Monthly Archives: January 2012

The Idiotic Things They Say Vol.1

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

We’re less than a year into Life With a Food Allergic Kid territory and already I have a marvellous list of the, frankly, unhelpful bollocks various people have come out with. Some are well-meaning, but ill-advised, others outright rude and … Continue reading →

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If Meat is Murder what about bananas?

Posted on January 28, 2012 by

Why the Government needs to lay down the law WHEN I was 12 (and much to my parents’ dismay) I turned vegetarian. It was 1985 and the veggie brigade’s brigadier generals were Morrissey, those crazy anti-vivisectionist kids, Linda McCartney (pre … Continue reading →

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An old-fashioned sponge

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

(Wheat free, nut free, egg free, banana free!) The first birthday loomed and I started to fret. We’d been trotting along quite happily with a nice rotation of allergy-free homemade meals. But cake? I couldn’t let his birthday go by … Continue reading →

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& more to come

Posted on January 24, 2012 by

The rest is a long and boring story, but the upshot is this: we were sent home clutching a bottle of Benadryl, a prescription for two EpiPens, three pamphlets on nut-free, wheat-free and egg-free diets, a good deal of sensible … Continue reading →

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Scrambled eggs on Mother’s Day

Posted on January 22, 2012 by

It was a perfectly innocuous Mother’s Day breakfast that booted us into a new way of life. And the morning had started so well: just a couple of night-time wake-ups and a respectable 7am start from our five month-old baby … Continue reading →

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What’s it all about?

Posted on January 22, 2012 by

I’m Mum to a fully paid-up food allergic, EpiPen-toting tot. Current tally: egg, wheat, nuts, sesame, chickpeas, green peas and, yep, banana. Arrrggh. It’s early days and we’ve just started tiptoeing around this new, weird world of food allergy. Amazingly, while … Continue reading →

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