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Whatever Wednesday: Laundry Round-up, including coconut-free detergent!
WASH CYCLE And another thing, you can’t buy laundry soap without coconut in it either. (To get a list of coconut derivatives, go here, thanks to Becky at the Allergic to Coconut? blog.) Since I decided I wanted to try cutting out any coconut derivatives that touch my skin, laundry soap was a target too.…
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It’s Winter, Warm Yourself Up Chili
I’ve been working on this recipe a while and this is another one of my fire breather recipes. This is really, really spicy chili. If you don’t want really, really spicy chili, I’ll make notes about how to turn it down a notch, and how to turn it down 10 notches (*see asterisk below ingredients),…
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Whatever Wednesday: Household Scrubbing and Drains
Here, look at this pretty photo of Star Island’s research center, as my bathtub isn’t that exciting. Why not start the cleaning series with the deep cleaning of scrubbing? This is a method more than a recipe, and works on bathtubs as well as kitchen and bathroom sinks. Now if you do some searching online,…
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Miraculous ALLERGEN-FRIENDLY Fried Cheez Nuggets
When Denise and I sat down to discuss things we needed to learn to make, things we could not longer eat “normal” versions of, one of the things that popped to the top of the list was what my college roommate called “bar food” — fried foods that tasted great and had little or no…
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Whatever Wednesday: Good Green Cleaning for People with Allergies
New Year, new resolutions, right? I have been transitioning to chemical-free cleaning for the past few years. When I moved into my current place, I spent some house with ammonia-based cleaner in the kitchen, and while it needed the heavy-duty, chemical-laden cleaner, I felt awful afterwards. Since then, I’ve been making my own. So we’re…
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A Year In Review, 2012
First full year post-apocalypse. How have we done? Let’s chat. MK’s Take: I know that we haven’t been online for a year, but the original genesis for this blog was a discussion Denise and I had sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas of 2011. I was really unhappy with the allergy diagnosis. I felt like I…
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No-Bake Cookies Revisited — with a Nut-free Variation
This was one of my favorites when I was a kid, and it’s also really fast if you were supposed to bring something to a potluck/holiday party/family dinner and maybe you didn’t get it together because the holiday season is so crazy and if you have to find time to do one more thing you’re…
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At Last Gluten-Free Brownies
So the year before I got my allergy diagnoses, I spent time perfecting a brownie recipe. Which was, of course, based on wheat flours, and which did not, of course, translate well to gluten-free. It was my first attempt at my own gluten-free recipe — I replaced the flour in the recipe with a GF…
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