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November 2007 Issue
Thank you to
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| Medical Advisory Team Update |
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Welcome to Todd Green M.D., who has joined Kids With Food Allergies' Medical Advisory Team.
Dr. Green is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA. He grew up in Pittsburgh and earned his undergraduate degree from Yale University, then returned to the University of Pittsburgh for medical school. He completed a residency in Pediatrics at the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital in Portland, Maine. He developed an interest in food allergy and performed clinical research in this area during his fellowship in Allergy and Immunology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. He continues to enjoy working with food allergic patients and their families at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, where he has been active in helping to expand the food allergy program there.
Dr. Green will be joining his colleagues, Dr. Roger Friedman and Dr. David Hauswirth fellow allergists on our Medical Advisory Team, as well as Sherry Jenkins, Pharm. D., Debra Indorato, R.D., L.D.N. and me.
We appreciate Dr. Green accepting our invitation to join our Medical Advisory Team and look forward to his assistance as we work on expanding our educational program offerings in 2008.
Kind regards,
Kim Khosla, M.D., F.A.A.P.
KFA Medical Advisory Team Chair
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KFA Allergy Buyers' Guide
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- New for December
- KFA Celebrates Christmas: Check our home page the first week of December to download another delightful holiday booklet from KFA with dozens of food-free craft and game ideas, holiday dining with food allergies tips, and allergy-free Christmas recipes for candy canes, gingerbread cookies and rice nog.
- The next issue of Support Net will be emailed to all Family Membership subscribers in early December, who can read about:
- Enjoying the holidays while dealing with the emotional challenges;
- How hearing the words, "a single life-saving shot of epinephrine" changed one mom's life;
- Corrine, age 10, who not only takes good care of her own food allergies but helps care for her younger sib's allergies, too.
- New for Chanukah - now available!
 Eight pages of food free Chanukah games and
activities to make and enjoy; crafts to make safe dreidels, menorahs and gelt; strategies for making meals safe; and allergen-free recipes for latkes and sufganyot.
free Chanukah booklet
- Eosinophilic family featured on TV on Dec. 2
A family from Idaho with children having eosinophilic gastrointestinal conditions will be featured on Extreme Makeover Home Edition on Sunday, December 2. Please check your local listings!
- Taking care of your family during the holidays
On top of the usual holiday shopping and baking routines, we find ourselves jumping through the extra hoops of baking and cooking for our children's special events at school; attending the events to make sure they are safe; planning and attending family or social gatherings; and probably even coordinating visits to relatives or making other out-of-town travel plans. Many of us also do some extra shopping and gift giving for those special people who've taken such good care of our children at school, in daycare or at home. It's no wonder we feel overwhelmed!
Do set aside some special "me" time at this time of year. This benefits not only yourself, but also your family. Take a little time to rejuvenate so you can really celebrate the joy of the season and the success you've had in raising and caring for your child. Find a way to relax that works best for you, whether it's taking a bubble bath, going to the gym, or just stealing some alone time to shop without children in tow. Creating this special time will reinvigorate you. You've no doubt worked hard all year long and you deserve it!
In all of the hustle and bustle at this time of year, do not let your guard down regarding safety. Be sure to inform restaurants, party hosts and family members of your child's food allergies. Don't take any chances: verify all ingredients and read all labels to ensure safety. Be alert for open food displays, especially nuts, candies and chocolates, in unexpected places like stores and offices. Many stores this time of year have samples out to boost sales of those food products. We must remain observant and vigilant at this time of year to keep our children safe.
- Last Call for Food Allergy Awareness Holiday Cards!
We ship priority mail, so if you still want to order Kids With Food Allergies holiday cards we can get them to you quickly.
Cards come in packages of 15 cards for $19 or 30 cards for $34. Prices include shipping. All proceeds go to funding our programs here at Kids With Food Allergies.
Artwork for each of the cards is by a food allergic child and the layout is by a graphics designer and mom of a food allergic child. Cards include a food allergy awareness message on the reverse side. We know our members will really like with these adorable cards!
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| A Message from our Sponsor |
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Please click on the image above to visit the Web site of Epi-Pen, our newsletter sponsor this month.
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| Active Forum Topics |
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Editor's note: Our forums provide a place to discuss many issues related to food allergies and your family. Registration as an Associate Member is at no cost to you, and allows you to read the current topics and messages listed below.
Some of these topics discuss foods. Remember to always verify the safety of any products mentioned on our forums to make sure they are truly safe for your child's unique food allergy issues.
C-section = food allergies?
This thread references the recent Newsweek issue discussing food allergies in children. It is linked below in News and Research.
What's for Thanksgiving this year?
What are you thankful for?
Thanksgiving may be over, but you can still be thankful for the ideas in these threads!
Cake mix question
Birthday baking and tips
File away the information in these posts for successful birthdays from now on!
Not buying the hygiene hypothesis
If you avoid tree nut, do you avoid coconut?
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| News and Research |
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Our News and Research Forum is updated daily with new articles related to food and food allergies. You can read the articles, as well as join in a discussion on individual articles. Here are some recently posted news items:
Hyperlinks to these newstories have been removed from archived copies of KFA e-news since many are no longer working at this time |
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| Safe Eats Recipes |
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Holiday Baking
No matter your family's traditional holiday foods, there is probably a recipe in the Safe Eats Recipe Database. Here are a few recipes to make your holiday baking an allergy-safe hit. For more recipes to make your cooking easier, from breakfast through dessert, visit our Safe Eats Recipe Database.
