Recipes from a Food Allergy Mom
Our Story
Hello!
I’m a Minnesota mom to a 6 year old boy and 3 year old girl. I’ve always loved baking, cooking, and developing my own recipes. As an infant, my son was diagnosed with allergies to peanuts, tree nuts, and eggs. This prompted me to do something I’ve always wanted – start my own recipe blog! Here at Safely Delish, I share the allergy friendly recipes I’ve created for my family. Follow our latest allergy journey, oral immunotherapy (OIT), on Instagram @safelydelish.
I hope you find something here you love!
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Our Allergy Journey
2017 – Diagnosis and Blog Beginnings
At 6 months old, my son was diagnosed with food allergies to peanuts, tree nuts, and eggs. About a month later, I started Safely Delish as a way to connect with other food allergy families and to begin sharing my “safe” recipes.
2018 – We began SLIT Treatment
We started Sublingual Immunotherapy (SLIT) at Allergy Associates of La Crosse, at 17 months old. We continued this for almost three years, and had a wonderful experience!
2019 – Baked Egg Challenge
My son passed his baked egg challenge! This began the start of my “baked egg tolerance” recipes, found here.
2020 – An FPIES Diagnosis
In January 2020, our daughter (5 months at the time) was diagnosed to FPIES to peanuts and bananas. We introduced peanuts nice and early, in an attempt to avoid an allergy, and ended up with an FPIES diagnosis instead. She’s almost two now, and fortunately has no IgE allergies that we’re aware of. We’re hoping she’ll outgrow her FPIES in the next year or two.
2021 – We began (and completed!) Peanut OIT, and started Egg OIT
In late February of this year, we stopped SLIT in order to begin Oral Immunotherapy (OIT) for peanuts. He eats his peanut “dose” each morning, and we escalate each week in-clinic. We began with a minuscule amount in a liquid solution, and “graduated” peanut OIT in summer of 2021. My son eats 1/2 tsp of peanut butter (equivalent to two peanuts) every day.
In late summer, we began OIT for egg. It was going well until it suddenly wasn’t… he developed severe reflux symptoms one day. We scaled way back, treated symptoms, and stopped increasing our egg amounts through the end of the year.
2022 – We Continue Egg OIT
After a three month break from egg OIT, we began again in February. Treating reflux symptoms was successful, and we stopped mediation for it. Once we started escalating again, we decreased the “updose” frequency to every other week, instead of weekly. It has been going well so far, and we have surpassed the point we had issues before.
UP NEXT – Treatment Continues…
We plan to tackle his egg allergy, and find out which tree nuts he is truly allergic to (if any) through further testing and challenges.
Food allergy treatment is definitely a marathon, not a sprint.
I have received a lot of questions about our allergy journey, and am hoping to include a more detailed story or FAQ at some point.
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Connect
Feel free to reach out any time at safelydelish@gmail.com (please copy and paste – it’s not linked to avoid spam). I welcome any feedback, suggestions, ideas, or stories about your own personal food allergy journey.
I try to stay connected to everyone who reaches out – however, between full-time parenting and working freelance jobs, I don’t have time to keep up as much as I’d like. It’s not you, it’s me – I promise.
Thanks for stopping by!
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