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Here in Ontario, Canada my son has a child with a severe peanut allergy in

his Grade 1 class. Same last year in Kindergarden. The school does not claim

to be peanut-free (for liability reasons, I believe) but we recieve a letter

to sign every year regarding not sending peanuts to school.

 

For me it is a great inconvenience as a vegetarian but one I can deal with

if it means life or death to another child. However, I agree with the person

who wrote that there is a difference between life-threatening and mild

allergies. Also, I might not be so accomodating if it were an allergy that

required the child to actually ingest the food rather than simply smell it.

 

It is becoming a bigger issue though as people develop life-threatening

allergies to dairy, soy, nuts, eggs, etc. As a parent and a teacher I wonder

how we will cope with this in the future? No more eating at school.

Mandatory school lunches?

 

 

>robin koloms <rkoloms

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>Re: Re: introduction

>Mon, 9 Oct 2006 04:47:38 -0700 (PDT)

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>Cashew butter is my favorite, unfortunately nuts are a major migraine

>trigger for me.

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>Kadee M <abbey_road3012 wrote: I got mine at Trader Joe's.

>Whole Foods has it too, I think. It's really good, my daughter and I like

>it even better than peanut butter. Next we're going to try almond butter.

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>Kadee Sedtal

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>Danielle wrote: I think I burned my son out on too much peanut butter in

>his pre school and kindergarten lunches, and now he refuses to eat peanut

>butter! One of you mentioned sunflower seed butter, he loves sunflower

>seeds and I think especially if he saw it made (like they do with peanut

>butter in Chamberlains natural food store here), he may try that. Can you

>please tell me where you buy sunflower seed butter?

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>Thanks!

>Danielle in Florida

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