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Jenny Trezise
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010 8:35 PM
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Welcome to my Blog. I plan to use this blog to share with you our journey with food sensitivities. As many of you would know it’s not a clear cut road to well being. The target is always moving depending on where we are at in our lives, or in the investigation or management process. Also in how much support and knowledge we have at the time.
I would also like to share with you our journey with Allergy Train. Including product reviews or updates. Our family has tried most of our available products at one time or another and so I can share these stories with you.
Being a dietitian, I will also share relevant nutrition or allergy and intolerance stories. Food and environmental sustainability is another area of interest and is particularly relevant for those of us who are on restricted diets, I will also comment on these issues from time to time. So welcome, I look forward to sharing the journey with you.
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By Jenny Trezise on
Thursday, March 01, 2012 11:41 AM
Allergy Friendly Easter Products
Last year we surveyed our customers to see what products they would like for Easter. No one likes to miss out at Easter and we try our best to make sure we have a little something for everyone. It’s a long and difficult process to find goodies that are suitable for all but we think we have done a pretty good job to bring you a wide range of suitable products.
So if you are looking for something this Easter for a special someone who needs dairy free, egg free, gluten free, additive free, vegan friendly or low chemical chocolate.. we can help.
Below is an overview of our selection:
Moo Free Chocolate Eggs – New to Australia this year, we have MooFree eggs that are Dairy Free, Soy Free, Egg free, nut free and additive free Easter eggs that come in cute little boxes.
AllergyTrain White Chocolate Eggs and Bunnies – made from soy these are great for people who cannot have cocoa. They are also gluten, dairy, egg and nut free. ...
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By Jenny Trezise on
Sunday, December 18, 2011 12:11 PM
I decided to try and make some new and interesting Christmas treats today. Here's what i came up with:
Marshmellow Christmas Trees on a stick. Thread 2 or 3 marshmellows onto a stick. I used skewers with the pointy bit chopped off. Then I made some icing starting with white and drizzled it onto the marshmellows. Then I dipped the marshmellow into various 100s and 1000s. We also used green icing and orange icing. I think the green ones looked the best for Christmas. I also chopped up some white ‘Milky Bars’ and dipped some of the marshmellows into them. The recipe I had said to use melted chocolate to dip the marshmellows into and then add green coloured shredded coconut, but the icing worked well so that my kids could eat them too.
Marshmellow slice – made the base using the marshmellow slice recipe in the Fedup book. Once it was cooked I put in a separate bowl,...
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By Jenny Trezise on
Sunday, December 18, 2011 12:05 PM
As we don’t have a butcher nearby who can make us suitable sausages we have until now gone with out. If I had gone a distance, I could have bought them but then I had the problem of needing to use them quickly to prevent an amine build up. We really only wanted them for special occasions so it was not worth the hassle of trying to get hold of them. A while ago, a member from one of the forums I am on talked about using collagen casings from www.bakeandbrew.com.au so I finally decided to give it ago.
I used my new thermomix to mix up the vegetables and meat into the right consistency. Then we thought – ok how do we get the sausage mixture into the casings. Hmm!! We nearly ended it all there as I had thought maybe I could spoon it in but clearly this was not going to be possible. Then I got the idea of using an icing piping bag. It worked really well. It worked best with two of us doing it and the kids loved sitting there watching the process....
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By Jenny Trezise on
Sunday, November 27, 2011 11:31 AM
Really quick to make and delicious to eat. Buy some sweet crust Pastry Pantry pastry if gluten free or other tolerated pastry. Use a glass or mug to cut circle size pieces out of the pastry and gently press them into a muffin tray. Then cut out circles for lids of the pies and leave them aside.
Put baking paper over the bases and put them in the oven as instructed on the packet to cook. After about 10min you take the baking paper off and cook for another 5min or so.
Take the pies out of the oven, allow to cool and then place in desired ingredients. We used mashed up tinned pear and a few small slices of banana mixed with a tiny amount of brown sugar, but you could really use any tolerated fruit or even custard.
Gently press lids onto filled bases and put back in the oven to cook until lids are golden brown. Pull out and serve hot or cold. They are so good!
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By Jenny Trezise on
Friday, November 11, 2011 8:15 PM
If you are tired of trying to get your kids to eat their dinner.. you have to serve up the new alphabet pasta from Probios. Our kids were very excited to watch it cooking and then very quickly ate it off their plates, all the while pointing out letters of the alphabet. Definite thumbs up from here!
