Adventures of an Allergic Foodie

Adventures of an Allergic Foodie Don't let food restrictions hold you back back! An allergic foodie helping others with celiac disease, food allergies, and leaky gut.

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Power salad at The Cottage in Bluffton: lobster, shrimp, salmon and berries.
09/17/2021

Power salad at The Cottage in Bluffton: lobster, shrimp, salmon and berries.

Visiting Hilton Head Island this year? If you are I highly recommend The Studio. So many options for foodies with ...
05/03/2021

Visiting Hilton Head Island this year? If you are I highly recommend The Studio. So many options for foodies with food restrictions. I ate my very first grilled Caesar salad sans dairy and it was .

Monday evening at Pool Bar Jim’s. Life is good on the beach.
03/22/2021

Monday evening at Pool Bar Jim’s. Life is good on the beach.

03/10/2021

Colorado Springs City Council Members Socially Profiled Us

Yesterday my husband and I went in front of our Colorado Springs City Council about a matter that seems trivial in this day of COVID but was important to us. We presented to the City Council our argument as to why Council members should uphold the City Planning Commission’s decision that our neighbor should not get relief from the City Code for a fence/retaining wall violation that is harming our property.

Our neighbor prevailed: He doesn’t have to follow the City Code.

What my husband and I overheard from our City Council members during a break before voting is why I am writing this.

“Rich people problems.”

We were profiled for being “rich.” Okay, stop laughing and rolling your eyes and please continue reading. Our City Council members have no idea how my husband and I got to the point in our lives where we even have a home with a fence. Earlier in the City Council meeting there was a discussion about how people shouldn’t judge people for their differences and then several of the Council members did exactly that—they passed judgment on us without knowing us.

I was a child given up to the California welfare system. I am a first-generation American. My mother, an undocumented immigrant, died at age 44 of alcoholism and my half-brother is in prison.

To feed his family, the grandfather of the man I married emigrated to America from Italy at age 12. My husband is the youngest in a family of eight children and because money was tight, he worked in a deli to put himself through college.

We are the products of people who came to America to have better lives. We worked hard to give our two sons better childhoods than we had. For many years of our marriage, we survived on Ramen Noodles. When our first son was born three months early, we used the free resources of the City for our baby’s feeding, clothing and developmental care.

Today, because we have the resources from our hard work to do so, we support the Colorado Springs community by giving to nonprofits that matter to us including Care and Share and Springs Rescue Mission and Ronald McDonald House. I also volunteer for Fostering Hope, a nonprofit that supports foster care parents.

But instead of looking at the Code Criteria and considering the decision in front of them, some of the members of our Colorado Springs City Council profiled us as “rich people with rich people problems”—and they bit the hand that feeds them.

City of Colorado Springs Government Bill Murray for City Council 2015 Yolanda L. Avila, Colorado Springs City Council Member, D4 David Geislinger for City Council Jill Gaebler Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern Colorado Richard Skorman for City Council District 3 Springs Rescue Mission Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado

New menu items at Zoes Kitchen. Hopefully eating salad will help me to lose the Covid 19 (as in pounds). 😂
06/09/2020

New menu items at Zoes Kitchen. Hopefully eating salad will help me to lose the Covid 19 (as in pounds). 😂

Another walk? Really? When are you people gonna leave the house and give me some downtime?
05/28/2020

Another walk? Really? When are you people gonna leave the house and give me some downtime?

I don’t think the meat shortage will bother me much.
05/06/2020

I don’t think the meat shortage will bother me much.

Sign on the door of our favorite wine store. 😀
04/09/2020

Sign on the door of our favorite wine store. 😀

Last week I was enjoying 80 degrees in St. Augustine and walking on this beautiful beach. This week I hear it’s freezing...
01/25/2020

Last week I was enjoying 80 degrees in St. Augustine and walking on this beautiful beach. This week I hear it’s freezing there! I really want to go back and see more of the first city in the US. ❤️

The sun is setting on . Always feel at peace here.
11/24/2019

The sun is setting on . Always feel at peace here.

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