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Filed under: Holidays, Health & Safety: Babies, Nutrition: Health, Development/Milestones: Babies
I admire people who see a need for a product or a service and then go about inventing it themselves. One such person is Patsy, the founder of Cherrybrook KitchenMy children don't have food allergies, but I know a lot of people with dietary restrictions such as: No dairy; no nuts; no wheat. However, it's very hard to raise a household of children who want to be able to have birthday cakes or a cookie with these kinds of limitations. I also know people who don't use white sugar, wheat, or eggs. Again, it's hard to navigate sweets without sugar. But maybe not as hard as I thought. You can get them at a well-stocked health food store, or online at Patsy's website.
Am I the last person on the planet to find out about this? Even though we don't really follow any dietary restrictions in my house, I don't see what it can hurt to use these products instead of the ones available at my local grocery store, which are so full of sugar it makes my eyeballs ache just thinking about them. Have you tried these? Or other products you could tell us about?
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
7-21-2006 @ 9:54AM
Colleen said...We used the vanilla cake to make a special birthday cake for my daughter's first birthday. She has a dairy and egg white allergy. The cake was a little dense and dry, but overall pretty good. We had a "real" cake for the guests.
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7-21-2006 @ 10:16AM
Ethel said...Well for the celiacs out there, the Gluten-Free Pantry makes great mixes for "Favorite Sandwich Bread Mix" which does call for eggs and we love for pizza crust (they have a pizza crust and french bread mix, but we don't like it as much). They also make a great "Double Chocolate Truffle Brownie" mix which is great period, but Fred Meyer's isn't stocking it anymore. The Cravings line makes gluten free, dairy free, egg free batter mix that does make a good waffle and pancake. Both lines can be found at Fred Meyers and Safeway, although the selection is pretty limited.
I also found that gluten free cake mixes aren't so great (as in grainy and stone heavy), so I don't have cake for my birthday - chocolate mousse is a good substitute.
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7-21-2006 @ 7:00PM
Jen said...I made several batches of cupcakes with the cake mix for my peanut allergic DS. They're pretty darn good. I recently used the sugar cookie box too. For those of us out there dealing with food allergies, it's so wonderful to have a product that's super easy & quick to whip up(most things need to be from scratch), tastes good, and freezes well so we always have a treat ready (for those times when other kids are eating a treat that's not safe for my DS). Certainly worth a try if you have food allergies in your house--and you'll be thankful for something so good and easy. If you don't have allergies in your home and your kids can eat anything, they probably won't prefer this, but I bet they wouldn't notice it was something different for food allergy kids either.
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