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Old September 4th 03, 02:54 AM
toto
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Anyone have suggestions for store bought snacks
for three to five year olds that are dairy free, wheat
free and peanut free. We don't allow home cooked
things in the school due to the licensing restrictions
(too bad, but that is the way the Illinois laws are
nowadays).

Believe it or not, I have children with each of these
allergies in my classroom this year. Actually the
wheat is a little boy with celiac disease. The dairy
allergy is a girl who is also allergic to eggs in most
food though she can eat them baked. And the peanut
allergy is one that precipitated the school going to a
totally peanut free environment. No peanut products
are allowed in our school at any time.


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Old September 4th 03, 04:06 AM
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rice crackers?


"toto" wrote in message
...
Anyone have suggestions for store bought snacks
for three to five year olds that are dairy free, wheat
free and peanut free. We don't allow home cooked
things in the school due to the licensing restrictions
(too bad, but that is the way the Illinois laws are
nowadays).

Believe it or not, I have children with each of these
allergies in my classroom this year. Actually the
wheat is a little boy with celiac disease. The dairy
allergy is a girl who is also allergic to eggs in most
food though she can eat them baked. And the peanut
allergy is one that precipitated the school going to a
totally peanut free environment. No peanut products
are allowed in our school at any time.


--
Dorothy

There is no sound, no cry in all the world
that can be heard unless someone listens ..
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Old September 4th 03, 08:56 AM
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toto wrote:
Anyone have suggestions for store bought snacks
for three to five year olds that are dairy free, wheat
free and peanut free. We don't allow home cooked
things in the school due to the licensing restrictions
(too bad, but that is the way the Illinois laws are
nowadays).

Believe it or not, I have children with each of these
allergies in my classroom this year. Actually the
wheat is a little boy with celiac disease. The dairy
allergy is a girl who is also allergic to eggs in most
food though she can eat them baked. And the peanut
allergy is one that precipitated the school going to a
totally peanut free environment. No peanut products
are allowed in our school at any time.




If you could find wheat-free crackers (rice? oat?) they
could have that with almond/cashew butter. Unless, of
course, the child with the peanut allergy can't have any
nut products at all.

Clisby

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Old September 4th 03, 12:43 PM
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Hi -

Dairy, wheat and peanut-free ...

1. Fruit snacks (like fruit roll-ups, fresh fruit, canned fruit,
possibly in those individual pop-top cans ...)
2. Vegetable snacks (like baby carrots ...)
3. Rice-based snacks. I haven't checked the label on any of these, but
Rice Krispie treats, the pre-packaged ones from the store, but those
might be an option. Also rice crackers, those sweetened rice cakes
that I think Quaker Oats makes,
4. Check out the vegan and gluten-free options at your local health
food store. Where I live, Whole Foods has quite a few baked options
that would work for you. But I don't know what's available in
Illinois.

Another option might be to get on the web and look at some allergy or
celiac web sites. (I know your class doesn't have celiac, but celiacs
can't have wheat and often can't have dairy, so stores or manufacturers
that cater to them would work for your class.) You could then find some
good snacks and order them on-line.

I hope these suggestions help,
--Beth Kevles

http://web.mit.edu/kevles/www/nomilk.html -- a page for the milk-allergic
Disclaimer: Nothing in this message should be construed as medical
advice. Please consult with your own medical practicioner.
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Old September 4th 03, 02:13 PM
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Aha! If the child has celiac, then ask the mother what store-bought
snacks she gets for him. You'll find that MANY are completely
dairy-free and nut-free, so you will be able to accomodate the other
allergies without difficulty.

On the web, do a google search for "celiac". I did and found
www.celiac.com
and from there
http://www.glutenfreemall.com/
Also, the site
http://www.gfmall.com/
has a list of manufacturers that sell gluten-free products, and you can
purchase direct from them. (Perhaps that child's mother would be
interested in these sites?)

There's far more on the web, but this should be enough to get you
through the school year.

--Beth Kevles

http://web.mit.edu/kevles/www/nomilk.html -- a page for the milk-allergic
Disclaimer: Nothing in this message should be construed as medical
advice. Please consult with your own medical practicioner.
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Old September 4th 03, 04:55 PM
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toto wrote:

Anyone have suggestions for store bought snacks
for three to five year olds that are dairy free, wheat
free and peanut free. We don't allow home cooked
things in the school due to the licensing restrictions
(too bad, but that is the way the Illinois laws are
nowadays).

