"Steve Freides" > wrote in message
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> Tara wrote:
>> I found out yesterday afternoon that my kids need to bring a dozen
>> breakfast items each to a chorus breakfast party tomorrow at 7:45.
>> Our cupboards are rather low at the moment because I have been trying
>> to use up what we have on hand to make way for Christmas cooking. I
>> don't have any eggs or breakfast meat on hand.
>>
>> I do not want to go to the store. My first thought was to pick up a
>> big box of doughnut holes on the way to school in the morning, but I
>> don't want to bring in sweets. There will already be plenty of
>> pastries brought in.
>>
>> So, I am making mini peanut butter and jelly sandwiches -- PB & J cut
>> into triangles. We have a peanut allergy in the chorus, so I am also
>> making cheese biscuits. I thought about pinwheel sandwiches or mini
>> cheese quesadillas.
>>
>> Ta-da! Not exciting, but it will serve.
>>
>> Tara
>
> You have to find out how severe the peanut allergies are. Some children
> are so allergic that you can't bring in anything with peanuts on the off
> chance that they'll have even minor contact with it somehow. My wife's
> school (grades 5 through 8) manages this by the class, e.g., if someone in
> the class has a peanut allergy, then no one in that class brings in
> anything with peanuts for any group activity like the one you're
> describing. One child with an even more severe allergy can mean that no
> one in the class can bring in peanuts in any form, period, while a milder
> allergy might mean it's OK to bring in peanuts as long as everything is
> clearly identified - that's the sort of thing where a child might have
> only a mild allergy.
>
> Good to ask about this sort of thing - it's probably something they sent
> home a letter/email about in September.
>
> A pain, I know, but those are the facts on the ground these days.
>
> -S-

Most people with a peanut allergy wouldn't even touch food that was on a
table with peanut containing products. Too much chance of cross
contamination.