Chocolate Suncheroos

We have worked on this recipe for a while now. After having many attempts turn out very flat and overly chewy, we have cut back on the amount of sunflower butter and used a smaller pan for our bars.  Perhaps the reason it took so many attempts was because we usually make our  crispie rice bars...

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Allergy Medications Dangerous for People w/Food Allergies

So there's this: A notice about milk ingredients in several popular allergy medications: For those with a dairy allergy, watch out for these medications containing dairy: Link Zyrtec and Zyrtec-D Adult 10 mg tablets Zyrtec Children’s Chewables...

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Chocolate Coconut Barley Cake

Today, I thought I would try something completely on my own. Since it's Thursday**, Natalie is off at school for the whole day. That leaves me in the kitchen alone. I have this bag of barley flour that has remained unopened since we bought it. So, I thought it was time to try a NOT gluten-free recipe....

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Everything-Free Chex Mix

Because it is always important to be preparing for the upcoming Holidays, I thought I would work on updating my Chex Mix recipe. It is now completely gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free happiness. I researched each product to make sure they would work in this recipe, so in this case, Brand names...

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Not Coo Coo for Coconut

We keep running in the same problem. Every time we try and replicate a recipe from the 'past', we come up with some alien food that most often ends up in the garbage. The most recent example is our attempt at biscuits and gravy. First off, we kept seeing recipes that called for make your own 'Bisquick'...

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Sunflower Seed Butter Monster Cookies

Yes, another day, another cookie recipe. In case you haven't noticed, we work up a recipe first, and then bake it up. Meaning, as I am typing these first few words, we have not baked anything, yet. Since the easiest way to record what ingredients we decide upon is just to write...

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Gluten-Free Lemonade Bars I

Yes, so it seems as if we are obsessing on desserts and sweets. Today, we baked up a pan of Lemonade Bars. One of my all time favorite desserts, it seems natural that this would also be one of the first things we would work on to make allergy-free.  I always like to have fresh lemons on...

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