I LOVE peanut butter! I eat it all the time especially as an alternative to sweets. But sadly one of my kids has a severe peanut allergy so no PB to daycare kids I said from the start if he cant have it noone can. (at least during daycare hours)
I have never served pb&j to my daycare kids! Wow! 20 years and never given a daycare kid a pbj! Sounds just unamerican! But, it's an extremely messy sandwich for kids under 4 yrs. old and to count on the food program, I'd have to put a buttload of peanut butter on each sandwich! The jelly would not count at all with the food program. So, nope, never served one to a daycare kid!
I have never served pb&j to my daycare kids! Wow! 20 years and never given a daycare kid a pbj! Sounds just unamerican! But, it's an extremely messy sandwich for kids under 4 yrs. old and to count on the food program, I'd have to put a buttload of peanut butter on each sandwich! The jelly would not count at all with the food program. So, nope, never served one to a daycare kid!
I only put a THIN layer of peanut butter (and jelly). I'll usually serve a fresh fruit, a veggie, and another meat alt. with it. (like a cheese stick or yogurt) then it counts on our FP!
Our food program wont allow pb except for snack. So I fix my kids a nice healthy lunch, put them down for nap then I go sit down and have a pb&j and a glass of milk!::
Melskids, yeah, but since some of the components of the pbj don't count, I don't see the point of serving it. Plus, I really try to keep them away from messy foods.
I have never served pb&j to my daycare kids! Wow! 20 years and never given a daycare kid a pbj! Sounds just unamerican! But, it's an extremely messy sandwich for kids under 4 yrs. old and to count on the food program, I'd have to put a buttload of peanut butter on each sandwich! The jelly would not count at all with the food program. So, nope, never served one to a daycare kid!
I do the same as mel does. The bread counts as the grain and we serve cheese sticks with them for the protein along with a fruit and vegie and milk. The kids love them. We serve them once every two or three weeks.
One child with Peanut allergy here but I do serve Soynut Butter and Fruit Spread on Whole Wheat Bread for lunch about once every two weeks. They all love soynut butter!
Side note we use it for anything that calls for peanut butter in a receipe for daycare.
I just served Turkey and cheese on goldfish bread yesterday - they thought that was neat. (it's made my pepperidge farm and is in the bread isle)
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