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I made it through preschool orientation today. Yay!! Daughter #1 took
off and didn't even wonder where I went when the parent meeting started. Her only concern was regarding the bathroom. All of the paperwork is in, they know about her minor allergies. Now we just have to get started on Monday. The snack requirements are a bit more than I expected. We have to bring a nutritious snack (drink and snack) that covers more than one food group. No cookies, cake or other "dessert" type of snack is permitted. We cannot include peanuts in our snack. What would you take in this situation? Is this requirement common? Is my daughter going to see a lot of goldfish and juice? Karen G |
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Karen G wrote:
The snack requirements are a bit more than I expected. We have to bring a nutritious snack (drink and snack) that covers more than one food group. No cookies, cake or other "dessert" type of snack is permitted. We cannot include peanuts in our snack. What would you take in this situation? Is this requirement common? Is my daughter going to see a lot of goldfish and juice? My son's old preschool (he just started kindergarten!) had similar requirements. Goldfish are but one option, and high in salt. Cheese cubes, string cheese, etc are also good (I personally hate 'go-gurts' since they are basically sugar with some yogurt mixed in). Fresh fruit (apples, bananas, etc). What I did, for snack 1-2 times a month was to always make the same thing! After all, they would get lots of other stuff on the other days. I would get cinnamon raisin bread, toast it and spread cream cheese (leaving some unspread in case a kid was allergic to dairy or just didn't like it) to make sandwiches. Then I cut each sandwich along the diagonals. It sounds complicated but once you get the hang of it the process went fast and I knew that this + some fruit was a perfect snack. --Carolyn -- Carolyn Fairman http://www.stanford.edu/~cfairman/ |
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On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 19:03:41 EDT, Karen G
wrote: I made it through preschool orientation today. Yay!! Daughter #1 took off and didn't even wonder where I went when the parent meeting started. Her only concern was regarding the bathroom. All of the paperwork is in, they know about her minor allergies. Now we just have to get started on Monday. The snack requirements are a bit more than I expected. We have to bring a nutritious snack (drink and snack) that covers more than one food group. No cookies, cake or other "dessert" type of snack is permitted. We cannot include peanuts in our snack. What would you take in this situation? Is this requirement common? Is my daughter going to see a lot of goldfish and juice? Probably, especially if your preschool also has the requirement that snacks not be homemade! Is fruit OK? My daughter liked to bring fruit, and the teachers were quite willing to cut it up into the appropriate serving sizes for them. Are graham crackers OK? Chocolate graham crakers and milk were another favorite preschool snack. Her school didn't really forbid cookies, etc., though. -- Tamex No matter how much Jell-o you put in the pool, you still can't walk on water. **remove Tricky Dick to reply by e-mail** |
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IIRC there was a pretty extensie thread on this same topic a year or so ago...
in addition to the excellent suggestions so far, try googling for "snack" on mkm. How about yogurt and teddy grahams? -Dawn Mom to Henry, 10 |
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In article , Karen G says...
