Dear Victory Parents:

This letter is to inform you we have a Victory student with a severe peanut allergy so we are implementing a strategy to ensure a safe learning environment.  Strict avoidance of peanut products on school grounds is the only way to prevent a life threatening allergic reaction. 

If the student eats or comes in contact with peanut, an allergic reaction will occur that requires emergency medical treatment and an injection of epinephrine.  This is a life-or-death situation.  If she gets peanut in her mouth, she has less than 10 minutes to receive emergency medical care.  Although not as severe, an allergic reaction can occur even if the student merely touches a table with peanut residue.

Parents and Students:

We are asking you to help by supporting Victory’s

initiative for a peanut-aware school.

• Food services works diligently to ensure all meals served are peanut-free. 
• “Cold Lunch” tables have been set up for students bringing lunch from home”.  This does not mean peanuts is allowed on these tables.  The tables are to safeguard against food coming from home that may not be perfectly peanut free.  For example, the jam jar may have a skid of peanut butter in it and that jar was used for the jam sandwich.  Or a cookie may show up that was labeled “may contain peanuts”.     
• Students will be greeted each day with a quick squirt of hand sanitizer in case anyone had peanut butter as part of their breakfast.
• Students will wash their hands after lunch and snacks
• Snacks or treats for class parties or school events need to be peanut-free items (see back of sheet for a list of peanut-free snacks).  There are also fun ideas for “peanut free food” parties!

Currently Victory has one student with a severe allergy to peanut.  She will not be the last.  Peanut allergic is becoming more prevalent.  Victory is paving the way with ingenuity to address the severity of this allergy and promote safety not only for this student, but for future ones as well.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.  Thank you.

                                                            __________________________________

                                                                        Dr. M. Saunders, Principal

The parents of this student understand going peanut free presents an inconvenience.  They want to express their sincere thanks to parents and students who have shown amazing concern and support regarding this issue.  People really pull together when a child’s life is at stake.  Please feel free to contact them with any questions or concerns you may have about peanut allergy, safe snacks, peanut alternatives, etc.

Fruits

All fresh fruit

Dole Fruit Bowls

Del Monte Fruit To-Go Cups

Sun-Maid Raisins (not chocolate covered)

Applesauce Cups

Motts Fruit Blasters Applesauce Tubes

Gummy Snacks

(Not Brachs.) Only Betty Crocker or Nabisco Fruit

Snacks including:

Fruit Roll-Ups

Fruit By The Foot

Gushers

Shark Bites

Fun Fruits

Scooby Doo Fruit Snacks

Trix Fruit Snacks

Hi-C Fruit Snacks

Pokemon Fruit Snacks

Vegetables

All Fresh Vegetables Including:

Carrots with Dip

Celery Sticks with Cream Cheese or Dip

Cookies

Nilla Wafers

Oreos & Mini Oreos (not mint-creme)

Chips-A-Hoy (not minis)

Bisco Wafers

Teddy Grahams

Pepperidge Farm - Milano, Chessmen, Shortbread

and Sugar Cookies

Keebler - Butter Cookies, Grasshopper Cookies

Nabisco - Barnum Animal Crackers, Oatmeal & Iced

Oatmeal Cookies, Cameo Cookies, Fig

Newtons, Kool Stuff Strawberry Seas Bars

Hostess Ho-Ho's & Twinkies

Rice Krispie Treats (plain only)

Nutri-Grain Apple Cinnamon/Brown Sugar Twists

Salty Snacks

Rold Gold Pretzels

Snyders of Hanover Pretzels

Ruffles Potato Chips

Lays Potato Chips

Fritos

Doritos (not crackers)

Cheetos

Tostitos

Pringles (original only)

Popcorn - Pop Secret, Orville Redenbacher,

Healthy Choice)

Jellos and Puddings

Hershey Chocolate Pudding Tubes

Kraft  Handi-Snacks - Wacky Gels, Vanilla & Chocolate

Pudding

Hunts - Juicy Gels, Vanilla & Chocolate Pudding

Jello - Gelatin Cups, X-treme Jello Tubes, Vanilla,

Chocolate & Oreo Pudding

Dole Fruit-n-Gel Bowls

Delmonte Fruit & Gel To-Go Bowls

Crackers

Honey Maid - Cinnamon Grahams & Sticks, Honey

Grahams & Sticks

Ritz Crackers (plain only, not sandwiches)

Keebler Club Crackers (original only, not

sandwiches)

Nabisco Saltines

Sunshine Cheez-Its

Triscuit

Wheat Thins

Pepperidge Farm Cheddar Goldfish (only plain, pretzel

or cheddar. Not Cinnamon Grahams)

Sargento- Mootown Crackers & Cheese Dip

Keebler Town House Crackers

Sportz Cheddar Crackers

Kraft Handi-Snacks Cinnamon Graham Crackers

w/Applesauce Dip

Kraft Handi-Snacks Crackers with Cheese Dip

Frozen Treats

Minute Maid - Juice Bars, Fruit & Cream Swirls,

Frozen Lemonade

Good Humor - Fudgesicles, Popsicles, Fire Crackers,

Great Whites, MicroPops, and Scribblers

Nestle - Itzakadoozies, Ice Screamers Flintstones

Rainbow Sherbet Treats & Juicy Juice Frozen Juice

Pops

Lick-A-Colors

Tropicana Fruit Juice Bars

Welch's Fruit Juice Popsic1es

ICEE Frozen Treats

Pizza

Papa Johns, Dominoes, Flippers, Pizza Hut

Candy - Starburst, Skittles, Twizzlers, Hershey Milk

Chocolate Bars (not with almonds) and Hershey

Kisses (not with almonds & not Hugs), Milk Duds,

DOTS, Sour Patch Kids, and Tootsie Rolls

Doughnuts - Krispy Kreme "Original Glazed" only

(only from the store - with or without sprinkles.

Not pre-packaged from a grocery store)

Misc.

Almond Butter, Soy Nut Butter, Sunflower Seed Butter

Cheese

Yogurt  - Gogurt, Danimals, etc.

Jet Puffed Marshmallows

T. Mazettis Carmel Apple Dip (with apples)

*Important: Due to continual changes in manufacturer packaging and processing, please read the ingredient label of your snack chosen from this list to ensure that it does not contain any of the following... peanuts, peanut butter, peanut oil, peanut flour, peanut meal, or any of

the statements "May contain traces of peanut" or "Manufactured in a facility that also processes

peanuts".