Reminder: These are recipes donated by members and have not been tested in a test kitchen. Be sure to verify the safety of all ingredients.
Kay's Carrot Cake
Recipe created by Kay (paddyboy050303)
Made without milk, soy, peanut, egg, tree nut, corn, fish, shellfish, sesame.
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup coarsely shredded carrots
3/4 cup water
1/3 cup oil
1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
Mix dry ingredients together. Add carrots and stir. Add remaining ingredients and stir to blend. Pour into 8 or 9 inch greased pan and bake 25 to 30 minutes.
Substitutions
Use soy and corn free ingredients as needed.
See discussion for suggestions on adapting to make the recipe gluten free.
Meg's Roll Out Cookies
Recipe Created by Meg
Made without milk, soy, peanut, tree nut, wheat, gluten, egg, fish, shellfish, corn, and sesame
Ingredients
1 cup rice flour
1 cup tapioca starch
1 cup potato starch
1 tsp baking powder (for dry ingredients)
1 tsp salt
2 3/4 tsp xanthan gum
1 1/4 cups sugar
1 cup + 2 Tbsp Spectrum Shortening
1 1/2 Tbsp oil
1 tsp baking powder (for egg replacer)
1 1/2 Tbsp water
2 Tbsp vanilla
3/4 cup or more additional potato starch
paste food coloring (optional)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a bowl, stir the dry ingredients (rice flour, tapioca and potato starches, baking powder, salt and xanthan gum) together.
In a separate bowl, cream shortening and sugar together until fluffy. Scrape down sides. Mix together oil, baking powder and water. This is your egg substitute. Add egg substitute and vanilla, and continue beating. Add flour mix slowly and stir (LOW speed) until completely combined.
Dough will be very wet/sticky--it will remind you of cake frosting. Add potato starch, 1-2 Tbsp at a time, until dough is thick enough to turn out onto counter dusted with potato starch. (Though it will stick mostly to itself and not your fingers, you will have to use spatula to get dregs out of bowl.) Begin kneading dough, adding potato starch as needed until dough is thick/dry enough to roll out.
Add food color now, if desired. Just knead in until dough is uniform in color. If it's not enough color, knead in more. No gluten means you can't overwork dough.
Roll out dough to 1/4 inch thick, and cut cookies. Place on greased or parchment lined cookie sheets. Bake for 15-17 minutes. Remove from oven and cool slightly on pan before transferring to wire rack.
Substitutions
You can use softened margarine for these, but then you have to deal with chilling the dough. Since shortening is solid at room temperature you can mix/roll/bake without stopping.
If not avoiding egg, the egg replacer mixture (oil/baking powder/water) can be replaced with 1 egg.
Use dairy, soy, egg, corn, wheat and/or gluten free ingredients as needed.
New recipes accessible to Family Membership subscribers:
Chloe's Strawberry Sweet Cookies
Ciabatta
Chocolate Ball Cookies
No Bake Pumpkin Pie
Zucchini Sweet Potato Muffins
Chocolate Topped Rice Crispy Treats
Rice-only Pancakes
Pumpkin Rice Pudding
No Bake Coconut Date Balls
Sunbutter Apple Dip
For the entire list of new recipes added this month, go to the Recipe Database and click on "new recipes" in the left navigation menu. |
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| Allergy Buyer's Guide |
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| Food Allergy Recalls |
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Food alerts! Have you checked the food alerts section at KFA recently?
All of the food allergy alerts from the U.S. and Canada are listed on our Web site and are also posted in the News And Research Forum. You can also find links to the U.K. and Australian alerts, as well as kosher alerts.
The following foods were recently recalled. Check our Web site for complete details:
U.S. allergy recalls
- Harry and David Moose Munch® confection tubs in two flavor combinations: milk & dark chocolate, white chocolate macadamia; and peanut butter, milk chocolate, macadamia nut (undeclared macadamia nuts and peanuts)
- Blue Planet Foods Inc. Heartland® brand graham pie crusts(undeclared almonds, milk and coconut)
- Charlemagne Chocolatiers of Belgium dark chocolate organic bars (undeclared dairy)
- Coffee Masters, Inc. Chipper With Coffee biscotti (undeclared milk, eggs, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybeans)
- Kellogg's® Crispix® cereal (undeclared wheat)
- Kroger light caesar salad dressing (undeclared milk, eggs, anchovies)
- The Dutch Kettle Hickory Barbecue Sauce packed under various private labels (undeclared anchovy)
- A&M Cookie Company President's Choice chocolate chunk brownie cookies (undeclared milk)
- Bell's Fishery whitefish pate (undeclared egg, soy, and milk)
Canadian allergy recalls
- Uni President brand red bean ice bar and red bean & jelly ice cream bar (undeclared milk)
- Mexi-Snax all natural Pico de Gallo tortilla chips (undeclared milk)
- Anna's of North America, Calgary Ltd. various Anna's biscuits and cookies (undeclared milk)
- Charlemagne Chocolatiers tea bio organic chocolate (undeclared milk)
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