<p>I’m not a big fan of peanut butter, but this thread has been making me crave it. Did you guys know there are 190 calories in two tablespoons of peanut butter? Wow.</p>
<p>Yes, which is why I eat it one precious spoonful at a time. No need to up the calories by spreading it on anything!</p>
<p>I’m glad I do not like peanut butter. But this thread made me crave peanuts and Nutella!</p>
<p>Nutella is a little intense for me, but I agree about this thread making peanut butter sound good.
I like it best with granny smith apples.</p>
<p>Never had Nutella.</p>
<p>It’s too mainstream.</p>
<p>What does that mean?
Do you eat almond butter?</p>
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<p>People here have used this example several times as a risk for PA students, but do people with deadly allergies really share communal silverware? I would be surprised at that, and consider it to be reckless for a PA student to use a utensil that may have been used by others for nut products.</p>
<p>I can understand the concern that prepared dishes might unknowingly contain nut products, or that a server’s scooper might have been used for something else that contained nuts, but I don’t think it is reasonable for any people with deadly allergies to expect to share utensils with other people.</p>
<p>^Okay, I’ll adjust that. You will not die because even though you used your own knife to spread your mayo, the knife the person before you used to spread mayo on his sandwich was used by the person before him to spread PB on his. :)</p>
<p>PB can end up in weird places. Apparently my daughter likes to put it on her ice cream. Dab of PB on the ice cream, then a little chocolate sauce which sticks to the spoon and has to be wiped onto the PB covered ice cream. Put the spoon back into the chocolate sauce and the next guy who comes along with his peanut allergy and a fresh spool is SOOL.</p>
<p>It seems like those types of scenarios can be remedied without banning peanut butter. Use the pump sauce dispensers and ice cream machines. Better still, avoid the self-serve ice cream bar altogether. No one <em>needs</em> that ice cream bar more than others need their nuts.</p>
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<p>Heresy, pure heresy.</p>
<p>Ice cream parlors are one of the risks to watch for. Does that scoop sit in water previously used to scoop peanut containing ice creams? Did the scoop sitting in peanut contaminated water scoop the non peanut flavor? We did get ice cream on occasion, but never from a case containing peanuts, and we ask them to get a clean scoop. Possible in our case as Ds allergy was not as lethal as some. Regardless, we’ve walked out of ice cream places that have an excess of peanut containing flavors. Too much of a risk.</p>
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This is a good example of how people with a “typical” peanut allergy deal with it. They accept some risk, but work to reduce it by being prudent. Some ice cream places really get it and make an effort to avoid cross-contamination. Some don’t. My son will try to get a read on this before eating in a place like that–and as noted above, some places just have too many nuts to risk it even if the people working there are well-meaning. Part of the problem in a college dining hall is that there is so much self-serve.</p>
<p>My D will never know the pleasure that is Coldstone. (They plop the ice cream on a cold marble slab, and then mix in all sorts of yummy ( and often nutty) treats). Bummer. :(</p>
<p>Coldstone is overrated. Fatty ice cream hand mixed with more fattening sweets. Better to stay away.</p>
<p>The truth is (and always will be, no exception), if you eat out, you are at much higher risk of getting very sick or even die. It applies to absolutely every person on Earth.
So, if you do not want to deal with this risk, eat at home. I know that it is NOT feasible, but this discussion will NOT make our eating out any LESS risky.<br>
I cannot believe that every single place in the USA where people eat out can be made peanut free. Requesting that some UG will not have peanut products in their dining hall is basically shooting in the sky. I do not know a single young person out at college and even those who happen to live at home while at college who do not go out to eat to places other than college dining hall.
You absolutely cannot rely on others taking care of your problems, you are the only person who can do it. That includes those who believe that consistent chocking is much less dangerous than peanut allergy or salmonella contaminated food or some other life threatanning food related situation / condition.<br>
And how about bees fying on campus? Where are requests of getting rid of all the bees? I am soryy, I forgot, they also belong to non-peanut related threats, which makes them also much less dangerous to people who are allergic to them.
The ONLY dangerous product is Peanuts. Why don’t we just ban peanuts in the whole country / world, would it solve the problem? I believe it would.</p>
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While there is some truth to this, it may surprise you to learn that there are some nice people around who are willing to help deal with many problems, including this one. We’ve found many restaurants, for example, to be quite thoughtful in helping my son navigate this problem. While it doesn’t eliminate the problem, it reduces the risk.</p>
<p>Miami-The point is that for many kids at college eating in the college dining hall IS eating at home.</p>
<p>Take, for instance, my son’s school. Freshmen are required to live on campus and 97 percent of students stay on campus beyond freshman year. With the exception of a small microwave in the common room there are no cooking facilities in his dorm and kids are only allowed to have either a microwave or fridge in their rooms, not both. Room and board are included in the comprehensive fee charged to students. You don’t get anything back if you decide not to eat in the dining hall.</p>
<p>Kids who go out to restaurants can gauge the danger. As Hunt says, some places are wonderful about working with allergies while some are less attentive. This is different from having to worry about what you eat in what is at least temporarily essentially your own kitchen.</p>
<p>Eating out is eating out, period, it is NOT consuming food that you prepare yourself.</p>
<p>Can you guarantee that person who is preparing food did not have a peanut butter sandwich just a minute ago or in fact consumed peanuts or anything that contain them? How you can rely on that? Yes, eating out is dangerous for EVERYBODY, including going to the very expansive places with very high reputation. You just do not know what person touched right before they prepared your food and not everything could be prepared wearing gloves, and how about latex, BTW, do you want to go into this discussion also?</p>
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<p>You can’t guarantee that the person wrapping your meat or fish in the supermarket or maintaining the produce display didn’t have a peanut butter sandwich, either.</p>
<p>^Exactly! I propose to stop eating, period, it will solve all problems, dead (from starvation) cannot die from allergies or food contamination of any sort or from chocking, bees, etc…</p>