If you are allergic to hazelnut please answer...

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It's my child's birthday party this weekend and I have 1 child attending who is allergic to hazelnut.

Is there any obvious foods that he can't have? I'm going first thing in the morning to do a food shop - I would text his mum but it's too late now and I'm going too early in the morning

With an allergy is isn’t too late. It might be the child has to avoid anything with nuts and there could be cross contamination. Best to check with the parent.

Nutella is the obvious one. Kit Kats I'd avoid.

My dd is allergic to peanuts and at parties I would steer clear of things that might have peanuts in such as chocolate as I didn't want her to have a cross contamination reaction and throw up.

I agree with the pp. I have an allergy myself and know friends whose young children have allergies and we definitely wouldn’t find it too late to be asked or be annoyed since it’s pretty important.

Lots of chocolate products contain hazlenuts or have cross contamination with hazlenuts.

Absolutely correct- I'll message in the morning

Nutella, some cookies and praline type chocs but those aren't typical kids party fare anyway. It's typically a much milder allergy than peanut and 'traces'/'same factory as' may not be an issue- I'd text mum though, she can always leave replying til the morning

Loads of chocolate has hazelnut in - most Kinder (inc. Bueno), Nutella, Ferrero…

Often cakes, crêpes and other sweet treats with a choc filling are actually hazelnut-choc, too.

nutella! do not have any chocolate - all european chocolate (Lindt etc..)seems to have hazelnut in it. British chocolate is normally ok but don't risk.

i don't eat any sweet stuff out of the house - nuts are added to everything!

Avoid Nutella and praline, Ferrerro Rocher. I can eat any nuts apart from hazelnut, but hazelnut gets into so many varieties of chocolates and biscuits!

Read the labels on everything for the party. If it says may contain nuts/traces of nuts or may contain tree nuts/traces of tree nuts don't use it. Nut contamination is usually easy to spot on labels where I live hopefully UK same.

I'd also ask the mum how sever the allergy is. You may need to give things used for food prep or dishes for the party an extra rinse. Use a new/been through washing machine cloth to clean the benches, same with tea towel used to dry dishes. If you're using things little butter/margarine, spreads they need to be new bottles to avoid cross contamination. Things like sauces you squeeze out of the bottle are fine.

Check whether the birthday cake has nuts (assuming you will be providing one that the kids can eat). If it does, buy a back up but free cup cake so the child can have it instead of cake.

My DD once went to a birthday party where they forgot to check the cake was nut free. I asked and they realised. They sang the song and cut the cake and every child got a slice but my DD and there was no other desert (ice cream even would have done). She had to watch all the kids eat it and she has a sweet tooth as well so she felt quite sad!

Nut free cup cake not but free cup cake 😂

As pp said no Lindt, kinder but also watch out for Milka, and many Cadbury products - now they are owned by Mondelez- have had the formulas changed recently e.g. cadbury triple choc, cadbury peanut caramel crunch now contain hazelnut... Apparently it gives cheap chocolate a richer flavour. I wouldn't know as I'd be dead before I could be the judge of that!