Alisa Fleming, the founder of www.GoDairyFree.org and author of Go Dairy Free: The Guide and Cookbook for Milk Allergies, Lactose Intolerance, and Casein-Free Living, will be a guest on the Everyday Food show on Martha Stewart Living Radio. The event is scheduled for 12:15pm EST on Thursday, September 3, 2009 with Everyday Food host Betsy Karetnick. The show will broadcast on Martha Stewart Living, Sirius XM Satellite Radio, Sirius channel 112 and XM channel 157.

Fleming created Go Dairy Free the website in 2004, and has since helped thousands of people transition to a delicious and nutritious dairy-free lifestyle. The site now boasts thousands of pages of content, including recipes, product reviews, news, tips, and health-related articles. In 2008, she released Go Dairy Free: The Guide and Cookbook to be the most extensive offline resource for dairy-free living.

Earlier in the week we posted some “Food Allergy Back to School Tips from Allergy Moms and Enjoy Life Foods” and “Top Back to School Cookbooks for Vegan, Dairy-Free, and Food Allergy-Friendly Recipes.” Since both articles were quite popular, we wanted to help busy moms and dads find even more useful information for back to school with food allergies and special diets:

• "School Planning for Food Allergic Children," from Kids with Food Allergies
  
• "The Role of Allergists in Back to School," from Kids with Food Allergies
• "10 Things Children with Food Allergies Want You to Know," from AllergyMoms
• "Dr. Robert Wood’s Back to School with Food Allergies Tips," From Allergy Moms
• "Attack of the Killer Peanut Butter Sandwiches," from Linda Coss
• "Unexpected Sources of Danger in School" (Food used in lesson plans), from Kids with Food Allergies
• "Finding the Right Preschool or Day Care for Your Food Allergic Child," from Kids with Food Allergies

Up to 75% of the world’s population is lactose-intolerant and this number is on the rise.* With food allergies and intolerances to gluten, dairy, wheat, and soy growing rapidly, more and more people are having to make adjustments to their daily diets. At the slightest hint of a food allergy or intolerance, the first casualty on the menu is the dessert. Sweets, cakes, ice-creams, and pastries are all considered to be “off-limit” to those suffering food intolerances and are an enjoyment that has to be denied.

Chef Ariana Bundy is determined to bring desserts back to the menu. A top pastry chef and intolerant to dairy herself, Ariana Bundy has conjured up more than 100 gluten-, soy- and lactose-free recipes for cakes, biscuits, desserts, truffles, ice-creams and more, in her book Sweet Alternative. Developed through years of research and recipe testing, this book is the first to reveal how to make professional-looking, mouth-watering desserts without using butter, cream, flour, or soy, and with ingredients easily accessible to the average consumer.

We’ve all seen them; those one-page stories that grace nearly every health-oriented women’s magazines. A person’s triumph over a health struggle, whether it is weight loss, cancer, or an autoimmune disorder, is summed up in a few short paragraphs. I am always left wondering, was it really that easy for them? And, did they actually find the answer, or are we catching them a moment too soon, when perhaps their true satisfaction with life is yet to be attained?

Over two years ago I came across a blogger known as The Healthy Cookie online, Meghan offline. Meghan seemed to be on one of these health journeys, but I could tell from reading her posts that she wasn’t there yet. She was learning, but like so many of us, there was still so much frustration. Yet, she persisted, and grew, and persisted, and changed, and persisted, and won.

Over the past five years I have had the chance to review and test dozens upon dozens of dairy-free cookbooks. Below are the ones that have received my five-star rating, and are perfect for the busy times of back to school. This quick list should have you covered for filling lunchboxes, tricky classroom parties and events, portable foods, and quick and easy family meals ...

Title: Lunchbox Bites: A Dozen Delicious Recipes for On-The-Go Vegan Eats
Price: $5.00
Format: e-Book (immediate download upon purchase)
Free-From: Eggs, Dairy, Meat, and Animal Products
Focus: Homemade sweets and snacks to stash into lunchboxes for loved ones, or to grab and go during the morning rush. Each recipe has a full color photo. From the author of My Sweet Vegan, Hannah Kaminsky.

What happens when the top name in allergy-friendly foods and the internet's most helpful food allergy mom team up? Lots of fantastic and helpful information is provided to the public! This month the theme is back to school, and thanks to the Enjoy Life Foods newsletter and Allergy Mom Gina Clowes we have numerous helpful tips to share with allergy moms and dads, classroom parents, and teachers:

Back to School Tips for Allergy Moms and Dads

1. If you haven’t done so already, it’s not too late to talk to your child’s teacher and school administrators about your child’s food allergies. It’s best to start with a letter from your child’s allergist explaining the allergies and any restrictions.

ST. LOUIS, August 25, 2009 - Allergy-friendly, gluten-free Allergaroo is a simple solution for healthy, delicious, worry-free school lunches for kids with food allergies and other food intolerances - There’s a lot of homework a mom of kids with food allergies has to do before she can even think of sending her kids back to school.  She must make certain that the school will be a safe environment.  She needs assurance that the staff is properly trained in handling accidental exposures.  And she must find healthy and delicious foods that her children can eat safely at school.

Tabor Burke has two food-allergic kids of her own, so she knows all too well the challenges of preparing them for back to school – especially when it comes to the food she packs in their lunch boxes. So it was out of sheer necessity in 2005 that Burke created Allergaroo, the country’s only allergy-friendly, gluten-free brand of delicious, convenient, ready-made dishes ...

Yes my friends, the giveaways are back! Due to sporadic travel over the summer months, I had to put a hold on the giveaways ... but there was no way I was going to give them up completely. In fact, the product line-up has already started, and first on the giveaway menu is an awesome gift package from Pamela's Products ... all gluten-free and dairy-free I might add.

You can quickly enter by commenting on the giveaway post on One Frugal Foodie, letting us know which Pamela's product you are most interested in trying, or are already in love with. The winner of this giveaway will receive ALL of the following: