Recommended Food and Gear

I have spent hundreds of hours over the past five years researching food ingredients, testing substitutions, and tweaking recipes to adjust to life with young kids who have severe food allergies and intolerances. Below are the foods and gear I’ve researched, used, and highly recommend.

To see the specifics of our food allergy diet, read below.

Tried-and-true favorites as a family with Food Allergies, Seasonal Allergies, Environmental Allergies, Asthma + Eczema.

I have experience eating and feeding a family with the following restrictions due to allergies and suspected intolerances:

Thankfully, we no longer need to live under such a strict diet, as we’ve gained more insight and intuition into what makes our bodies sick–and what makes them thrive. Check out the 7 Crucial Tips for Fewer Allergic Reactions + Better Health to learn more about that process…

OUR CURRENT FOOD ALLERGY FAMILY DIET

PEANUTS

• We are a peanut-free house that avoids cross-contact and shared lines as much as possible.

MILK, WHEAT, SOY, TREE NUTS

• We avoid gluten, dairy, soy, and brazil nuts but do not have life-threatening allergies to these foods. We eat foods made on shared lines.

EGG, FISH, SHELLFISH, TREE NUTS

• We eat eggs, fish, shellfish, and some tree nuts.