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Christmas Printables—Mason Jar Labels
Today I’m sharing a fun way to make your holiday gifts and desserts look more colorful and festive. You can use my Christmas mason jar labels for gifting desserts, labeling presents, decorating at holiday parties, and more.
I’m one of those people who loves holiday decorations, so I love the bright colors and trimmings of Christmas! One of the challenges for me though is food allergies. I wish my food was decked out for winter, but so many of the decorations that are available have dyes or ingredients I can’t eat. So my creative solution is to decorate and gift my desserts using my mason jar labels.
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A Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free Starter Kit: My Go-To Shopping List for Food Allergies
I remember sitting in the doctor’s office and hearing I had to give up dairy. He had a strong suspicion it was aggravating my asthma. (He was right.) I didn’t know where to start when I found out I had food allergies.
My brain was going through the list I had kept for the last week, tracking everything I ate. There was milk, or butter, egg, or cheese in everything. What on earth was I going to eat? Carrots? I already had several food allergies to deal with, so this was going to be a challenge. I faced a similar challenge when my allergy tests suddenly showed a new allergy to gluten a couple years ago.
At the time, I wished I had a friend to walk with me through the grocery store to help me find food that I could eat. I’m going to be that friend for you! While I can’t actually shop with you, I’ve created this list to give you a place to start.
Finding out you have food allergies can be very daunting. It’s hard to know where to start when you’re trying an elimination diet or cutting out whole food groups. It felt like a huge potential waste of money to pile items into my cart, wondering if I would even like any of them. And, unfortunately gluten-free and dairy-free foods have a bad rap for being tasteless or gross.
Although I’ve tried some weird things over the years, the good news is that there are many, many allergy-free options that are delicious! This list is made up of the options I love best, so I can save you some of that trial and error.
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Halloween Printables—Mason Jar Labels
I love Halloween and candy! The only thing about the holiday that has been bumming me out lately—I can’t eat all the beautiful, colorful treats!
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I have food allergies, so it’s hard to find allergy-friendly candies in festive packaging. (I thought it was in fact impossible until I learned that these allergy-free snacks existed. I’m thinking I need to try them…) And even if I make my own desserts, they’re often monochromatic. (I mean, I love chocolate, but part of the fun of a holiday is dressing up your desserts.) It’s proven hard to find natural food coloring that doesn’t taste funky, so I needed to get creative to find other ways to make my desserts scream Halloween.
I wanted to think of a way to add some pumpkin orange, pretty purple, and candy-corn yellow to my Halloween baking. So, I thought up the idea of making these wraparound labels perfect for labeling canning jars! I’m pretty dang excited to use them, and I hope you are too! I’ll let you know how to download them at the end of this post.
