Potato salad
Tortilla chips with bean dip
Pad Thai noodles
Peanut butter and jelly
Veggie summer rolls
Caesar salad with GF croutons and homemade dressing (no cheese) and beans
Hummus and veggies

My GF kid won't eat most of these though haha

Anonymous wrote:Another idea:

Corn tortilla wraps. Fill with:

sliced turkey (avocado and hummus optional)
cucumbers and cream cheese
sliced peppers, carrots, lettuce/hummus

Contains casein

Another idea:

Corn tortilla wraps. Fill with:

sliced turkey (avocado and hummus optional)
cucumbers and cream cheese
sliced peppers, carrots, lettuce/hummus

Thanks for mentioning the black bean pasta! I just saw it at Costco yesterday and I was wondering what it was like.

OP here. Thanks to all of your posts.
There is so much you can learn from the experts on in this forum quickly (and start implementing).
(I also tried black bean pasta($$) today- it tastes fine to me and has more protein.)

My son gets rice pasta with sauce every day, because it's all he eats.I change up the sauces and add vegetables and usually add meatballs of some kind.

And I'm the one shoe needs the GF! I make one large batch of pasta early in the week for us, and then he gets the leftovers during the week. If he wants variety he could have it but he refuses most foods.

Sliced apples + PB
Roasted chickpeas
Hummus & carrots or snap peas & GF crackers or chips
Quinoa (cold) with peanut sauce
Rice cakes with PB
Beans and rice w/salsa
Veggie burger (Amy's makes a GF one)
Quesadilla made w/Daiya, rice, beans
Black bean dip and carrots/chips
Roasted seaweed

There are muffin recipes all over the internet, and you can also make them from mixes--either muffin mix or a GF baking mix. The King Arthur all-purpose GF baking mix is the best one we have tried.

Anonymous wrote:My ASD kid is on GF/CF with no soy and does not eat meat, but ok with eggs.
Loves pasta but how many days a week can you give him brown rice pasta during lunch?
If he is home, I can give him white rice or some dish made from quinoa.
Any one has good sandwich ideas (GF/CF) or other GF/CF lunch suggestions?
Thanks

Muffin poster here. As many days as he'll stand. Personally my only goals with my kids are (a) healthy(ish), and (b) that they will eat. For us that tends to be a random assortment of whatever is available that they sound at all interested in. And I'm fine with that. There will be other times to encourage a more diverse palette, teach about food, etc. packed lunch is purely about calories and nutrition.

Your child sounds exactly like mine! We send black beans and rice, turkey pepperoni (the only meat my child eats) with rice crackers or chips and salsa, steel cut oatmeal, sometimes tater tots but very rarely, mixed nuts and 1/2 a bagel. We send fresh fruit everyday, usually blueberries, black berries, strawberries or raspberries (lower sugar stuff) and then sometimes watermelon, apple or orange.

My non GF kid likes to take an ear of corn and a caesar salad with hard boiled and garbanzo beans.

He also likes taco "meat" made of lentils with tortilla chips and a 190 calorie pack if guacamole.

OP here. Thanks for the ideas - let me try sunbutter with gf bread ( I was thinking of using coconut spread which has a buttery taste as well).
Not introduced GF Tortilla yet but should do that. GF muffin sounds good (expensive in my whole foods store)

The CF definitely makes it harder.

Today for lunch my GF kid had a 1/2 GF muffin, cheese stick, drink, carrots & cucumber, fruit.

If not nut free mine likes sliced apple with peanut butter.

I don't have one but refried beans on GF tortillas occurs as a main.

I would consider getting a cookbook if you plan to stick to this diet.

For lunch, you could do GF bread with sunbutter. You could also try GF rice crackers with vegan cheese squares.

You could also still try introducing different kinds of meat, e.g., grilled chicken etc.

My ASD kid is on GF/CF with no soy and does not eat meat, but ok with eggs.
Loves pasta but how many days a week can you give him brown rice pasta during lunch?
If he is home, I can give him white rice or some dish made from quinoa.
Any one has good sandwich ideas (GF/CF) or other GF/CF lunch suggestions?
Thanks