Happy Christmas Eve! I can’t believe Christmas is here, this year flew by impossibly fast. In case you are crunched for time, or are like me and realized that you forgot about those stockings that have been hanging on the mantle, here are some last minute ideas that you can print from your computer. Of course, they have a slight bent to our food allergy and asthma happy crowd. Downloadable Gift Cards that you can print from computer and give without anyone ever knowing that the ink is fresh….
photo courtesy of Premium Chocolatiers
Food Allergy Savvy Downloadable Gift Card Ideas
[unordered_list style=”red-x”]- Divvies Dough is actually a $50 gift card. Divvies was one of the first food allergy safe gift basket we ever received from a non-food allergic friends. It was the best gift that year!
- Vermont Nut Free is a very popular line of gourmet nut free chocolates (they use dairy-sorry dairy free friends) and the cards are available in $25, $50, $75 or $100.
- Premium Chocolatiers offers dairy, gluten, nut and egg free chocolates in all shapes and size. They will email your gift recipient with great news of a gift card on your behalf. Denominations available are $20, $35, $45, $50, $75 or $90.
- Grimaldi’s Brick Oven Pizzeria-sorry folks, they have locations in Arizona, Florida, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas, New Jersey and New York–they only use nuts in one season dessert! They are basically nut free and go to great lengths to manage my son’s dairy allergy, not to mention how darn amazing and different the pizza is! We actually bought ourselves gifts cards this year. The eGift cards are available in denominations ranging from $5 to $500 Special note: per the Grimaldi’s website, gift cards purchased online are not are not accepted at their New Jersey or New York location (I’m not sure why).
- Trust Your Journey– pick up a gift card for a shop that offers items that remind us to…Trust Our Journey. When managing chronic illness, sometimes I need to remind myself of this when I get frustrated! The cards range in pricing from $25, $50 and $100.
This necklace from Trust Your Journey says, “Strong Women. May we Know Them. May We Raise Them. May We Be them”.
One of the hardest things I find about managing both life threatening food allergies and asthma is talking to others. I hate to be the one that might be perceived as demanding, pushing or for asking too much. What I now know, fourteen years later, is that honest, clear information presented with kindness works!..