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Special Foods!
9207 Shotgun Court
Springfield, VA 22153
(703) 644 - 0991

Special Foods!TM products are for persons with food allergies and/or intolerances, chemical sensitivities, mold allergies, for persons on rotation diets, for persons interested in incorporating Special Foods!TM into their diets for a variety of nutritional and health reasons, and for the adventuresome gourmet. When a person's diet is restricted, finding foods can be a real problem. One of the hardest things to deal with is the virtual elimination of breads, cookies, and pastas from the diet.

We at Special Foods know how difficult these problems can be. Ms. Karen Slimak, the founder of Special Foods!TM is a scientist and consultant who specializes in food allergies1. The products offered by Special Foods!TM were originally developed to meet the needs of both food allergy patients and family members.

1 Karen Slimak, MS, environmental scientist and chemist, provides consulting services to persons with food allergies/intolerances and chemical sensitivities. She is also a scientist, researcher and prolific inventor, holding patents in the US and internationally covering hundreds of products and processes in diverse fields including medicine, foods, cosmetics, and industrial processes.

The Slimak children were diagnosed with extensive, severe food allergies at 5 years, 3 years, and 5 months of age. In the early months, the children ate a boring diet of boiled, steamed root vegetables and exotic game meats. The children began to lose interest in eating and rapidly lost weight. Thus began a frantic attempt to find ways to prepare more familiar forms of the foods, such as flours and breads. The results of the research became available in "the nick of time".

First, flours were invented and used to make gravies and milk substitutes. Next she developed baking powders and pancakes, quick breads, loaf breads, cakes, and cookies -- ALL without any grains, milk, eggs, yeast and sugar. (They said it couldn't be done!) Then came pastas, pie crust, imitation nut butters, muffins, waffles, pan cakes, French toast, bagels, doughnuts, dumplings, tortillas, cereals, imitation milk, ice cream, and milk shakes, chips, puddings, jams, fruit drinks, sodas (!) and more!

The most wonderful thing was that the foods really tasted good! The pancakes were as good as or better than the best pancakes -- light golden in color, and light in consistency. AND-- they were high in fiber, low in saturated fats, high in complex carbohydrates, and because they also contained protein, were well balanced, highly nutritious, delicious, satisfying foods! The cookies were wonderful! Again not only tasting good, but also well balanced, highly nutritious foods.

The children could eat them as part of a meal or as in-between meal snacks, and their appetite was not affected because they were wholesome foods, not empty calories. The pastas! A delight! They turned out bland, light in color. They held together well and did not turn gummy or clear, like cellophane noodles. They looked and tasted like the real thing. They have been cooked in many different ways with excellent results. Kids love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, but how can you have them if you are allergic to every nut? We thought that one over for a long time and finally figured out a way.

The results were not only delicious, but the new "nut butter" even looked, tasted and felt like real peanut butter! The light in the children's eye's and the smiles on their faces as they ate their first "peanut butter and jelly sandwich", when they had the pasta for the first time, and when they devoured the cookies, was enough of a reward. But there was more! They quit asking for the other foods! They didn't miss them any more because they had new foods that were just as good! It was then that we realized how much we had to share! For the many others -- children and adults with similar problems, we decided to share our discoveries, and make these and other foods available to them.

And so -- Special Foods!TM came to be! With the new flours, pastas, and so forth, the possibilities are almost endless. With this new variety, people on restricted diets don't have to live "lives of denial". It is possible to have pleasant variety and tastes and textures that are as appealing as anybody could want!

In the years that followed our beginning we have continued to develop foods and other products for persons with food allergies and chemical sensitivities. The Slimak children have been simultaneously guinea pigs, harshest critics and quality control! Special Foods!TM is profoundly indebted to the Slimak children; they have been the first to sample virtually every product we offer.

And the children NOW??? After years on a completely controlled diet -- avoiding all problem foods, while still receiving high calorie, nutritionally balanced foods -- the children have recovered; their diets are now completely unrestricted!

Special Foods!TM now offers several hundred totally unique, new foods. We have developed hundreds of recipes, and all of them are without wheat or other grains, eggs, milk, yeast, legumes, or sugar. We also offer a number of other hard to find items: Neolife® cleaning products, cellophane, and hypoallergenic lip balms.

So that everyone can enjoy these wonderful foods we make products with any oil! Choices for oil include but are not limited to: almond, apricot kernel, avocado, canola (rapeseed), coconut, corn, grapeseed, hazelnut, linseed, macadamia, olive, palm, peanut, pistachio, pumpkin seed, safflower, sesame, soy, sunflower and walnut.We are committed to either finding or inventing the products that are so badly needed by persons with food allergies and chemical sensitivities. We welcome special orders and requests for new products! So think of all those things you have wished for and ask us! We will be happy to develop products for you.