Ease of Allergen Free living
January 26th 2009 04:05
This year is the first year that we have allowed our children to attend mainstream school. Up until now we have homeschooled the four of them due to the allergies that they have.
But this year they approached us in November and informed us that they wanted to try mainstream school. Well with work getting busier and me starting Uni full time we agreed, thinking that it would be easier to achieve all the goals that we have for the year.
Stupidly, I assumed that I would be able to purchase some allergen free foods for the children to take to school with them. How wrong I was! So far we have tried a number of products and none of them taste at all nice.
So at the moment the children will be having salad boxes and fruit salad for when school starts on Wednesday. Thank goodness the children will be attending a small school that allows them access to a fridge to keep things cool.
But it started me thinking. How do other parents cope with the allergies of their children. Up until now I have been able to tailor my work hours around cooking for the children but I can no longer do that. I just will not have the hours in the day to cook some school treat every day.
This weekend coming I will be baking a storm and freezing the produce but as I haven't frozen any of the produce before I'm unsure how it will go.
Anyway, next week I will post the recipe that survived freezing best.
But this year they approached us in November and informed us that they wanted to try mainstream school. Well with work getting busier and me starting Uni full time we agreed, thinking that it would be easier to achieve all the goals that we have for the year.
Stupidly, I assumed that I would be able to purchase some allergen free foods for the children to take to school with them. How wrong I was! So far we have tried a number of products and none of them taste at all nice.
So at the moment the children will be having salad boxes and fruit salad for when school starts on Wednesday. Thank goodness the children will be attending a small school that allows them access to a fridge to keep things cool.
But it started me thinking. How do other parents cope with the allergies of their children. Up until now I have been able to tailor my work hours around cooking for the children but I can no longer do that. I just will not have the hours in the day to cook some school treat every day.
This weekend coming I will be baking a storm and freezing the produce but as I haven't frozen any of the produce before I'm unsure how it will go.
Anyway, next week I will post the recipe that survived freezing best.
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