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@ Beach Runner, my daughter is only 2, but because of the severity of her allergy she will not attend preschool or Elementary school. I will be homeschooling her. I live "in the country" and they're not very knowledgeable out here on food allergies. They don't ban it at the school my 5 year old will be attending in the fall. They only have a "peanut free table" in the lunchroom, which is not adequate to those children who are allergic to the airborne peanut particles. Plus I think it is really sad to sit a child at the "peanut free table" while all the other children sit together. When I went to tour the school last month for my 5 year old (who has know known food allergies) I saw that they had a snack that went around to all the classrooms in the afternoon and there were butterfingers and plenty of other peanut containing products on it. I asked about the children with the peanut allergies and how the snack cart was handles and they said it was up to the teacher of each particular classroom. they might sit the peanut allergic child across the room from the kids eating butterfingers and such. In the neighboring county that I grew up in there are actual nut-free schools that make sure products that contain even traces are not brought in. I would love to send my daughter there, but it is a half hour sucaway and is a private school. I have heard of other public schools in the neighboring county banning the PB, but I think it depends on the school and what they want to do.
This is so wrong. School officials need to be more educated and more proactive about such health issues. Does the ADA law protect children like yours?
 

twilkerson

Beach Comber
May 19, 2011
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I've read that there is a 504 plan under the American with Disabilities act that would include children with food allergies. However, because the majority of children do not have a food allergy they are often singled out. I am a fan on a facebook page for mother's with children who have nut allergies and all to often, I read about other children picking on the peanut allergic child and sticking peanut butter crackers in their desk at school, etc. Plus there was the recent incident with the 1st grader at Edgewater Elementary in Fl who became a big target and parents were even picketing outside of the school and holding cruel signs because they were mad that there children could not bring in peanut butter or because they couldn't bring in party treats, even though the mother of the child with the allergy provided nut-free treats for all the kids in the class room for a holiday party. The other parents in the school wanted the 6 year old with the allergy removed from the classroom and home-schooled, rather than deal with special rules to protect her health. That 6 year old also had a threating letter sent to her house saying that they were going to put peanut butter in her backpack. To me, it's just not worth it to have my daughter singled out.
Here's an article regarding that little girl with the allergy:http://www.epicparenting.com/teachable-moments/inconvenient-life-allergies-kids-school/
 

Allifunn

FunnChef - AlisonCooks.com
Jan 11, 2006
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To answer your original question, if your daughter is deathly allergic to peanuts and tree nuts, then no restaurant is safe for her. Most restaurnants have pecans, walnuts and/or hazelnuts on the menu (as well as pine nuts). And even if they don't have these ingredients on the menu, there is no guarantee that some of the products have not come in contact with nuts at some point in production.
I wish you luck for the future
 

twilkerson

Beach Comber
May 19, 2011
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Shepherdsville, KY
Glenda,
Last night I was on facebook and came across a page of a woman who has a daughter with food allergies and she created a website called kid friendly Florida. She has a facebook page as well if you have facebook. https://www.facebook.com/pages/kidfriendlyfloridacom/96834963258
She said Tommy Bahama was good with allergies. Although I don't think her child is allergic to nuts, just gluten and dairy. It would be worth checking into though. She also said that there weren't many suitable restaurants in the area that were suitable for food allergies :sosad:
We just had a gluten free nut free restaurant announce their opening in Louisville, KY and I am really excited about that. I wish there were more of them! I am seriously considering opening my own because there are so few places.
 

ccj

Beach Comber
Mar 17, 2007
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Millseynz has the right idea, call around and ask the manager (or even better, ask the chef). There are several restaurants in the area that can probably accomodate. We get quite a few special requests/dietary needs/allergies every night that we can work with, so I can only assume other places have options just out of necessity.
 
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scooterbug44

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May 8, 2007
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That behavior described is ridiculous. Parents like that is a large part of why our schools are failing IMO. We had classmates that were allergic - usually to bees and strawberries - and it was simply accommodated. Some schools are getting rid of brought in snacks anyway due to obesity issues.

As a kid I certainly wouldn't want to not be able to eat things because someone else was allergic, but that is life. Nut free schools and planes seem extreme - is there no other way to protect these kids?
 

ktschris

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Nov 18, 2004
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My daughters school has kids that have peanut allergies. But instead of make a "peanut free" table all tables are peanut free except for 1. You sit at the peanut table if you've brought something for lunch that contains nuts. The table is decorated (marked) so during cleanings or meetings there is no chance that the peanut table will get mixed in with the others. The kids at the "peanut table" are even escorted to a separate washroom so they wash their hands.
 

Allifunn

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Jan 11, 2006
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My only concern is that your child is deathly allergic to nuts...even airbourne. If a restaurant has nuts in any of their preparation, those nuts could go airbourne and contaminate the food, regardless of how careful the chef is. As far as I am concerned...that is not a risk I would be willing to take (as a chef or a paernt). Just my thoughts.
 

Allifunn

FunnChef - AlisonCooks.com
Jan 11, 2006
13,636
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St Petersburg
My daughters school has kids that have peanut allergies. But instead of make a "peanut free" table all tables are peanut free except for 1. You sit at the peanut table if you've brought something for lunch that contains nuts. The table is decorated (marked) so during cleanings or meetings there is no chance that the peanut table will get mixed in with the others. The kids at the "peanut table" are even escorted to a separate washroom so they wash their hands.
This is awesome that her school does this.
 
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