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Title: Annie's and Back to Nature
Post by: anxious2008 on July 16, 2012, 07:41:19 AM
Anyone use these brands with PA/TNA? Trying to find more organice foods for my kids so seeing if anyone has used these.
Title: Re: Annie's and Back to Nature
Post by: hezzier on July 16, 2012, 08:49:49 AM
Annie's gluten free bunny grahams are made in a peanut/treenut free facility.  It's printed on the box.  I think there are 3 flavors:  Snickerdoodle, Gingersnap, and Vanilla & Chocolate.  My kids didn't like Gingersnap and we haven't tried the vanilla/chocolate.
Title: Re: Annie's and Back to Nature
Post by: maeve on July 16, 2012, 09:27:59 AM
Quote from: hezzier on July 16, 2012, 08:49:49 AM
Annie's gluten free bunny grahams are made in a peanut/treenut free facility.  It's printed on the box.  I think there are 3 flavors:  Snickerdoodle, Gingersnap, and Vanilla & Chocolate.  My kids didn't like Gingersnap and we haven't tried the vanilla/chocolate.

That must be change because the cheese flavored ones have had a warning in the past.  Not a fan of Annie's because for many years they only had the cross-contamination information on their web site and not on the box.
Title: Re: Annie's and Back to Nature
Post by: pitter patter on July 16, 2012, 10:37:18 AM
I called Annie's a couple of months back.   I was told that they now label for all shared equipment.   We use anything without a warning.
Title: Re: Annie's and Back to Nature
Post by: maeve on July 16, 2012, 10:45:12 AM
Quote from: pitter patter on July 16, 2012, 10:37:18 AM
I called Annie's a couple of months back.   I was told that they now label for all shared equipment.   We use anything without a warning.

They do now but they didn't for years.  I just won't use them because of that.  For years, I unknowingly exposed my egg allergic child to cross contaminated mac and cheese.  They also stated that they labeled for this when they still hadn't completely implemented this.
Title: Re: Annie's and Back to Nature
Post by: twinturbo on July 16, 2012, 01:18:48 PM
Annie's we've used for years I've been happy with line disclosure on their website. Back to Nature's disclosure policy is a big fat mystery to me even after I've called them
and references their website. I think they are owned by Kraft so if you call you will get the answer that it's free of whatever but that's because customer service is reading policy from a script not because they know any more of what's on the lines than I do. Concrete example: BTN choc chip cookies used to have a milk warning... that disappeared a month or two later. Why? Did they suddenly run it on a milk free line? And the sandwich cookies I'm to believe have no chance of peanut contamination, not because of dedicated line but the answer that it doesn't have a warning on their screen.