Reply to dairy-free, wheat-free, peanut-free birthday treat?

Forum Index » Food, Cooking, and Restaurants

Reply to "dairy-free, wheat-free, peanut-free birthday treat?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whose requirement is dairy-free and wheat- free - does your child have the issue? Unless you are doing fruit, that pretty much rules out everything, and the bought treats are unlikely to be wheat-free.

You try to be as inclusive as possible, but I've never seen a list like that coming as a mandate from a school. I'm all for leaving out peanuts because of the strong reactions some kids have from contact or airborne, but the others dont normally work that way. Do your best, but dont over think it.[/quote]

It's really not as hard as you think - it just seems really intimidating because it's unfamiliar, but with the Internet it's gotten a lot easier to find recipes, and as these dietary restrictions have become more common it's actually gotten easy to find options at your regular grocery store - not just the mixes, but pre-packaged treats, etc.

And to the OP - as the parent of a celiac kid, I just want to say thank you for taking the time and effort to try and do this.  It seems like a little thing, but it is hard on kids to be the ones excluded from the special treat, and conversely it makes my kindergartner feel really good when someone makes the effort to make food she can eat.

Also - found a parents.com list of treat options for allergic kids, which may be helpful: http://www.parents.com/health/allergies/food/food-allergies-snacks/[/quote]

Do you actually trust the food someone else sends for your kindergartner? Most parents with children with allergies don't, so making the other parents jump through hoops for something you're not going to let your kid eat (and I don't blame you for not trusting something you don't yourself validate) seems excessive.  When I was at preschool and we had kids with restrictions, I would always ask the parents "what can I bring for Johnny who can't eat x" and I was always told "nothing, we'll send something in".[/quote]

My kid has celiac, not a traditional allergy, so I think it's easier for us since the risk of exposure isn't so dire - accidentally eating gluten will give her a belly ache, and exposure does damage to her intestines, but it won't send her to the ER. So while my kid absolutely needs to be on a gluten-free diet for long term health reasons, we do let her eat gluten free food prepared by others.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics