A popular summer camp in the Kansas City area called Wildwood is trialing a new week-long camp catering to special diets.  Wildwood is unique, in almost every aspect of being an outdoor education center and a residential camp setting. For one week the camp's kitchen will be dedicated dairy-free, gluten-free, and peanut-free, and the menu will focus on a plant based diet, emphasizing fruits, vegetables, beans, and gluten-free grains.  Though it is currently a girls only camp, if successful, they plan to open the special diet camp to boys.  The following letter details the concept and how to contact the camp ...

Rumored for years as one of the best vegan cheese alternatives ever created, Playfood has at last made it to market following a drawn out custody battle.  PlayFood’s product line currently includes Cheezy Cheese (cheddar), Nacheezmo (spicy southwestern nacho), Whip Cheese (cream cheese) and Cream Tang (sour cream). True to name, each “cheese” comes in a fun bottle that likens itself to squeezable tubes of paint.  Unlike many other vegan cheese alternatives on the market, Playfood products are also GMO-free, gluten-free, soy-free, and trans fat-free...

Allergic Girl, the blogging beacon for eating out with severe food allergies, has started a new program to help other food allergy sufferers enjoy restaurants.  Her new concept, Worry-Free Dinners™, is a membership organization with the goal to provide fun and "worry-free" dining experiences for those who have manageable food allergies and food intolerances. The Worry-Free Dinners community is based around social and educational dining events that are held at restaurants in and around New York City. By contracting with understanding, sympathetic and welcoming restaurants to host these dinners, she strives to create a friendly place to eat safely, connect with like-minded diners and learn how to replicate the experience ...

It’s a celebration of every aspect of being vegan and the largest vegan event anywhere in the world today. The Bristol Vegan Fayre is now growing into something big, so big, in fact, that the organisers, YAOH, now need to run it across two days. This unique event runs from Saturday May 31st until Sunday June 1st, from 11am to 9pm.  The Fayre, which caters for all ages and tastes, was attended by over 9,000 people last year and is proving very successful. It has a superb location by the Waterside, in the heart of Bristol in the U.K. ...

On Sunday, February 24th, Wheeler’s Black Label Ice Cream will be holding an Oscar party at the Ad Hoc Art Gallery in Brooklyn.  The event hosts will be dishing up several flavors of Wheeler’s Vegan Frozen Desserts, and Hannah Kaminsky, author of My Sweet Vegan, will be serving a selection of baked goods to accompany the ice cream selection.  DJ JT from Philadelphia will round out the bash, which is open to the vegan ice cream loving public.  The event details are as follows ...

Europeans have long known the wonders of cheese-free pizza made with fresh and flavorful ingredients.  Yet, in the United States, deep dish pizzas loaded with piles of stringy cheese are more than the norm, they are practically the rule in many pizza parlors.  Nonetheless, as awareness of food allergies, intolerances, and health benefits emerge … and the rising cost of food nips at household budgets … the potential of cheese-less pizza is finally getting the attention it deserves.  But just in case you haven’t yet come over to the healthier side of pizza, or you would just like some more reasons and recipes to enjoy it, here is some cheese-free ammunition that you may find handy …

This month, two Go Dairy Free viewers will receive a $50 shopping spree courtesy of Namaste Foods.  Namaste Foods offers a great line of allergen-free baking mixes and pasta meals manufactured in a dedicated allergen-free facility.  Don't miss this chance to pick up the new Simple Pleasures Gluten Free Cookbook from Namaste Foods, which includes over 60 delicious recipes made with Namaste Foods products. Recipes like Cinnamon Espresso Coffee Cake, Hearty Minestrone Soup, Scalloped Say Cheez and Ham, and Lemon Poppy Seed Bread are just a few of the sensational variations you'll enjoy with this easy-to-use reference.  To enter to win ...

Enjoy Life Foods, the country’s leading allergy-friendly, gluten-free company, received an amazing Valentine’s Day gift today when it learned that its popular  Snickerdoodle cookies would be featured as the “Snack of the Day” on the nationally syndicated Rachael Ray Show on Monday, February 18, 2008.  Snickerdoodles, classic soft cookies topped with cinnamon sugar, are the most popular flavor among the company’s wide variety of allergy-friendly and gluten-free foods.  Like all of Enjoy Life’s delicious products, Snickerdoodles are specially made to be gluten-free and free of the eight most common allergens*.  Also, they are all natural, trans fat free and made in a dedicated nut- and gluten-free bakery ...