We currently have children in the nursery and reception classes who are severely allergic to nuts, to the point that if they so much as breathed nuts they would go into immediate anaphylactic shock. As a result, we can only use tissue boxes for 'reclaimed material modelling', since cereal and other food boxes may present dangers.
We are unable to use food colouring in playdough and the water tray because a child has an allergy to this. In addition, we have children with allergies to all dairy products and some who are vegetarians. This makes finding recipes to cook extremely difficult.
We do not want to exclude children from the activity or from sharing the experience of tasting what they have cooked, and are desperate for advice and recipes we can carry out without risk. Do Nursery World readers know of any recipe books that are suitable for us? We're getting desperate.
Letitia Broom Colindale, London
