Oops, Peanuts

The other evening, I found a handwritten note in my 3 year old’s lunchbox, stuck to his unopened package of peanut butter Ritz Bits:

Sorry [3YO] couldn’t eat them. We gave him Goldfish : )

I had made his lunch that morning, and I forgot there was a child with peanut allergies in his class. I packed his lunch bag with some rolled up ham slices and pepperoni (he loves pepperoni), some sliced grapes, an apple juice box, and the snack bag. We usually give him a package of Cheez-Its for his classroom snack, but I put the last package of those in the 6 year old’s lunch that morning. So I just grabbed the next bag of snacks in the cupboard.

The peanut restriction completely slipped my mind. In fact, after I saw the note, it was a few moments before I realized why he “couldn’t eat them.” Interesting, though, I’m now so in the habit of making the ham and pepperoni roll ups for his lunch, I didn’t remember why we started packing that instead of a peanut butter sandwich, like we pack for the 6 year old.

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