Chocolate chip cookies

• 1 cup Nucoa Margarine
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 egg replacer
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 1/4 cup flour
• 2 cups vegan chocolate chips (Enjoy Life)

Bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes.

Aaron has been working on a chocolate chocolate chip cookie recipe. He's found the winner!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Nucoa Margarine
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 egg replacer
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 3 heaping TBS cocoa
• 2 1/4 cup flour
• 2 cups vegan chocolate chips

Bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes.

Soybean butter cups

• 1 cube melted nucoa margarine
• 1 cup soybean butter
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 lb powdered sugar

Mix and put in bottom of a pan.

Melt 12 ounce package of vegan chocolate chips (Enjoy Life brand). Pour over soybean butter mixture. Let cool in refrigerator.

Muddy Buddies

Wait! Muddy Buddies have peanut butter!?! What are you doing???! Tia recently passed a soy trial. That means she can have soy! She's not a fan of anything soy so far, except blueberry soy yogurt. So, we are sticking with rice milk for now. I went to the store and bought soynut butter. It's nut free, even though it has "nut" in the name. That makes me way too uncomfortable, so at our house, it's called "soybean butter".

Once we had a nut butter substitute, I made Tia my favorite treats. First was muddy buddies. Mmmmmm. It makes me want to take a road trip! The recipe is the same as printed on the side of the rice chex box, and on their website. Here it is:
Soybean butter:

Oreo cookies

My sister used to make these for us and we loved them! I halved the original recipe and had to substitute the cream cheese frosting, but they turned out great!

Ingredients:
1 chocolate cake mix
2 egg substitutions
3/4 cup shortening
Mix well. Roll into small balls and drop onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 9 minutes only. Cool on brown paper bag.
I used a simple powdered sugar icing to turn them into Oreos. Yum!

Czechoslovakian cookies

These are so good! And a perfect example of how you can tweak most your recipes to make it allergy safe.

• 1/2 lb of Nucoa margarine
• 1 cup sugar

Cream together. Then add:

• 2 egg yolks (this is done by making up the EnerG egg replacer for 2 egg yolks, instead of 2 full eggs. The instructions are on the side of the box.)
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups of flour

Press half of the dough into a greased pie dish. Add a layer of your favorite jam. To make it safe for Tia, I use homemade pear jam or apple butter. For the ones I made for me, I used homemade boysenberry jam. Mmmmm! Then press the other half of the dough and lay it on top, piecing it together if needed. Bake at 325 for one hour or until done.

Product Review

Barbara's Snackimal Cookies are so, so good! Chocolate chip and oatmeal are delicious, but I didn't enjoy the vanilla flavored cookies. The chocolate chip ones are my new favorite treat right now!

Cherrybrook pancake mixes are expensive, but are really good. They make much better pancakes than any by scratch allergy friendly recipe I've tried. I switched to using this mix, because it's easy and makes delicious pancakes.

Repenting and progress!!

Here is a recent picture of my little allergy guy.
We still have our ups and downs, but he has made so much progress in the past two years. So has his mommy.
They just built a new Whole Foods by our house in November which has been so wonderful.
Previously the closest one to us was a 20 to 30 minute drive. It made me think back to the first time I ever set foot in a whole foods. Marix was three months old and we had just got his tests back for allergies to dairy, soy and corn. I was nursing him at the time, and Tish told me she bought Tia safe food at Whole Foods. I brought my two smaller children into the store with me. I was already overwhelmed with and still adjusting to having four kids. Now I was facing severe allergies. I walked into the front door, and immediatly was greeted with smells, food, and lables that I had never seen or smelled before. I burst into tears, turned my cart around and drove the 20 minute drive back home. It was a horrible experience. The next week, we got a babysitter to watch the three older boys, and my husband came with the baby and I to Whole foods. He helped me read food labels until we found three foods that would be safe for me to eat. ( I had to go off dairy, soy and corn for the remainder of the time I was nursing him.) So two years later.....

Whole Foods is my favorite store ever because it contains so many safe foods for Marix to eat. The day after the store opened, I was literally no joke frolicking down every single aisle singing, "This is the most wonderful store of the year." I was getting crazy looks, but I didn't care.
Thats
WHat
I
Call
Progress!!
I have also gotten alot better at converting recipies to feed to Marix. I am not yet the veteran that Tish is, but give me a couple of years and I will be kicking hypoallergenic Booty just like her. I have to repent because I have been terrible at posting my recipies on our blog as I learn to make them. I started homeschooling my two older children this past school year and it has taken some adjustment. But I am back to functioning, and will post many more recipies.