Another idea is to do home made wheat pretzels, and then have dipping sauce with them, they are easy to make, and you can put whatever topping you want on them, so it doesn’t have to be salt.
My niece loves yogurt, fruit, raw veggies, different types of pasta salads, nuts, seeds, cheese, crackers, bread but not in a sandwich.
One thing to do is list everything she likes and then start putting things together, once you start a list it makes it so much easier to make lunch and you’ll even be able to look down it, and see which are quick lunches when your short of time. That’s basically what I did. But then again I kind of got a kid toss at me, and had no idea of her likes and dislikes just I ended up playing Mom for about a year, and tried to keep everything going smoothly for her. The poor thing got stuck with me to live with, and to top it off we didn’t know much about each other, the last thing I wanted to do was send her to school with something she wasn’t going to eat.
The schools around here outlawed any type of nut products as well. I got in trouble about a year ago, I was working with academics and fitness, and I was setting up everything for my first class at one of the elementary school gym's as that’s what I was given to hold a fitness class, it was geared the stay at home and working mom's and it was close to their neighborhood so they didn't have to go all the way across town to workout. I was snacking on some almonds when a janitor came in and told me I wasn't allow to have nuts in there, as that is also where the kids eat at lunch. This was when school had just gotten out and they weren't even using it for summer school that year, so the kids wouldn't even be there for 3 months. I still had to go outside to have my snack as I got a letter from the school board stating if I wanted to keep holding classes I must have nuts of any kind outside. It made me shake my head, it was 5 pm in the evening, I know smell stays in the air for a while with as breezy as this gym was, do to all the foundation cracks in the walls and floors. I don’t think the smell would have stayed for 3 months. But it really makes it hard when you got a kid that love PB &J or just other nuts as my niece is a vegetarian. As no type of nut product are allowed even at the high school level as the cafeteria personnel doesn’t want to have to figure out if what the child brought is peanuts or another type of nut.
But I can now understand it some; we did have one kid (18 year old) die at U of M last year. He some how ended up eating something with peanuts or made with peanut oil in it, and didn’t know it. No one is sure where or what he ate, it was never announce in the newspaper. But had his throat swell up while he was sleeping and suffocated to death. I always thought if you were allergic wouldn’t you check before you ate something. Or if you went over to had dinner wouldn’t you say hey don’t cook any anything for me with peanut oil? Or say something or ask before you ate it? To me that’s just common sense, I’m allergic to both cabbage and onions, and I always make sure to tell anyone I’m going to their house for dinner, to please not make anything with either of those two items. As even the smell, will make me react. But I generally believe parents try to experiment with food when the child is young and not just give them hamburgers to eat. So they’d know if the child is allergic to different types of food or not, before they turn 18. But some of the diets I’ve seen that parents allow their children to have; I’m starting to doubt my theory more and more. So there may be kids out there, that don't know if they are allergic to a certain kind of food or not.
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Does this mean I'm a kid at heart? LOL reading this thread makes me wonder if my mom knew I threw out most of my lunch.
