I am little late posting this for the weekend. When I had it planned, the Internet was down and then it just plain slipped my my mind!
Anyway, I would love to know if you do allow your child to eat things like Sunbutter or Soynut butter? I just started allowing Tyler to do this because I am confident he knows the difference between these & PB. But I would love know what you do!!
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My husband and I eat Sunbutter and soynut butter, but I haven't gotten the courage up to give it to my PA son yet. (He's almost 3 and not really into trying new foods anyway right now. And, although the allergist said he could continue to eat it since he's never reacted to any food with soy in it, he did test mildly positive for a soy allergy so I worry about overwhelming his body with so much soy.) The other day he saw the soynut butter in the pantry and he said, "Peanut butter." So I explained to him what it was and that we'd never have PB in the house, etc., but I told him until he learned how to read, he wouldn't be able to tell the difference between safe soynut butter and the bad peanut butter. I don't think I'd ever send him to school with a soynut butter and jelly sandwich for fear that someone would think it's PB or in the rare case that lunches/sandwiches got mixed up.
My husband and I eat sunbutter - the brand that advertises they are made in a peanut free plant. I was leary about offering it to my peanut allergic kids due to its resemblance to peanut butter. I did offer it and one kid doesn't like it and the other does. I agree... sending to school sounds like a bad idea at least until they are much older, perhaps.
We use almond butter as substitute. It is ground in our local health food store where they take great pains to separate peanut grounding and almond grounding. No problems in 4 years of doing this BUT I did go to buy some at a small natural food store in Chattanooga, Tennessee and asked the manager about how they ground their butters. He informed me that they use THE SAME machine! Yikes!
Thanks for this blog.
Joyce -- Colorado
This was a tough choice for us since the color and texture of sun/soy butter can be hard for little ones to distinguish from peanut butter. We decided to let our daughter eat it for a few reasons - mainly that several sources of protein (eggs, meat, cheese) are not available to her (allergy, aversion, digestive issues - respectively). She takes a lunch to school each day, and since there is no microwave available to warm up foods the SB&J is a great, room-temperature alternative to a cold lunch. Some days we send a thermos, but a lunch box and a thermos are a lot for her to manage. Her classroom is peanut- and tree nut-free. There 5 different 'big 8' allergies among the 15 kids in her class, so I am comfortable that we are all respectful of the need to keep the children safe. Also, for the children that purchase the school lunch, the school food service is peanut- and tree-nut free, as well (though we choose to pack her lunch every day).
We eat sun butter in our house and I'm so grateful. My PA daughter has been eating it for about a year and a half. She doesn't like meat and we have allergy issues with many other legumes so I always worry about her getting enough protein. And I like having something easy to give her for a meal - I keep meaning to bake w/ sun butter but haven't tried it yet. She does not take a lunch to school and I'm not sure what we'll do about that when the time comes - I don't worry about her confusing peanut butter for sun butter, but I'd worry someone would see her eat sun butter and get the wrong idea.
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