Re: snack problem at gym daycare


Anne Rogers wrote:
Oops, silly me, totally missed the "gym" in the header.
They probably won't provide snacks in that case. So, I'll back
up to the Trader Joe's recommendation if they come down on the
side of strict interpretation.

just looked in the kitchen, I had 3 things that would be suitable for snacks
from trader joes, 2 out of the 3 of them had a similar warning to the other
product, the one that didn't was oriental rice crackers, which neither of
the kids seem to like!

Anne

How about rice cakes, ds loves them. He also loves raisins, dried
blueberries, rehydrated dried apricots, bananas, strawberries and
breadsticks as snacks. The rices cakes, raisins, blueberries and
bananas take no prep and the apricots and strawbs can be cut up the
night before.

I agree the allergies is a tough one. William is intolerant to eggs and
vomits for hours if he eats even cooked egg in a cake. At Christmas the
nuresry say he was offered Mini Cheddars which the pack says 'may'
contain egg. Irritatingly they couldn't confirm whether he had actually
eaten any of the snack. He was fine, but we have no idea whether if he
had eaten them it would have affected him. However I don't think traces
of egg are much of a problem with intollerances and it is not life
threatening. It was just the fact that they didn't check that was
annoying. If he had had a life-threatening allergy I would expect the
nursery to check everything thoroughly. On the other hand I would also
expect them to do that *before* they offered the snack and can
understand your annoyance at Ada being offered the snack then it being
denied. If they did that to William he would have kicked off big time.
One way we get him to understand what he can and cannot have is not to
offer anything he cannot have, so he is clear. But it means that he
treasures what he can have and would not understand why it would have
been taken away. Especially if he was hungry and it was a favourite
snack. At 18mths I'm not sure many toddlers would.

I think if there is a child known to have a nut allergy then all
precaustions should be taken. If there isn't then I don't see why they
should be so strict just in case one might develop one. If that were
the case then the list of forbidden food would be endless. As William
is vege and egg free we wouldn't be left with much.

Jeni

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