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Do You Know the Label Reading "Tricks" to Make Sure Your Halloween "Treats" Are Safe?
Halloween candy may present health risks to children with food allergies. Some parents choose to #KeepItTeal and encourage non-food treats . Teal, the color of food allergy awareness, signals a safer Halloween for all. If you allow...
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Conversation Starters to Raise Food Allergy Awareness
Did you know one in 13 kids has a food allergy? And the number keeps growing. But many people still don’t understand food allergies. The best way to support families who manage this disease is by helping everyone understand it better. Help us raise awareness about this disease with a Food Allergy Warrior T-shirt and a #KEEPITTEAL bracelet. These are a great way to start conversations with others about food allergies. Check out these products and more on our online store. Thanks to your...
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Help Us #TurnItTeal for Food Allergy Awareness Week!
We're partnering with TurnItTeal.org to raise food allergy awareness nationwide. Teal is the official awareness color for food allergies. We want to light up buildings, landmarks and popular attractions in the color teal during Food Allergy Awareness Week May 14-20, 2017.
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Raise Awareness to Promote an Allergy-Friendly TEALOWEEN
Teal is the color of food allergy awareness and teal pumpkins have become the symbol of food allergy awareness at Halloween . When you see a teal pumpkin, it means non-food treats are available for kids with food allergies or other dietary restrictions. Kids With Food Allergies has tips to help you have a safer and more inclusive TEALOWEEN. 1. Raise awareness about food allergies and being inclusive. Change your social media profile picture to show others you support a safer, more inclusive...
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Pumpkin Carving Patterns to #KeepItTeal
Teal pumpkins are a symbol to say you have non-food treats available this Halloween. You can also spread the #KeepItTeal spirit with traditional carved jack-o'-lanterns. Draw your own freehand message on paper. Make sure all pattern shapes...
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Teal Pumpkin Spice Cake Recipe
It’s October! The time of year to break out the sweaters, decorate for Halloween, and eat/drink Pumpkin Spice everything! It’s also the time of year to paint a pumpkin teal and prepare non-food treats for trick-or-treaters....
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Ways to #KeepItTeal This Halloween
Craft Ideas to #KeepItTeal Halloween is on its way! You want to show others you are going to #KeepItTeal to support kids with food allergies and special diets. But maybe you aren't quite ready to carve pumpkins. Use our craft printouts...
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Partner With Your School to Promote Teal Classrooms This Halloween
We've updated our Teal Classroom™ Kit! Learn more about raising food allergy awareness in the classroom and download your own copy . Did you know that 45% of severe allergic reactions in schools begin in the classroom? 1 About 20-25% of allergic reactions requiring epinephrine in schools occur without a prior history of food allergy. 2 Many schools are moving away from celebrating holidays with food in the classroom. If your school chooses to celebrate Halloween, partner with key school...
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#KeepItTeal: A Safer and More Inclusive Halloween for Kids on Special Diets
4 Ways to #KeepItTeal for Halloween Do you want to make Halloween safer for children with food allergies? Share #KeepItTeal pumpkin posters and other safety tips from Kids With Food Allergies. Show your community that offering non-food treats is a...
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#KeepItTeal Halloween Photo Contest to Benefit Kids With Food Allergies
Join our 9th annual Halloween photo parade and show us how you #KeepItTeal for a safer celebration! Kids With Food Allergies (KFA) invites you to share your photos of your kids in their costumes, your teal pumpkins and decorations, or your...
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Will You #KeepItTeal This Halloween?
Teal pumpkins have become the symbol of food allergy awareness at Halloween. When you see a teal pumpkin, it means that non-food treats are available for kids with food allergies or other dietary restrictions. This makes Halloween safer and more inclusive for kids. Follow these steps to get involved and spread food allergy awareness this Halloween.
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Still Time to Enter Your #KeepItTeal Photos to Support Kids With Food Allergies
There is still time to join our 9th annual Halloween photo parade and show us how you #KeepItTeal for a safer celebration! Enter photos of your kids in their costumes or your teal pumpkins and decorations. One grand prize winner will win a...
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Re: Help Us #TurnItTeal for Food Allergy Awareness Week!
We were in contact with the PECO building. There are guidelines that our project did not fall under so the request was denied sadly. We hope to get something your way next year thought! Always looking for more suggestions as well!
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Re: Help Us #TurnItTeal for Food Allergy Awareness Week!
Zakim bridge or the John Hancock building in Boston, Ma Mass has no location!
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Re: Help Us #TurnItTeal for Food Allergy Awareness Week!
Re: Help Us #TurnItTeal for Food Allergy Awareness Week!
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Re: Keeping it teal Halloween 2016
Awesome! KFA also has a #keepitteal profile picture you can use. We'd love to have you stop by the forums and join our discussions on Halloween and more!
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Re: #keepitteal Halloween
So cute! Love the long stem on that pumpkin and she looks like she's really concentrating! Check out our forums when you get a chance. Great place for help and support with managing food allergies.
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Re: #keepitteal Halloween
She's got that laser-focus going on -- not a drop of paint will be spilled in painting THIS pumpkin, eh? What else do you do for Halloween?
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Re: Keeping it teal Halloween 2016
My son is allergic to peanuts, tree nuts, wheat, barley, rye, egg, sesame, mustard and sunflower seeds.
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Re: Keeping it teal Halloween 2016
Wow! That's quite an avoid list! What's some of his favorite "safe" foods?
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Re: Keeping it teal Halloween 2016
He enjoys skittles, starbursts, sour patch kids, dum dum lollipops, tootsie rolls, rolos and the large regular size milk chocolate Hersey bars are safe.
