Announcements

PEANUT FREE / TREE NUT FREE SNACK LIST

Please avoid snacks that contain peanuts, peanut flour, peanut oil, or peanut 
butter or other nuts. This includes snacks with almonds, coconuts, filberts,  
Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamia nut, pecans, pine nuts,
pistachios, and walnuts.

Please note: Food labels/ingredients may change over time, so it is always 
recommended that you read the label before purchasing snacks. Please read 
labels carefully to make sure the products are nut free. This includes
labels that read “May contain traces of peanuts/nuts.”

Quick check brands: Kellogg’s, Keebler, General Mills, Betty Crocker, and 
Quaker Oats brands are excellent at calling out allergens in a box:

Example: CONTAINS PEANUT AND EGG INGREDIENTS
Thank you for your consideration and support in keeping the food-allergic 
child safe from having a lifethreatening allergic reaction at school.

HEALTHY SNACKS

FRUITS/VEGETABLES
• Any fresh fruit (apples, oranges, bananas, grapes, pears, plums, 
clementines, strawberries, melons,
berries, etc.)
• Applesauce cups (and assorted variety fruit flavored applesauce)
• Raisins, Craisins, and other dried fruits
• Fruit cups (peaches, pears, oranges, pineapple, fruit cocktail, fruit 
blends, etc.)
• Fresh vegetables (baby carrots, celery sticks, grape tomatoes, cucumber 
slices, broccoli, pepper strips,
etc.)
• Vegetable dips

CHEESE/DAIRY
• Yogurt in individual cups or tubes
• Pudding in individual cups, cans, or tubes
• String cheese or other cheeses (1 oz.)
• Drinkable yogurt or smoothies
• Cottage cheese
• Kraft Handi-snacks with cheese (with red sticks) **Be careful with any 
other type of pre-packaged
cheese & cracker sandwiches, most contain nuts/traces of nuts
CRACKERS/SNACK ITEMS

• Crackers
- Triscuits, Wheat Thins, Vegetable Thins (all flavors)
- Ritz crackers/dinosaurs/sticks (NOT Ritz bits or sandwiches)
- Town House, Club, Toasteds crackers
- Cheez-Its, Cheese Nips, Better Cheddars
- Saltines, Oyster crackers
- Wheatables, Air Crisps, Munch’ems, Keebler Snack Stix
- Kashi Tasty Little Crackers (TLC)
- Breton/Dare brand crackers
- Goldfish crackers

• Graham crackers, Graham cracker sticks
• Teddy Grahams or Teddy Graham character brands
• Bug Bites crackers
• Goldfish graham snacks
• Animal crackers (Austin Zoo, Barnum)
• Vanilla wafers
• Cereals
- Cheerios (NOT Honey Nut or Frosted)
- Chex (Rice, Corn, Wheat)
- Cinnamon Toast Crunch
- Corn Flakes
- Crispix
- Frosted Mini-Wheats
- Kashi (Go Lean Crunch, Good Friends, Cinnamon Raisin Crunch, Heart to 
Heart) cereals
- Kix
- Life (NOT Vanilla Yogurt Crunch)
- Wheaties
- Other unsweetened cereal without nuts
• Small bagels (Lenders or Thomas brand) with cream cheese (no nut type)
• Popcorn
• Pretzels (most all brands, but some Snyder’s products not peanut/nut free)
• Nutrigrain cereal bars / yogurt bars
• Special K Bars (NOT Honey Nut)
• Special K Snack Bites
• Fig Newtons (all flavors)
• Rice cakes (NOT Quaker brand, not nut free)
• Quaker Quakes (mini rice cakes) / Mini Delights (all flavors safe)
• Potato Soy Crisps
• Cheez-It Party Mix / Munchie Party Mixes **Have not found any other brands 
of Chex type mixes to be peanut/nut safe

SPECIAL TREATS

CAKES/CUPCAKES
• Hostess cupcakes
• Hostess Twinkies, Ho Hos, Ding Dongs

COOKIES
• Kellogg’s brand Rice Krispie Treats (original)
• Oreos (regular, Golden, or Minis)
• Keebler Fudge Stripes, Fudge Grahams, Grasshopper Fudge Mint, E.L. Fudge 
sandwich cookies (original
and double stuffed)
• Gripz Chips Ahoy
• Any Dare Brand cookies (Hiller’s carries)

DONUTS/MUFFINS
• Krispy Kreme donuts/donut holes
• Mini Donuts/Donut holes – Kroger brand (powdered sugar, glazed, plain, 
cinnamon sugar)
• Hostess brand (powder, frosted)
• Muffins – mini or regular – Hostess and Kroger brands (any kind but banana 
nut)

CHIPS
• Bugels
• Cheetos
• Doritos
• Fritos
• Potato chips
• Pringles
• Sun Chips
• Tostitos
ICE CREAM/POPSICLES
• Popsicles
• Whole fruit bars
• Juice bars
• Fruit ice / Icee squeeze up tubes
• Orange push-ups
• Breyer’s Vanilla ice cream
• Kroger brand – ice cream sandwiches, strawberry shortcake bars, sundae cups
OTHER
• Fruit snacks (twists, gushers, roll-ups, etc.)
• Pop Tarts
• Pop Tart Snack Sticks
• Yogos / Yogos Rolls
**Most other brands of granola bars contain peanuts/nuts or
contain traces of peanuts/nuts
Updated 5/28/07
• Sweetened Cereals: Corn Pops, Froot Loops, Captain Crunch (regular), Apple 
Jacks

CANDY
• Air Heads
• Blow pops
• Dum-Dum suckers
• Gummy bears / worms
• Hersey Kisses – Milk Chocolate
• Hersey Kissables
• Jolly Ranchers
• Junior Mints
• Laffy Taffy
• Life Savers (hard and gummy)
• Mike & Ike’s
• Milk Duds
• Necco Sweethearts boxes (candy hearts)
• Nerds
• Pixie Sticks
• Ring Pops
• Rolos
• Runts
• Sixlets
• Skittles
• Smarties
• Spree
• Starburst
• Swedish Fish
• Sweet Tarts (regular and chewy)
• Tootsie Rolls
• Tootsie Roll Pops
• Twizzlers licorice
• Whoppers

KOSHER (PEANUT/NUT/MILK FREE) BAKERY:
Bake Station Too – 6663 Orchard Lake Rd, West Bloomfield (just south of 
Maple, located between Olga’s and Wesley Berry Florist)
READ EVERY LABEL EVERY TIME / FOOD LABELS AND INGREDIENTS MAY CHANGE OVER 
TIME!
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THE IRWIN SCHOOL PTA IS HOLDING ITS SECOND ANNUAL CONTEST AND THE PRIZE IS AN 
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PLEASE BEGIN TO SEND THEM IN TODAY!!!  THANK YOU!!!!

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE CALL 
TERRI MANFREDO (732)698-7532 OR 
ANN MARIE GILBERT (732) 257-5997