Gluten-Free Lunch Specials

Some of our basic school lunches:


  1. 1.Amy’s Rice Mac and Cheese in a thermos. Apple slices, small carrots

  2. 2. Tuna fish with celery and mayonnaise in a thermos, with rice crackers, grapes
    (or on a Schår Classic White Roll w/ lettuce and mayo)

  3. 3.Hot dog with fixin’s, (line cut down middle to put in fixin’s) but no roll, wrapped up individually or cut up in pieces and put in a container. Potato sticks on the side.

  4. 4.Turkey burger with lettuce and mayo on a Schår Classic White Roll (St. James Natural Foods)

  5. 5.Small containers with cut up turkey, cheese, salami, apple, and crackers.
    (my son calls this “Stations” and loves it.)

  6. 6.Taco - shell or wrap with turkey taco meat, lettuce, tomato and cheese.

  7. 7.Spaghetti with turkey meat sauce or turkey meat balls, tomato sauce, parmigiana cheese, in a thermos

  8. 8.Good Ol’ Sandwiches - now with Garguilo’s White Bread.
    Melted cheese, salami, lettuce, tomato is a favorite, as well as Almond butter and jelly.

Gluten-Free Snacks

Snacks that have been child-approved

Portable for school, camp and trips


  1. 1.EnviroKids Crispy Rice Bars
    (peanut-butter, berry and assorted flavors)
    Wild By Nature, Stop & Shop
    $3.89 a box

  2. 2.Fruitabu smooshed fruit
    (apple, grape, strawberry)
    Wild By Nature, Stop & Shop
    $5.19 a box

  3. 3.Sensible Foods Cherry Berry crunch dried snacks. Wild By Nature, snack bag $2.89

  4. 4.Rice crackers - Blue Diamond, Ener-g

  5. 5.Lundberg Rice Chips - assorted flavors

  6. 6.Barkat Pretzel sticks - these taste the most like real pretzels and come in small bags for lunches and snacking. Wild By Nature, St. James Natural Food, $2.99 a small bag

  7. 7.Corn Tortilla chips

  8. 8.Potato Sticks, Vegetable sticks, Vegetable chips  (all made with potato)

Gluten-Free Sweets

  1. 1.Nana’s Berry Vanilla Cookie Bars - No Gluten

  2. 2.Nana’s Fudge Cookie Bites - No Gluten

  3. 3.GlutinoWafer Cookies (my son calls these “gluten free kit-kats” and likes them

  4. 4.Sun Flour Baking Company “Noatmeal  Raisin” cookies. - very tasty, different, made with pinto bean flour. Wild By Nature, $4.49

  5. 5.Ian’s cookie buttons - crunchy cinnamon and chocolate chip. They come in little packs for travelling. Hard to find.

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Please email me with your own gluten-free lunch and snack ideas and I will post them here.