FAAN Food Allergy Benefit & Concert

FAAN Food Allergy Benefit Dinner and Concert

Join fellow FAAN supporters for a night of dinner and dancing to raise funds for food allergy research. The Benefit Dinner and Concert will feature popular children’s allergy singer Kyle Dine and an exciting silent auction. The event will be held Monday, June 8 at 5:30 p.m. at the Hillview Country Club in North Reading, Mass.

Register now!

http://www.foodallergywalk.org/site/DocServer/Benefit_Dinner_Registration.pdf?docID=1001

The Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network Food Allergy Benefit Dinner and Concert
5:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m.
June 8, 2009
Hillview Country Club
149 North Street
North Reading, MA 01864
http://www.hillviewcountryclub.com/

New Castle Fire Department donates $500 to Seacoast Food Allergy Group

Many thanks to the NCFD for the generous donation of $500 to our group! Special thanks to Volunteer Fire fighter Mark Syracusa, who is also a parent of a peanut-allergic child, for thinking of our group.  Join us at our June meeting with suggestions of how best to use it.

Fund donates $500 to food allergy group | SeacoastOnline.com

Updates From FAAN

FAAN’s Online Auction: Bidding for a Cure!
Our online auction opened May 3. Don’t miss this great opportunity to bid on unique items and experiences including getaway packages to exciting locations such as Las Vegas, Tampa, and Washington, D.C.; golf packages; meet and greet opportunities with celebrity chef Ming Tsai and Tom Poti from the Washington Capital’s hockey team; autographed sports memorabilia; jewelry; and so much more. Whether you are looking for a great bargain or a special gift for a loved one, look no further—our online auction truly has something for everyone!

You can view all of the great items up for auction at http://www.faanauction.cmarket.com/. Please encourage family and friends to do the same. Proceeds from the auction will go toward FAAN’s education, advocacy, research, and awareness programs.

The auction ends May 17.

Food Allergy Virtual Media Roundtable
We are holding a free Webinar about food allergies for the media on May 6, 2009 from 1-2 p.m. ET. Reporters will be able to obtain information about the prevalence, treatment, and management of food allergies; what it is like to live with food allergies, and the state of food allergy research. If you are talking with a reporter about doing a story for Food Allergy Awareness Week, have them contact Jennifer Love at FAAN (jlove@foodallergy.org 703-563-3061) to participate in the Webinar.

The Webinar will be recorded and posted to our website so that anyone can view it.

 

FAAN’s Social Networking
Did you know that FAAN has presence on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube? 
Follow FAAN on Twitter @FoodAllergy to receive the special allergy alerts, news releases, and media statements.  You can also follow FAAN’s CEO (@JuliaBradsher) on Twitter to read her updates.

Join the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network Facebook group. Share your food allergy activities, pictures, and videos.

Watch videos on FAAN’s YouTube nonprofit channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/FAANPAL.

The next time you are on these websites, be sure to look us up!

Home Made Gluten-Free Products

After spending many years learning to cook and make  gluten-free, a local resident has created his own line of gluten-free products. See the menu below or contact Chris Beal, 603-781-9398 or ChristianDBeal@aol.com  for more information:

Home Made Gluten Free Foods

 Gluten Free Harvest Bread

1.5 lb Loaf                               $7.99

Ingredients: white rice flour, brown rice flour, potato starch, skim milk, vegetable oil, eggs, walnuts, raisins, coconut, whey, corn starch, sugar, brown sugar, guar gum, salt, cinnamon,  yeast.

 Gluten Free Cinnamon Raisin Bread

1.5 lb Loaf                               $7.49

Ingredients: white rice flour, brown rice flour, potato starch, skim milk, vegetable oil, eggs, raisins, whey, corn starch, sugar, brown sugar, cinnomon, guar gum, salt, cinnamon,  yeast.

 

Gluten Free Sandwich Bread

1 lb loaf                                                       $6.99

Ingredients: white rice flour, brown rice flour, potato starch, skim milk, vegetable oil, eggs,whey, corn starch, brown sugar, guar gum, salt, yeast.

 

Gluten Free French Rolls

(6) Rolls                                                                $6.99

Ingredients: white rice flour, potato starch, corn starch,  vegetable oil, eggs, sugar, guar gum, cider vinegar, granulated honey, salt, yeast.

 

Gluten Free Pizza Crust

(3) 7" Pizza Crusts                                                     $6.99

Ingredients: white rice flour, potato starch, corn starch,  vegetable oil, eggs, sugar, guar gum, cider vinegar, granulated honey, salt, yeast.

 

All Products have Wheat Free, Gluten Free,

Trans Fat Free and Cholesteral Free

Ingredients.

 Allergy Warning:

All products contain Eggs and may contain tracers of Soy.

Some products contain Tree Nuts, some contain Milk, look at the ingredients.

All Products are processed and packaged in a facility that also processes Gluten products and Tree Nuts

 To Order 

603-781-9398 or ChristianDBeal@aol.com

 

Food Allergy Summer Camp

Camp Emerson in Eastern Massachusetts is a traditional over-night camp that is accommodating campers with food allergies. The camp is peanut-free and will work with parents and campers to create a safe camp experience for all children with food allergies.

http://www.campemerson.com/documents/CampEmerson-TheFoodAllergySpecialist.pdf

April 6-Meeting Summary

Thanks to Dr. Deuell for joining at our last meeting. Having just returned from the AAAAI (American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology) conference, she updated us on  the latest developments in food allergy research. Much of our meeting was spent discussing oral immunotherapy. While there is still much to be learned, the food allergy community is excited by the initial results of these studies. Much of this research as well as other studies that we discussed are summarized in last month's Food Allergy News from FAAN.

Our next meeting will be a general meeting on Monday June 8, from 7-9 pm. Since the hospital is still under construction, the location is still pending.

Surf Sweets Samples @ 4/6 Meeting

The owners of Surf Sweets, a line of natural and organic gummy candies and jelly beans, has sent us samples and coupons for our next meeting. 

Their products have been formulated without the ten most common allergens and are produced in a facility free of the ten most common allergens. In addition, the products are made with organic sweetners (no corn syrup) and fortified with Vitamin C.  Surf Sweet products are available at Hannaford stores throughout New Hampshire.

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