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Re: Parents...would you ever?
Our school is peanut free so no I wouldn't. I also think in this day and age with all the nut allergies that I probably wouldn't. I have a friend whose kids all have nut allergies so I am more aware of it.
I get this not being on someone's radar especially if their child does not have an allergy but I am surprised at how many people have said that the topic of food allergies is limited to this board or social media outlets. This is the very first thing they talked about at orientation at the two different schools DD's has attended. Not to mention the countless articles I have read in various parenting magazines and all of the news specials and talk shows in which this topic is discussed. Food allergies were also discussed at well visits at my pediatrician. I get this if this is not on someone's radar but to say the knowledge of food allergies is not common or a known topic to all parents is insane to me. I would have thought most people would go with the better safe than sorry route, guess not.
my kids not in school or daycare, so its not something that is in my face all the time. while i do have 1 friend who's daughter has an allergy, bc we live far away, we usually pick a place in the middle to meet, so again, its not really something i have to think about...
i am aware the issue is out there, but there a a ton of issues that are out there that honestly, are not the first thing i think of when i am home cooking. in addition, my kitchen is not nut free...i can't guarentee that my cupcake pans have never touched nuts, or that my cupcake holders haven't held something with nuts on it...
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I totally agree with this. My child has no allergies, nor does anyone I know IRL however I would never put PB in anything I was giving to a group of kids (unless I knew for sure none of them had an allergy) because although my life has not been touched by this I know how big of a problem it has become and how deadly it can be. I think it was ignorance on the other parents part sorry.
I don't understand this statement. How was it the other parents that were ignorant?
My daughter's class made peanut butter in class yesterday. If the school doesn't tell the parents that someone is allergic how would they know?
That's my point I don't think you should have know for sure that a child in the school has an allergy in order to go the "better to be safe" route. I just think it's a little socially irresponsible to say "eehhh nobody I know has an allergy so fek it"
I agree. Just from osmosis of life I know things. I don't have dogs or want them. I don't know much about dogs but I know enough not to offer one chocolate if I saw it.
I think at some point you just have to take it upon yourself to be educated about just general things going on around you, in the world, whatever. I don't know how to better explain it.
And back to my point... egg alleries and milk allergies are common too.
Honestly a freaking PB M&M is pretty obviously a PB or peanut M&M. If you want to blame anyone you blame the school that knows he has an allergy and didn't even check what a kid bought at the sale. You don't blame the parent that did not know.
O I agree the school is at fault here absolutely I am simply saying I don't think you should have to be told "lil Johnny is allergic" to take the cautionary step of putting a regular M&M instead of PB. It's not that difficult. Apparantly nobody believes in the better to be safe then sorry unless it is their kid that might have to be saved with an epi pen!
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but see this is the part i am struggling with...if someone has a nut allergy, does that simple precaution even matter? aren't all m&m's made in the same factory?
you know nuts are in almost every baked good, almost all cookies, brownies etc. We have one in our class and I always look at the ingredients. Sugar cookies are one of the only safe things. All packages almost say made in a factory where peanuts are processed or whatever it is. And egg, its very hard to find something without egg. Almost all chocolate says it MAY contain nuts.
Its not a peanut M&M issue only.
Sorry your son had to go through that and its great the school responded so well.
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Exactly my thoughts. It is a bake sale, not a snack brought in for everyone to enjoy. I'd be more upset at how this function was run and that the school allowed your child to choose with no oversight rather than at some random parent who baked a treat--especially being the school is not peanut free.