Tuesday, January 19, 2010

GF food suggestion list for kids

This is a list that we did to make life easier. When I have it fine tuned, I will laminate it and put in on the fridge. Our goal was to primarily focus on what they CAN eat, which is why that list is longer.

I can't claim that this is my idea-it actually came from my sister Amy whose 9 year old daughter went gluten free in Sept 09. Note: apparently, most lunch meats contain gluten. Boar's Head does not.

On a Word document, I did the following. It actually has 3 columns with a YES (picture of happy girl), SPECIAL FOODS   and under that LUNCH IDEAS and NO (picture of thumbs down)

Gluten Free diet-
Avoid: farina, flour, caramel coloring, enriched flour, cereal, malt flavoring or extracts, monosodium glutamate (MSG)-may have wheat gluten in it, modified food starch, emulsifiers, stabilizers, distilled vinegar, semolina, durum, and triticale.

YES!

Fruit

Fruit juice

Milk

Rice Chex cereal

Corn Chex cereal

Salad

Corn tortillas

Peanuts

Cheese

Cheese stick

Quesadillas

Applesauce

Corn tortilla chips

Potato chips

Doritos

Cheetos

Celery with peanut butter

Carrots

Chicken

Steak

Bacon

Hard boiled eggs

Scrambled eggs

Rice

Potatoes

French fries

Raisins

Ice cream

Popsicles

Chocolate


SPECIAL FOODS - specifically purchased as GLUTEN FREE
Only Ava & Therese

Whole O’s (like Cheerios)

Gluten free cookies

Rice spaghetti

Gluten free crackers

Special gluten free foods

Special oatmeal

Lunch Ideas

Quesadillas w/ corn tortilla

Celery w/ PB

Chex w/ milk

Boiled eggs

Boars’ Head lunch meat w/corn tortilla


NO!

Crackers

Pretzels

Cheese-its

Bagels

Bread

Animal cookies

Cookies

Regular cereal

Regular oatmeal

Lunch meat

Pizza

Anything with WHEAT in it

Sandwiches

Cake

Pie crust

No comments:

Post a Comment