What are you doing to promote food allergy awareness? We'd love to hear from you!
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Thank you Governor Snyder, for declaring this week Food Allergy Awareness Week in Michigan!
What are you doing to promote food allergy awareness? We'd love to hear from you! http://www.michigan.gov/snyder/0,4668,7-277-57577_59874-277370--,00.html
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Check out this new resource. This is a great tool for spreading awareness. Visit www.allergenfreehalloween.org today and spread the word! The FACES (Food Allergic Children Education and Support) group in Macomb County will be showing the documentary "I'm Not Nuts: Living With Food Allergies" on November 6th. Attached please find a flyer with details.
I recently received the following information from AAFA Michigan:
You've been busy. There are now 244 walkers registered who have raised just over $10,000. Great!!! Registration has opened for the 2008 FAAN Walk for Food Allergy in Milford. The walk will be on Saturday, September 20, 2008 at Kensington Metropark (Maple Beach*). Registration opens at 8:30 a.m. and the official Walk starts at 10:00 a.m. You can pre-register and begin raising funds online at www.foodallergywalk.org. To date there are 244 Walkers registered online and they've raised approximately $10,000. We have a goal of $70,000 so we have raised 14% of goal so far. We'd like to thank the sponsors and in-kind donations we've received to date: Michigan children with food allergy and/or eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders (EGID) may enter our COFAF Kids 1st Annual Poster and Writing Contest between now and April 30, 2008 when all entries are due. Based upon age, they may enter into three categories: Poster, Essay and Poetry. The winners will be announced during Food Allergy Awareness Week (FAAW) which falls between May 11 and 17 this year. The prizes (books, DVDs and other fun food allergy related items) awarded in 1st, 2nd and 3rd place for each age category are funded by a support group grant awarded by the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network. We hope you'll get involved. A local producer, Kevin Lindenmuth, is in the process of producing a documentary about food allergies, entitled "I'm Not Nuts: Living with Severe Allergies". Kevin has two nieces with allergies to peanuts and tree nuts. Please check out this article from The Livingston Community News. Kevin was out to interview my family for the documentary. In addition to interviewing other local families, he's also interviewed Dr. Harvey Leo, our medical director, and he's been to Virginia to interview Anne Munoz-Furlong of The Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network. We are planning to work with Kevin to have him gain some footage from one of our meetings or events between now and July. This way he will have some support group footage for the documentary. Check out Kevin's website for more information about the documentary and his previous works. If you're like me, you need to get moving on Easter treats. Here are some sources: That's right - there are new muffin mixes on the market that are free from milk, egg, peanut and tree nuts. Meraby's Allergy Family Foods brings to you boxed muffin mix in 2 flavors, Classic Blueberry and Cranberry Orange. They do contain wheat and they list they may contain traces of soy. The Cranberry Orange mix has sunflower oil in it. We recently received 2 sample boxes. I made the Classic Blueberry. They were very moist. If I make them in the future, I would probably add more blueberries to get more blueberry flavor. They tasted great with a hint of blueberry. I just happen to make a more hearty blueberry muffin. Very very quick and easy to make - just add water and oil and pour into your paper lined muffin tins. Melinda has the Cranberry Orange and is going to try the alternative recipe on the box to make pancakes. That's right - you can make these muffin mixes into pancakes too. Enjoy. |