Things are underway now. My staff has been WONDERFUL. They bring me labels all of the time to read and watch out very carefully for peanut products. This is what has happened.
1. Signs on all school doors saying Please no Peanuts/Products in the building.
2. Food services will not send peanuts/peanut butter to our school anymore. Eden's name blinks as they scan her as a reminder (one muffin said processed in a walnut plant)
3. Letters went home to all parents asking to be considerate about not sending p or pb in lunches. No more homeade treats in building period
4. Eden will sit at a bleached table with friends, dispite no peanuts in lunchroom
5. In service for all staff on food allergies, and use of epipen.
6. Other minor things.
-Nobody has really said we are a peanut free school, but don't you all agree the schoo has done a fabulous job.
ps. letters went home on Monday and no parents have complained. I'll let you know.
Amy
Fab! I wish my school was like that!
Sounds great! I think all schools that say they are peanut-free should be considered, as yours is, "almost" peanut-free. Mistakes will happen. Our school is "peanut-free" and I still would never let PA DD eat anything there that I didn't send in with her.
Regarding what you wrote:
"3. Letters went home to all parents asking to be considerate about not sending p or pb in lunches. No more homeade treats in building period
4. Eden will sit at a bleached table with friends, dispite no peanuts in lunchroom"
Does this mean that parents are or are not allowed to send P or PB in lunches? If they are just being asked to be considerate but they are not perceiving this as an actual ban on peanut, this could be why nobody is complaining. They might not be considerate enough to avoid sending peanut. Some parents complained when our school went peanut-free, but our wonderful principal was very tough with them.
Good luck and let us know how it goes!
Sounds great! Just a question:
"3. Letters went home to all parents asking to be considerate about not sending p or pb in lunches."
Your post also says that the signs say "Please no peanuts". Do the parents have the understanding that there is a strict ban on peanuts, or could there be a perception that this is optional? The language "to be considerate about not sending PB" to me implies that if someone is not that considerate, they could send PB. Perhaps nobody is complaining because they don't think "no peanuts" applies to them.
Good luck and let us know how it goes.
OOPs- Sorry for the sort of double post. My first post was lost for a while!
Thats great! However, I am on the fence regarding this. I have a 4yr old who has a PA and an 11yr old who is a very fussy eater and only eats PB for lunch everyday. It is his only protein since he does not eat meat. So if that was to happen in my shcool I don't know what I would do. But as far as for my 4yr old it would be very helpful and take a lot of stress off of me. Very confused on the situation. Any suggestions?
Quote:Originally posted by pdarki:
[b]Thats great! However, I am on the fence regarding this. I have a 4yr old who has a PA and an 11yr old who is a very fussy eater and only eats PB for lunch everyday. It is his only protein since he does not eat meat. So if that was to happen in my shcool I don't know what I would do. But as far as for my 4yr old it would be very helpful and take a lot of stress off of me. Very confused on the situation. Any suggestions?[/b]
Hi! My 10yo dd is PA/TNA and my middle dd is very picky and not much of a meat/bean eater. Since our house has been nut free since shortly after dd was diagnosed, we looked around for options and found soybean butter. My two youngest eat this daily! I love it too. It's been so many years that I might forget what pb tastes like, but I think it is very comparable (and I was a huge pb fan before).
I also have heard of alot of people who love Sunbutter.
Hi! We have tried the soybean butter and we were not that crazy about it. Maybe it was the brand which do you use?
Quote:Originally posted by pdarki:
[b]Hi! We have tried the soybean butter and we were not that crazy about it. Maybe it was the brand which do you use? [/b]
We get ours at Trader Joes. I much prefer theirs to the other brands I have tried.