SunButter in portable lunches

Food can be fun for children with food allergies

Food is fuel. Food is also fun! One of our weekly highlights is seeing photos of what Keeley McGuire packs in fun bento lunches for her lucky daughter, who also happens to have a peanut allergy. We’re proud Keeley shares her story here, and we love watching her daughter thrive. Thanks, Keeley! Look at this lunch: My name is Keeley and I have a little site called Keeley McGuire Blog. When I started blogging last year, I didn’t really know what direction I was headed – I just knew I needed a creative outlet. I started sharing some crafts, recipes, my love affair with my crockpot, and what I called “silly sandwiches” for my daughter, aka Little Miss. If you’re a mom looking to spice up your kiddos’ lunches, start simple. Use a cookie cutter on the sandwich! It takes the same amount of effort to cut a sandwich into a fun shape with a cookie cutter as it does to cut it in half. Then, get as clever as you’d like.

School lunch ideas from SunButter

We gathered creations and tips focused on healthy yet affordable foods that your students won’t trade away—and will fuel them through the rest of their day. Peanut butter is a cornerstone of kids’ school lunch ideas, but more and more schools are becoming nut-free to keep all kids safe. Other schools have a dedicated nut-free table in their lunchrooms. Solution: SunButter. It’s made solely from sunflower seeds in a totally nut-free facility. Yet it looks and acts like peanut butter. It also tastes great.

SunButter balls with homeschooled kids

I saw a peanut butter balls recipe a while back from Christy at Southern Plate. I immediately thought, “We can do that with SunButter®!” And, so, this morning, we finished up school and that’s exactly what we did.

Guest Blogger: Back to School with SunButter

We’re grateful when parents of kids with allergies tell us how SunButter® helps them. Jenny is the mother of two girls, a freelance writer and the author of “The Nut-Free Mom” blog, where she writes about parenting with nut allergies. SunButter® makes school lunch fun again It’s back-to-school time and like every other mother of an elementary school child, I’m asking myself what to pack for lunch. And since I’m the mother of a child with severe peanut and tree nut allergies, I’ve had to be creative at lunchtime. This isn’t always easy with a busy schedule. While I’ve done my best to offer non-peanut butter lunch alternatives (all kinds of deli products for sandwiches, pasta salad, veggies and yogurt dip, etc.), sometimes I’ve found myself wishing I could turn to peanut butter. Of course, that’s not an option for us.

Sleepovers with peanut allergies (and SunButter)

Our 11-year-old daughter had a sleepover! That’s typically not big news, especially in the summer when there’s often quite a few “extras” at our house. But this time, our 11-year-old, Katie, finally hosted a school friend, Megan, who was on her very first sleepover. See, Megan has food allergies, including nuts, eggs and dairy. And dog allergies. Like most moms, Megan’s mom is careful about her child’s activities. Unlike other moms, she is extra vigilant to keep Megan safe. Understandably, sleepovers were out of the question.