New Orland Park Hours (beginning Jan.10th)
Mon.-Sat. 10:00-6:00
Sun. 12:00-4:00
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Special in-Store Sale: 10% off Everything Jan 9-10.
Happy New Year! We have been greatly humbled by your support in our early months and especially through December when we lost a server. If you lost frequent shopper points in our December crash and were oh sooo close to getting the reward, we are making it up to you.
Come in to the Orland store this weekend (Jan. 9-10), reenroll as a frequent shopper and enjoy an automatic 10% off of everything in the store - air purifiers, bedding, supplements, food — everything. It is all 10% off (cannot be combined with other offers).
You can do it! Time to leave behind the negativity of 2009, dust yourself off and fix your sights on long-standing goals. Whatever they may be, pure air, great food, exercise and optimum nutrition are fundamental. We would love to be a part of your success. Let’s get to work.
New / Returning
Afresh Cuisine Gluten, Casein and Corn Free Bread - A no-toast sandwich bread that stays fresh at room temperature for 3 days. Squishy, no fuss fresh bread arrives every Friday. (Did I mention it is fresh?)
Cookies for Me — These are phenomenal individual cookies and quite possibly the best brownies you’ve ever tasted. All cookies are made in a strictly controlled gluten, dairy, egg and nut free facility, and best of all we’ve negotiated a great introductory price of 30% off.
Rose’s Wheat Free Bakery Chocolate Cheesecake Brownies
Andrea’s Pumpkin Mini Loaf and Chocolate Mini Loaf
Glutenfreeda’s GF Cookie Dough, just place on a pan and bake.
Celiac Specialties GFCF Donut Holes
Celiac Specialties Chicken Pot Pies — a perennial favorite.
Expandex Tapioca Starch — Gives increased rise and shelf life to baked goods — This is not a GMO product.
BiAglut Pastas — Lasagna, Spaghetti, Taglietelli and Fusili - outstanding, imported from Italy and quite possibly the best GF pasta.
In-Store Sales (until 1/20)
30% off Natren Healthy Trinity 60 Caps
20% off Country Life Vitamins
20% off all Nutribiotic Rice Protein Powders - Ask for a free sample.
30% off Cookies for Me
25% off Deerfield’s Bakery Blueberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake
In-Store Coupons
$3.00 OFF all RenewLife Norwegian Fish Oil Capsules
FREE Renew Life First Omega Fish Oil Caps with the purchase of Ultimate Flora Probiotics - at $37.99, a 20% savings that gets you through the flu season.
$1.00 OFF all Nature’s Path and Envirokidz products (while supplies last)
We accept all competitors’ coupons
We sell in bulk sizes at considerable discounts.
Free From Market Teems Up With FAAN
Free From Market has recently teemed up with the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network to offer online discounts to FAAN members and to encourage non-members to join this great organization. FAAN members can now enjoy an online 10% discount off our already low prices. All you have to do is join this great organization for $30/year, access their member’s only section and go to their online coupon vault for a for a coupon that links to the Free From Market website. (The offer is not valid with other offers and only good for online sales)
If you are not already a member of FAAN, now you have another reason to support this wonderful organization. For 20 years, FAAN has been raising public awareness of food allergy and funds for research, improving food labeling laws, advancing legislation to protect students, and organizing camps. This is a great opportunity to save on a care package and do some good at the same time.
Allergy March (again)
“Allergy March” or “Atopic March” is a statistically predictable progression of allergic disease from eczema, typically at age 6 mos., to food allergies and gastrointestinal problems at age 1-2, to asthma by age 3. An amazing 40% of children with eczema in infancy develop asthma by age 3. This according to a 2002 double-blind, placebo controlled study of 817 infants. The percentage approaches 60% for infants who are also sensitive to grasses and dust mite residue. As the disease migrates from skin to the gut to lungs, parents scramble to address individual symptoms, generally unaware that they are all connected. There is no known cure for allergy march, and only one certain treatment for allergy: discover the triggers and avoid them. Early and reliable testing with an allergist is a must if you have suspicions, as is looking beyond the obvious symptom to the whole allergic disease.So here is a sound strategy; anticipate allergy march and block the triggers before your child’s body has learned to be hypersensitive. We are already advised to delay introducing particularly reactive foods, like nuts and eggs. Likewise, if your child could number in the 40-60%, shut down the environmental triggers before they become aggressive: filter the air, encase the mattresses, clean the ducts, change the filters and use simple non-chemical cleaners throughout the house. The EPA already estimates that the air within the average U.S. household is 2-3 times more polluted that the air outdoors. The worst that can happen is that everyone feels better.
Good News for Kids on Restricted Diets! Illinois School Personnel to Get Universal Food Allergy Training
Help is on the way in managing your child’s food allergies at school. Shelly DeRousse, co-founder of POCHA, s/w Cook and co-owner of Free From Market, will serve on a distinguished group of food allergy advocates, school board and public health administrators to develop food allergy protocols that all Illinois State Schools will follow beginning in 2011. The guidelines are mandated as part of a law that passed the IL legislature in August, 2009, HB 281. It will require: 1) education and training for school personnel who interact with students that have life-threatening food allergies, including nurses, counselors, teachers, teachers and administrators; 2) procedures for responding to life-threatening reactions to food; 3) a process for implementing individualized health care and food allergy action plans and 4) protocols for preventing exposure to food allergens. Each school board will have to implement a policy based on the guidelines that emanate from this committee no later than Jan 1, 2011.
