just a little find: Vermont Nut Free Chocolate

Just a little shout out to a favorite nut free company that has come to our rescue with safe treats!  My son's kindergarten class is celebrating the 100th day of school next week with a buffet of salty and sweet.  Tasty stuff, but of course I panicked madly when I heard that M&Ms are on the buffet.  Now trust me, I love M&M's but did you know that even the plain ones say "may contain peanuts!" eeks!  The issue is that they're all made on the same equipment and therefore cross contamination is an issue.

A quick phone call to my friends at Vermont Nut Free Chocolate and I've got several bags of "Skippers" on the way, along with a few Valentines pops to tuck away for the boys.  

I'm going to pick up the pretzels and popcorn for the buffet and all the other items will be safe for my son and his little friend (who also has allergies to both peanuts and treenuts.)

A salty, sweet, and safe buffet - what's better than that for little people, or really, lets be honest, big people too!

You can find Vermont Nut Free Chocolates HERE

Why it pays to read my google reader

I'm hopelessly behind in blog reading and commenting. 

Tonight I'm the e-girl trying to catch up, when I ran across this frightening post on my allergy blog list.

Puff Plus with lotion - the lotion contains shea butter. Um people, that's a tree nut.

I always say that it isn't the food that has the potential to get us in trouble, but the lotions and health and beauty products where you don't expect to find them.  Just what I need. Tree nuts in the nasal passages. Yowsers!

Similar to my "just a little green" I'm thinking of doing a recurring allergy post around here.  Since you all were so helpful on a name, any great ideas?  

Nuts. Its Halloween.

While children everywhere in the US are so excited about Halloween, call me a party pooper, but this holiday just scares the pants off of me.  I'm in denial.  

Since both my boys severe food allergies I simply loathe this holiday.  Come to think of it, I have an especially good reason to not enjoy Halloween.  It was three years ago when I learned, the hard way, as in oral swelling and a 911 call, that my eldest had a food allergy.  It was the day after Halloween, in fact, the night before, he ATE a peanut butter cup.  That was B.A.  - Before Allergies.

All week I've procrastinated buying candy.  I made three batches of cookies for tomorrow's "Harvest Celebration" in my son's kindergarten class so that I could be sure that everything is safe for him.  I've sent an email to the teacher to just verify that she's double checking everything that comes in from other parents.  I'm sure I'm pestering...but I'm a control freak where this is concerned.  Can't help it. Its my job.

Usually I pre-deliver candy to my neighbors for them to hand out to the boys.  I do it so that they can participate in trick or treating in a safe way.  This year, all week, my phone has been ringing from my wonderful neighbors who have been checking in to see what "Thing One" and "Thing Two" can have.  So thoughtful!  I love that they're all thinking of the boys safety.

We discussed with "Thing One" tonight that my husband will supervise candy selection at each house, and then we'll review all the candy at home.  We'll have a basket of safe options for him to switch out for anything that we decide is too risky.  

Spiderman and Batman are so very excited for the holiday and of course  I'll love watching them headed out in costume, but really I'll be so happy once they're home safe and snuggled in their beds.