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Cheryl

Cheryl

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I'm the founder, creator and mom-on-a-mission behind freedible, and the maker of lemonade from MANY a lemon!! Please connect with me on my freedible profile - I'd love to hear your feedback on the site!
Cheryl

Of Journeys Circular & Odyssean

For how you eat
Of Journeys Circular & Odyssean
My garden, like a farm, is never done.   Each year, I pull back the same weeds from where the woods creep in and trim the...
Cheryl

Do We, the Moms, Belong? {On the Existential Threat of a Mompreneur}

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Do We, the Moms, Belong? {On the Existential Threat of a Mompreneur}
Being an entrepreneur is about being there, always, for your business, and “doing whatever it takes” to make it succeed.Being a mom is, too.There hasn’t been...
Cheryl

A leap of faith

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Cheryl ViirandWhen my kids and I were first diagnosed with food restrictions, I didn't know where to begin. But as I looked around the grocery store at...
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Cheryl

Recommitting to Hope, and Healing

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Recommitting to Hope, and Healing
Dear friends, Waking this morning to Day 1 after the election, I reflected on how many divisions and fears this last electoral year has brought to...
Cheryl

Just how advanced are we?

Traveling with Food Restrictions
Just how advanced are we?
This summer, my son had the exciting opportunity to participate in the Gothia World Youth Soccer Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden. While he raced about, exhilerated by...
Cheryl

Burgers and Hope for Custom Eaters!

Traveling with Food Restrictions
Burgers and Hope for Custom Eaters!
  “We’re a restaurant – we should expect this kind of thing!”   We’d just placed our order at an unassuming burger shack at the end...
Cheryl

Finding the special color in Easter

Celebrating a Custom Ea(s)ter & Passover
Finding the special color in Easter
Our first egg-free, nut-free Easter, I fretted over how I would "check the boxes" to keep the traditions that felt like Easter to me. Dying eggs,...
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tradition egg free inclusion Easter
Cheryl

A Cookbook for Santa

Winter Holidays
A Cookbook for Santa
This is the story of how my little boy's most heartfelt wish led to our Virtual Cookie Exchange: a community-wide effort to build a cookbook for...
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customeater Christmas about freedible
Cheryl

Food, sacrifice and giving

Hearts & Minds
Food, sacrifice and giving
How my son's adoption and Hunger Action Month inspires me on the eve of Yom Kippur September is Hunger Action Month, a campaign established by Feeding...
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food banks food insecurity hunger poverty
Cheryl

Turning cupcakes into compassion

Managing Food Restrictions at School
Turning cupcakes into compassion
"I heard OREOs are safe for people with allergies.""Well that depends on what you're allergic to.  If you can't have gluten, soy or chocolate, you can't...
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school food allergy childhood obesity back to school
Cheryl

Finding Family, Food and Health Through Adoption

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Finding Family, Food and Health Through Adoption
Five years ago, I would've denounced myself as "the crazy food lady." A litigator by training and the daughter of an engineer & a chemist, I'm...
Cheryl

Dreaming big, and losing the mentor who helped me do it.

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Dreaming big, and losing the mentor who helped me do it.
My step-father "Ken" passed away in January after a two year fight with pulmonary fibrosis - a terminal and painful lung condition. This is my first Father's...
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Cheryl

My kids made me do it.

About Food Allergies
My kids made me do it.
Whether you have a food allergy or not, if you're a parent then chances are that food allergies touches your lives.  With 1 in 12 American...
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advocacy awareness community childhood food allergies
Cheryl

Losing corn and finding center?

For the way you live
Losing corn and finding center?
Let's get one thing clear: I have no intention of losing corn. Because I don't want to lose corn! Corn is comforting morning porridge with So...
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food intolerance advocacy corn free glutenfree
Cheryl

RSVP for tonight's Twitter party here!

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RSVP for tonight's Twitter party here!
Appears we've had a technical Whoops! on our event RSVPs for tonight's Twitter party - so sorry!  Please just RSVP by replying in the comments here...
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