Well, don't I feel like a bad Dad now....

[Queasy]

Went to the store last night to get something for my kids' lunch today. The Deli at Publix didn't have the ham my wife wanted for them so she told me to get get a couple of Ham & Cheese Lunchables and she'll get the ham later. So, I bought two ham and cheese lunchables and throw them in the refrigerator when I get home. I pack the kids lunches tthis morning (Hey look! Its easy today...all I have to do is put their Lunchables in their lunch bag!), help get them dressed, and take them to school.

Wife picks them up from school and calls me because my son started projectile vomiting in my car. The Lunchable box had a Butterfinger in it....my son is allergic to Peanuts. I never even realized there was a freaking candy bar in the box...just saw the ham, cheese, and crackers.

<bangs head furiously on desk>


Cliffs:
1) Go buy lunches for kids.
2) Completely oblivious to all contents.
3) Son eats Butterfinger.
4) Son is allergic to Peanut Butter.
5) Son projectile vomits in my car.
6) .....
7) No profit...go directly to Bad Dad jail.

 

[Quasmo]

Sorry to hear that. But are you sure he wasn't just projctile vomiting from eating that crap in a box, you call "lunchables"?

 

[MX2]

 

[Hyperlite]

Uhg, that sucks. Sorry to hear that.

 

[leftyman]

When they grow up get them into porn and profit.

 

[JMWarren]

My parent's have done that at least twice to me...most recently when i was at home this Christmas...

You'd think having known about my allergy for 23 years they wouldn't buy things with peanuts! Then again, you'd think after 23 years I wouldn't eat things in the dark, without checking the packaging. Truthfully I was more careful when I was 5 than I am now.

 

[blackdogdeek]

do you guys have to carry around an epi-pen?

we do for my eldest who is also allergic to peanuts.

 

[tm37]

Is he going to be OK?

Is there one or two kids.

I have two that way is I screw one of them up I have a back-up

 

[Chaotic42]

Blame Bart Simpson.

 

[OutHouse]

guess what you will be cleaning when you get home.

hope your son is going to be ok.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: JMWarren
My parent's have done that at least twice to me...most recently when i was at home this Christmas...

You'd think having known about my allergy for 23 years they wouldn't buy things with peanuts! Then again, you'd think after 23 years I wouldn't eat things in the dark, without checking the packaging. Truthfully I was more careful when I was 5 than I am now.

We're very good about checking to make sure that nothing has peanuts in it for him to eat. Even going so far as to making sure that the places we eat at cook with vegetable oil and not peanut oil. I just didn't realize that this Lunchable box had a candy bar in it.

I hope he feels well enough to go to baseball practice tonight. This is his last one before his very first game on Saturday. Don't want him to feel like he is missing out.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek
do you guys have to carry around an epi-pen?

we do for my eldest who is also allergic to peanuts.

Yep. Epi-pen and plenty of Zyrtec.

Originally posted by: tm37
Is he going to be OK?

Is there one or two kids.

I have two that way is I screw one of them up I have a back-up

I'll have to wait and see.

We have two kids...boy and a girl.

 

[j00fek]

awww

 

[Ipno]

On the bright side, at least he was vomiting, and not going into shock or worse.

 

[JMWarren]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: JMWarren
My parent's have done that at least twice to me...most recently when i was at home this Christmas...

You'd think having known about my allergy for 23 years they wouldn't buy things with peanuts! Then again, you'd think after 23 years I wouldn't eat things in the dark, without checking the packaging. Truthfully I was more careful when I was 5 than I am now.

We're very good about checking to make sure that nothing has peanuts in it for him to eat. Even going so far as to making sure that the places we eat at cook with vegetable oil and not peanut oil. I just didn't realize that this Lunchable box had a candy bar in it.

I hope he feels well enough to go to baseball practice tonight. This is his last one before his very first game on Saturday. Don't want him to feel like he is missing out.

My parents are pretty good, but there has been the occasional slip up. It's easier now than it was 20 years ago. May Contain Trace of Nuts was rarely listed 20 years ago, let alone the range of nut free products available today.

Is your son allergic to peanut oil? That's odd, considering its the protein that triggers the allergy and I didn't think the oil contained any protein....I still avoid it but I've been told it's safe to consume.

 

[SonnyDaze]

DAMN YOU!!!

