Nut allergy advice

[theheadgirl]

Hi, my DD3 goes to a special school. She gets fruit for morning snack, but is not a girl who can survive til lunch without some carbs (I know!) so I send something else in to fill her up til lunch. Its things like a cereal bar, or jam or marmite sandwiches. However, we've had a letter home to say one of her classmates has a severe nut allergy. As they all try to eat each others food I don't want to put him in danger.
Any suggestions people? A current favourite of my girl is sesame seed ryvita and cheese. Will this be ok or a no go. Thanks in advance.

sesame seeds are the same family as peanuts (legumes) so a no go I'm afraid. ordinary ryvita is fine, or how about the raisin one?

how about a savory muffin or corn cake?

DS is badly allergic to walnuts (never tried any other nuts as a result, for fear of what they might do to him) He isn't allergic to sesame seeds, though - does this help?!

Just seen Ingles2's post - yes, in that case I'd give sesame a miss too!
Would your DD eat (eg) oatcakes? They're lovely with cheese, and have none of the kinds of ingredients that schools might object to (sugar etc).

I suspected they were. Thanks for that. Will explore the supermarket. Corn cakes may be good, she doesn't refuse many things! (but rice cakes are like cardboard!) I want to avoid the obvious biscuits and crips.

I suppose you could ask whether the child has an allergy to sesame seeds.
ds has nut allergy and has been tested for sesame and is fine with them.Plain ryvita and cheese fine though

Oatcakes, Yes I like those, I'm she'd eat them. She is very greedy.

btw,very thoughtful and kind of you to think carefully about this.
As a mum of an allergic child it is greatly appreciated.

I don't think you should feel obliged to avoid sesame seeds unless you've been asked to, actually. I'm sure the child's mother would have mentioned it if they had this allergy also - they don't necesarily go together.

I would try and get a bit more info about the child's allergy from his mother.

I'm allergic to peanuts but not sesame seeds so it definitely isn't a given that this boy will be.

I'll second ggirl's comment!
I'd be really pleased if one of the mums in DS's class were being so thoughtful about his nut allergy...

Thanks ladies, well I figured the teachers in a class of 8 rascals with SN have enough to do without worrying about an epi-pen. Not to mention the boy in question also..
Have got plain ryvita to take with cheese for rest of week, then will have a good look in supermarket.