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By Victoria Groce, About.com Guide to Food Allergies

Easter: Candy-Free Alternatives for Kids

Friday March 7, 2008

This week's Living With Food Allergies Blog Carnival includes a terrific post from Go Dairy Free about food allergy-friendly chocolate bunnies for kids' Easter baskets. But you may have good reasons for wanting to avoid candy altogether --- an elimination diet, eosinophilic condition, or just hosting friends or relatives whose kids' allergy issues you're not sure about.

That's why I'm excited to share a couple of resources for great food-free Easter gifts: one from the terrific nonprofit Kids with Food Allergies and another from About.com's Parenting Special Needs Children guide Terri Mauro. Use them to help brainstorm, and feel free to share additional ideas in the comments.

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March 13, 2008 at 12:18 pm
(1) Anouk says:

We hide clues in plastic easter eggs around the garden or house. When the kids find the eggs, they read the clues which eventually leads them to a place where we hide a large gift for each of them. They get the joy of easter egg hunting, a gift to keep them busy for the rest of the day, and there’s no food involved at all! This has worked very well for my son who is allergic to dairy, soy, eggs, sesame, tree nuts and peanuts.

March 29, 2009 at 2:23 pm
(2) sarah says:

These are wonderful suggestions, SO helpful - thank you! :-)

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