Believe it or not, I have children with each of these
allergies in my classroom this year. Actually the
wheat is a little boy with celiac disease. The dairy
allergy is a girl who is also allergic to eggs in most
food though she can eat them baked. And the peanut
allergy is one that precipitated the school going to a
totally peanut free environment. No peanut products
are allowed in our school at any time.




Fruit. Bananas, grapes, oranges, apples, plums, pears, etc.
Or cut up carrots/celery with dip (ranch dip, but none for the milk allergic
child or bean dip or hummus).
Granola bars.
Rice Cakes
Popcorn
applesauce


Why not just have the parents send in snacks for each individual child? I
can understand banning the peanuts because of the way a peanuts allergy
works, but why do all the other children have to be banned from wheat or
dairy because of one child? Or provide snack for everyone EXCEPT make sure
that you have a few alternatives for the allergic children (or have their
parents send in the snack for those children).
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Old September 4th 03, 05:57 PM
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In article , Tracey wrote:
Why not just have the parents send in snacks for each individual child? I
can understand banning the peanuts because of the way a peanuts allergy
works, but why do all the other children have to be banned from wheat or
dairy because of one child?


I'm not particularly advocating wheat free classrooms. However,
just to clairify, celiac disease, which is what the wheat free
kid has, can be just as sensitive or more sensitive than a peanut
allergy. If kids aren't washing their hands after eating sandwiches
or crackers, or there are crumbs floating around - you can make
that kid pretty sick. Getting a classroom of 3-5 year olds to
not have a single crumb on them (or on the classroom) after
a crumb-laden snack is pretty hard.

If my soon-to-be kid ends up with CD (which is pretty likely),
I would be irritated if a school-provided snack was primarily
wheat based. There are a multitude of other snack options which
are healthier, make less of a mess, and aren't a known danger
to current students.


For the OP - how seriously are you taking the peanut
butter allergy? Are foods made on shared equipment ok
for this kid? Also, what kind of snacks do you usually
serve? I haven't had a 3-5 yr old, so I did some
best-guess here.

Blue diamond makes GF nut and rice crackers, although that's
another big-8 allergen.
Cape cod plain chips (regular, yukon gold, russet)
crunch master sesame rice crackers
crunch 'n munch (probably a peanut risk, but I haven't
ever had it, so I don't know)
edward and son's brown rice snaps
fiddle-faddle (peanut risk?)
french's original potato sticks
Garden of eatin corn chips (read the ingredients, some have wheat)
genisoy bars
glutano makes cookies, crackers, etc. Some are no-milk, I don't
think any have nuts. They're a little wierd though
Terra chips (onion and garlic, salt and vinegar, bbq (may have milk))
kettle valley real fruit snacks
Lundberg rice cakes (the caramel ones are nice)
anything made by mariani (some may have dairy)
motts applesauce
pirate's booty (Avoid the cheese flavor)Also OK are
dude food, veggie booty, fruity booty, spriulina spirals (yuk),
smart puffs, grateful puffs, portato flyers - original, nude food
plain popcorn, personality puffs
screaming yellow zonkers
sun-maid raisins (sun dried, zante currents, golden raisins)
sun-rype fruit-to-go, applesauce, but NOT fruit and veggie bars
wise plain chips
all dole/del-monte canned fruits and snack cups
health valley crisp rice bars (tropical fruit and apple raisin)
omega smart bars
van's wheat free (Box says gluten free also) waffles
G! foods individually wrapped snack/breakfast bars
dole fruit juice bars, fruit 'n juice bars
jello ready to eat gelatin snacks
boar's head lunch meats (Except dutch loaf, olive loaf and
pickle and pimento loaf)
best's kosher franks, sausage links,
ball park franks
kids kitchen beans & wieners (hormel)
sabrett hot dogs
hebrew national beef products (Except the franks in puff pastry)
thai kitchen noodle soups (coconut finger, spring onion, ginger and veggies)
knouse apple butter
smucker's jams and jellies
welch's fruit snacks
general mill's fruit roll ups (all flavors)
nabisco fruit snacks (blues clues, digi dinos, jumbler strawberry)
sunsweet fruitlings
Mrs May's fruit and nut snacks (most of them don't seem to have peanut)


This is *far* from a complete list.

