Feed Your Can: How to Thrive with Food Allergies

Lindsay Schultz
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Feed Your Can: How to Thrive with Food Allergies

Feed Your Can podcast shares inspiring stories, interviews, helpful facts and every day life hacks where people living with food allergies talk about gaining back their power. We'll interview inspiring guests, discuss practical tips, savvy life hacks and share healthy mind snacks. Sometimes we just need to flip the script away from fear and look for another narrative. We'll show you how food and fun CAN coexist. You may need to restrict your foods, but that doesn't mean restricting your fun! We'll look at this struggle as the teacher and reflect differently on our struggles, becoming more capable and confident in tackling life's hardest challenges. Join us as we focus on how to Feed Your Can...when some foods, you just can't.™

  1. How these teen inventors also made waves in food allergy law!

    MAY 13

    How these teen inventors also made waves in food allergy law!

    Send us a textThink you're too young to be a leader in the food allergy community? Think again. This episode will introduce you to three dynamic teens who bust the myth that leaders have to be a certain age to make an impact. Lilia Vine, Maia Coplit, and Robert Vine are three inventors who developed a phone case that holds an Auvi-Q epi auto-injector (sercacase.com). In the same year they released their product, they also worked alongside their state legislation to help pass a food allergy sa...

    40 min

  2. 01/19/2023

    What I wish my parents knew: This teen's unique perspective on food allergies

    Send us a textMeet Hemali, a junior in high school who turned a curious question about her food allergy journey into a helpful tool that helps parents of newly diagnosed kids navigate their journey more smoothly than her own initial journey. Reflecting back on her own experiences, she asked herself, "What do I wish my parents had known when I was diagnosed with food allergies?" Taking this question many steps further, Hemali built an online place for new food allergy parents to learn from exp...

    23 min

  3. 12/20/2022

    Think like a restaurant: This foodie teaches us to eat out safely with food allergies

    Send us a textDo you wish you could skip the awkwardness of going out to eat and talking about your food allergies but still have the confidence to eat safely?Kayla King is a certified nutrition coach and past restaurant manager who gives us the right language to understand how the kitchen works…the difference between the line, flattop grill, front of house, back of house and even some nuanced words where restaurants hear something differently than what we mean to say. Kayla was diagnose...

    43 min
  4. Preparing to launch: Adulting with food allergies

    11/10/2022

    Preparing to launch: Adulting with food allergies

    Send us a textDr. Susan Eitel-Stack literally wrote the book on food allergies: Adulting with Food Allergies: Navigating Independence after Leaving Home. She and her husband Ken have successfully raised two sons to confidently manage their multiple life-threatening food allergies and even Type 1 Diabetes for one of them. The knowledge, thoughtful insights, practical tips, and detailed tactics will leave your pages highlighted, underlined and marked to go back and re-read a few times. It...

    24 min

  5. 04/27/2022

    The food allergy journey: Building blocks towards independence

    Send us a textGayle Rigione is the CEO and Co-founder of Allergy Force, as well as a long-time allergy mom who raised her son with food allergies. He is now a thriving adult and we spent time reflecting backwards on the essential building blocks that were formative in shaping his independence as an adult.Grab a pen or prepare to take notes - this episode is packed with hindsight wisdom from over two decades of experience in raising a child from infancy into adulthood who navigates food allerg...

    37 min

  6. 03/28/2022

    Matt's story: How sports shaped this entrepreneur's food allergy care solution

    Send us a textMatt Bomes, the co-founder of Backstop, shares how his struggles with food allergies helped shape a one-stop-shop virtual care solution and app for caregivers of children who have food allergies. Using his lessons learned in sports, along with his own personal struggles as a young adult, Matt discovered a passion for mental health, fitness, and nutrition. He channeled his struggles and experiences into founding Backstop, a one-stop-shop virtual care solution that...

    38 min
  7. Hosting a party? Keep your guests with food allergies safe

    02/27/2022

    Hosting a party? Keep your guests with food allergies safe

    Send us a textIf you're planning to host parties or events that include people with dietary restrictions and/or food allergies, this episode is for YOU.Can you think of social gatherings that don’t involve food? Birthday parties, team outings, holidays, BBQs, school events, parties— the list goes on. So many gatherings involve food, and many even revolve around food! Fun and food should just naturally coexist...right? For food-allergy folks, celebrations can trigger a series of concerns...

    13 min
  8. Eat safely, eat well: Helpful tips from a food allergy dietitian

    01/31/2022

    Eat safely, eat well: Helpful tips from a food allergy dietitian

    Send us a textKristi Winkels is a Registered Dietitian who believes everyone can eat well, even with food allergies. As a mom to two teenage boys with food allergies, she has read a lot of food labels and can sniff out cross-contact like nobody’s business.In 2007, she started her blog Eating With Food Allergies (eatingwithfoodallergies.com) where she shares allergy friendly recipes and nutrition tips. Kristi has worked as an outpatient dietitian for over a decade helping people man...

    37 min
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Feed Your Can podcast shares inspiring stories, interviews, helpful facts and every day life hacks where people living with food allergies talk about gaining back their power. We'll interview inspiring guests, discuss practical tips, savvy life hacks and share healthy mind snacks. Sometimes we just need to flip the script away from fear and look for another narrative. We'll show you how food and fun CAN coexist. You may need to restrict your foods, but that doesn't mean restricting your fun! We'll look at this struggle as the teacher and reflect differently on our struggles, becoming more capable and confident in tackling life's hardest challenges. Join us as we focus on how to Feed Your Can...when some foods, you just can't.™

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