Parents of children who have food allergies have to be on constant watch for ingredients that could set off an allergic reaction. One of the ways to do this is to seek out foods that are specifically prepared in a way that will avoid ingredients that a lot of people have allergies too. However, if it doesn’t taste good, then your kid isn’t going to want to eat it anyway. You can find some great tasting allergy free recipes from Lillabee.
Lillabee is based in Boulder, Colorado. It is a small company that was started by Indea Leo and her husband, Jared Lovenduski. Indea, like many people who have food allergies, had fatigue, unexplained weight gain, and other seemingly unrelated health problems. Eventually, she was diagnosed as having food allergies to many of the types of food that seem to trigger allergies in a lot of adults and children. Indea is allergic to: gluten, dairy, oats, soy, and eggs.
She eliminated those foods from her diet, as one would expect, and started feeling better. After a while, she started to miss being able to eat birthday cake, as well as some other foods that contain gluten. She learned that many of the gluten free products that one could buy in stores were less than satisfactory. They had strange textures, were gritty, and tasted chalky or beany. No one who is craving a piece of birthday cake is going to be happy with a substitute that just isn’t good enough.
So, she started creating her own gluten free recipes, and the Lillabee company was born. The recipes have gained quite the following in Boulder, Colorado, where the company is based. This is because you can buy Lillabee mixes at the farmers’ market, and some of the stores in Boulder. A complete list of store where you can buy the Lillabee mixes can be found on their website.
Parents of kids who have food allergies like Indea Leo does can also use the Lillabee website to find some tasty, allergy free, recipes that you can try at home. More recipes are added periodically, so be sure and check back from time to time. This is a great resource for parents of kids that have food allergies.
One of the most memorable parts of a birthday party is the cake. This is especially true for kids. A lot of kids have imaginative ideas about exactly how they want their birthday cake to be decorated. Children who have allergies to gluten, dairy, oats, soy, and eggs, however, often find that they really cannot have a birthday cake like the other kids in their class, or in their family can, because they cannot eat it. Lillabee has an allergy free recipe for “Butter Cream” frosting that you can try. If you happen to live in Boulder, you can pair it with the Lillabee Classic Yellow Cake mix.
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