Pinning for Food Allergies

Food Allergy Pinterest Board

Nope, not pining for food allergies (who would do that?!), but pinning for food allergies on Pinterest has become all the rage. If you're not on Pinterest because you are waiting to be invited, the wait is over. A few weeks ago, Pinterest opened their doors to everyone. Just sign up here with your Facebook, Twitter or email account.

Do I really need another social media outlet? My thoughts exactly, but I can say that I enjoy the visual boards and find information on Pinterest that I'm not finding elsewhere. How about this Food Allergy Detector from knegadesign.com? Interesting idea that might be something to keep an eye on in the future. Just search "food allergies" for tons of printables, recipes and products. It's a virtual bulletin board and a fun, visual way to keep track of information. Come visit!

Best I.M. Healthy Soynut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever

Recipe for Soynut Butter Cookies

I used to make soynut butter cookies for my peanut allergic child. He liked them, but this peanut butter lovin' mama wasn't a big fan. When I saw that I.M. Healthy is offering a percentage of their sales to Food Allergy Initiative to celebrate food allergy Awareness Week May 13-19, I knew that I had to try again with these cookies.

I did some recipe searching and some tweaking and I'll tell you, I can't stop eating these cookies.

Seriously, someone needs to stop me!

So if you want a peanut butter chocolate chip cookie that is free of peanuts, milk and eggs that everyone will love, look no further. Buy up some extra jars of IM Healthy soynut butter during food allergy awareness week and get baking. By the way, these freeze well too...and they taste fantastic frozen...

Here's exactly what I did to make the Best Soynut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1 stick Fleischmann's Unsalted margarine (only unsalted stick is dairy free)
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup IM Healthy soynut butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 tablespoon canola oil ,  1 teaspoon baking powder mixed together until bubbly (this is the substitute for one egg)
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup rolled oats
• 1 cup dairy-free semisweet chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Cream together the butter, white sugar and brown sugar until smooth. Stir in the soynut butter, vanilla and water, oil baking powder mixture until well blended. Add the flour, baking soda and salt. Stir until moistened. Mix in the oats and chocolate chips until evenly distributed. Drop by tablespoonfuls on to lightly greased cookie sheets.
3. Bake for 8-10 minutes until the edges start to brown. Cool on cookie sheets for about 5 minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.

Let me know how much you loved these!

Food Allergies on Pinterest

Food Allergy Assistant on Pinterest

Have you joined the Pinterest craze yet? Food Allergy Assistant is on Pinterest with food allergy boards ranging from "food allergy books I love" to "food allergy blogs I follow". You can also find some of my favorite recipes, cookbooks, products and more.

If you're on Pinterest, check out my boards and feel free to comment and re-pin. I'd love to follow your boards too, so let me know in the comment section below how I can find you on Pinterest.

Happy pinning!