Erzsi wrote:My daughters school has banned bake sale fundraisers this year. Prior to that there was always one or two a year for various events. Some of the reasoning given was various issues with food safety, but the major reason was concern for children with severe nut allergies. Even if you're preparing a nut free treat they felt the possibility of you cross contaminating your item and possibly being unaware of it was there.

I don't understand this. I get that peanut allergies are very serious and that cross-contamination is no joke; but they are also not super common, and it seems unfair to effectively penalize all the children because there might be one child with an allergy. And anyway, wouldn't it be better for said child to just avoid the homemade stuff? Or provide peanut-free treats for themselves?