Product Description

Millions of children across the country have food sensitivities or allergies, and the number is on the rise. And most of these children don?t get to eat cookies, for fear of the reaction they might have from the wheat, or the peanuts.

This book?s recipe?s take into account all of the most common food sensitivities like wheat and gluten, peanuts, or dairy. Each recipe can be modified to fit the dietary needs of the child.

Divided into three sections-- snacks, main dishes, and treats--this book also provides information about how to find what you need in a regular grocery store, instead of requiring a separate trip to the natural foods store.

With the recipes in this book, even the most sensitive child will get a cookie too.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #152108 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781592330546
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Leslie Hammond is an expert on cooking for people with cooking allergies. She appears regularly on TV stations all over Northern California doing cooking segments about allergy-free cooking. She runs her own business called Fancy-Free, which specializes in allergy-free birthday cakes, catering, and more. She?s from Davis, California.

Customer Reviews

Really only for wheat allergies
I was pleased to see at least two other people mentioned this, but thought I'd throw in my two cents.

With a non-allergic 4 year old and a 2 year old allergic to wheat,dairy, eggs, fish and nuts, I was hoping to find some recipes that would please both kids. Almost all the recipes have dairy or eggs in them. The dairy-free and egg-free options are just to omit them. Great! Pick up any cookbook for that.

I made one recipe from this book and it was awful. (A cake recipe that I had to use 3 substitutions for). There are much better cake recipes out there.

This book is on its way to the used bookstore . . .

Only useful if you have a wheat allergy
I bought this book looking for recipes for my very picky son who is allergic to dairy, eggs, and nuts. I was very disappointed, because most of the recipes contained some or all of these ingredients (in spite of the misleading title), then included a note at the bottom to omit or substitute these ingredients. The author would have been better off making it clear upfront that this is a book for individuals with wheat allergies, rather than misleadingly trying to market it to such a broad group of people. One other thing...the book offers no pictures of the dishes it contains. Altogether it was a huge disappointment, and I returned it. I have found that, for my son's allergies, "What's to Eat the Milk-free, Egg-free, Nut-free Food Allergy Cookbook" by Linda marienhoff Coss, was a much better purchase.

Misleading title and disheartening recipes
The title of this book states that the recipes are dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free, wheat-free, etc... I bought this book because my children have dairy, egg, and nut allergies and am looking for recipes that do not merely use substitions, but are thoughtfully tested to taste good without these ingredients. The majority of the recipes in this book contain dairy and/or eggs and then at the bottom of the recipe, it simply says to omit or substitute a non-dairy ingredient or egg replacer. Who needs an allergy cookook to tell you to do this? It was depressing to read a book full of supposedly allergy-friendly recipes and find that I had to substitute something in each recipe. The title is totally misleading and the book is useless and disheartening if you have anything but a wheat allergy. I have had MUCH better success with vegan cookbooks in which the recipes are actually planned and tested to avoid dairy and eggs. I would NOT recommend this book to anyone searching for allergy-free recipes if the allergies include dairy and eggs.