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By Jenny Trezise on
Sunday, August 21, 2011 2:21 PM
We just celebrated my two boys birthdays with a joint celebration – A party in the park! After surviving a bad case of tonsillitis during the week and then to have Kieran get it a few days before and then a scary weather forecast threatening the party.. we did manage to get there. With the help of grandparents to make the food, the day was a great success. The sun came out and stayed out all afternoon thankfully.
We hired a parachute, blocks and giant sized ball for the kids to play with. They came from www.yardparty.com.au I highly recommend them if you are looking for a cheap way to entertain kids outside. We also had giant bubble makers and balls to kick around. There was also a great playground if they kids needed to burn off some extra energy.
I made a Hoot cake – orange and blue and white. Daniel for the first time ever got a coloured piece (orange – being only mod sals and used only in such as small amount), so he was very happy and he seems to have survived it with no negative...
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By Jenny Trezise on
Monday, July 04, 2011 1:07 PM
Recently i was contacted by Well and Good and we had a discussion about whether we could stock their products. I remembered that the used to have maize in them but this has been taken out now. The also only use vanilla or cocoa in their products. Anyway, once we realised the ingredients were all good we decided to give them a try. We started with the muffin mix. They were easy to make and even using 'no egg' replacer they turned out really well. My four year old thought they had chocolate in them, they were so good.
the weekend just gone, my son had a birthday party to attend and i asked my husband to help make some cupcakes. He reminded me we did not need to make them from scratch as we now had the Well and Good mix. So he was very happy to add a few ingredients and mix them up. They turned out great even with no egg again. The icing is great and convenient too!It is going to be hard to go back to making them from scratch when every batch is different and they dry out in a day or so.
So if youre like me -...
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By Jenny Trezise on
Sunday, May 01, 2011 11:40 AM
This year was my youngest Kieran’s second Easter at 20 months. He has a limited food intake so any form of chocolate was off the list. It was also my Daniel’s (4 3/4yrs) first with no real chocolate as he can no longer have cocoa. I was not sure what to do for them. He is also highly sensitive to sals and I found that if he had too much white soy chocolate over a few days he would react so I decided not to use this for him. It was coming off the back of another reaction so it probably would have been much reduced with no recent reactions but I decided not take the chance.
I have realised over the last few years that the thing they enjoy about Easter the most is finding the eggs, even if they cannot eat them. Previously we hid small normal chocolate eggs around the house and saved them for us and replaced with the chocolate Daniel could have. Since I now limit my amines intake too, I decided that we did not need lots of little chocolate eggs around the house.
Daniel got a few carob soy eggs and...
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By Jenny Trezise on
Tuesday, January 04, 2011 8:08 PM
Welcome back. We hope you have had a safe and reaction free Christmas period.
It’s been a while since our last post as we have had an intensive few months. The gluten free show and then the lead up to Christmas have kept us very busy.
Over the Christmas break I’ve done some thinking about where AllergyTrain will go in 2011 and am excited about the future. We some exciting new products in the pipeline and a few other surprises planned.
We hope that you can help us with our planning too. We love it when you tell us how excited you or your kids are when you get a box of goodies at your door or how much easier and more enjoyable parties are now. We also love it when you tell us if there has been a problem with the products, ordering or delivery process. This helps us to refine things to make our service to you even better.
Stay tuned to the blog and the news page for more information in the coming months. ...
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By Jenny Trezise on
Friday, September 10, 2010 11:35 AM
Hey Everyone! AllergyTrain will be exhibiting at the Melbourne Gluten Free Show on Oct 2-3 at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre. So if you are coming along drop in and say hi. We would love to meet you all. For more information on the show visit www.glutenfreeshow.com.au. Also check out our show specials at News
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Xmas MarshmellowsPosted on: Sunday, December 18, 2011 Home made sausagesPosted on: Sunday, December 18, 2011 Alphabet Pasta a hit at our housePosted on: Friday, November 11, 2011 A Party in the ParkPosted on: Sunday, August 21, 2011 An Easter with a DifferencePosted on: Sunday, May 01, 2011 Gluten Free ShowPosted on: Friday, September 10, 2010
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