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Re: Keeping it teal Halloween 2016
That's terrific that he has a safe "stash" of candy. It's certainly enough to keep him happy and the dentist busy! Hope he has a great Halloween!
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Re: Keeping it teal Halloween 2016
All in moderation of course and he has always been cavity free. Thank you!
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Re: Keeping it teal Halloween 2016
Absolutely -- but it's really nice that our kids can find safe candies and feel like any other kiddo! Yay for safe candies!
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Re: Ernie with his teal pumpkin
He looks so proud of his teal pumpkin -- as he should be! What food allergies do you guys manage? Swing by our forums and let us know what you guys will be doing for Halloween . P.S. I edited the title for you so that it would be a little easier to read -- hope you don't mind!
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Re: Our Teal Pumpkin
@K8sMom2002 I got the pumpkin from Michaels, then I bought decorative, ornate bats to place on it and ordered 1" vinyl mailbox letters off Amazon to use! I tried several other letters/stickers but they wouldn't stay. I almost did stencil & paint but this worked well and is reusable every year
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Re: Our Teal Pumpkin
What an absolute rockin' idea! Genius! Note to self: remember that trick!
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Re: Teal pumpkin
Oh, my goodness! That is hands down the cutest teal pumpkin I've ever seen! What food allergies do you manage? There's lots of friendly "faces" over in the Main Support Forum to help you deal with food allergies!
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Re: Ernie with his teal pumpkin
@AllergyMom1992 - Welcome to KFA. Your little guy is a cutie!
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Re: Batman collage
Welcome to KFA. Cute kid and love the collage! Be sure to head over to our forums to tell us how food allergies affect you . Lots of great support on our forums.
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Re: Mya
What a cute little Belle! And I love your cool teal pumpkin! What food allergies do you manage? (I'm assuming nuts, from your tag?) Head over to our Main Support Forum to introduce yourself and find other parents who manage food allergies!
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Re: Bryson Keeping It Teal For Halloween 2015
Congratulations! This photo was selected as the Grand Prize #KeepItTeal Halloween winner! You have won a $300 Visa gift card from So Delicious Dairy Free. We are sending a separate email confirmation to you. Please check your inbox and reply to that email so we can get your prize shipped to you. Thank you for participating in #KeepItTeal!
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Re: #KeepItTeal Halloween Photo Contest to Benefit Kids With Food Allergies
Congratulations to the winners of our 9th annual Halloween photo parade! Our grand prize winner, Bryson, will receive a $300 Visa ® gift card courtesy of So Delicious ® Dairy Free. Our runners-up will each receive 10 VIP coupons from So Delicious Dairy Free. We thank So Delicious Dairy Free for their continuing support of Kids With Food Allergies! And thanks to everyone who shared their photos to support KFA. So Delicious is making a very generous donation of $3000!
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Re: Teal Pumpkin Spice Cake Recipe
I would use a can of white beans instead of the chickpeas just to be on the safe side. After reading and articule at www.allergicliving.com where its said is probably ok, I asked my son's allergy Dr. and she told me to avoided along with lentils.
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Re: Teal Pumpkin Spice Cake Recipe
It is always a good idea to follow your doctor's advice about avoiding cross reactions. Here's KFA's resource on cross-reactions .
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Re: #KeepItTeal: A Safer and More Inclusive Halloween for Kids on Special Diets
What a great idea! Is there a way for kids to show they "Keep it Teal" on Halloween night? So houses know they're "teal" kiddos?
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Re: #KeepItTeal: A Safer and More Inclusive Halloween for Kids on Special Diets
Hmmm....that's a good question!
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Re: #KeepItTeal: A Safer and More Inclusive Halloween for Kids on Special Diets
Originally Posted by Dawn Aaron Laird: What a great idea! Is there a way for kids to show they "Keep it Teal" on Halloween night? So houses know they're "teal" kiddos? Oooh! I like that idea! Last year, I filled half the treat bowl with candy and half with non-edible items. Not sure which children had food restrictions, I offered everyone a choice. I was surprised at how many kiddos opted for the non-edible treats. Biggest hit..glow in the dark vampire teeth! Super cheap, too!
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Re: #KeepItTeal: A Safer and More Inclusive Halloween for Kids on Special Diets
Yes there is a way to show that. It is known as the Teal pumpkin project. You put a Teal pumpkin on your porch, or front of your house along with one of the signs letting those know that you have safe non food or allergy safe items . That is what the Teal pumpkins represent.
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Re: #KeepItTeal: A Safer and More Inclusive Halloween for Kids on Special Diets
Wow Georgina5.... Did you HONESTLY think I didn't read the article? I wasn't asking about MY PORCH... I was asking if there was a way to "mark" your kids so other parents at the HOUSES know your kids are TEAL. It really isn't that difficult to read the response before answering incorrectly. Especially with kids 5+ you aren't necessarily on the porch with them making sure they take something they can have, and kids are kids and can have that out of their bucket on their way down the stairs...
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Re: #KeepItTeal: A Safer and More Inclusive Halloween for Kids on Special Diets
Originally Posted by Katie: Originally Posted by Dawn Aaron Laird: What a great idea! Is there a way for kids to show they "Keep it Teal" on Halloween night? So houses know they're "teal" kiddos? Oooh! I like that idea! Last year, I filled half the treat bowl with candy and half with non-edible items. Not sure which children had food restrictions, I offered everyone a choice. I was surprised at how many kiddos opted for the non-edible treats. Biggest hit..glow in the dark vampire teeth!