Other resources a
http://www.gfcfdiet.com/directory.htm (on the lax side)
http://forums.delphiforums.com/celiac/start (on the paranoid
side, but not much dairy info)

Elaine
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Old September 5th 03, 01:20 AM
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On 04 Sep 2003 13:13:27 GMT, (Beth Kevles) wrote:


Aha! If the child has celiac, then ask the mother what store-bought
snacks she gets for him. You'll find that MANY are completely
dairy-free and nut-free, so you will be able to accomodate the other
allergies without difficulty.

On the web, do a google search for "celiac". I did and found
www.celiac.com
and from there
http://www.glutenfreemall.com/
Also, the site
http://www.gfmall.com/
has a list of manufacturers that sell gluten-free products, and you can
purchase direct from them. (Perhaps that child's mother would be
interested in these sites?)

There's far more on the web, but this should be enough to get you
through the school year.

Thanks Beth. The parents bring snacks for the whole class
so I am trying to find out what to recommend that they can buy
locally.

I appreciate the sources.

His mom is putting together a list for me too.


--
Dorothy

There is no sound, no cry in all the world
that can be heard unless someone listens ..
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Old September 5th 03, 02:55 AM
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On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 16:57:41 +0000 (UTC), Elaine
wrote:

In article , Tracey wrote:
Why not just have the parents send in snacks for each individual child? I
can understand banning the peanuts because of the way a peanuts allergy
works, but why do all the other children have to be banned from wheat or
dairy because of one child?


I'm not particularly advocating wheat free classrooms. However,
just to clairify, celiac disease, which is what the wheat free
kid has, can be just as sensitive or more sensitive than a peanut
allergy. If kids aren't washing their hands after eating sandwiches
or crackers, or there are crumbs floating around - you can make
that kid pretty sick. Getting a classroom of 3-5 year olds to
not have a single crumb on them (or on the classroom) after
a crumb-laden snack is pretty hard.

Well, the kids certainly will be washing their hands. The
licensing people are strict about that. They have to wash
hands when they enter the room from any outside activity,
before and after eating and after toileting. And they have
to use soap and warm water, not just the cold water.

I am told that we are going to have to avoid commercial
playdough as well or have special playdough for him.
I do understand the problem, but our parents provide the
snacks so it's difficult to ask them all to buy special products.
I am going to list the things he can have, but I don't know that
we will *always* have wheat free snacks and dairy free
snacks for everyone. If the school bought the snacks it might
be easier to accomplish but as it is, I don't know what to say.
This is a private preschool, not a public school.

The peanut policy was iniated only two years ago when we
had a child enter who has a severe peanut allergy. We talked
to the students about it and they accept it, but in some ways
it scares them to realize their friend might get sick from food
they really like.

And my son is 30 now. I don't know what I would have done
about his school lunches without peanut butter as he was
a very picky eater and ate peanut butter on whole wheat
bread with honey most of his elementary school years. I
am sure we would have found something, but it would have
been a pita and I might have tried to find a different school
at that point if his public schools were totally peanut free.

If my soon-to-be kid ends up with CD (which is pretty likely),
I would be irritated if a school-provided snack was primarily
wheat based. There are a multitude of other snack options which
are healthier, make less of a mess, and aren't a known danger
to current students.

FWIW, this is the first year I have had a student like this in
class and we have the peanut allergy and the dairy allergy
as well, which will severly limit the options.

For the OP - how seriously are you taking the peanut
butter allergy? Are foods made on shared equipment ok
for this kid? Also, what kind of snacks do you usually
serve? I haven't had a 3-5 yr old, so I did some
best-guess here.

We don't have any peanut products allowed at all for snacks
or for lunches. The young boy who is allergic could have a
reaction to just touching peanut oil from what I understand.

Blue diamond makes GF nut and rice crackers, although that's
another big-8 allergen.
Cape cod plain chips (regular, yukon gold, russet)


I am suggesting plain and corn chips and rice crackers.

crunch master sesame rice crackers
crunch 'n munch (probably a peanut risk, but I haven't
ever had it, so I don't know)


Don't know about these atm, but will see.

edward and son's brown rice snaps
fiddle-faddle (peanut risk?)
french's original potato sticks


The potato sticks should be good, but do you know if
that has to be a specific brand?

