Help With School Lunches...?

[CeliacAlli]

In advance thanks for anyone who helps!!!

I go to a public school and bring lunch, but it can't be heated up so bear with me.

I have a thermos and have not used it yet because school hasn't started so perhaps something to go in it.

I also love corn tortilla's so any recipes using them?

and any snacks that you/your kids like for after school before sports(high protein)??

srry if I am being to picky.

THANKS SOOOO MUCH!!!

[CeliacMom2008]

For your thermos, my son really likes fried rice (which is really easy to make, let me know if you need instructions), pasta with alfredo sauce (we use Bertolli's and I add chicken or shrimp for variety), Mrs. Leeper's leftovers (these are Hamburger Helper like box dinner mixes), sloppy joe (son never liked it on a bun pre-Celiac so this is his preferred way), soup, ham & beans, and leftover stew made from leftover roast/potatoes/carrots/peas or beans.

Other ideas:

PB&J

Lunchmeat and cheese

Cold shrimp

Leftover chicken dipped in ranch, BBQ or honey

PR&J on corn cakes

Hardboiled Eggs

Fresh fruit and veggies

Apples and T Marzetti carmel dip

yogurt

pudding cups

chips (we like Lays Stax)

nuts

Mrs. Mays Nut Crunch or Trio Bars (these make great snacks as well)

Larabars (try a variety of flavors, they are all very different. I personally love some and hate others. Good after school snack too.)

Tiger's Milk Bars (be sure to get the ones that are gluten free, not all are. These are high in protein I believe and would be good snacks)

Glutino Granola Bars or Breakfast Bars (again, lunch or snack)

Tuna or tuna salad with or without crackers

Smoked Salmon Nuggets

Gluten Free Sensations Cookies - either made with chocolate chips or M&Ms (not healthy, but YUMMY!)

Crispy Rice Cereal Treats (otherwise knows as Rice Krispie Treats in the Gluten world!)

Hope this helps! Happy eating!

[Amyleigh0007]

We like peanut butter on a corn tortilla wrapped around a banana, turkey slices wrapped around string cheese in a corn tortilla, bacon and roast beef in a corn tortilla, you can really put anything in a corn tortilla. My son likes mac and cheese in his thermos. He also likes hotdogs or pasta left over from the night before. Stax chips, Glutino crackers, Kinni-Toos cookies (like Oreos). Do you like salad? There are endless possibilites with salad.

[Fiddle-Faddle]

We make pizza with corn tortillas!

Heat for a couple of minutes on each side til a few brown spots appear (by then they should be nice and crispy, like a good pizza crust), then top with sauce (we use plain ol' 8-oz cans of tomato sauce spiked with garlic powder, basil, and just a pinch of sugar), cheese, and either stick it under the broiler for a minute or leave in pan and cover til cheese melts.

(My son's favorite topping for this is bacon bits, shredded chicken, and torn basil leaves on top of the cheese. I like it with little lumps of ricotta.)

Cool the pizzas (we make several at once) on a rack, put in zipper bags in fridge, and pack'em in the lunch boxes the night before!

If you like a thicker pizza crust, make a "sandwich" by using two layers of corn tortilla separated by a slice of provolone (which conveniently comes in round slices!). Brown each side of the "sandwich," and then top one side with sauce, cheese, and whatever. What you end up with is a kind of cheese-stuffed thick crust.

My son's friends are all envious that he gets to bring PIZZA to school.

[purple]

Muffins cut in 1/2, spread with pb and j and sandwiched together. Cookies with pb and sandwiched together. Fruit salad. Yogurt parfait- fruit, nuts and yogurt layered in a plastic freezer cup with a tight fitting lid (look in the canning container section at Walmart). Refried bean dip with veggies stirred in or on top with gluten-free tortilla chips. Salmon/tuna on a tortilla with cheese, etc. and rolled up.

[CeliacAlli]

Thanks everyone for the help, it's great!!!

=]

~Allison

[krisb]

I will also make a salad with cut up cold cuts and cheeses.

There are lots of good ideas here. I just can't use the peanut butter. I hate making lunches for school.

When you make the thermos do you just heat it up in the morning and put it in the thermos? Does it stay warm?

[mama2two]

I'll share with you my daughter's favorites, she is a picky eater too. Most days it's van's gluten-free waffles toasted, with sunflower seed butter on it. she loves this, if allowed she could have this for breakfast and lunch. she also likes glutino, ritz-like crackers with peperoni on them. ham rolled up like a cigar. she likes the k-toos oreo like cookies, but she likes the white ones. I know there is more, but I just woke up and can't think to clearly right now. Happy eating!