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Easy Sugar-free Matcha Ice Cream: Recipe

Matcha Ice Cream can be a treat quite difficult to come by. If you’re someone who’s mindful of what they eat and what goes into their food, the search can be twice as daunting, especially when the craving hits you hard. Being surrounded by store-bought smoothies, cupcakes, and other sugar-filled treats can make you succumb more


Meatloaf without Egg or Dairy? It can be done!

The number of ingredients that you need for a regular meatloaf is staggering, but it’s almost always stuff you have in your pantry already…unless you need to do ingredient substitutions. Meatloaf without egg? Can it be done?  What will I use for binding?  Many people try to make their meatloaf without adding eggs, and they more


Project: Food Budget – Dairy Free / Vegan Pizza

We are not vegans, though sometimes we are by necessity because of our food allergies:  eggs, for my oldest son and I, and milk, for our youngest. Selecting Ingredients: If you want to go full on vegan with your pizza, make sure you buy a crust that does not contain milk or may contain trace more


Project: Food Budget – Saving Your Green on St. Patrick’s Day With a Slow Cooked Roast

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! What are the typical St. Patrick’s Day festive meals? A lot of people like to make green eggs and ham.  But wait, we’re allergic to eggs, so that’s out! Corned beef and cabbage is another St. Patrick’s Day favorite.  However, my husband loathes cabbage, so that’s out. So we fall back more


Project: Food Budget – Vegan / Dairy Free / Gluten Free Mexican Dinner

In addition to having multiple food allergies (peanuts, tree nuts, eggs, and dairy), I was also on a gluten free diet for awhile when I became chronically ill.  While I am no longer on the gluten free diet, this recipe I discovered one day while I was desperate for a protein packed meal while fasting more


Dairy Allergies? Try this Simple Butter Substitute

I picked up some Crisco for the first time.  I never use shortening.  I vowed I never would, for the same reason I don’t use margarine, but in this instance, it was worth a try. My grandmother recently gave me her grandmother’s recipe from the depression era for a spice cake.  I love spice cake!  more


Top Holiday Recipes – Merry Christmas!

Since my holiday recipe posts for food allergies seem to be the most popular, I thought I would do a sticky post so that the recipes can be found easily by people browsing my blog for good food allergy recipe ideas. Dairy Free, Egg Free Pumpkin Pie Recipe (lentin / vegan recipe) Sugar Free Cranberry more


Dairy Free Green Bean Casserole Recipe

If you’ve never been to my blog before, let me begin by saying that we have a lot of food allergies in our house.  This includes dairy products with our youngest son.  Mealtime is definitely a challenge. Holidays are worse. So, for Thanksgiving, in addition to making a dairy free, egg free pumpkin pie (aka more


The Dairy Free, Egg Free Pumpkin Pie Experiment – Part 1

As you may already know, we have a great deal of food allergies in this house.  Three out of four of our household members has food allergies, including peanuts, tree nuts, eggs, milk, and some oral allergy syndrome (allergies to raw fruits and vegetables) thrown in for additional frustration. As a result, baking is sometimes more


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