Gone will be the days of single-handedly educating and training school personnel who interact with your food allergic child. Starting in 2011, all Illinois school personnel will have training, so everyone will know their role. This is good news too for Many congratulations to the House Sponsors, FAI, FAAN, POCA of DuPage County, Kellee Konieczny, E. Garrow-Majika, Kristin Miller, the Bunnings, and countless indefatigable food allergy advocates everywhere.
If your child has ever had a life-threatening allergic reaction at school that could been handled better, or if, as a school administrator, you have ideas on how to accommodate food allergic children, you have a voice on this committee. Please give us your ideas (shelly@freefrommarket.com).
Community
Thurs., Jan 7 — Gluten Intolerance Group of Evanston meets at Rose’s Wheat Free Bakery 2902 Central Street - 6:30pm. Contact the group leader, Jen Cafferty, of GIG of Greater Chicago for more information: support @chicagoglutenfree.com; 847.217.1317.
Mon., Jan. 11 — MOCHA (Mothers of Children Having Allergies) meets 7:00-9:00 pm at Highland Park Hospital, 777 Park Ave. West, Highland Park, IL, Meeting Room 2 (in the basement). A viewing of a new training video will be followed by a presentation by Christine Szchlinski, Food Allergy Community Educator, and a forum on school issues. Contact Denise or Anne at membershipinfo@MOCHAllergies.org for more details.
Mon., Jan. 11 — Gluten Intolerance Group of Orland Park meets at 6:00-7:30 pm at Free From Market, 14482 S. LaGrange Rd., Orland Park, IL. Jen Cafferty will be do a cooking demo and explore the benefits and science of slow cooking (time-lapsed to be sure). Sample new products and enjoy 10% off your purchases. Contact the group leader, Jen Cafferty, of GIG of Greater Chicago for more information: support @chicagoglutenfree.com; 847.217.1317.
Wed., Jan. 13 — Gluten Intolerance Group of Northbrook meets at Sunset Foods, 1127 Church Street - 6:30pm. Contact the group leader, Jen Cafferty, of GIG of Greater Chicago for more information: support @chicagoglutenfree.com; 847.217.1317.
Sat., Feb. 6 — Gluten Free Wikaduke meets from 10AM - 12 Noon at the Edward Plainfield Outpatient Center, 24160 127th Street, Plainfield. For more information, visit the website.
Recalls
MILK 12/16/2009 Faribault Foods is recalling Health Valley Organic No Salt Added Split Pea Soup (15 oz) due to undeclared milk and potatoes.
Salmonella 12/17/2009 Kunze Farms is recalling nearly 33,000 lbs of hazelnut kernels because they have the potential to be contaminated with salmonella, an organism that can cause potentially fatal infections, particularly in the elderly and young people. These hazelnuts were sent wholesalers and processors on the west and east coasts, but by the time you read this, will have found themselves in products distributed nationwide.
Salmonella 12/17/2009 — Willamette Shelling is recalling over 100,000 lbs of shelled hazelnuts because they have the potential to be contaminated with salmonella. Bulk containers were shipped to wholesalers and processors.
Salmonella 12/17/2009 — Willamette Filbert Growers is recalling nearly 30,000 lbs of shelled hazelnuts and shelled organic hazelnuts because they have the potential to be contaminated with salmonella. Bulk containers were shipped to wholesalers and processors.
Salmonella 12/18/2009 — Mountain Man Nut & Fruit Co. is recalling select products containing hazelnuts because they have the potential to be contaminated with salmonella. The complete line of products is lengthy, but include Mixed Nut Gift Packs, Trail Mixes and Fancy Mixed Nut containers.
Salmonella 12/19/2009 — Evonuk Oregon Hazelnuts is recalling over 6,000 lbs of raw and dry roasted hazelnut kernels because they have the potential to be contaminated with salmonella. These hazelnuts were distributed to wholesalers, retail stores, restaurants and bakeries in WA, CA, NV, OK and NJ
Salmonella 12/19/2009 — Harry and David Country Village Store is recalling raw and shelled hazelnut kernels because they have the potential to be contaminated with salmonella.
Salmonella 12/19/2009 — Whole Foods Market is recalling raw hazelnuts sold in bulk in its stores nationwide because of their potential to be contaminated with salmonella.
Salmonella 12/21/2009 — Market of Choice is recalling bulk and packaged hazelnuts from various stores in OR due to their potential to be contaminated with salmonella.
TREE NUTS 12/29/09 — Publix Super Markets is recalling Publix Pumpkin Pecan Streussel Pie due to undeclared tree nuts
WHEAT 1/4/2010 — Harry London Candies is recalling Harry London Chocolate Pecan Caramel Stars due to undeclared wheat. The products were distributed nationwide.
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