The snack requirements are a bit more than I expected. We have to bring a nutritious snack (drink and snack) that covers more than one food group. No cookies, cake or other "dessert" type of snack is permitted. We cannot include peanuts in our snack. What would you take in this situation? Is this requirement common? Is my daughter going to see a lot of goldfish and juice? Karen G Is this snack for your own child, or are you to provide snacks for the school or class on occassion? IME at my son's kindergarten, what the school personnel mean by all their requirements may differ from any particular parent's conception of nutritious and non-dessert. The best thing is to ask *them* to provide a list of examples, surely they've seen what snacks are brought that they approve of in the past. Suggest that it be made to all parents. If there is a peanut-allergic child in this school, IMO they should NOT be having parents provide the snacks. If they only mean to prohibit peanuts to avoid the initial sensitization, they should be aware that peanut oils are present in a lot of packaged snacks, and this measure isn't perfect. Banty |
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On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 10:24:41 EDT, Banty
wrote: Is this snack for your own child, or are you to provide snacks for the school or class on occassion? Parents will provide snacks for all of the children in the class--about 26 children. The best thing is to ask *them* to provide a list of examples, surely they've seen what snacks are brought that they approve of in the past. Suggest that it be made to all parents. They did provide a list, but mainly about the requirement explanations. If there is a peanut-allergic child in this school, IMO they should NOT be having parents provide the snacks. If they only mean to prohibit peanuts to avoid the initial sensitization, they should be aware that peanut oils are present in a lot of packaged snacks, and this measure isn't perfect. You know, I had a similar reaction. Oddly enough, they actually encouraged the parents to bring ethnic (though not wild) snacks as well. I use peanut butter in my kitchen. In some cases, I know that that is enough to "taint" the food that comes out of my house. I think the previous thread was the one on using class colors to make snacks. In that case it was yellow and brown. Some really great ideas are there--pretzels and cheese, hummus and vegetables, various breads, graham crackers (also mentioned in this thread), raisins and goldfish were mentioned in that thread. Evidently there was a thread regarding the subject on misc.kids as well. Karen G--who summarized this thread so that it is under a snack subject. |
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In article , Karen G says...
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 10:24:41 EDT, Banty wrote: Is this snack for your own child, or are you to provide snacks for the school or class on occassion? Parents will provide snacks for all of the children in the class--about 26 children. Erg. I hate that. But you've read the previous thread :-) The best thing is to ask *them* to provide a list of examples, surely they've seen what snacks are brought that they approve of in the past. Suggest that it be made to all parents. They did provide a list, but mainly about the requirement explanations. But what's really needed is a list of *specific suggestions*. When they say "healthy", one parent's 'healthy' may be the school's idea of 'weird and unpalatable', and another parent's 'healthy' may be the school's idea of 'prime example of the disasterous western diet'. Cases in example from when my son attended a Montessori kinder - he was not allowed to eat the Fritos I packed for lunch, although I routinely use them in my cooking (Frito pie and the like). On the other hand, one suggestion they did offer when I pressed for specifics was a jelly sandwich. Right - just jelly. Which to me is bare carbohydrate extravaganza, and very unhealthy as the centerpiece of a lunch. Go figure. I honesty forget what I did for the required snack days - it was something prepackaged and lots of *real juice*. I was getting sick and tired of seeing my kid with a food-dyed mouth from the cheap mixed kid's drinks - and there's yet another puzzling contradiction in what I and they think are acceptably healthy! If they have parents of South Asian or Southeast Asian background, they're not going to get much ethnic + peanut free from them. So my advice is to get specific suggestions from the preschool. Banty |
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Karen G wrote: *The snack requirements are a bit more than I expected. We have to bring *a nutritious snack (drink and snack) that covers more than one food *group. No cookies, cake or other "dessert" type of snack is permitted. *We cannot include peanuts in our snack. What would you take in this *situation? Is this requirement common? Is my daughter going to see a *lot of goldfish and juice? I happen to have my copy of our preschool's snack rules sitting right here. So, FWIW: --start snack rules-- snack suggestions: fruits, vegetables, mild cheese, crackers, pretzels and cookies (unopened packages please) please observe: NO PORK PRODUCTS OR SHELLFISH. We encourage kosher, healthy foods and thank you in advance for not sending in whole grapes (cut in half are ok), candy, popcorn, and peanuts. --end snack rules-- So, when it's my turn, I often send in these vegetable muffins I make - I don't know if they would count as a "dessert" item, they're full of zucchini and carrot and are very good with cream cheese . I also sometimes send graham crackers, wheat thins and cheese, cheese sticks (string cheese type things), sliced up apples or grapes... good luck, h. -- hillary israeli vmd http://www.hillary.net "uber vaccae in quattuor partes divisum est." not-so-newly minted veterinarian-at-large |
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Hillary Israeli wrote: So, when it's my turn, I often send in these vegetable muffins I make - I don't know if they would count as a "dessert" item, they're full of zucchini and carrot and are very good with cream cheese . Would you post the recipe? These sound like a nice "take-along" snack. Thanks! --Robyn |
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