Recipe for Secret Veg Sauce
Here’s my take on this fantastically versatile recipe which my children will willingly eat, and which my husband raves about also! I cook a vat and then freeze it in 400g portions so that when I want to make an …
10 Reasons Allergy Parents Are Great Friends
We may not be able to casually saunter in to whichever café you like, or accept a party invite without a good few questions. But we make up for it in other ways… 1. We always carry extra snacks.The need …
Notting Hill Carnival, with the kids?
My husband’s heritage is half-Caribbean, and he’s attended Notting Hill Carnival for years, playing in the procession for several years before he met me. We’ve visited Carnival almost every year since we met, and so it seemed only right we …
Cooking for the kids
As the mother of two children under the age of 3, I am time-poor and sleep-deprived and, if I don’t plan dinners well enough, it can become a bit of a last-minute panic. I’m sure plenty of other parents feel …
Reasons you should always carry two Epipens
I’m getting annoyed. Cue Hulk: “You won’t like me when I’m mad…”. We need two Epipens (I’d ideally like approximately forty-five, to be honest). But we #alwayscarrytwo and here’s why… You see, I know what the stereotypical allergy parent is. …
Recipe: Healthy baked fish dish
This is actually a slimming world recipe, which I have fallen in love with. Serve with vegetables and your choice of potatoes! Ingredients:4 x fresh fish fillets (sea bass, cod or salmon)Few tablespoons balsamic vinegar400g cherry tomatoes, halved2 cloves garlic8 …
Dear Formerly Favourite Café
I visited your café today with my two young children, as I have done many times before as it is a favourite of ours. My three-year-old suffers from a peanut allergy, the potential effects of which are unpredictable, so I …
Our favourite sweet treats
From the time we started going to other babies’ birthday parties, it became obvious I needed to pack a selection of nut-free bribes in the Pacapod to lure my son away from the cakes and other potentially harmful foods he …
Flying with a nut allergy: my response
Recently I made the mistake of reading a series of comments on an article shared on Facebook about a girl who’d been on a flight where the airline had refused to make an announcement about her nut allergy, and some …