Reddit mentions of The Cake Mix Doctor Bakes Gluten-Free

I am celiac, and my son has a severe peanut allergy and thus a limited diet, so I can sympathize with the parent part and the diet parts.

First, I want to share that how you handle this with your child is key. Our son doesn't remember ever getting to eat all the things he doesn't get, so he doesn't miss them. I never let him feel sorry for himself, or said things like, "It's so sad you can't..." I always tried to handle it by saying, "You can have this or this" and giving him options of what he could do and not highlighting the things he couldn't. He's in college now btw, and advocating for himself. But I taught him to say no thank you to food brought by people he didn't know, to be able to explain why if asked, and to know that it didn't mean anything was wrong with him, he was a perfectly wonderful boy who just happened to have some foods he couldn't eat, but lots and lots of foods he could eat.

For parties, I prepare things he can eat and deliver him there with the treats. If I know the parent (and trust them) I just let him stay, but if it was a new person I'd hang out too and talk to the parent. Kid parties aren't that hard. I don't expect (or for that matter trust in many cases) others to cater to our special diets. It's enough of a challenge having a party and getting all that together without also having to deal with a special diet for one kid, so I tell parents, "Thanks so much for inviting my son. He has a severe food allergy so I'll just pack him a lunch and treat so he can eat when the other kids eat and it's no extra work for you."

She can still get ice cream from the ice cream truck, Popsicles, push pops, and other things are gf, it just takes some planning and looking up stuff online.

There are a lot more gf pizza places now, and restaurants are much more aware. And lots of good gf stuff in the store. Those GF Betty Crocker mixes are really good, so you can get pretty decent instant gf yumminess. Also Pamela's baking mix is awesome. And if you want to bake, the https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00556DU1A/ book is really awesome. I bake gf cakes for big family events and everyone loves them.

Basically, I feel you on the "what they will miss" part of it all, but here's the amazing thing, our kids DON'T feel that way unless we show them that's how they should feel. If it's just part of life and not a big tragedy to us, it is to them as well.

Restricted diets are tricky at first, it takes a lot more time to shop reading all the labels, learning new recipes, finding alternatives, but over time it gets easier and easier, and becomes no big deal, just the way it is. It will be a lot easier than you feel right now.