140: Equal Eats & College Dining

A Special Food Allergy Awareness Week Episode

First 30 minutes: Kyle Dine and his family love to travel. But dining out while traveling can be hard when he has allergies to peanuts, tree nuts, shellfish, egg, and mustard and his wife has celiac disease. He started his company Equal Eats after having a full-blown anaphylactic reaction in a European restaurant because the tree nut cashew got lost in translation between him and the waiter. Something that can and does easily happen every day.

Tracy and Kyle talk about the what the term "Equal Eats" means to them. Learn how guests with food allergies can set themselves up for dining success and how together we can influence change in the foodservice system.

Second 30 Minutes: Business coach and food allergy mom Karen Palmer, CPC, ELI-MP joins Tracy to talk about the most important thing families can do to prepare their food-allergic children to dine safely in college and a one thing people might not think to consider when considering dining options at college. She shares some very enlightening tips!

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