Anonymous wrote:Fruit kabobs!

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Anonymous wrote:Rice Krispy Treats? I know Rice Krispies are (or come) gluten free and there's vegan subs for butter and marshmallows.

This is a good idea. Use Earth Balance or another dairy free margarine and check the marshmallow label for dairy. Most commercial marshmallows have eggs but not dairy. You could add cocoa powder and semisweet chocolate chips (check labels but a lot of semisweet chips are ok). If you want to be fancy you could do two layers (chocolate and vanilla) or marble it or even do a thick layer if melted chocolate with a little margarine to smooth it out.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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/

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".

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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/

Anonymous wrote: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.

Anonymous wrote: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.