Shopper's Drug Mart Nativa brand rocks
10:00pm - Dec 16, 2009

I've tried many of the Shopper's Drug Mart Nativa products and almost without fail, they are excellent and don't make me sick. I know that may sound like a backwards way of complimenting a company, but it fits.

 

Shopper's Drug Mart is a Canadian firm that has, at least in the Edmonton, Alberta region, come out with an entire line of organics under their own name "Nativa," with an orange banner on their boxes, b

Company lunches - oh yeah!
9:36pm - Jan 15, 2009

Got word today my company is planning a three day educational/personal growth retreat. I can't see how I can possible go and eat safely given the last two work functions I attended in my home city  turned into fiascos.
 
The first was for a full day of training, at a major hotel, where I received confirmation by email at 2:45 p.m. the day before that they would provide organic food for me. This was after I had been chasing answers from them for three weeks. I left a message for

Elisa Test
10:08pm - Jan 13, 2009

Well this is one test I passed with flying colours! Yep, practically all As, if you could describe it as such in the food allergy world.

I shelled out $400 Cdn, which is worth about $200 rubles or euros or U.S. bucks or whatever the economy is floating on these days, for an Elisa test to measure IgG4 (immunoglobulin  G4), a type of antibody in the blood which cause delayed symptoms and IgE (immunoglobulin E) which measures rapid reactions in ant

How Did I Get Here?
3:46pm - Jan 9, 2009

Remembering what not to eat is sometimes the hardest thing to do. This blog is about my challenges with a sensitivity that makes me as sick as someone with a fullblown "allergy" even though sulphites are classified as "just" a sensitivity, and it's damn frustrating at times.

 Maybe, like me, you’ve been eating the same way and the same foods for decades. Ye

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