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:
- cold gluten-free pizza
- stuff for making mini-pizzas on a GF cracker (Lunchables style)
- home-made GF lunchables (my daughter's favorite)
- GF stick day (GF pretzel sticks, cheese sticks, and pepperoni sticks)
- GF chips and salsa with bean dip
- cookie-cutter mini sandwiches
- bag of GF cereal
- Udi's muffins
- 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
- cream cheese celery sticks (read labels on the cream cheese)
- thermos of soup (see my "soups" recipes for ideas)
- S'moreables graham crackers
- Quaker GF rice cakes
- Glutino breadsticks
- Glutino bagel chips (YUM!)
- GF fruit chew snacks (read labels)
- fresh fruit
- 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
- Fruity Pebble/Cocoa Pebble Treats (now available in stores, always check labels)
- Popcorn
- Popcorn balls made with Kraft marshmallows
- Kraft colored mini-marshmallows
- PB&J made on Glutino crackers
- Jell-o Knox blocks
- apple slices
- Glutino pretzels or EnerG pretzels
- California roll (sushi nori) home-made with tuna instead of raw meat (for safety)
- beef strips cut from leftover pot roast (send them some BBQ sauce for dipping
- cold quesadilla on GF tortillas
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!
