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One of the most serious allergies that is plaguing schools and daycares around the country is the peanut allergy. A peanut is a legume like a pea or lentils. A tree nut is a nut like a walnut, pecan, almond or cashew (a nut that grows on trees). Some people are allergic to both, while others are allergic to one or the other. This food allergy has become deadly to children and the best way to stay in control of this is to be informed. Make sure your child’s caregivers are well aware of this allergy. It is safest to pack your child’s own lunch and make sure if the allergy is severe, that no one in your child’s classroom brings in lunch such as a peanut butter sandwich. There are many schools and daycares throughout the nation that have banned peanut butter and foods that contain peanut butter. One more fact about nuts is that when reading the ingredients in a package, the description can be disguised with something sounding safe-these ingredients are peanut based:

Arachis Bouillon

Emulsified Ingredients Food Additive 322

Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein Lecithin’s

Mandelonas

This is a list of common foods to avoid, due to peanut or tree nuts as ingredients:

Peanut butter, peanuts, and peanut oil	Bouillon and Worcestershire sauce
Mixed nuts, candied peanuts, beer nuts, and peanut brittle	Praline and nougat
Crushed nuts in sauces	Muesli and fruited breakfast cereals
Asian foods (for example, satay and pad Thai)	Vegetarian casseroles prepared with nuts and some veggie burgers or soy burgers
Pesto (an Italian sauce made with nuts)	Prepared salads and salad dressings
Marzipan (a paste made from ground almonds and sugar)	Gravy mixes
All cakes and pastries with unknown ingredients, particularly carrot cake, pumpkin cake or pie, and fruit and nut rolls	Candy with nuts (M&Ms, Snickers, Hershey bars with nuts, Hershey almond kisses, salted nut rolls, and others)
Health food bars, energy bars, and sports bars

There are many foods that are Peanut and Tree Nut Free. More and more companies are putting labels on products that contain nuts or may come in contact with nuts.

Some foods to help your child enjoy:

Lucky Charms

Kix

Chex

Cinnamon Toast Crunch

Trix-General Mills Cereals

Nutrigrain Bars in Apple

Blueberry and Raspberry-Kellogs

Cheese

Goldfish www.pepperidgefarm.com

Jello Pudding and Gelatin Snacks