Organic Fish are chasing after Organic Bunnies. No, this is not part of a riddle about the movie Peter Rabbit, although it could be….. Do you know what I’m talking about? Both of these items are nut-free and a very popular snack in our household, at school and in lunch boxes. They are also littered all over the back of my Honda Odyssey! Pepperidge Farm’s Goldfish and Annie’s Cheddar Bunnies! These two items are in FIERCE competition at the grocery store and I had no idea until I read this New York Time’s article titled, “Why These Goldfish are 70 Percent Organic.” Danny Hakim wrote a wonderful piece this past…
Homemade Shamrock Shakes
It’s that time of year! Shamrock shakes! While the McDonalds shakes ARE safe for PN / TN allergies, most other restaurants are NOT due to cross contact risks. We prefer to make them at home anyway. They taste too good! After lunch today, we tested out our recipe. Ingredients: 1 cup vanilla breyers gluten free home style vanilla (nut free ice cream) 1/2 cup Sassy Cow organic milk 2 drops of mint extract 6 drops green McCormick food coloring Whip cream Mini Enjoy Life Chocolate chips Directions Using a blender / nutribullet, mix all ingredients except for the whip topping and Chocolate chips. Top with whipped cream and chocolate. To…
Chloe's Top 5 Sun Butter Snacks
If you had a chance to check us out on IG live today @nutfreemomblog, Chloe gave a little demo on her “made-up” recipe for after school snacking with Sun Butter. It was pretty cute, and included her favorite……MARSHMALLOWS! Yum. Chloe’s top 5 favorite after school Sun Butter snacks: Sun Butter Apple Donuts Slice one honey crisp apple on it’s side, core facing the wall, into thin slices. With a small round cookie cutter, or paring knife, cut out the middle where the seeds would be. Do this to all of the slices. Spread Sun Butter on the apple slices + top with your favorite sprinkles / Enjoy Life chocolate chips. Sun…
Dunkin Donuts, Not So Safe!
Stop! Before you eat that donut at Dunkin with PN/TN allergies!!!! It turns out, EVERY Dunkin LOCATION IS DIFFERENT. when it comes to dining out, no matter where you go always check on the policies in place, just like you would a label on packaging. I posted a few months ago about Dunkin Donuts and how SAFE I thought they were. A friend of mine visited a Dunkin in our area (not my usual Dunkin) and said that they did not have a handle on allergies, nor would confirm that the items she was purchasing were free from trace amounts of peanut or tree nuts. Today I called the Dunkin…
Banana Sushi
We’re on day 4 of our 10 day reset food and fitness challenge with Cara Clark Nutrition and this snack is my new favorite go-to. It’s so good, my kids are even making it after school! Ingredients One round rice cake Sunbutter or nutbutter of your choice sliced banana drizzle of honey sprinkle of toasted sesame seeds sprinkle of pumpkin pie spice or just cinnamon Directions Assemble and enjoy. This snack is filling and a great 3pm pick-me-up when you need to stay strong until dinner time! For more snack + other meal ideas, follow me on insta, nutfreemomblog. Have a great weekend. Tomorrow I’ll be posting this delish…
Grandpa Joe's Peach Pie
Have you ever had a bad “technology” day?! Eat pie, that’s the answer for everything! Just kidding… For some reason, every device in our house needs an update today, or to reconnect to the wireless network, or it doesn’t want to work properly, or it’s just down right slow. Maybe our devices dislike this arctic blast of cold Wisconsin air as much as we do. Alas, I’ve decided to give our wireless printer the benefit of the doubt. I NEED this printer to work. It’s been with me since I started my masters in 2009. We decided to crank the furnace and say many, many nice things to dear old…
English Muffin Pizza
Winter break is approaching. Kids are going to be wild. They’re going to be “bored” and they’re probably going to get on your nerves a bit, especially if you’re home with them the entire time – or if one gets sick, and the other doesn’t and you’re trapped. We can create all sorts of scenarios, but basically, I like to have some activities in mind so we can make simple stuff fun, just in case we get stuck inside. Today Carter and I made English Muffin Pizza Faces. I know, totally just making “what school sent home as an activity to work on” – but I’m feeling like Mom of…
School Snack – Smore Bags
We have a classroom party coming up Wednesday at our nut-free school. This smore bag is a great and easy snack to share with everyone. I don’t have real measurements, just use a giant bowl, combine and add to small school safe kiddo bags for snacking. Approx: for 30 small bags 3 family size boxes chex plain cereal 18oz 4 bags enjoy life mini chocolate chips 4 bags mini marshmallows Mix together in a bowl Chocolate sinks, so fluff often Three handfulls, or about 1.5 cups of mix per bag.
