Peanut free snacks

It's been super busy around here with back to school and now a week of birthdays! Max turned 3 on Tuesday, Chloe 5 on Sunday! I had such an amazing day with my little guy, cold and all- he was a trooper. We started at the diner which he loves! The waitress asked his name and he answered, "buthole"...needless to say, the day started with some laughs! It was a day of reflection for me, thinking back to the day he was born. He slept the entire first night of his life...and has been easy ever since. I am such a lucky mom. He celebrated with his classmates last Thursday! I had such the best time with 13 three year olds! They were adorable. I got to read a story to them which I absolutely loved. I picked Chloe up early so she could come to Max's class with me. She assisted in my reading! She was the proud big sister and all the little kiddies just loved her! Gaga also got in on the action- so it was quite the family affair!

Chloe celebrated with her classmates on Friday! I was so excited to meet all of her classmates as well and share in her special day with them. I read "If you Give a Pig a Party" to them while they ate their pink cupcakes. Chloe wanted to give her Principal a cupcake so we brought one to her office and Chloe got to feed her fish- very exciting stuff! We had a joint party for them on Saturday since their birthdays are so close. Then...for Chloe's actual birthday on Sunday, we had something small at the house with our family. She was so happy it was her day and not Max's!

On top of all this, I am taking a grad course (shoot me now!). I have 2 classes left to finish and promised myself I would. I have been working on cloning myself with out much  luck...but if I do- you'll be seeing a lot more posts in the future!

And now for the actual post! A lot of my mommy friends have been asking me to compose a list of snacks I send to school with Chloe. They know how freakishly into feeding my kids I am! I wanted to work on the peanut free list first because I know those moms are having the hardest time figuring out what to send each day. Luckily, Chloe can bring in anything this year- but I was faced with this difficult challenge during her pre- k year last year.

Peanut Free Snack List

• Danon danimals smoothies
• Mott's Medleys peach apple applesauce (made with veggies too!)
• Sabra individual hummus with riceworks gourmet crisps, pretzels or celery
• Mott's apple slices (comes pre-sliced in individual bags) pack with plain yogurt for dipping!
• pudding cups
• Jello cups
• yogurt
• gogurts
• cereal in container with or without milk- I buy the milk singles (freeze them if lunch or snack is late in the day)
• Ritz crackers, triscuits, saltines with slices of cheese
• Orange slices, watermelon, strawberries, grapes (halved), bananas, pineapple- my kids are fruities so any fruit I send they eat.
• Special K bars
• Nutri grain bars
• Pirates booty
• Goldfish
• Cheese sticks
• Granola with chex cereal and raisins
• Annie's organic Bunny Fruit snacks
• Graham crackers
• Sun snacks mix-ups in berry crunch 7 apple cinnamon (makers of sunchips) sweet mini sunchips, fruity flavored bagel buttons, cereal squares or oatmeal bites in each bag!

Last year for lunch, Chloe lived on Pastina in a thermos!
She also ate faux PB&J sandwiches with I AM Healthy Soy Nut Butter. That is definitely worth a try for your little peanut butter lover.

This year I've been giving her turkey roll ups, bagels with butter, banana bread...whatever she likes and I know she will eat. If I make a big breakfast of pancakes or waffles, Ill cut them up into sticks and put them in a baggies for her snack.

I hope I was able to help those of you in a pickle (another peanut free food...but way too smelly according to Chloe!)

My non allergy list is next to come...hopefully sometime this school year!