Anyone with food allergies, especially any one of the top nine major food allergies, knows that a lot of places and brands are not things we can eat. If the items don’t directly use the allergen, they are manufactured with them, and it is sad times. I developed food allergies in my mid-20s and the first year of allergy life was definitely an experience. I couldn’t believe how many things are manufactured with peanuts as well as how many restaurants had cross contamination with peanuts. This isn’t even including the places I vowed to never eat at after speaking to managers and cooks who didn’t make the connection between peanuts and peanut products (peanut oil, peanut butter, etc.)!

While adapting recipes to not include my allergens is easy, it’s just really nice to pick up a book that is allergy friendly. One of the things that I like about this book is that it addresses allergies to readers who have allergies as well as readers who don’t have allergies but are related to or friends with someone who does. There’s information on the difference between food allergies and intolerances as well as keeping an allergy free kitchen space. There’s also a quick guide on allergy substitutes for nuts, diary, flour, and soy sauce. The recipes also let you know if the recipe includes any of the top nine allergens before you get into the recipe itself. I instantly knew this was going to be a great cookbook!

So many of the recipes look and sound absolutely delicious. I wasn’t hungry every time I picked this book up, but I was sure hungry when I put it down. I recognized many recipes, but I also found new recipes that I want to try out. I’m most excited about the coffee cake recipe just because that’s one of my favorite things that I haven’t had for a long time, even before I developed food allergies. I’m extremely excited to make several of the recipes included and even found some things my younger brother will like that don’t have dairy in it, or even dairy substitutes, since he is dairy intolerant and has issues with some dairy substitutes.

All in all, this is a wonderful book that is great to have on hand.

As someone with multiple food allergies I found this book hard to navigate and could not find many recipes that I could use.

Yes this is a nut allergy cookbook but it’s even more than that! This is just a good cookbook that happens to be nut free (and tells you if it’s big 9 free)

The only thing I wish is there were more pictures but it doesn’t take away from the Awesomeness of this book.

My daughter has had a lifelong allergy to tree nuts. While she has always been good about asking if nuts are included or in a recipe and skipping treats that did have nuts, there were a few times where she felt disappointed. The one that sticks out the most for me is when we went to Paris and she really wanted to have a macaron. But she knows they are made out of almond flour.

I am excited by the recipes in this book that will allow her to have her very first macaron. It may not be the same to me or the rest of the family, but it will be a major treat for her. The other recipes in the book are also great, that means that I can now expand some of the things I made one family is visiting that she will now be able to try. But oh, the Macarons!

It is absolutely frightening when someone who is allergic to nuts is exposed to them. I’m looking forward to not only making the Macarons for my daughter the first time, but giving her a copy of this book for her own home as well. The book is well written with clear instructions for each recipe. Regardless of whether you are allergic to nuts or not, there are recipes in this book that you will find intriguing, delicious, and must try.

I don’t have a nut allergy, but that fact that so many people do, I wanted to check out the recipes in, THE EVERYTHING NUT ALLERGY COOKBOOK.

Before even getting into the recipes, author Lisa Horne’s whole first chapter is about living with a food allergy. I found this to be very informative, and I know others will as well.

The over 200 recipes in this cookbook makes the thought of eating without nuts feel less like depriving yourself and more like treating yourself.

Some of the many recipes you’ll find are . . . Seed Butter and Jam Overnight Oats, Monkey Bread, Sunflower Seed Butter Pancake and Waffle Sauce, Asian Lettuce Wraps, Chicken Potpie Soup, Cranberry Poppy Seed Salad, Kung Pao Chicken, Potato Chip-Crusted Chicken, Monte Cristo Sliders, Oven-Baked Mexican Rice, Hawaiian Macaroni Salad, Sweet Potato Casserole, Banana Bread No-Nut Scones, Sweet Corn Muffins, Honey Whole-Wheat Bread, Blueberry Sunflower Seed Goat Cheese, Midwest Ham and Pickle Rolls, Garden Focaccia, Brown Sugar Dip, Sunflower Pumpkin Seed Chocolate Bark, Seed Butter and Pretzel Granola Bars, Pie Filling Cobbler, Shortbread Cookies, Double Chocolate WWII Depression-Era Cake, Homemade Whipped Cream, Cookies and Cream Ice Cream, Orange Cream Bars, Peaches and Cream Ice Cream, Fruity Yogurt Cream Bar, and so very many more!

While THE EVERYTHING NUT ALLERGY COOKBOOK is well written, and full of helpful suggestions and recipes, I have to give this cookbook a ding for not having enough photos. I want to see a photo of every dish to see what mine “should” look like. I understand it’s more cost effective to have fewer photos, but it also makes a recipe book less appealing to me.

Overall, if you’re looking for recipes to dodge nuts, this is a book for you to check out. You’ll no doubt find new-to-you dishes that you’ll want to add to your meal menus.

My son has recently become allergic to nuts so we are still learning safe foods and new meal plans. This was the perfect book for us at this time! We are complete novices for this so starting at step 1 was exactly where we needed to be, there are many recipes that we are going to try!

Thank you to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review an advanced reader's copy of this book.
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As somebody with severe nut allergies, I was excited to find a cookbook entirely nut free. I’ve only tried two recipes- one for a smoothie, another for overnight oats - but both were good and I’m excited to try more of them.

The Everything Nut Allergy Cookbook is a keeper for me as the cookbook had recipes for both pesto and a peanut butter cup friendly recipe called Seed Butter Chocolate Cups. I have missed eating both pesto and peanut butter cups after I was diagnosed as an adult as having allergies to both tree nuts and peanuts. I was also diagnosed with oat and avocado allergies too as an adult. I probably had the allergies all my life but was diagnosed until my allergies were causing me serious issues. Enough about me.

For anyone living with allergies author Lisa Horne has written an excellent cookbook that offers plenty of allergy friendly recipes. Her book covers topics such as Cross-Contact precautions, cross-reactive allergic reaction, and the differences between intolerance and true allergies. Most importantly she explains how to safely prepare foodstuffs at homes when dealing with contact precautions. She also clearly states the need for label reading.

Overall, this is an excellent book for anyone who is dealing with allergies.

Recommend.

Review written after downloading a galley from NetGalley

Just barely 3 stars. The info at the beginning about food allergies was informative. I would have liked to see more unique recipes.