BBQ sauces

Don't trust commercial food. Mix up your own BBQ sauce. Get your husband to become a chef and mix up the sauces he uses from scratch. If your child has a fatal allergy, I wouldn't take any chances. I have read posts of mothers who were in tears because the manufacturer changed the product that they always used safely.

You can order specialty peanut-free products from peanutfreeplanet.com if you must use commercially prepared products.

hollya...depending what type of allergies you are dealing with you may be able to find a BBQ Sauce that you are comfortable with. We use Masterpiece BBQ Sauce and it has been a safe option for our family for years. However, you should read labels and then call the manufacturer to make sure there is no x contamination before you give it to your son.

(I don't post often on this site because it is full of misinformation from people like the above poster...there is plenty of commercial food that is safe for PA.)

Masterpiece has been fine for us, too! Good luck!

I wrote a post about BBQ sauce last year which you may find helpful: http://www.foodallergybuzz.com/2008/06/time-to-barbeque.html

Annie's seemed the safest to me. Annie's Naturals has barbecue sauce made in a peanut-free facility. You have to look at the lot number to see if there is a "W". The "W" stands for West Coast, where their peanut-free facility is. I'd recommend calling their customer service number to confirm that this is still the case.

Hope this info is helpful!

Take care,
Jennifer B
www.foodallergybuzz.com

We use Famous Dave's BBQ sauce. No problems so far.

Hi Gale!

How are you?

I think you recommended Dave's to me a while ago, and I emailed them about a year ago and never got clear info about cross-contamination. Do you have any emails from them? I am always looking for a new BBQ sauce. Annie's okay but a bit watery. Thanks for any additional info you might have. :)

Jennifer B
www.foodallergybuzz.com

I don't think I have an email-I'm pretty sure I called them about it. On their website there is a list of ingredients of restaurant items. They use the same sauces at the restaurant and they do label for may contains on other things and they label with allergens at the bottom of the ingredients. On the restaurant info, the corn muffins say 'may contain peanuts or tree nuts' so I believe they do label well.

Hi,

I just posted and introduced myself. I am a Team Leader for Wildtree products. I found Wildtree because I needed food with no MSG for severe migraines. However, all our food is PEANUT-FREE! Our founder and CEO cannot come in contact with peanuts. We were using tree nuts in our Basil Pesto, but have stopped using them so that we could be nut free.

We have quite a few BBQ sauces and marinades along with many seasoning for meats that are all peanut free.

Feel free to check out my website at www.reneel.mywildtree.com If you have any questions, you can email me at renee.lechko@gmail.com

I am not doing this for the business, but to make you aware of a great source of peanut free products. I know how hard it can be. My daughter had food allergies when she was younger.

Good luck to all