Monday 12/25: 

Lunch (Brunch): Cinnamon Roll Casserole and Hash Browns! 

Rationale: We always do brunch for Christmas and it didn’t disappoint once again as I made sure all the ingredients were friendly to my dairy allergy. 

Snack: Popcorn

Rationale: My family and I were watching Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 and they made popcorn. Not bad at all! 

Dinner: Pizza bread and brownies

Rationale: Whether it is Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner my family always makes pizza bread. Grab a loaf, pizza sauce & toppings, put it in the oven and you will have a good dinner that you can customize according to your allergies. 

Tuesday 12/26: 

Lunch: Leftover Cinnamon Roll Casserole, raisins, and ginger snaps

Rationale: Got to enjoy a great meal before I headed off to work. It was definitely a sweet meal and I love sweet meals. 

Dinner: Arby’s: Chicken nuggets, Crinkle fries, and Apple Turnover

Rationale: I always enjoy Arby’s and their delicious food. Never ever disappoints. Plus Arby’s gives me a dairy-free dessert to which I have no complaints.

Wednesday 12/27: 

Lunch: Skyline Sloppy Joe Sandwiches

Rationale: It was a leftover night. My parents made this while I was working and I gotta eat the leftovers before I headed off to work again. 

Dinner: Burger King: Bacon King and French Fries

Rationale: I really enjoyed a nice meal on my dinner break at work. 

Thursday 12/28: 

Lunch: Beef & Bean Burrito

Rationale: Another lunch on the go that is dairy-free. 

Dinner: Healthy Choice Chicken Stir Fry meal, crispy crown potatoes, and hostess apple pie 

Rationale: A cheap dairy-free meal that is healthy and not healthy at the same time. It was a pretty balanced meal in my definition of a  balanced meal. Some junk food, some healthy food. 

Snack: Der Dutchman Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Rationale: Dairy-free dessert that I just couldn’t pass up. 

Friday 12/29: 

Lunch: Culver’s: Chicken Strips & fries, and some chocolate crinkle cookies. 

Rationale: Culver’s is always good and the chocolate crinkle cookies make it much better. 

Snack: IKEA Cinnamon Buns

Rationale: I was surprised to find IKEA cinnamon buns to be dairy-free and I really enjoyed them. I would highly recommend trying it. 

Dinner: IKEA: Swedish meatballs, fries, jelly type of thing, and peas. 

Rationale: I know IKEA is a furniture store (I had to get stuff for my room in my parent’s house), but it has good food as well and a restaurant inside a furniture store, I will do an allergy & restaurant review on it soon, so stay tuned and make sure you’re following/subscribing/watching/listening to all the platforms I’m on including this website. 

Saturday 12/30:

Lunch: Beef & Bean Burritos and Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Rationale: I enjoy this meal, plus it is a quick lunch as well! 

Dinner: Asian Cafe: Plate 1: Fried Rice, frog legs, sweet and sour chicken, green beans and potatoes. Plate 2: Jello and a fortune cookie

Rationale: A buffet that serves good food that doesn’t give me an allergic reaction, seems like a great deal to me!

Sunday 12/31

Breakfast: Strawberry Milkshake Pop Tarts

Rationale: A quick breakfast for the morning! I helped out at my local church. 

Lunch: China Wok and Brownies

Rationale: I had similar food that I did last night at our local Chinese place. Sweet & Sour Chicken, Fried Rice, Beef & Broccoli. Plus I ate some of my Grandma’s brownies. As they say, you can’t complain about Grandma’s Cooking.

Dinner: Homemade pizza, potato chips, and Skinny Pop Hot Cocoa Popcorn. 

Rationale: My Mom made a homemade pizza using Rhodes Rolls as the crust. It was pretty good as she tried making this type of pizza for the first time. I couldn’t complain, plus potato chips and Hot cocoa popcorn, it was very good. 

Thanks for reading my content! Happy New Year and I hope you will all have a great 2024.

Monday 12/18: 

Lunch: Popcorn Chicken & Raisins

Rationale: If you couldn’t tell already I like my Chicken and I love quick and convenient as well. 

Dinner: Egg Rolls, Crispy Crowns microwaveable potatoes, marshmallows, and Gummy Krabby Patty Kabob. 

Rationale: I had the Great Value (Walmart brand) Egg Rolls for the first time and they were really good. The Crispy Crowns, gummy kabob and marshmallows make the meal even better. 

Snack: Marshmallows 

Rationale: the work is handing out free hot chocolate and luckily they have marshmallows on the side, so I took advantage and had some for snack. 

Tuesday 12/19: 

Lunch: Beef & Bean Burrito and Raisins. 

Rationale: It was a quick lunch plus it was pretty tasty as well. 

