Episode description

It’s our year-end holiday remix, and at the center of this podcast episode is what’s likely at the center of many traditional holiday celebrations: food. Whether its Ghanaian groundnut stew or Nigerian jollof rice for Kwanzaa, the traditional “seven fishes” served in many Italian-American homes on Christmas Eve, latkes for Chanukah, pork pie for boxing day, or buckwheat soba noodles served at midnight on New Year's Eve in many Japanese homes, traditional foods and holidays seem to go hand in hand. 

But what happens if none of the aforementioned foods - or any other traditional holiday foods from across the world - don’t fit with your disease state or diagnosed metabolic condition? 

In this episode, we revisit the Killian family: Nemours associate and mom-of-two Lindsey and her husband, Tom, who, in November 2021, visited us on the podcast to outline the struggles and joys of being a PKU family. We’ll look back on their story, the 2022 formula storage that affected them and get an update on how the family is today now that TJ is a kindergartener. 

Carol Vassar, producer