When you are an "Allergy-Mom" most recipes you look at, you brake down ingredient by ingredient. You think about how you can recreate them - IF you can recreate them!? I rarely come across a recipe I can make "as-is", so here is my version of top 8 allergy free Energy Bites. I almost should call them top 10 or 11 allergy free - because they are also sesame and sulphite free, PLUS coconut free and they are still just as amazing! Putting It All Together: You may be wondering why I used Red Palm oil? We have been off of coconut products since November, due to allergies. Red palm oil makes a great substitute for coconut oil, as they are both tropical oils. Red palm oil and coconut oil come from the palm tree family, however they are a different species. The fat profiles differ between … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2017
What’s in your Toothpaste!?
A topic of discussion that often comes up when someone finds out that I’m a Dental Hygienist is whether fluoridated toothpaste is necessary for them or their child. Before I became a Mother I really didn’t think twice about the ingredients in toothpaste. I took what I learned in dental hygiene school to be the way things were and how I should practice, after all that’s what was in the texts books. In fact, I think I would have raised a LOT of eyebrows had I come into a Dental Practice advocating that I wasn’t going to promote or use fluoride products. With that said, I have worked in both traditional practice as well as a holistic dental practice where fluoride was not used, so I have certainly seen both sides of it. I set out to practice Dental Hygiene armed with the knowledge I gained … [Read more...]
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