I guess your son is now Queasy Jr.

 

[Abe Froman]

Originally posted by: Queasy


Cliffs:
1) Go buy lunches for kids.
2) Completely oblivious to all contents.
3) Son eats Butterfinger.
4) Son is allergic to Peanut Butter.
5) Son projectile vomits in my car.
6) .....
7) No profit...go directly to Bad Dad [Detail].

Fixed

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: JMWarren

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: JMWarren
My parent's have done that at least twice to me...most recently when i was at home this Christmas...

You'd think having known about my allergy for 23 years they wouldn't buy things with peanuts! Then again, you'd think after 23 years I wouldn't eat things in the dark, without checking the packaging. Truthfully I was more careful when I was 5 than I am now.

We're very good about checking to make sure that nothing has peanuts in it for him to eat. Even going so far as to making sure that the places we eat at cook with vegetable oil and not peanut oil. I just didn't realize that this Lunchable box had a candy bar in it.

I hope he feels well enough to go to baseball practice tonight. This is his last one before his very first game on Saturday. Don't want him to feel like he is missing out.

My parents are pretty good, but there has been the occasional slip up. It's easier now than it was 20 years ago. May Contain Trace of Nuts was rarely listed 20 years ago, let alone the range of nut free products available today.

Is your son allergic to peanut oil? That's odd, considering its the protein that triggers the allergy and I didn't think the oil contained any protein....I still avoid it but I've been told it's safe to consume.

Our doctor told us not to take any chances so...<shrug>

The good thing with his peanut allergies is that it only affects him when he ingests it. We're fortunate that he isn't one of those kids that can't even touch anything where peanut oil has been around.

 

[andy9o]

Glad your son is ok.

Is it just me, or is more and more stuff being labeled "May Contain Peanuts" than even should be. IT seems its gotten to the point where everything was manufactured by a company that also produces toys near a factory that once had a peanut in it, so all their produces "May Contain Peanuts". I've wondered if this a figment of my imagination, or some lawsuit-happy jerks are pushing companies to declare that anything even remotely ingestable may contain peanuts, to protect from frivolous lawsuits. My $.02

 

[jiggahertz]

When did everybody start becoming allergic to peanuts. Even back when I was in grade school (born in '81) there was only one kid that I ever knew to be allergic. Now it seems like a much larger portion have peanut allergies.

 

[Ipno]

approx 1 in 200 are allergic to peanuts

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Went to the store last night to get something for my kids' lunch today. The Deli at Publix didn't have the ham my wife wanted for them so she told me to get get a couple of Ham & Cheese Lunchables and she'll get the ham later. So, I bought two ham and cheese lunchables and throw them in the refrigerator when I get home. I pack the kids lunches tthis morning (Hey look! Its easy today...all I have to do is put their Lunchables in their lunch bag!), help get them dressed, and take them to school.

Wife picks them up from school and calls me because my son started projectile vomiting in my car. The Lunchable box had a Butterfinger in it....my son is allergic to Peanuts. I never even realized there was a freaking candy bar in the box...just saw the ham, cheese, and crackers.

<bangs head furiously on desk>


Cliffs:
1) Go buy lunches for kids.
2) Completely oblivious to all contents.
3) Son eats Butterfinger.
4) Son is allergic to Peanut Butter.
5) Son projectile vomits in my car.
6) .....
7) No profit...go directly to Bad Dad jail.

this doesn't make you a bad dad. it just makes you a dad who should read labels more carefully.

 

[moshquerade]

hmmm... they recalled them in 2004

http://www.kraft.com/specialreport/lunchables/

 

[TXHokie]

Lunchable is nasty stuff. I bought a couple a while back and test drove them first and gagged - The ham and crackers were stale and the cheese was nasty. I'd rather give them quick homemade sandwich (pb&j, or butter and jelly, even grilled cheese beats that lunchable stuffs).

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Originally posted by: Ipno
approx 1 in 200 are allergic to peanuts

According to MedicineWorld.org, Peanut or tree nut allergies affect approximately 0.6 percent and 0.4 percent of Americans, respectively, and cause the most severe food-induced allergic reactions. So, I guess 1 in 200 is about right.

I do think it strange that so many more people are allergic now versus 30 or 40 years ago and, I do not think it is a matter of greater awareness.