To wonder what is dangerous about my child’s lunch

I’d be perplexed too

I’d get a copy of the allergy policy .
Nuts I get , but you’d rule out most stuff if you weee only allowed sterile foods (ie guarantee nut free food prep area )

Ignore the holier than thou mums. Their kids probably hate them for giving them boring packed lunches when all the other kids get baby bel.🤭 What you packed was probably way healthier than what they would have got for school lunches anyway! Mine are always getting chicken nuggets and chips, and spaghetti hoops on toast at school. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Are they banning for allergies or because the treats are deemed too unhealthy?

My dc school has banned so many items from the treat day list finding an approved appropriate sized non messy item is like finding hens teeth

So the OP was being chastised for including a food that isn't listed as a 'banned' food on their website. Crikey, parents have to be psychic too. I'd be pointing out they need to update their website. In a non judgemental and constructive way obviously.

The OPs school hasn't banned dairy. It has banned one specific, messy item. They can still utter their bread, have cheese and take a pot of yogurt, and drink milk. They can't have a tube of yoghurt.

@user09876543 would you like my 4 year old to sit on her own at lunchtimes? It seems a bit harsh for a child just about to start school.

To those saying they have to learn to cope with their allergens being around them in the real world, have you ever been in a school hall at lunch time? There is basically food everywhere. If banning squirty yogurts prevents a child from going through life threatening anaphylaxis it's not really a huge issue to go without is it?

Again, for those in the back, the only thing special about nuts in the allergen space is that they're easily avoided.

I had a packed lunch so I don’t really know what you are talking about. I understand the peanut allergy but saying children can’t have dairy is ridiculous.

I don’t remember anyone in my schools dying due to what was in someone else’s lunchbox. So a child that will only eat cheese can’t have it because of another child’s allergy ? They can sit separately, apart from nuts these school rules are getting ridiculous.

I'm on my phone with poor signal so can't double check, but there's no nuts or peanuts that I can see listed in the ingredients, so they're a may contain and absolutely fine in a nut free school.

Also.

It was the frube.

We're three days and 480 posts in, mystery long since solved.

Exactly this. We have a nut free school but one of the severely allergic teachers had an anaphylactic reaction. Apparently the only thing they could work out that MIGHT have caused it was a child had eaten peanut butter on toast on the way to school and may have had some on their hand / transferred to a door handle etc.

DS1 has a peanut allergy and that is the sort of thing that worries me.

Maybe because you were one of those lucky enough not to have a life threatening allergy? 😕🙄

PEPPERAMI!!!!
They have a nut allergy warning on the packet and so can't be classed as nut free. The Aldi ones don't have the same warning if, like mine, your kids love them.

Oldies would have gone home for lunch, there for zero risk of cross contamination in a lunch hall.

Many kids 'choked to death' on peanuts. There is now a theory that many of those were actually allergic reactions to peanuts.

It really can't be easy to send you child out into the world of school knowing that they'll be sitting beside other kids who have stuff that's poisonous to them.

Oof. This is really depressing from someone who works in food prep tbh.

Nut allergies are no more serious than milk allergies which should be treated equally seriously. As mentioned above, a schoolboy died when a piece of cheese was thrown at him. For some children, a contact reaction to milk could be extremely serious - hence the school banning frubes as the risk of mess substantially increases the risk to the allergic child.

It can be a real struggle for people with non-nut serious allergies to be taken seriously, especially if they are allergic to something which isn't one of the listed allergens. Anything can be an allergen, the list is just the most common ones.

Cross contamination can easily happen when two children sit side by side eating their packed lunches, regardless of how safely they were packed at home. Something like a frube presents a higher risk.

There isn't much evidence of airborne nut allergies. Milk allergies however CAN be airborne, for example milk frothers in cafes or hot chocolate powder can cause reactions. Similarly, coelics need to be careful around flour - a friend's mother in law ended up in hospital after baking with her grandchildren as she inhaled some flour.

How did us oldies ever get to be alive 🙄

Yes cross contamination, but a child's lunch is individually packed at home, and there should never be cross contamination, because the kids should not be sharing their food or have their food touching other kids food. Dairy and gluten allergies are not like nut allergies, where they can be affected just by breathing in when nuts are in the same area. My dad is coeliac and has never had a problem being near gluten, it's only if he eats it or it's touching something he eats (usually only if he's having a bad day!).

It very much depends on the person, some with coeliac or a serious milk allergy absolutely have to be extremely careful about cross contamination.

@pollymere
IT WAS THE FRUBE 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Pepperami are often banned in schools due to their high fat and salt content. I suspect a miscommunication meant you got the allergy email.

Or it could be a child allergic to strawberries.

Totally! I’d be really annoyed by this. According to the school it could be as serious as a life or death issue, because that’s what serious food allergies are, and yet they are not stating what the dangerous item is. That’s really poor.

As a pp said, it’s probably some kind of copy-and-pasting failure. But that’s no excuse. I can’t bear this kind of communication failure, it winds me up no end.

Always easier to say it’s a prohibited item than to explain what it is.

I agree with the drives being messed. I’ve only ever bought them to freeze and eat as a frozen treat. They’re useless as a yogurt. The pouches with screw tops are better or the squashams.

Someone else above mentions dairy and gluten fine being in the vicinity and only when eaten that’s an issue. I know from experience that gluten can cause air born issues for some with coeliac. Coeliac isn’t an allergy though it’s an autoimmune condition and can vary and reactions can come from touching it. However I’ve never come across a dairy allergy that presents this way. We have children at school who carry an open for dairy but it’s only when injested that they have the issue. My own children had a CMP allergy but was never that serious.

I think maybe the messiness of the drive may be being covered up by the allergy as a good reason to ban.
Wonder how they manage the school milk in that class though as those cartons are often left to still, get stood on etc.

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