For those of you with children who have food allergies did you see the article on Ming Tsai in August's Cookie Magazine?
He talked about how his oldest son used to have really bad food allergies. At 6 months they found out he was allergic to soy, wheat, dairy, shellfish, peanuts, tree nuts, and eggs. Seven of the "big 8" foods that account for 90% of food allergies (the last was fish). Can you imagine how hard that must have been for him? Him, a chef. His wife, who was breastfeeding, had to cut all those foods out of her diet as well and when he was done with the boobie milk, they had to put him on a special formula. His son who is now 9 has outgrown almost all his allergies except for the nuts. So there is hope mamas.

I got lucky with Zoe and so far no allergies. I'm allergic to mangos and so is my mom and some of my sisters so I'm going to hold off on giving her that till she's much older. I'm also allergic to geh-jang (a Korean dish which is made up of raw crabs marinated in soy sauce) which I ate a few days ago. I just decided I'm going to suffer the consequences and devour it like the crazy biotch that I am. SOOO WORTH IT. MMMM mmm MMMMM! Afterwards my stomach was burning, my lips and tongue were itchy, and I ran to the bathroom to take care of business. Haha...TMI? Who cares! So anyways my heart goes out the mothers that have to endure this kind of thing. I can't even fathom this. It's already bad enough that kids are picky eaters to top it off with limited food options because of allergies must be hell! He mentioned that whenever his son would be invited to birthday parties he would bring his own cupcake. Can you imagine? I give huge props to the mommies out there that go through this with their child every day.

Two things the Mingster recommended:
Cherrybrook Kitchen Mixes
 

Bell & Evans Chicken Tenders (Gluten Free)


If you want to read up on his interview click here.

Zoe's words: tree, teeth, trick or treat, Backyardigan, seat, cukoo (what she calls a clock), knock knock

Today Zoe was playing with her blocks while I was sitting at the dining room table sipping tea. She comes over to me with blocks in hands and starts whining for me to play with her. I said "Zoe if you want mommy to play with you say 'Umma play with me.'" She goes "Umma wit me!" Close enough. So I go over and start stacking blocks with her. After about 3 minutes I come back to the dining room table to finish my tea. She comes over, looks up at me, holds out a block for me, and says "Umma do it!" EWWWWW you bossy lil sassy pants! Who do you think you is?! I'll do it if I wanna do it! YA HEAR!?

I started stacking them like I was her prison bitch. Shocking.
Mommy = 0
Zoe=1

I shall prevail!!!

BTW what is up with Megan Fox having the hots for Bi aka Rain? Did you hear about that?

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