Author: STFAA
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WW: Badger Balm Factory Visit (with product reviews!)
In early July, on vacation, Denise and Mary Kate took a day to head west to Gilsum, New Hampshire, home of the Badger factory. Badger is a skin care products company based here in New Hampshire. In the interests of “shop local,” we figured we could head out and get to know one of our…
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WW Guest Post: Ann Winslow, Chef, on food allergies
Note from Mary Kate: Ann is a good friend of mine from college (during which, no, no one including me used my first name) who who is an artist and chef. In one of our conversations, she mentioned that food allergies were a hot topic in the restaurant world. Of course — that makes complete sense.…
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WW: Living with Food Allergies — Diagnosis
How were your food allergies diagnosed? Denise and I have both posted our diagnosis stories in our blog bios. The medical tests recommended for each of us were different — her allergist recommended skin scratch tests, and my doctor had referred me to a naturopathic doctor because she couldn’t help, and my naturopath was the…
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WW: Living with Food Allergies — Socializing
We’ve touched on this topic in a peripheral way in our posts on Relationships and Food Free Entertainment, but we wanted to give this topic its own post because of the prevalence of food with socializing in our society, and the complications that can cause if you have food allergies. When you develop a food…
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Quick-ish Beef Pho
So one of my pet peeves about the corn thing is no more going out for Vietnamese food, which is one of my favorite things ever. I actually made and pressure canned my own safe Hoisin sauce, and fermented my own Sriracha sauce so that I could still eat them. But you have to have…
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WW: Living With Food Allergies – Relationships
Welcome back to our Whatever Wednesday: Living with Food Allergies series. I bet you thought we forgot about it, but the truth is, we needed to talk about what we wanted to cover in this series. Expect to see more regular postings going forward. And when you see one of these? Grab a cup of…
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Whatever Wednesday: Apocalyptic Blogging Resolutions for 2014
For this brand-new year of 2014, we, your food allergies bloggers have decided to resolve the following: To finally review a few more of the products we’ve found helpful in our journeys of finding “safe-for-us” foods. To continue tinkering, with some additional focus on quick recipes for weeknight meals. To continue our series on Life…
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Whatever Wednesday: Merry Christmas review of Dancing Lion Chocolate, Manchester, NH
Our magical holiday discovery for you, our Christmas present to ourselves and you, is the discovery of Dancing Lion Chocolate in Manchester, NH. A few weeks ago, we went to a Science in the Pub lecture in Manchester on the Science of Chocolate. It was cool — we are both pretty nerdy, and science of…