School Snacks!

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hi everyone,

I am very new to all of this. My daughter who is 6 has been gluten free for about 2 to 3 months now. I am having problems coming up with new snacks for her to take to school. I hate sending the same things week after week. I afraid she will get burnt out on eating them all the time. She takes her gluten-free bar, chips,roll ups,fruit, and pudding. If some else came give me some more advice it would really help. We do most of our shopping at Food City. There is a Nature's Pantry but is takes 40 minutes to get to. So name brand foods would help alot.

[HAK1031]

Hi! I'm 16 and pack school lunches every day. Here are some of my staples:

-fruit of all kinds

-salads- have your DD help you make them. They don't even have to be lettuce-based. kids are a lot more open to veggies if they have a lot of choices. some good kid friendly ones are: celery, bell peppers, cherry tomatoes, you can even get creative with things like baby corn, pea pods, etc.

-peanut butter on celery, apples, or rice cakes

-nature valley roasted nut crunch granola bars- these are the only nature calley bars that are safe, they are nuts and seeds only no oats or barley malt

-popcorn

-nuts

-dried fruit

-tortilla chips

-wraps on mission corn tortillas

there have been many threads like this, try searching the archives!

[Lisa]

Here are some main stream products:

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[Guest digmom1014]

HAK1013-you said wraps on corn tortillas and mine all but break apart. What do you do to keep the wrap-like consistency?

thanks

[HAK1031]

Unfortunately I haven't found a way to totally fix this, but here's what I do: I keep them frozen, then thaw them in a skillet on the stove (not in the microwave!) before wrapping them. I also don't wrap them all the way: I fold them kinda like tacos, and then use a toothpick to hold them like that until I'm ready to eat them. It works reasonably well! It also helps to have a fork just in case

[Ridgewalker]

Some things my boys like:

Carrots

Raisins

gluten-free cereal in a little baggie

String cheese

Sunflower seeds

gluten-free pretzels

Cucumber slices

Pickles

Jello

Homemade cookies or a brownie

One of my favorite snacks is to roll a mozzarella cheese stick up in deli ham.

You can also make a trail mix with gluten-free pretzels, nuts, sunflower seeds, raisins, and chocolate chips.

[amybeth]

Nut Thins (crackers)

Craisins

Shredded coconut

fruit cups

Glutino brand pretzels

Dora's Cinnamon Stars Cereal (General Mills)

Tortilla Chips

"candy" popcorn ---- don't know the recipe, but I'm sure you could find one....air popped popcorn with a sugar coating (my mom died hers pink with red food dye for us girls)

yogurt

Fruit-a-bu brand fruit snacks

Cool Ranch Doritoes

chocolate chips

mini marshmallows

sunflower seeds, almonds, peanuts, etc

Bananas