Real Mom Nutrition
A no-judgments zone about feeding a family.
It’s up to ALL of us to keep kids safe. Here are six important things all parents should know about food allergies. What happened to open my eyes A few summers ago we were on a family vacation, sharing our first dinner in a rented beach house, when something went terribly wrong. A teenage family …
There’s a lot of confusion and rumor surrounding natural flavors. Here are the facts so you can be more informed about this common ingredient. I wrote a shorter version of this post that appears on WebMD’s Food & Fitness Blog. Natural flavors are found in a lot of place: in your can of lime sparkling …
My children don’t have food allergies but several of their friends do–and from those children and their parents, I have learned a lot about the day-to-day concerns (and fears) that food allergies involve. I reached out to some of those parents for a recent blog post I did for Parents magazine, “What Parents of Kids With Food Allergies Want You …
This post was inspired by an incident at my school, when a teacher asked parents not to bring outside goodies for Valentine’s Day because of kids with food allergies–but some parents sent in candy anyway. It got me thinking about moms and dads whose children have food allergies, sometimes life-threatening. I wondered what they would …
