with allergies. I hope that this site makes living with allergies a little easier and more fun for you!
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Those chickpea fries were very very good.
Website looks great – very well organized, easy to find your way quickly to a great idea for the next meal plan. Thank you!!!
This does look great! You’ve got quite an impressive collection by now — and you’ve inspired me to try to figure out how to subscribe to RSS feeds to keep up with additions. (If I’ve done it correctly, this message will show up sometime in my RSS feed…)
Let me know if you’d like some additional bread recipes for the ‘recipes with some top 8 allergens’ section — I keep coming up with new ones all the time but can’t avoid using some flour, either wheat or spelt.
This website is freakin’ amazing.
Loved the Sweet Potato, Lime and Cilantro Vichyssoise. Thanks so much for a great Web site!
Thank you, thank you for this website! I am new mother of a baby with multiple food allergies (via my breastmilk). I am three months into it, still deciphering symptoms and triggers, but getting used to my new lifestyle and food choices. Your website will do us wonders!
I wish you and your baby the best on your journey. Have you found the Parents of Food Allergic Kids site yet? http://www.kidswithfoodallergies.org
They have a group on facebook as well — which is free.
Thanks so much for this website. I have mastocytosis (too many mast cells and when they degranulate I can/do go into anaphalictic shock….) and my daughter has a few allergies.
I have urticaria right now and it’s located all over my body including my face. I have been reluctant to follow a low-histamine diet because it’s so difficult and new to me, but I’m finding out that that may be the way to go! I will certainly be using your recipes! Thanks sooo much!
The low histamine diet is hard to follow at first — so many things to keep track of! But when you start feeling better and see the pay off, it will all be worthwile. And after a while you will start to have a file of recipes you like and foods you know are OK for you and it will become part of your routine.
I hope your urticaria has improved since you posted this!
I love these recipes! Thanks so much!
Hello–I am so grateful to have found your website, after wondering what now starting me itching when I thought I’d just eaten “safe” foods. This is new to me—I am hungry and miserable, so it is such a relief to encounter your fabulous resources!
My allergies used to be minor nuisances until I had a reaction to contrast dye and subsequently had additional exposures b/c of necessary diagnostic tests. The last one three and a half weeks ago seemed to push my body over the brink (despite premed. w/cortisone), my histamine levels are staying elevated and antihistamines have helped but I still turn red and blotchy and itchy for no apparent reason….and often after eating. I have been trying to do the ‘elimination’ diet but it’s not yet clear what all the culprits are (tho the things that make my lips swell are pretty clear)…. Looking forward to reading your material and trying out your recipes…Many thanks!
Sorry to hear about your allergy problems. It can be really hard to figure out the cause. I hope you manage to get some relief soon!