Dinner: Tai Pei Orange Chicken and Mini Oreos

Rationale: It was a quick dinner and it was tasty as well. There are a ton of people who think Oreos have dairy in them, but they actually don’t, if you look at the ingredients it has no dairy in it.

Snack: Fried Rice

Rationale: My parents had Chinese food as well and they said to eat their leftovers. 

Wednesday 12/20: 

Lunch: Chicken w/ Mixed Vegetables

Rationale: It was a carryover from last night’s leftovers and I got to heat up some nice beef and broccoli, it was very, very good!

Dinner: Banquet Chicken nugget and fries and Gummy Krabby Patty Kabob

Rationale: It was a very cheap affordable meal for me to eat. I can’t remember the price, but it was definitely under $5. Plus it is dairy-free too. 

Thursday 12/21: 

Lunch: Beef & Broccoli 

Rationale: My parents made sure I had plenty of leftovers. It was good and nutritious at the same time. 

Dinner: Heinz Gummy Kabob, Popcorn balls, Banquet Sweet & Sour Chicken, and microwavable french fries.

Rationale: There were lots of great food choices that were dairy-free, so I decided to eat what I could. 

Friday 12/22: 

Lunch: Beef & Bean Burrito w/ a JJ’s Bakery Pumpkin Pie

Rationale: The Pumpkin Pie was dairy-free on its ingredients, it is so cool to find dairy-free pumpkin pie, because that is one of the toughest foods to find that is dairy-free. 

Snack: Huey Magoo’s French Fries

Rationale: I went to get my friend a gift card for Christmas (he really liked it) and I wanted to try the fries while I was going to Huey’s as well. The fries were well seasoned and delicious. 

Dinner: Red Bagged Chicken (That’s what our family calls it), potato chips, green beans, and a pack of Strawberry Milkshake Pop Tarts.  

Rationale: Believe it or not the Strawberry Milkshake Pop Tarts are dairy-free and they’re really good. I enjoy them and they’re really good. All the rest is dairy-free and it was good as well. 

Saturday 12/23:

Lunch: Beef & Bean Burrito and Raisins. 

Rationale: I was looking for a quick meal and I made sure to include a fruit this time. 

Dinner: Healthy Choice Beef & Broccoli, Microwaveable Crispy Crowns (Potatoes), & Oreos

Rationale: My work surprised me with treats and I snacked on Oreos for quite a bit of the day. I had the healthy choice meal to balance out the Oreos and the Crispy Crowns (Potatoes).

Sunday 12/24

Breakfast: Strawberry Milkshake Pop Tarts

Rationale: I was going to skip breakfast when my Dad offered to toast up the Strawberry Milkshake Pop Tarts so I accepted his offer and ate breakfast. 

Lunch: Roosters, Turkey Burger with a order of Tater Tots, Raisins, and a JJ Bakery’s Boston Creme Pie

Rationale: This was the first time I had the Turkey Burger and I really enjoyed it. Dairy-free and Delicious! 

Dinner: Gom, Celery, Tortilla Chips, Brownies, Ginger Snap Cookies, & Christmas Gummies. 

Rationale: It was Christmas Eve, my family normally eats Gom (which is a German Sloppy Joe) or Chinese, though we normally go with the Gom sandwich. It was really good tonight, plus the dairy-free desserts that my Grandma provided me, you just can’t beat that.

I got Domino’s pizza and took it home! I will say that I really enjoyed the meal! Find out why on the video below:

I took a trip to Asian Cafe, in Marysville, Ohio. I normally get two plates and I normally eat the same thing and I’m a creature of habit. Watch the video below:

I had the Yummy Brand Dino Chicken Nuggets. This was my first attempt at trying dino chicken nuggets. It was really good and it doesn’t matter whether it is circle shaped or dino shaped, chicken nuggets can still be good. In my video below I try these for the first time and give my full review on them.

I never had these Made Good Oat Bites until I found them at Walmart. I thought to myself that this would make a really good allergy analysis. It is vegan and is made with lots of vegetables. The video below details my first time ever trying them and how I felt when I ate them!

Eat N Park Allergen Information: http://blog.eatnpark.com/2009/10/smiley-cookie-ingredients-and-allergens.html?m=0

Eat N Park is a place that is found in eastern Ohio, West Virginia, & Pennsylvania. My Mom’s side of the family is from Pennsylvania and I see this restaurant on the way to PA. I want to go there because there are so few of them that I would like to eat their food. 

Food Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Rationale: I enjoy their food, not to the degree of other restaurants but I have thought of their food to be enjoyable to eat and I would definitely eat there again. I have had grilled chicken and toast on one occasion and the other I had breakfast foods like sausage and hashbrowns. I haven’t had it in a while so I might not have the best memory of what the food is today. 

