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Food Allergies at Disney World

Mandy — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:39:54 +0000

We had the best experience with Disney World. We have food allergies in our family and we were concerned about eating in the many different restaurants in Disney World. We made reservations at each restaurant and told them that we had food allergies. After sitting down the head chef in each restaurant except China came out and talked with us about our special allergy needs. We were so impressed that the head chef would take time out to talk with us and make us feel comfortable with the food choices. They told us what to stay away from and what was safe to eat. In some cases they even prepared our meal in a separate kitchen so that there would be no peanut or tree nut contamination. They totally put our fears to rest and we actually enjoyed every meal with out worrying.

Disney know how to go above and beyond in helping out families with special dietary needs. They not only consult with nut allergies, but any allergy including wheat, latex and soy. What a relief for families that need a little extra help and peace of mind.

One of the best places for more information is allears.net.

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Gingerbread House

Mandy — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:33:34 +0000

pThis year J has been very involved with the holidays and all the crazy things to go with them.nbsp; He loved Halloween and craving pumpkins and decorating a Halloween tree.nbsp; So with Christmas around the corner we thought we had better start some traditions so that he will have something to look forward to each year.nbsp; /p pWe decided to make gingerbread men and let J decorate them.nbsp; I made Tyler go to the store in a major snowstorm because we were out of Mamp;M and Skittles.nbsp; We then cut out the cookies and decorated them.nbsp; I had some dough left over so we thought we would make a gingerbread train and let J decorate it. Well I am not an engineer so I couldn’t figure out how to make a train in 3-D.nbsp; We looked on the Internet and the patterns looked too complicated.nbsp; We just made our own pattern ofnbsp; a simple gingerbread house.nbsp; /p pJ was so excited to decorate it. But a little problem, in order for the house to stand we had to build it with Royal frosting.nbsp; I don’t know how to make Royal frosting, so back to the Internet to find a recipe.nbsp;nbsp; Then the little problem of letting the walls set so we could put on the roof.nbsp; Long story short it took us until the next day to be able to decorate the house with the lopsided roof.nbsp; A pattern would be nice next year./p pGrandpa and Grandma came down and helped us decorate with more candy than any family of three should have.nbsp; Grandpa and J thought it was funny to put mini chocolate chips on the front yard of the gingerbread house and call it Reindeer poop.nbsp; They got a good half hour laugh out of that one.nbsp; I hope I make it through all these boys and their humor./p pThe house looks great and J likes to sneak in and sample the “Reindeer poop”.nbsp; He thinks he is so funny.nbsp; /p

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Palm Tree Vacation

Mandy — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:29:10 +0000

This past weekend I went on a palm tree vacation. Basically you drive until you find palm trees and then you have had a great vacation. I figure where ever there are palm trees it has to be some what warm. So the the girls in the family headed down to St. George and Las Vegas

We tried shopping at the outlet mall, but it was pretty sparse on fun stuff to buy. I bought a t-shirt for Jordan at Gymboree for only $2.50. That was the extent of my spending.

The next day we headed down to Las Vegas for the Jewelry Show. We are starting a business selling unusual pieces of jewelry. It was so much fun to walk up and down the convention center and buy cool pieces of Jewelry.

We also ate at the Paris buffet. Now I have to confess as a general rule I hate buffets, but I love the one at the Paris hotel. My favorite part of the meal was the made to order crepes. I had a banana, Nutella, raspberry sauce, and whipped cream. I thought that I had died and gone to heaven.

My Palm Tree Vacation was a success. It was nice to get away and then to come back home to my boys!

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Eating while on Vacation

Mandy — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:56:33 +0000

When we travel to different places it seems to revolve around food. When were were in Switzerland we loved eating Raclette Cheese on bread. Tyler liked it on the pickles and sweet onions.(yuck!) In Hawaii it was all about the shave ice at Waiola’s and the malasadas(sweet Portuguese doughnuts) at Leonard’s in Honolulu. If you give me a city that we have traveled to, I could tell you a great place to eat or get a snack. I think that if you don’t take the time to sample the food then you are missing a great part of the vacation. I have friends who refuse to eat out while on vacation. They like to cook and clean up while they are traveling. I don’t think so, half the fun is to try something new. I am on vacation and don’t cook.

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