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Wheat-free, Egg-free Fried Rice Recipe

One of our favorite scrape-off-the-left-over-upcycled foods is Fried Rice. I used to have a bag of frozen shrimp and frozen green peas in the freezer for just in case I had one of those, “there’s nothing to cook”, days. Well, I had one of those days yesterday. But since we can’t have soy sauce (wheat) or shrimp (shell-fish), I had to improvise. And improvising in the kitchen is what I’m [...]

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Eczema and Foods Update

This is the list that’s been on our kitchen wall since January 2nd. As you might know from my previous post about Eczema and Food Allergies, my kids have been on this elimination diet for their Eczema…and by default, so are my husband and I. And as you might have guessed, it hasn’t been easy. We’ve had some setbacks as we had a huge birthday party for my parents last [...]

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Wheat-free, dairy-free, sugar-free, red meat-free White Chili Recipe

This is a beginning of a second week of the elimination diet for my kids. They’ve been on this diet for 14 days for Emily and 8 days for Andrew. They are dying for a juicy steak and mashed potato with butter. Lots of butter. Or a big plate of spaghetti and meatball. And most of all, Clementine Oranges. Well, those dishes weren’t on the menu at Chez Karen. Instead, [...]

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Eczema and Food Allergy

As I said yesterday in my post, my daughter has been sick with a nasty cold since before Christmas. She’s been hacking away trying to cough up phlegm stuck in the middle of her chest, lying on the couch or in bed, just feeling miserable, and fighting occasional fevers and even hives from allergy to the cough medicine – nice, eh? There was nothing her pediatrician can give her for the [...]

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