More Gluten-free Lunchbox Ideas for Kids

School is about to get underway again. We parents of kids with celiac disease struggle, every year, brainstorming new things to put in our kids' lunchbox. There's only so many times a kid can eat a PB & J with Fritos before they lose their minds!

So this is my list of the many great things you can put in your kid's lunchbox. They're all GF, and many of them are things a working mom can just purchase at a grocery store, so you're not spending a half hour every morning, rushing to get that lunch made:

beef strips cut from leftover pot roast (send them some BBQ sauce for dipping)

California roll (sushi nori) home-made with tuna instead of raw meat (for safety)

cream cheese celery sticks (read labels on the cream cheese)
Easy Cheese (but the bacon one has gluten)
Fritos
Lays Stax
cottage cheese
cheese sticks
Old Wisconsin beef sticks
Old Wisconsin summer sausage (check for GF label)
Hormel Canadian bacon
Hormel pepperoni slices
K-Toos (Oreo-style cookies)
boiled eggs
deviled eggs
egg salad with GF crackers to spread it on
Cheetos
Juicy-Juice
Shasta sodas
raisins
yogurt-covered raisins
home-made trail mix (find my recipe on this site under "lunches")
EnviroKids rice "granola" bars
bag of GF cereal
Fruity Pebble/Cocoa Pebble Treats (now available in stores)
Popcorn
Popcorn balls made with Kraft marshmellows
Kraft colored mini-marshmellows
PB&J made on Glutino crackers
Jell-o Knox blocks 
apple slices
Glutino pretzels or EnerG pretzels

fresh fruit

GF fruit chew snacks (read labels)

Glutino bagel chips (YUM!)

Glutino breadsticks

Quaker GF rice cakes

S'moreables graham crackers

thermos of soup (see my "soups" recipes for ideas)

Udi's cinnamon rolls
Yoplait yogurts (read labels) or Go-Gurts 
Del Monte fruit cups/jello fruit cups
plain Jell-o cups
pudding cups (read labels)
carrot sticks
celery sticks
peanut butter celery sticks

Udi's muffins

I post recipes for some of this stuff on this site, so follow me, and you'll get a new recipe once a month. My specialty is the lunchbox-stuffer, but I sometimes offer recipes for other meals and desserts as well.

Happy lunch-boxing!