Allergy Rating: 1 out of 5 stars

Rationale: They seem to want to hide their ingredients and not post an allergen menu. There is an email in the link above (or in the description wherever you’re finding this Allergy & Restaurant review) their customers have been asking about their smiley faced cookies. They have an email where you can find the answers to your allergen questions. You can call them or go in the restaurant and ask them yourself. I haven’t had any allergic reactions so that is good. I wish that they would have an allergen menu revealing the allergens, not the ingredients. I would be more than willing to write Eat N Park an allergen menu with the allergen and not the ingredients. If you are apart of Eat N Park in some way or matter email me at benallergyandrestaurantreviews@gmail.com or DM me on my socials (links will be in the description or on my website bensallergyandrestaurantreviews.com on the socials tab) I want to do my part to help restaurants take care of customers with allergies easier. That will save the email team from having to answer those questions. Plus having an allergen menu gives people with food allergies like me the confidence to eat there. If there was an allergen menu I would give this place more stars. Overall I would still recommend eating here because it doesn’t give you any allergic reactions and the food is good.

Swenson’s Drive-In Allergen Menu: https://swensonsdriveins.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/swenson-menu-alergen-20230216.pdf

I remember eating Swenson’s in College! I went to Mount Vernon Nazarene University and graduated there in May 2023 and I remember this food truck being packed! I found an allergen menu on their website and it was extremely helpful! I was thankful to find an allergen menu and eat their because while I was waiting in line our president gave us vouchers to eat at Swenson’s I wasn’t going to go but one of the professors said that he would save my spot and I got the free voucher, so I got free food and I was pretty happy. 

Food Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Rationale: I was happy to not eat the same thing over and over again at the college cafeteria. It gets old after eating it for a while, it just naturally happens! So I was excited that this food truck came and I got to eat chicken nuggets and fries, since the burgers and hot dogs had dairy in it. I enjoyed my food!

Allergy Rating of Restaurant: 2 out of 5 stars

Rationale: I do appreciate them labeling stuff on their website and separating out on ingredients, but the hamburgers, hot dogs having dairy in it with or without the buns. The sloppy joe even had dairy in it, which I never even knew a sloppy joe could contain dairy (the bun might) . There is a possibility of a bunless sloppy joe having dairy in it, very surprising. Be careful of what you eat here, but I feel like it is safe to eat here and I never had an allergic reaction to eating my food. I would recommend eating here if you can find an option that is free of your allergen!

Raising Cane’s Allergen Menu: https://www.raisingcanes.com/allergens/

Rationale about Raising Cane’s: 0 out of 5 stars

This restaurant has nothing for me to eat. The only thing I might be able to eat is coleslaw but that has egg in it. I am somewhat allergic to eggs where I can only eat eggs if they are baked into something like a cake. Scrambled eggs can give me an allergic reaction if I eat too much of it, so I try to avoid it! The Chicken tenders and fries have dairy in it. Literally the only thing I can get is a drink or a pack of Cane’s sauce! That is it! If I can’t eat your food I can’t give you a star, because it wouldn’t make much sense, but I do respect that Raising Cane’s did put an allergen menu, that is the only thing I will say good about Raising Cane’s. I wish they would have something more like grilled chicken that is dairy-free because I have heard that this place is really good but my family normally avoids it because they know I can’t eat there. This is not a place I would recommend if you have food allergies. Find different places they’re out there.

City BBQ Allergen Menu:https://www.citybbq.com/sites/default/files/2023-06/Allergen%20Sheet%206.2.23.pdf

I have eaten at City BBQ since I was a kid, and have always enjoyed eating there. There is one 15 minutes away and my Dad or Mom gets it and brings it to the house when they’re in the area because they love it too! I love BBQ and I really enjoy eating BBQ and this is my first allergy & restaurant review of a BBQ place and I’m excited to review City BBQ!

Food Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Rationale: I love eating their ribs, brisket, pulled pork, fries, and I’ll eat their green beans as well. The fries have to be the highlight. The fries might be at the top of the list. Get that with ribs, brisket or pulled pork, you have a really good meal coming your way! I would highly recommend it if you like BBQ!

Allergy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Rationale: I have never had an allergic reaction, plus they have an allergen menu. BBQ tends to be very friendly for people like me who are allergic to dairy because meat doesn’t have dairy. Plenty of choices for me to eat. Don’t eat the pulled chicken or the smoked sausage that has dairy in it. Minus those two the menu is pretty wide open, fries and green beans for sides give you two options every time you eat at City BBQ. I would highly recommend eating at City BBQ for anyone who has food allergies and looking for good food. City BBQ is your answer!