This page provides parents and guardians with approved snack options that are safe to bring into elementary schools, in accordance with updated food allergy procedures designed to protect students with life-threatening nut allergies.
Due to a dramatic increase in possible life threatening food allergies, all home baked and unpackaged foods will be prohibited in the Elementary Schools.
This must be strictly adhered to in order to keep our students safe. For special celebrations (holidays/birthdays) in class, teachers will send home notices with a list of specific foods that will be allowed in the classroom.
For special (holidays/birthdays) celebrations, only peanut free, store packaged, labeled products such as cupcakes and cookies are allowed.
Only products with peanut free manufacturer’s sticker, on the packaging, will be allowed in the school buildings. This does not apply to food students bring in for lunch from home.
Avoid snacks that contain peanuts, peanut flour, peanut oil, or peanut butter or other nuts. This includes snacks with almonds, coconuts, filberts, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamia nut, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios and walnuts.
Read labels carefully to make sure the products are nut free. This includes labels that read, “May contain traces of peanuts/nuts” or “processed in a facility that processes products that contain peanuts/nuts.”
Food labels and ingredients change over time, so always read the label each time before purchasing snacks.
Include the packaging of your treat when you send it to the classroom, so that the label may be rechecked if there are any questions. Thank you for your consideration and support in keeping the food-allergic child safe from having a life threatening allergic reaction at school.
Peanut Free/Tree Nut Snack List
Fruits and Vegetables
- Vegetable dips
- Any fresh fruit or vegetable
- Applesauce cups
- Raisin, Craisins, and other dried fruits
Cheese/Dairy
- Cottage cheese
- Yogurt in individual cups or tubes
- Pudding in individual cups, cans or tubes
- String cheese or other cheeses
Cereals
- Kashi (Go Lean Crunch, Good Friends, Cinnamon Raisin, Heart to Heart)
- Cheerios – Plain
- Cinnamon Toast Crunch
- Corn Flakes
- Kix
- Crispix
- Wheaties
- Frosted Mini-Wheats
Crackers
- Teddy Grahams
- Triscuits, Wheat Thins, Vegetable Thins
- Cheez-Its, Cheese Nips, Better Cheddars
- Saltines, Oyster Crackers
- Wheatables, Air Crisps, Munch’ems
- Goldfish Crackers
- Graham crackers, Graham cracker sticks
Other Snack Items
- Sun Chips
- Popcorn
- Pretzels
- Nutri-Grain cereal bars/yogurt bars
- Special K Snack Bites
- Fig Newtons (all flavors)
- Kellogg’s brand Rice Krispie Treats (original)
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