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Food is Medicine Blog materials are curated to create a nutrition-educated community.
Our current collections focus on 6 major areas, providing tips & tricks for living a
full life with special dietary needs.
These articles are meant for informational purposes; please talk with your physician or medical personnel before making any dietary changes
Allergy-Friendly Pizza Dip
This allergy-friendly pizza dip paired with Enjoy Life Foods Lentil Chips wills take a pizza your heart! Made with vegan cheese, pizza sauce, and pepperoni, the recipe is free-from dairy, gluten, and nuts.
Methods of Allergy Testing
Methods of testing for a food allergy include skin testing, blood testing, and an oral food challenge. Each are performed by an allergist.
How to Recognize Anxiety & Steps to Take to Help
From The ITCH Podcast, a discussion on food allergy anxiety, the healthy versus harmful effects and how to get help.
Taking “Gluten-Free” to the Next Level
So many people think that gluten-free foods can’t taste good and that gluten-free diets are very restrictive, but that’s far from the truth!
Gluten-Free, Vegan Macadamia Nut Brownies
You ever wake up craving brownies? Well, that's exactly what happened when I created this recipe! I was having a very hard time trying to find a recipe that fit all my dietary restrictions, so I created this one. This brownie is moist, rich, and absolutely delicious.
Seven Percent Coalition Open Letter
From the Seven Percent Coalition: 32 million Americans must avoid allergens to maintain their health, but most assistance programs don’t provide access to free-from foods.
Reimagining Childhood Snacks
Who says your snacks have to look like others’? Since you may not be able to eat what they are eating, you can make new creations.
Playing in the Dirt: Garden at Home
Originally being nothing more of a fun science project, with the garden I have created a sustainable, organic food source to feed my family!
Adapting Cultures & Recipes
Through the adaptation of family and cultural recipes, my parents had given me the mindset for adapting recipes for food allergies.
Lettuce Cups from NutFreeWok
These Lettuce Cups are an adaptation of a traditional Asian dish, from NutFreeWok.
Expiration dates: to eat or not to eat?
Have you ever wondered if it is okay to eat products that are past the “use by,” “best before,” “enjoy by” and other expiration dates?
Eating A Healthy Diet Means Getting Creative
Have you ever tried to eat a prescribed healthy diet, only to find that the “healthy diet" doesn’t work with your allergies?
Granola -- The Healthy Snack
Packaged granola often contains common allergens and looks more complicated than it is. But you can make granola at home with whatever healthy morsels you want!
Sweet & Salty Marshmallow Carob Chip Cookies
Carob comes from the pod of a carob tree, a small Mediterranean shrub. The pods are dried, roasted, and ground into carob powder before being made into chips or used in other applications.
Sweet Potato and Eggplant Curry
For this recipe, feel free to swap the sweet potato and/or eggplant for other vegetables, and add spinach in at the end if you want more greens!
Herbs 101: An introduction to the secrets of spices
Keeping a garden filled with herbs has improved our health by providing us with fresh, uncontaminated food packed with nutrients.
Microgreens: Growing @ Home
Caring for your microgreens is easier than taking care of a goldfish. One of the easiest ways is to grow them at home in your kitchen!
Free-From Spring Cleaning Products
From walnut-shell soaps to your dish detergent labeled with “all natural” scents, it can be hard to know what’s inside our cleaning products.
Celebrating YOU: a pandemic birthday party
For those of us who understand that birthday celebrations can be stressful due to food allergies, celebrating distantly is a dream come true.