Nut Free Advent Calendar
Since it’s challenging to find a nut-free advent calendar, I’ve purchased a Pottery Barn “fill-it-yourself” type and have stuffed a bunch of nut-free candy of my own in. It’s the same thing. Just a count down. Nothing fancy. Ok probably the fanciest advent calendar, but at least it’s 100% nut free and I know what’s in it! Other options I saw this year include the Target countdowns with Lego. Love that they are non-food based. Check the link to order online and pick-up in stores. Target Lego Advent Calendars\ A few ideas for a fill-it-yourself calendar….we raided our local Target tonight. Somehow I’ve missed the boat here for advent calendars.…
Dreamsicle Jello
Do you LOVE Dreamsicle? We do. And this recipe is safe, so I love it even more. During our Thanksgiving prep we found this recipe and decided to try it. Actually, the kids decided we were going to try it. WE all have our favorite things, and they chose this, and there were zero leftovers. Ingredients 1 large package (6oz) orange Jell-0 3 Cups water 1 large package (5.1oz) Cook and Serve Vanilla pudding mix 2 small cans or one large can mandarin oranges, drained 1 pint whipping cream, or 1 (8oz) cool whip Directions Stir together in a sauce pan the pudding mix (cook and serve vanilla) and water.…
Nut Free Starbucks Gingerbread House
We had a little Gigi time today at Mayfair Mall where we visited Santa and had some chocolate milk and cookies. As we waited for our Starbucks chai tea lattes, we saw this adorable nut-free gingerbread house. Make sure you check the label, Starbucks notoriously has items made in a facility with nuts. But these are too cute!
Dunkin' Donuts and Nut Allergies
Please click the link below & read my updated blog post about Dunkin Donuts allergy policy. Updated on 1/23/2018 All Dunkin Donuts locations are different when it comes to allergies, please check yours before ordering. Dunkin’ Donuts is a relatively new treat for our family. We started treating Carter to Dunkin’ after his hemoglobin levels improved in September following his HUS infection, and it just became our thing. After the doctor, we’d head over to Dunkin’ to celebrate good health. Kind of ironic since Donuts are in no way healthy for you. Fast forward, I was talking to my best nut free mom friend, and she threw out the idea…
Chocolate Chip Ghost Muffins
Tonight we baked pumpkin muffins for school tomorrow to celebrate Halloween! We also finally carved our pumpkins, and holy cow, carving an owl was harder than I thought! But we did it, all of us (as in all four of us carved one pumpkin because it was huge and we ran out of time!), and the pumpkins are on the front porch ready for tomorrows trick-or-treating! The kids are excited for “The Great Pumpkin” to arrive, since we do not keep our candy, the Great Pumpkin leaves a small little something in exchange for the kids candy (that is always donated). This year I found glow in the dark Thomas…
Chloe's Chocolate Costco Find
Up until this week, we were Costco virgins. We’ve been to Costco with friends, but never actually had a membership. At 5’2, this store consumed me! It’s definitely overwhelming for someone who is not familiar with the layout – bathrooms are important when shopping with kids! We found those first. On the opposite side of the store. Of course. But, overall, it was OK – we found some good stuff and a few new nut-free finds. My biggest complaint is that everything is SO BIG! Sometimes I just want to try a sample size before spending the $$ on it. That was the other thing, prices are not always listed…
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