Upcoming Event at Whole Foods

Date: October 29th

Trick or Treat at Whole Foods

5pm - 6pm

Kids visit the customer service counter where they receive a bag and trick or treat around the store.

Spooky Halloween Family Bingo Night

6:00 to ?

Kids wear your costume and receive a free gift. Meet in the cafe to receive your bingo sheet and play for prizes.

Hopefully, you will find some nice Feingold approved items at this event. Good Luck and Happy Treating!

Feingold Halloween Party

** Please let me know soon if you will be attending. **

Location:

Chase Foods

12400 Yellow Bluff Road

Time:

4:00 - 6:00 PM

Date:

October 30th, 2010

Games/Contests:

(1) Pumpkin Carving Contest: You will need to bring your own pumpkin and supplies, and you are more than welcome to decorate it as well. Best pumpkin wins a prize!

(2) * Kids Only* Costume Contest: A prize will be awarded for most creative costume and one for the cutest costume. Costumes can't be the prepackaged ones from the store, put your thinking cap on and create something original. Nothing scary or gross, there will be very little one's at the gathering and we want them to have happy memories from the party, not nightmares. :-)

Food:

We are going to do finger foods so that there aren't any possibilities to mess up Chase Foods new kitchen. Please review the items below and let me know what you would like to bring.

- Items for a Fruit Tray (Pineapple, Honeydew, Cantaloupe, Watermelon and Red or Green Grapes)

- Items for a Vegetable Tray (Broccoli, Cauliflower, Baby Carrots, Celery Sticks and Cherry Tomatoes)

- Tortilla Chips, Bowl of Salsa and Bowl of Guacamole

- Coke, Sprite, 2 Bottles of Juice & Container of Lemonade

I will personally be making some meatballs and sauce in a crockpot to have, if anyone is on stage one please let me know and I will set aside some sauce-free meatballs for those people to share. I'm also going to bring a dessert, maybe a Gluten Free Pumpkin Bread Pudding or Cupcakes.

What Else To Bring:

A Bag of Feingold Approved Candy or Snacks

(Examples: Lifesavers Pep O' Mint, Yummy Earth Lollipops, Mary Jane Peanut Butter Kisses, Pearsons covered Mint Patties,

These will go to create safe treat bags for them to take home from the party.

Start up of Support Group

I would like to get together with all of the parents and grandparents in the area and see if I can find a day that works with most people, so please shoot me an email with the days and time that you would be interested in getting together for support and encouragement.

Right now I'm currently in the process of talking with Michele Doss (owner of Chase Foods) about putting together a Feingold Safe Halloween party, so if that's something that your family would like to take part in this year please know that I will be talking with her more tomorrow (Monday) and will post later in the week about any possible plans of getting together.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the Feingold diet, if you need help locating products or just general inquiries.

Lunch Box Ideas

Now that school is back in full swing it's nice to have a list of foods to mix and match for lunches during the week. Many of these options now come in Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free. If you come up with an additions, please feel free to post and I will add them to the master list.

* Leftovers (very frugal option)

* Turkey & Cheese Sandwich (lettuce in a separate bag)

* Banana Bread w/ Nut Butter topping and mini chocolate chips

* Carrot or Celery Sticks w/ Ranch (dairy or non-dairy) Dressing

* Banana w/ Yogurt Dip

* Animal Crackers

* Antipasto

* Grilled Cheese

* Cubed, grilled chicken

* Hot Dogs & Baked Beans (quartered to prevent choking)

* Chili

* Spaghetti w/ Sauce

* Cocktail meatballs

* Skewered fruit and Yogurt Dip

* Pear (stage 1) or Apple Sauce (stage 2)

* Nut Butter & Banana Sandwich

* Homemade Trail Mix (choking hazard for toddlers but safe for older kids)

* Homemade Soup or Stew

* Pear or Apple Slices

* Pudding or Natural Gelatin

* English Muffin Pizzas (use your imagination)

* French Toast w/ Pure Maple Syrup

* Fruit Salad

* Hard Boiled Egg

* Tuna Fish on White Bread

* Pita or Tortilla Chips w/ Hummus or Salsa

* String Cheese

* Chicken Salad on Toast

* Homemade Bean Dip & Tortilla Chips

* Cubed melon

* Smashed Sweet Potatoes

* Granola Bars

* Breakfast Bars

* Pretzels

* Potato Chips & Dip

* Bite sized broccoli and cauliflower w/ veggie dip

* Canned vegetables (repackaged into kid friendly container)

* Canned pineapple bites (repackaged into kid friendly container)

Trick-or-Treating FG Style

If you intend to stay home and hand out candy, I've listed some safe snacks that you can find at Whole Foods, Native Sun or Chase Foods. If these stores are out of your way, make a list of what your looking for and call them.

Whole foods currently has a display set up near the front of the store with Halloween items to hand out or give to toss in goodie bags. Some of these are stage one and some are stage 2, please consult your Food List & Shopping Guide to find out which.

Some solutions FG parents have found are as follows:

(1) Trade in the bad trick-or-treat candy for 1 cent each.

(2) Trade in the bad candy for the good candy

(3) Keep an eye out for buy back programs being offered by dentists in your area. Some pay up to $1 per lb of candy.

(4) Instead of trick or treating, create their own Halloween basket (similar to an easter basket). This keeps your kids home, safe and doesn't require much of you buy grocery shopping. :-)

(5) Locate those who have military families overseas and send the candy over to the troops so they can enjoy it. No chocolate of course.

Mini Glee Gums (all three stores)

Florida's Natural (seen @ Chase Foods & Whole Foods)

Yummy Earth Lollipops (all three stores)

Mary Jane Peanut Butter Kisses (check out the dollar store)

Sun Ridge Farm Jolly Beans (Native Sun in bulk)

Let's Do Organic Gummi Bears (seen at Native Sun)

Sharkies Chews (Chase foods)

Brachs All Natural Fruit Snacks (BJs carries these in bulk, 50/$5.99)

Surf Sweets Gummy Worms (Whole Foods)

Ghirardelli Squares (Target, BJ's, Walmart, etc, see book for safe flavors)

Pearsons Chocolate Covered Patties (see the dollar tree stores, sometimes Walgreens)

Utz's Pretzels (BJ's carries these)