I am hosting the family for Christmas Eve and I have always done a cookie table instead of a dessert. Overall I love to bake and there are usually around 15 different types of cookies.
My son recently got married and I have a two step grandkids now. They are 8 and 10. They are allergic to peanuts, if it gets on their skin they fine but if they eat it they get a bad rash and swell up.
They don’t really listen to anyone and it has caused issue before. My plan for this year was to keep the cookies with peanut butter on one table and the other cookies on another. Evertthign was going to be labeled also. I wasn’t going to cook them at the same time either to avoid cross contamination.
I told my son the plan and he didn’t have an issue with it, he said he would talk to the kids. My dil called me up and wasn’t happy with the plan. She told me I can’t have anything with peanut butter at the event. I told her no becuase a lot of people like these cookies. I already made a few batches
He continued to argue and I told her to just watch the kids and at 8/10 they should know well enough not to eat what they are allergic too. She called me a dick over it and that I will be tempting them since they are cookies
My son contacted me after saying i should have more tact even if he agreed it should be fine. He said the kids already know not to eat their allergin and they don’t have issue at school with this
Edit: common questions I have seen
Yes the school allows nuts.
No, the kids don’t have an airborn reactions to nuts ( confused why people think this)
What type of swelling: their face gets red and their face is puffy. No they have never had their throat close ( she told me this when I first met them and asked about it)
Yes everything will be labeled
Cross contamination shouldn’t be a problem at all. I am cleaning between cookies and their allergie isn’t steong enough to be effected by that in the first place ( mom has never been worried about cross continuation anywhere, we have gone to many restaurants that serve peanuts and she never mentions it)
Didn’t even come up as a reason, she claimed I would be temping them
Are their nuts in their house: yes my son eats them…
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