What the heck do I pack for lunch when every place we go is "nut free"?!?!?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate this nut free nonsense. What did all the allergic kids do when we were young and the schools and camp lunch rooms were basically peanut butter slicks. In any case, tuna sandwiches, ham sandwiches, quesadillas, cheese sandwiches etc. Your kid may not like cold cuts, but she won't starve herself either. Put enough mayo on the bread and nearly anything is palatable. Also, you don't have to buy cold cuts, you can cook a chicken on Sunday and use that, bake a ham and slice that, make homemade hot pockets with roll dough, pizza etc. [/quoted]

Thanks for your compassion.

Pp has a valid point. Out school just has a nut free table. Everyone dies just fine.

[Anonymous]

Be thankful every day that you do not have to face a nut allergy with your child. Forgoing a PB&J is no sacrifice in the scheme of things. Preventing another child from a potentially life threatening incident does not seem to be that much of a sacrifice when packing a safe lunch is really not much of a hassle.

[Anonymous]

Fascinating to me. My kid has peanut allergies and I've yet to run across a camp that's peanut-free. My son sits next to his best buddy who brings PB$J every single day, for 2 years..

But PPs have given good alternatives.

[Anonymous]

I'm European, and never saw a peanut butter sandwich there in Germany, France or northern UK. A PB&J sounds really unpalatable to me! Ugh.

Besides my son has a severe peanut allergy.

We do a bento lunch box, with steamed broccoli, small pasta, ham or chicken strips, a few grapes or mini cookies.
Or leftover sushi (not raw fish) or leftover quiche, or whatever we ate the night before. He's not a fan of sandwiches, but I do make them for him occasionally - lettuce and cheese and cucumber, etc.

I don't understand how one option closes and suddenly you're at a loss? Look online or get a book about lunchboxes. There is a ton of inspiration out there!

[Anonymous]

Seriously? Are you that unoriginal or dense that you can't think of anything beyond a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a handful of nuts? Lady, you have much bigger problems than nut free schools.

[Anonymous]

20:43 it used to drive me batty too until one of my kid's classmates died from cross contamination. The ambulance didn't even get her to the hospital. She was 10.

Since then I've sucked it up. For whatever reason nut allergies seem to be far more prevalent, too.

[Anonymous]

Careful with the sun butter…I gave it to my daughter 3 times as a PB&J substitute. The good news is she couldn't tell the difference. The bad news is it caused diahrea all 3 times

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate this nut free nonsense. What did all the allergic kids do when we were young and the schools and camp lunch rooms were basically peanut butter slicks. In any case, tuna sandwiches, ham sandwiches, quesadillas, cheese sandwiches etc. Your kid may not like cold cuts, but she won't starve herself either. Put enough mayo on the bread and nearly anything is palatable. Also, you don't have to buy cold cuts, you can cook a chicken on Sunday and use that, bake a ham and slice that, make homemade hot pockets with roll dough, pizza etc. [/quoted]

Thanks for your compassion.

Pp has a valid point. Out school just has a nut free table. Everyone dies just fine.

Thanks for reminding everyone how dangerous peanut allergies are (inadvertently). To posters who don't like this "nonsense," you seem like a compassionate empathic bunch. I'm sure that serves you well in life.

[Anonymous]

^^^ I was just going to point out the everyone "dies" typo, too.

Not everyone dies, but isn't one too many?

It isn't that difficult.

[Anonymous]

We have to figure out what is causing this so that we're not tiptoeing around every flipping ingredient. This was not going on NEAR to this extent until recent years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have to figure out what is causing this so that we're not tiptoeing around every flipping ingredient. This was not going on NEAR to this extent until recent years.

It isn't seen as much in other countries, either. From what I can understand it seems to be a primarily North American issue. To have it so prevalent, I mean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:20:43 it used to drive me batty too until one of my kid's classmates died from cross contamination. The ambulance didn't even get her to the hospital. She was 10.

Since then I've sucked it up. For whatever reason nut allergies seem to be far more prevalent, too.

My worse nightmare.

Awful for the parents of this poor child, awful to witness for the kids and adults in the cafeteria.

[Anonymous]

We just don't do any nut-free camps or schools. My son lives on peanut butter sandwiches.

[Anonymous]

This is such a lame thing to complain about. It's a health issue and the consequences for kids with allergies could be death. Is that worth moaning and groaning because you can't feed your child fatty and sugary PBJs? Like there's nothing else in the world to feed them.

[Anonymous]

Sun Butter is very similar to peanut butter, and it's nut free.