I love my "NOT SO NUTTY" Son!

I am posting my personal safe food/candy list on my blog for the Halloween season.  I have had several friends ask me for it so here it is. NOTE: This is my personal list the one I give to people who may come in contact with my child, who is peanut/tree nut allergic.  I can not guarantee that any of these products are free of any other allergens.  (Stick with yummy earth or enjoy life foods for a safe candy free of all 8 BIG allergens)I also would like to remind everyone product labeling changes all the time so just because I list them as safe doesn't ensure they are safe always check labels for any changes that could have been made.  
 Yummy Earth website (click here)

HAPPY FOOD ALLERGY SAFE HOLIDAYS!


Because product labels are constantly changing…when buying any product including the ones on this list you should always look for after checking the ingredients list, look on the label for phrases like these:

• "may contain nuts"
• "produced on shared equipment with nuts or peanuts"
• "produced in a facility that also processes nuts"

People who are allergic to nuts also have to avoid foods with these statements on the label. Although these foods might not use nut ingredients, the warnings are there to let people know the food may contain traces of nuts. That can happen through something called "cross-contamination," when nuts get into a food product because it is made or served in a place that uses nuts in other foods.

·         Vanilla Wafers (Kraft Foods)

NABISCO

·         Teddy Grahams (Chocolaty Chip,Chocolate,Honey)

·         Honey Maid Graham Crackers

·         Ritz PLAIN

·         Oreos(PLAIN no double stuffed or colored icings)

·         Pepperidge Farm Goldfish PLAIN

·         Cheerios

·         Orville Redenbachers Pop Corn Ultimate Butter

·         Caprisun Juice Boxes

·         Pringles Potato Chips (Procter & Gamble)

FRITO – LAY

·         Cheetos

·         Doritos

·         Sunchips

KELLOGGS

·         Poptarts

·         Fruit snacks

CANDIES
Tootsie rolls


Tootsie roll pops


Smarties both rolls and pouches


Dum-Dum pops CHEWY DUM DUMS ARE NOT SAFE
Air Head products
CHARMS is made by the Tootsie company they make BLOW POPS they are also safe!


PEEPS


Hershey's Kisses (PLAIN)
YUMMY EARTH products are all safe for the "top 8" Allergens (lollipops sold at toys r us)
Jet Puffed Marshmallows
PEZ
All WONKA candies (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF CHOCOLATE)

Remember traces of nuts are found in STRANGE places shampoos, cheeses, soaps, some juices, pizza crust….

Carson's NUT FREE FAVORITES this year are....

Ring Pops By:BAZOOKA

KRAFT Jet-puffed
BooMallows / pumpkin bat and gost shaped marshmallows sold in individually wrapped packages of 40 @Walmart stores.  

ONE LOVE,
Cody

A life of weeds or A life of love?

Tonight I got to go on an early dinner date with my super hot husband Josh! We left and on the way home I asked him to turn down my grandmothers road. She went home to be with the Lord a few months ago. I had not been back to her house since the night before her funeral.

As we pulled in to her drive way I noticed there were weeds all over the flower beds and the house looked empty. We got out of the car and took a walk around the yard where I noticed ant hills and more weeds. As I looked into the windows of her back porch I saw her ferns were still hanging where she had left them but were beginning to fade away just as she had. (I thought to myself she would have a fit if she saw her home like this) She was so particular about her home and her yard!



Josh had been wondering around too, and he called me over to look at an old sign he had found. The sign read "RUMFELT'S TELEVISION SALES AND SERVICE" It was old and rusted. I began to cry, the anger left my soul and the heart break set in as I stared at that sign, I thought of that house and that sign, a sign of the family business my grandfather now gone to be with the Lord also had started 40 years ago!



I thought of how I was standing right in the middle of all they had worked for all they had spent their lives creating, and now they are both gone and here it all sits alone with weeds growing all over it just waiting for the day they put a "FOR SALE" sign in front of it.

Behind my tears I heard the still small voice of god speak to me...He said Cody "is this really what you think of your grandparents?" Is this really the legacy you believe they intended to leave behind, what they wanted you to remember them for?"

NO NO NO! I thought to myself, this is a house, this is a sign from a business, the people who once ran that business and lived and kept this house are gone. BUT what they left behind is still very much living! The five children and over 20 grand and great-grand children are still here, each of them carrying a piece of Forrest and Faye into their own lives. They left behind a family...a whole pile of people made better to have known them, to have been encourage, and taught how to live life by them. They left a legacy of faith and love to those who came in contact with them. All they lived for and worked for in not sitting in that pile of bricks. What they lived and worked for is still very much alive in the family they left behind, and I would be doing them an injustice to think they would want me to look at that as what had truly mattered in their lives.

So I guess what I mean is tonight God used my grandparent's home to put some things into perspective for me. What kind of life am I living? Am I living my life to earn material things that will grow up with weeds and rot after I am gone, or am I living for the things that matter....am I living to leave a legacy of good character and love, one of faith and giving, one that will last in those who knew me long after I am gone. I want to live a life that matters like my grandparents did.

So to that house, as Josh & I sat on the front porch, I said goodbye tonight, but the legacy of Forrest and Faye Rumfelt it will flow through my veins and rest in my soul until I see them again.

ONE LOVE
Cody