Food for Celebrations

East Brunswick Public Schools

Student Health Services           Danielle Blaloch, Supervisor

760 Route 18                           Tel. 732-613-6635

East Brunswick, NJ 08816        Fax. 732-698-0913

Dear Parent/Guardian:

The East Brunswick Public Schools promotes wellness and healthy children

through nutrition education in the health classes and by encouraging healthy

eating habits on a daily basis. To be consistent it is essential that

celebrations that include food must also model this endeavor. Additionally,

the growing number of students with life threatening food allergies has

heightened our efforts to ensure the health and safety of all our students.

Therefore, the following is a list of recommended snacks for the four

elementary school-wide celebrations (Halloween, Winter, Valentine’s and

End-of-the-Year).

• Enjoy Life Foods
• Rold Gold Pretzels
• Pre-packaged Fruits and Vegetables
• Original Oreos
• Original Chips Ahoy Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Pringles
• 100 % Fruit Ice Pops
• Teddy Grahams (Honey)
• Lays Potato Chips (Classic)
• Peanut free mini cupcakes from Shop-Rite (they have a no peanuts symbol on package
• Pizza (optional for End- of-the-Year party only)
• Drinks (100% fruit juices, water )
• Treasure Mills already prepared school safe snacks (www.treasuremills.com)

(www.treasuremills.com)

Some of the products are available at COSTCO

• Products labeled as peanut free and labeled as made in a peanut free

facility may be purchased at nurses discretion

The foods on this slightly revised list will be the only foods allowed for the

four school-wide celebrations.  Please bring any food items including the

above to the office to be checked by the school nurse prior to bringing to the

classroom, since product ingredients can change, therefore ingredient labels

need to be checked by the school nurse.

This letter refers only to shared foods and snacks that are eaten in the

classroom during celebrations.  Birthdays will be celebrated with “non-food”

items.  Some suggestions for recognizing birthdays are available under the

parent tab on your school’s home page.