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

[Anonymous]

Greek yogurt is a great source of protein. And sesame butter (tahini) should work just as well as PB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

These same people would have a fit if you lit up a cigarette in the school cafeteria.

[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.

I will tell you what they did, because my brother was one. Went to the hospital. A lot.

Many near death experiences and one coma.

Even in nut free schools kids with allergies are not safe, because there are bitches like you who just don't care. You literally would rather a kid die then give up a peanut butter sandwich. Insane.

+1,000 It astounds me that people would complain about figuring out a non-peanut lunch. Truly astounds me that people -- mothers!! -- would care so little about other people's children.

[Anonymous]

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.

More kids are allergic than they used to be. They don't know why. Those severe peanut allergies didn't exist in great numbers when we were kids.

It's not nonsense. Kids die of this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I send my kid to camp with a slice of bologna and fritos.

You need to add some fruit snacks and strawberry milk so that it's a complete meal

and koolaide

[Anonymous]

Nuts especially peanuts are worthless and junk.

[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.

More kids are allergic than they used to be. They don't know why. Those severe peanut allergies didn't exist in great numbers when we were kids.

It's not nonsense. Kids die of this.

I also think that in the past many more kids died of these food allergies before they could be diagnosed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jeez people. Seriously, how many children die from nut allergies every year? Children for in car accidents and from falling out of windows, yet we still drive and have windows in our homes. Those are far greater risks than the kid at the next table eating a PBJ. If your child is so fragile, keep them home and stop procreating with your crappy ass genes.

Smart people talking. Shhhh.

You're missing the point. The point is that the OP is complaining because ALL she can apparently feed her kids are PB&Js and other children with pesky lethal food allergies are ruining her menu planning. Of course kids die in all sorts of tragic ways - no shit. But if it's a matter of just not packing nuts or nut butters in your kids' lunches, isn't it worth not endangering another child's life?

Knock on wood, my kids don't have any allergies, but I am sure as hell not going to put some other child at risk so they can eat peanut butter.

No you are missing the point, I'm an allergy family. But thanks for the lecture.

[Anonymous]

What about planes, amtrak, etc?

[Anonymous]

Cream cheese is not a good source of protein. Hummus is also pretty low.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nuts especially peanuts are worthless and junk.

So you've said, but you're 100% wrong.

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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.

There has been documented evidence that the number of people with food-based allergies has risen significantly over the last 2-3 decades. The reason peanuts are so noteworthy is that roughly 50-60% of the documented cases of deaths from food allergies annually are from peanuts. Why is still under debate. One common theory holds that our over-sanitized culture and over dependence on cleanliness means that we have decreased the number of contaminants (dirt, germs, bacteria, etc) that we are exposed to and over the last few generations this has caused our immune systems to essentially atrophy and so more people are reacting to allergens than in the past. For more details, Google "Hygiene Theory Allergies" and you'll get a lot of studies, and discussion around this theory. Another less-common theory is almost the exact opposite. It holds that we have so over-chemicalized our society that we are poisoning our immune system. So, air pollution, coal/factory pollution, water pollution, pesticides, long-term excessive smoking (and second hand smoke), etc all contribute to overwhelming our immune systems. Some of these are the same people who believe that we need to avoid pesticides, GMOs, etc. Either way, many scientists agree that in general our immune systems are weaker than they were 20-30 years ago.

It's got to be the former, because nut allergies also cluster in middle- to upper-middle class homes, which tend to be farther from pollution sources.

I firmly believe we're sewing the seeds of our own destruction with anti-bacterials.

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously, if you can't deal with this for the 10 weeks of summer camp, try dealing with it 52 weeks a year.


Signed,
Mother of two nut allergy kids (no, I'm not imagining this, we've had vomiting, lost voices, hives and blood tests from doctors.) who is in the midst of the annual epipen collection/prescription update/camp form fill out/doctors office nightmare for 2 kids that will go to a number of different summer camps.

PS at least it's not gluten

X10000

Eh, once you figure it out it's not that bad . My kid's a celiac and while her lunches may not be that exciting it's not that tough to packs something she'll eat.

And once I pack lunch I get to forget it for the rest of the day, because while gluten hurts her insides, an accidental ingestion won't kill her.

May be more restricting food wise than an allergy, but I'll take that to not worry every day that my kid could die at lunch.

[Anonymous]

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.

They died, asshole.

[Anonymous]

I wonder why we only care about the kids with peanut allergies. it is really a false advocacy - look at us we care attitude. Kids have prophylactic allergies to all kinds of food - dairy, eggs, seafood, certain fruits etc but the only allergy that gets center stage is nuts. If this was really about safety and allergies, all foods causing anaphylactic reactions would be banned. But it isn't really about the kids - the whole nut free thing is just another fad, way to be PC.

And yes, I have a nut allergy.