News — strawberries

Lately I’ve been trying to eat a lot more oatmeal to increase my breastmilk supply.  However Kay cannot eat oatmeal due to her FPIES food allergy.  She kept asking for my oatmeal instead of her cereal and it broke my heart.  The fix?  Quinoa!  Yesterday morning we made Oat Free Quinoa Oatmeal Breakfast and we […]

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A delicious and creamy cheesecake topped with beautiful organic strawberries and allergen-free chocolate | Chocolate Covered Strawberry Vanilla Bean Cheesecake Recipe 

My daughter has never enjoyed a bite of cheesecake.  She’s two years old!  Obviously, with all her new food passes, we had to take it slow and we had a bunch of hiccups.  Cream cheese caused us a ton of confusion with her FPIES (what is fpies?) food allergy.

For awhile she would have a chronic reaction whenever she had cream cheese, but she’s never experienced a chronic reaction with any other food.  We waited quite a few months to try cream cheese again.  Just recently we also found a graham cracker that has NO soy!  Plus they’re non-gmo and even organic!

Kay loves to snack on these honey grahams, and as soon as we found these we knew we had to try cream cheese again.  Thankfully it went well and she can now safely eat cream cheese!  Of course, we had to rush and make a cheesecake.  Not just any cheesecake.. but a vanilla bean cheesecake.  Kay loves chocolate and berries so we obviously had to top with chocolate covered strawberries.  We’re not a fan of cooked down fruit so we just left them as is.

On the internet there are a great deal many tips, tricks, hacks and ideas. And recently there is one floating around about hulling a strawberry with a straw (get it..straw..strawberry..not sure if that is on purpose) and while the tricks works fantastically, who the heck ever has a STRAW around? The only time I have...

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Baked Glazed Chocolate Doughnuts with fresh raw strawberry sprinkles.  Fun, delicious, and easy!

Sweet Baby is a tricky little girl to back for when it comes to those “fun” sprinkles and colors.  I actually searched for organic sprinkles and even most of them contain soy.  We really try to avoid all types of artificial ingredients in ours and her diet.  One thing we’ve noticed is she has an FPIES reaction to products that say “contains natural flavors”.   Natural flavors can be anything, and for us we have to avoid that.  Since it’s Valentine’s Day I wanted to make her an edible treat that she would love and would be semi-healthy.  I gave her a choice of cupcake or doughnut by holding up the pans, she picked the heart shaped doughnut pan from Wilton!

Raw Apple Cider is made by blending delicious fresh apples in a blender. A healthy whole juice recipe. Who doesn’t love apple cider? After we go apple picking we love making our Raw Apple Cider Recipe!

Having a child with multiple allergies can have it’s  heartbreaking moments.  I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve eaten something and Sweet Baby tries to eat from my plate instead of hers.  It kills me, every single time.  She used to say “My nummy nums!” and now her new thing is “haaam”.   We don’t eat ham often and I don’t remember the last time we did, but whenever she wants to eat something, “haaam”! It’s too darn cute.  I wish I could feed her anything and everything.. and my hope is one day she won’t have FPIES.   Most children outgrow FPIES by age 3.. so fingers crossed ya’ll.   Until then she knows if I don’t allow her to have it she just says “no, no, no’.. Like I said.. heartbreaking.

There’s those horrible moments when I can’t share everything with her, then there’s the best moments when we can enjoy something together.  Food is just more fun when it’s enjoyed with someone else.  Who wants to eat all alone?  I love company.  Family, food, friends, it all makes life complete.  Some days I just feel as if food is just fuel.. and then there’s days like just last week where Sweet Baby and I enjoyed her first “cider”.  While she could probably have apple cider it’s not something I really want to waste a trial on.  (We have to trial each and every food – there’s no test or treatment for FPIES) So we got creative in the kitchen with our Vitamix and baby’s safe foods.  The end result was quite delicious, healthy, and full of love.