Lunches

Each week, lunch is divided into 5 sections:

Main Course

Starchy side

Fruity or Vegetabley side

Dessert

Beverage


Here's what we've ben doing for it.

Main Course

Sometimes this is a sandwich (Boar's Head meats are all GFCF) but I have also been known to send up crackers and hummus (I buy Glutino crackers and a locally made hummus. I've never found a non GFCF hummus but check yours before buying.) (I will include a post all about checking for allergens momentarily.), BBQ chicken chunks with toothpicks (I hear Sweet Baby Ray's is GFCF. I can't remember the name of the one I get and we're out right now. I think it has the word "trail" in it?)

Whenever I can, I turn dinner leftovers into lunches to save money.

Starchy Side

My oldest is almost 8 and is more conscious of his food being different than other kids' so I try to use this as an opportunity to give him more "regular" stuff. Plain Fritos, plain potato chips and plain tortilla chips are all safe GFCF options that other kids recognize. (But there are also these awesome GFCF chips that I love...let me see if I can find them. Ah, yes. Garden of Eatin's Black Bean Chips. So good.) Also, Veggie Booty is now being sold in lunch-sized 1 oz. bags. Awesome.

Fruity or Vegetabely Side

I usually try to make this an actual fruit or vegetable. But, when in a hurry, natural applesauce cups, Fruitabu products, Annie's Organic fruit snacks, Archer Farms organic fruit strips are all good choices.

Dessert

The kids love Kinnikinnick's chocolate vanilla sandwich cookies. They also like Glutino's strawberry wafer cookies and Cherrybrook Kitchen's mini vanilla grahams and mini chocolate chip cookies.

I also need to tell you that the last three times I've been to Target, there's been no sight of the Archer Farm's almond raisin bars. I am so sad.

Beverage

For drinks, we mostly do 100% juice boxes (I'm glad Capri Sun came out with a 100% juice pouch) but on occasion, I will do boxes of Rice Dream or sometimes the Soy Dream smoothie.