There is nothing to be done if you can't send PB to school - things need to be refrigerated!!!
It's a bit over the top. I thought everyone knew about insulated lunch bags and ice packs? Apparently not.
THE CHILDREN WILL STARVE!
I will never understand why people can't get over an inconvenience so small as packing something else when it's literally a life or death situation for another child.
We went through this last year. There's tons to send! We have a kid in the twins' class who had an airborne allergy. We had issues at first with a kid in feeding therapy who refused most foods but would eat pb. He got ever it and took jelly sandwiches or cereal fir lunch.
Post by mrssavy42112 on Sept 4, 2012 11:58:27 GMT -5
I have A LOT of food allergies, but none so extreme that I can’t be in the same room or touch it. I’m so thankful, because I can’t imagine how you would do that as a kid. All it takes is one kid who eats his peanut butter sandwich, to not wash his hands. Now those peanut oils are spread all over the table, door knobs & possibly the allergic child. If I was the mom, I’d be in an eternal paranoia. Hopefully the child in question isn’t THAT sensitive, but I do know some people who are.
I will say this was all new to me a couple years ago when my DD started her second year of PK. She only ate PB sandwiches for her first year.
The second year she got a new teacher and the teacher was allergic so she banned peanuts from her classroom only. The school allowed peanuts though.
I remember at first being a little panicky because my DD was a super picky eater but I had a talk with her after I received the letter and her saying "ok mom I'll eat something else"
It was much easier than I expected LOL. Kids conform and will adjust and my kid tried new things that year. I was very happy
My grandma's favorite story to tell is how they went to the county fair when she was young, and they left their fried chicken and potato salad in the shade of the car for hours (like 5 or 6) and then ate it for lunch and supper. And survived.
I hate people that treat allergies as an inconvenience. My gluten allergy has gotten so bad, I can't make sandwiches for the kids anymore or touch gluten products with my bare hands.
I sent my kids leftovers to school more often than not. I just shove it in their insulated lunch bags and off they go. So from 8 to 11:30. I'm pretty sure they'll live. I mean they have so far.
I just posted over there, but I keep my little insulated bag with a freezer pack with my BM on my desk all day. Surely if that is okay for milk, then preshus can handle a meal that has been in the same insulated bag for 4 hours.
I just posted over there, but I keep my little insulated bag with a freezer pack with my BM on my desk all day. Surely if that is okay for milk, then preshus can handle a meal that has been in the same insulated bag for 4 hours.
And milk is warm when it goes in, so it has to be cooled down. Mine was always fine.
I'm amazed that lunch bags don't keep things cold. I left two bottles of refrigerated water in an insulated bag in my truck for two days in 90 degree weather and they were still cold when I opened it.
I, for one, am just so relieved that I am not in a position with my kids where I have to not only deal with worrying that something other people like could kill my child, but their parents are at home stomping their feet over this new inconvenience.
My friend's peanut allergic child was given an PB cracker by an after school care worker in Kindergarten. Imagine her panic when she heard that! Fortunately he had an epi-pen but my gosh, she can't even trust the employees of the school - let alone other kids and parents.