I have no food allergies nor celiac disease, but my daughter is allergic to dairy, peanuts, tree nuts and eggs. Her list used to include wheat and soy but those have been added into her diet after a skin test (wheat) and a food challenge (soy).
My knowledge of gluten free food and cooking comes mostly from my time in culinary school, where we were lucky to have classes on gluten free cooking, and a classmate who had celiac disease. I would see which dishes she didn’t sample and learned a lot about where wheat could hide in food.
I’ve taken a food intolerance test out of curiosity and it told me to avoid dairy, egg, soy, wheat, nuts and more, but I’ve never really been good with avoiding it until I was advised to avoid the top 8 when my baby had really bad eczema flare ups on her face.
So now I’m always on the lookout for food that is allergy safe and I read food labels more than I ever did before because I need to make sure I don’t accidentally feed my toddler something she’ll react badly to.
There’s the Gluten Free and Allergy Friendly Expo happening on October 13 and 14 near NYC, and if you’re like me and you want to check it out, here’s a 20% promo code on tickets (ADVANCE) here.