Nut-free lunchbox ideas

[Phteven]

Popcorn.
Yogurt squeezies (freeze them in summer)
home made museli bars
Cheese/baby bel
savory muffins

Try googling bento boxes - although you mightn't want to get as extreme as some of the japanese mums.

[sangie]

Give her the trail mix and muesli bars as an after school snack so she isn't missing them totally!

My DD loves avocado and cheese sandwiches. Other things I put in her lunchbox for kinder are cherry tomatoes, cucumber slices, cheese, homemade muffins/biscuits, fruit pieces or whole fruit, yoghurt, cruskits with vegemite, rice crackers.

[meow]

I find this stuff so frustrating too. My son loves nuts and doesn't eat any grains so I'm left with coconut flour to make him things for school.

Mini-muffins and then everything else you can cook in a mini-muffin pan- quiches and meatloaf are good.

Anything eggs- boiled eggs, pikelets, fish cakes (I basically make these pikelet things with a can of salmon & 2 eggs).

Homemade crackers with seeds. Salted roasted seeds. All seed things are a good way to go nut free too- sunflower seeds make a good "nut" butter.

[Nai]

You will find that pretty much every school in Melbourne is nut-free. We have 14 kids (including my DD1) who are anaphylactic to nuts so there is a very good reason why they are nut free. You can give nuts as an after-school snack.

For lunches we pack fruit - bananas, mandarines, apples; squeezy yoghurt, wraps with avocado cheese meat and salad, dried biscuits, home made mini-muffins, popcorn, crudites and dip, home made slices

There are so many things you can make and pack that are nut-free.

[RhiChiChi]

We do the following for kinder lunchbox:
- Fruit salad or just fruit
- Popcorn
- Rice wheels or rice cakes
- Salada or equivalent with a non-nut spread
- Hummus
- Kabana, cheese
- Cheese & crackers
- Homemade mini cupcakes/muffins
- Cut up capsicum, olives etc...
- Sandwich

[LoveKnowsNoBounds]

Hello,

Saw this and had to reply.

My DS has a nut allergy. I get annoyed with people's blaise attitude to it. My son isn't anaphylactic but we have regular testing and you never know... It is quite scary to watch a reaction. I'm sorry it is a pain for you not to bring nuts but I think every child deserves to be safe at school. We encounter this problem everywhere so it would be nice not to have to worry about it at the place he will be spending so much time in!

[Eenee]

It's still annoying though, especially for children who are allergic and intolerant to other foods. My DD can't have dairy or yeast so we use nuts in a lot of things too. Doesnt leave much for her to eat. But I get it my brother is allergic to nuts.

[LimeSlice]

Hello,

Saw this and had to reply.

My DS has a nut allergy. I get annoyed with people's blaise attitude to it. My son isn't anaphylactic but we have regular testing and you never know... It is quite scary to watch a reaction. I'm sorry it is a pain for you not to bring nuts but I think every child deserves to be safe at school. We encounter this problem everywhere so it would be nice not to have to worry about it at the place he will be spending so much time in!

No, you actually didn't "have" to reply at all - especiialy since you didn't actually address the question. But thanks ever so much for turning my thread asking for help into a debate, without contributing to solving the original question posed (which one would imagine you could do given your position of having to live nut-free 24/7).
It isn't a "pain" as you put it, it is beyond a "pain", as my daughter has *other* intolernaces and diet restrictions that mean nuts are an integral part of her diet. So NOT being allowed to use them at all poses a very real issue for me in practical terms, hence why I was asking for help. I use nut-based flours, oils, spreads, whole nuts...in everything from cakes and slices to frying and her meusli. Her standard snack is nuts. She has been to a day care, a kindergarten and a primary school here where despite them having nut-allergies in the school, they do NOT enforce a blanket nut policy, which I appreciate, as it isn't JUST nuts that cause problems for some kids and in fact the nuts that are the SOLUTION to those families.
So, I assure you, I am not blasé about anything, simply trying to find a solution to a problem that is *frustrating* to me and many others.

If you would like to debate, vent, or otherwise argue the merits for or against these policies, or societal responses to allergies or obesity or anytring else UNhelpful to the OP, please start a thread. Otherwise, would appreciate you stepping out or offering something valuable to the question posed.