Our first party was at one of my best friends houses. Her boy is allergic to eggs, dairy, and nuts, which if you know my family works out well. Andy is allergic to dairy, Lu is allergic to eggs, and I'm allergic to gluten. I think I would simply die if I was allergic to nuts. Let’s face it; I love peanuts and every form of them.
Our second party was at another little girl’s house, her mom knew about Lu's allergy and made an exception for her and made cookies where she could eat them without worry. Here's the thing though... my kid knows what she can eat and what she cannot. Even though the cookies were made without eggs, she's been taught not to eat most of them because of the egg and ends up passing on them. The parents I think have a hard time understanding why she doesn't eat it when they try to work with her. Well, let’s put it this way, you train your kids to stay away from strangers, but the first time you tell them its ok to talk to that stranger, you think they are going to actually do it? No, they are going to be confused and keep away.
What I want to do is try to make allergies more known to the public and allergy free foods more accessible to people. Yes, allergy free is available, however you have to work really hard to get to it and it is overly expensive. This doesn’t help the everyday Joe.
I plan on using this blog as a vehicle to test many recipes that will address children with allergies in hope to get the word out. In addition, I plan on making my recipes with inexpensive ingredients that the everyday Joe can afford. It's insane to overcharge children because they have an allergy, the substitutions do not cost any more than the regular ingredients so the process just isn't clicking in my head.
