Alisa Fleming, Go Dairy Free - Gina Clowes at Allergy Moms never fails to offer an abundance of food allergy-friendly ideas and recipes for every kid-centric holiday.  This month she has three easy and fun recipes to share (dairy, egg, and peanut/tree nut-free) that will fill those Easter baskets with joy and of course, sugar!  Enjoy the following ideas for edible Bird Nests, Easter Basket Cupcakes, and Chocolate Dipped Eggs ...

Alisa Fleming, www.Godairyfree.org - Milk ingredients linger in some of the strangest places, but I was still a bit taken back when I discovered that beer could be one of them. It seems ‘Milk’ beer has been around for some time, and may linger in breweries under the code name of Sweet Stout.  Quite often it makes itself known with a more obvious title, such as Milk Stout or Cream Stout.  Sweet “milk” stouts became popular in Great Britain following the Second World War, but they have slowly crept into the U.S. and may be gaining in popularity.  So what exactly is a milk stout? ...

Hannah Kaminsky, My Sweet Vegan & Bittersweet - As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, an excitement fills the air. People are preparing their most impressive green outfits, planning meals of “traditional” corned beef and cabbage (bleh), and most importantly, stocking up on the libations. Of course, I don’t drink and am not even the least bit Irish, so this holiday has typically fallen through the cracks for me. To be perfectly honest, I still don’t know what it’s all about or how one is supposed to celebrate without imbibing great quantities of alcohol, but I’ve decided that I want to pay my respects to the celebration in the only way I know how: By baking! ...

Little Bay Baking, a relatively new gluten-free / casein-free baking mix company, is offering several discounts for their mid-winter special.  Head over to the Little Bay Baking online store to get $3.00 off their GF Cooking from Scratch DVD (also casein-free), free shipping on all cases of 6 mixes, and 10% off their cookie mixes.  Amy, one of the reviewers here at Go Dairy Free, can vouch for these great mixes.  Her gluten-free household has already given the Waffle & Donut Hole, Cookie Bar, Gingerbread Cookie, Pumpkin Bread, and Cornbread mixes two thumbs up! 

For over a year I hummed and hawed about trialing the vegan diet.  The primary reason I had hesitated was the main reason I wanted to trial it … health.  While I felt that incorporating more vegetables into our (my husband and myself) daily diet and cutting the meat from our already dairy-free lifestyle might help to energize us, most of the vegan recipes I was finding sounded more like junk food than health food.  That is until I discovered Eat, Drink & Be Vegan ...  Read the Full Review