Inflammation – Your Enemy, Good Salt vs Bad Salt, Vegan Thanksgiving Desserts, Grain-Free Pumpkin Cake & More!

Welcome back to another week of Allergy Free Wednesdays! A collection of yumminess that is aimed at making it easier for you to create healthy, allergy free foods for you and your family. There is no “clear rule” against including processed ingredients in your submission (but we hope you are moving in that direction ). So…occasionally you will find some “whole foodie undesirables” in the entries. What to do if you see processed foods and don’t want them?:

White or brown sugar? Sub in sucanat, or honey or an acceptable sugar free sweetener. Get help subbing in my post on Substituting Sweeteners in Baking and Cooking
Chocolate Chips? Sub in my Homemade Chocolate / Carob Chips (new & improved version coming soon!)
Others? Don’t think you’ll find many, but ask away if need be. (There was an entry in a previous AFW of a cake that looked incredible, but used PB cups – I have a great healthy sub for that – Healthy “Almost Reese’s!“)

So—-welcome to Allergy-Free Wednesdays (AFW). AFW is a weekly blog hop where folks can share their allergy-free cuisine, gain knowledge about allergy-related topics/issues, and connect with others living or caring for someone with food allergies. Your weekly submissions will be shared on 7 blogs! Additionally, eachhostess will feature a favorite recipe(s) from the week before. Please visit each blog to see their features! Your hostesses are:

Wondering What You Can Link Up on Allergy Free Wednesday?

Basically anything that is fitting for an allergy free diet in some way (we’re not that strict).

Every week I write my own substutions for the week’d favorites to help you along a bit.

For the complete rules, click here.

Here goes – starting off with my favorites–and you should check out the other hostesses’ posts to see if you were featured there!

My Favorites from Last Week (with substitution ideas)~

First of all, let me say that this week was one of the most difficult weeks for me to pick just 3 favorites. My initial list had something like 10 favorites on it. You all are GENIUS! So I highly recommend you all to head back over to last week submissions and check out things like:

- Indian Spiced Seed Mix
- Caramel Apple Dairy Free Cheesecake
- Butternut Squash Pizza Crust
- Millet Pizza Crust
…and much, much more!!!

But here goes with what I finally decided on…..

Vegan Thanksgiving Dessert Roundup from Sweetly Raw
If need be, sub in a candida-friendly sweetener and I would for sure be using something besides the dates and raisins in the crust. Possibly I would add some carob to my crust in my Chocolate Silk Pie.
My son thinks this Pumpkin Cheesecake looks amazing and is on his short list for a birthday dessert!

Why Sea Salt is Good for You (and Table Salt is Not) from Small Footprint Family
I LOVE this post. You all know I recommend Real Salt all the time in my posts. This is why.