Social Events

Part 1-Easy Tips for Navigating Social Events With Your Food Allergy Child - Miniseries

Part 1-Easy Tips for Navigating Social Events With Your Food Allergy Child - Miniseries

Navigating social events with food allergies can be stressful and hard for every food allergy family. Learn easy tips to make social events fun and less stressful in this 3-part series! This is #1 of 3 in the series.

Raising Food Allergy Awareness

Raising Food Allergy Awareness

May is food allergy awareness month! This is a great time to talk with friends about food allergies and how they impact our lives as food allergy families. Listen in on an interview I did with Kimberly at Build Your Best Family Podcast where we talked about some of the struggles food allergies place on our lives, how food allergies affect family culture & traditions and more.

How To Host Kids With Food Allergies

Need a little mom inspiration for food allergy aware playdate activities?  This post will give you 6 tips for hosting a child with food allergies.

Can My Child Have Anaphylaxis From Touching Their Allergen?

Can My Child Have Anaphylaxis From Touching Their Allergen?

What are the facts about anaphylaxis and touching a food allergen? Read about skin contact risk and how it might affect your everyday life.

Lower Stress Cooking For Special Diets

Lower Stress Cooking For Special Diets

Seven easy ways to lower the stress of cooking for special diets.

Potlucks, BBQs and Food Allergies

Going out to someone’s house and explaining how to safely manage food allergies can be exhausting.  Going to a potluck, BBQ or family event where the food and environment are unknown adds a whole new layer of stress.  Sometimes I feel like it’s just easier to stay home.  But after 10 years of living with food allergies, I also know that loneliness is real and can be just as bad as the food allergies themselves.  Which is why I’ve started to intentionally work on going to more social events.  In doing this, I’ve come up with a few things that help mentally and practically when going to potlucks & BBQs.