They are going to celebrate all of the summer birthdays this month and my daughters celebration is on Thursday and I have no idea what to bring for snack?

I have lots of juice, so I will bring that, but I don't know what to do for food? There's a child who is highly allergic to eggs and one who is allergic to dairy. I don't HAVE to bring something different for them, they have backup snacks in case they can't eat what the rest of the class is having, but I would like to bring something they all can eat?


Any good ideas?

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Hmm, Dont know if these are safe for the allergies, but Dunkin Donuts makes donuts in the shape of the number of the childs age, (ie: a 4 or 5 or whatever)

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Is the rule that it has to be 'healthy'? and/or pre-packaged? Are you expected to not have eggs OR dairy in the ingredients AT ALL (???) that is HARD!!! Those two ingredients are in almost everything that I can think of! Those poor kids.

Costco has boxes of individually wrapped cookies, crackers, granola bars OR they have a tub of letter cookies that are an absolute hit with preschoolers.

Also, kids that age will eat almost anything if they can dip it in something (ie ranch dressing, ketchup).

When my kids were in preschool, I used the breadsticks in cans to make the first letter of all of the kids' names and gave them pizza sauce for dipping. They were quite a hit!

You could do a jello mold with cool whip. Now cool whip is non dairy so if child is just lactose intolerant it is fine but if she/he is whey protien allergic it would not do. Then you could do jigglers with cool whip as a dip. also I just thought about italian ices these have no dairy and no eggs. where I live the brand is Luiggis and they come in lemon and strawberry they are in the individual cups I think a 6 or 8 pack. Also bryers makes an all natural fruit bar but that could be really expensive depending on how may kids there are. Luiggis puts out $1 coupons every now and agin .

Reading back through my suggestions above... Breadsticks were probably only non-egg/non-dairy thing I suggested!

Popsickles, fruit bars

strawberries with a chocolate Hershey sauce to dip into

strawberry kabobs where you layer strawberries, pineapple, kiwi, etc. on a stick

Apple slices with a caramel dip

Mixture of fruit in a cute dixie cup with special colored spoons: fresh sliced strawberries, canned pineapple with juice, banana slices (the pineapple juice makes the bananas not turn brown) grapes (cut in half) maraschino cherry on the top. Mix it together in a large bowl and then put into the dixie cups. Get nice colored spoons and napkins at the Dollar type store. The kids will feel special.

watermelon slices

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Donna

Baggies with popcorn Maybe you could have animal crackers in this too if they don't have eggs.
Maybe raisins in with the popcorn.

There are probably some other sort of munchie food too you could put in the baggies -- just don't put nuts in it.

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If you do popcorn it would have to be with an air popper or on the stove (microwave ones have milk). Cool whip, caramel dip, and animal crackers are not ok for milk allergies. The donuts aren't ok for egg allergies. Sorry! My dd is allergic to both so I'm trying to save you some time. Some popsicles would work.

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Otter pops are ok.

Wow. I didn't realize microwave popcorn had dairy in it. I'm lactose intolerant (not allergic) and that explains why I get a tummy ache after microwave popcorn sometimes. It never occurred to me!

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I bet popsicles would be a hit on a day as hot as this.

Rebecca

Oh Hi!

1) Thank you for thinking of the other kids. It is GREATLY appreciated. And in case the other parents don't 'thank you', well... THANK YOU!

2) Dairy/egg free (and nut, should you choose to) aren't EASY, but available.

Caitlin eats starburst, skittles, and dum dums. Twizzlers are good (but contain wheat/gluten).

There are SOME oreo cookies that are dairy free (but contain wheat/gluten)

Most store bought cakes contain dairy/egg (or are run on nut equipment, so it could say 'may contains...' and some parents don't give those to their kids...)

Popsicles are safe too (for dairy/egg/nut/wheat allergic)

Note: Whatever you buy will NOT please everyone. There's going to be SOMEONE that doesn't/can't eat it (say 'corn allergic' folk...). You can only do so much though.

Hopefully, whatever you bring will be graciously accepted, and if there needs to be an alternative, it'll be provided.

Jello Jigglers from the store are good too, though as stated, whipped cream/cool whip are out.

Just a big ole 'Thank you for thinking of our kids' comes to mind.

Jason

I would suggest some kind of fresh fruit -- that would be your best bet that everyone could eat. Most children will eat grapes or apples. Finger Jello, popsicles or fruit snacks would probably work too.

Well, I ended up with Shrek push pops. They are frozen sherbet and I thought maybe not quite as messy as ice pops?

I did want to get something everyone could have and since it was a birthday celebration, I didn't worry too much about the healthy part, I wanted it to be fun.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! You are a great help as usual!

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