Entries from March 2009

Food Allergy Initiative Chicago’s 2009 Benefit

Filed under Newsworthy stories

Many of you may already be familiar with the Food Allergy Initiative. It is a wonderful organization dedicated to raising funds for food allergy research and awareness. FAI has outlets in New York, Seattle (Northwest) and here in my hometown Chicago (Midwest). Last November FAI Chicago raised an unprecedented $1.2 million dollars in its very [...]

Trust in the lunchroom…

Filed under Stories

Today at 11:20 am I felt like I was sitting on pins and needles. I was anxious because I let my 6 year old son John buy lunch in his school cafeteria without physically walking into the lunchroom and speaking with the head chef. John’s lunch hour is during this time and I literally sat [...]

Dairy, Egg and Nut Free Whole Wheat Waffles

Filed under Recipes, Uncategorized

In keeping with my apparent breakfast theme lately, I am finally sharing my all time favorite waffle recipe. I actually had these for lunch one day last week with fresh berries and confectioner’s sugar and it was a delicious change of pace.  The waffles aren’t too heavy, in fact they taste rather light and healthy. [...]