Garden of eatin corn chips (read the ingredients, some have wheat)


Corn chips also would be acceptable, lots of the kids like these,
but again I don't know how to insure that all our parents read the
labels on them.

genisoy bars
glutano makes cookies, crackers, etc. Some are no-milk, I don't
think any have nuts. They're a little wierd though
Terra chips (onion and garlic, salt and vinegar, bbq (may have milk))
kettle valley real fruit snacks
Lundberg rice cakes (the caramel ones are nice)


Rice cakes in general would seem good. I am putting them on
the list and adding plain or with apple, pear or plum butter since
these are good nut free and dairy free spreads. (I am gonna hate
not having cream cheese, but, oh well).

anything made by mariani (some may have dairy)
motts applesauce


Applesauce is on the list.

pirate's booty (Avoid the cheese flavor)


So is pirate's booty

Also OK are
dude food, veggie booty, fruity booty, spriulina spirals (yuk),
smart puffs, grateful puffs, portato flyers - original, nude food
plain popcorn, personality puffs
screaming yellow zonkers


Never heard of these, but will add them to my list.

sun-maid raisins (sun dried, zante currents, golden raisins)


Yep, but most of our kids don't like raisins much.

sun-rype fruit-to-go, applesauce, but NOT fruit and veggie bars
wise plain chips
all dole/del-monte canned fruits and snack cups


Fruit cups are on my list.

health valley crisp rice bars (tropical fruit and apple raisin)


Ok..

omega smart bars


ok

van's wheat free (Box says gluten free also) waffles


Generally we don't do much that has to be heated
except on special occasions because this is a 2 1/2
hour class with 1/2 hour outside in the park in the
middle so not much time to cook.

G! foods individually wrapped snack/breakfast bars
dole fruit juice bars, fruit 'n juice bars
jello ready to eat gelatin snacks


Will add these.

boar's head lunch meats (Except dutch loaf, olive loaf and
pickle and pimento loaf)
best's kosher franks, sausage links,
ball park franks
kids kitchen beans & wieners (hormel)
sabrett hot dogs
hebrew national beef products (Except the franks in puff pastry)


We generally avoid meats for snack. The kids are dismissed at
11:30 and go home for lunch. And again, we don't have cooking
facilities to warm this up in the time allotted.

thai kitchen noodle soups (coconut finger, spring onion, ginger
and veggies)


We may use this if and when we do our *stone soup* around
Thanksgiving time.

knouse apple butter
smucker's jams and jellies
welch's fruit snacks
general mill's fruit roll ups (all flavors)


Fruit rollups and such are on the list.

nabisco fruit snacks (blues clues, digi dinos, jumbler strawberry)
sunsweet fruitlings
Mrs May's fruit and nut snacks (most of them don't seem to have peanut)


This is *far* from a complete list.

Thanks.

Other resources a
http://www.gfcfdiet.com/directory.htm (on the lax side)
http://forums.delphiforums.com/celiac/start (on the paranoid
side, but not much dairy info)

Elaine


Thanks for the information. The mom of our celiac boy is a
nurse and his dad is a doctor, so we should get more info
from them and we will be doing the best we can. She will
be bringing in special snacks that he can have on days when
other parents provide wheat snacks and she is providing
some special playdough for him as well.

But you really cannot expect a preschool class not to have
some kind of playdough and most are made from wheat
flour. If I had known before school began, I probably could
have found a recipe with rice flour or something like that, but
not knowing makes it difficult to adjust since the school
doesn't have a lot of money to redo things. They have a
fairly small budget for classroom supplies.


--
Dorothy

There is no sound, no cry in all the world
that can be heard unless someone listens ..
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Old September 5th 03, 04:18 AM
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Elaine wrote:


I'm not particularly advocating wheat free classrooms. However,
just to clairify, celiac disease, which is what the wheat free
kid has, can be just as sensitive or more sensitive than a peanut
allergy. If kids aren't washing their hands after eating sandwiches
or crackers, or there are crumbs floating around - you can make
that kid pretty sick. Getting a classroom of 3-5 year olds to
not have a single crumb on them (or on the classroom) after
a crumb-laden snack is pretty hard.



Thanks for posting this - I didn't know this.

 




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