If you have food allergies, traveling to a new city, like say to Des Moines for a school interview, may be daunting.

How do you scope out a safe place to eat? I saw a cool new site recently started, called allergyeats.com, but it still needs info for our area. Are there other sites like that you’d recommend? Or… is there a place or two in the area you’d recommend for someone with food allergies?

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I love granola. I munch on it for a mid-morning snack, stir it into yogurt and put it on ice cream. It’s the perfect combination of crunchy, sweet and depending on your recipe, salty. So I was excited to come across this recipe for vanilla coconut granola on the ReadyMade magazine food blog. Doesn’t the name make your mouth start to water a little?

Vanilla Coconut Granola
4 cups rolled oats (old-fashioned)
1 cup shredded unsweetened coconut
1/2 cup chopped nuts (I like walnuts)
1/2 cup raw unsalted sunflower seeds
pinch of salt
1/2 cup canola oil
1 tsp (or so) of vanilla
1/2 cup honey or maple syrup, depending on your preference
1/2-1 cup dried fruit, optional

Directions:

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Since we recently survived international pancake day and IHOP’s national pancake day, I thought I’d share the fact that I have a small addiction to breakfast foods. Like I could eat them all 3 meals every day and life would be good.

I’m a fan of pancakes on Facebook. I want to make Pioneer Woman’s cinnamon bun pancakes. I recently learned of the Waffleizer from Brianne’s blog and now I’ve got a huge list of ways I’d like to try cooking & eating waffles.

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I’m not a doctor. I don’t even play 1 on TV. My degrees are solely in the communication arts. It is possible that I am the lowest qualified person AT DMU to answer a health question. And yet sometimes I just CAN NOT bite my tongue.

Not to worry, I don’t give medical advice as an expert or to the clinic patients who dial my phone on accident but sometimes when friends or acquaintances mention something…I turn into lil miss know-it-all.

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get a 360 degree view of the Iowa Cubs stadium!

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While watching the Olympics (love ‘em!) I saw these GE commercials and wanted to share them. (For those of you reading this via email, click HERE to view the videos. Sorry they don’t come through.)

This first commercial is a GREAT reminder of who true heroes really are. It’s something I think of constantly as I get to work with amazing health care professionals AND future health care rockstars. Check it out & don’t forget to honor true heroes:

This second commercial is a nice picture of global health outreach like we do at DMU:

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