ALLERGY-FREE SCHOOL LUNCH IDEAS
Rice, corn, or millet tortilla wraps with fillings:
Cooked and seasoned ground beef or buffalo
Chopped turkey, chicken, or ham
Chopped celery, lettuce, cucumber, or any other veggies
Allowed salad dressing, mayo, or any other condiment or seasoning
Casein-free cream cheese or other allowable cheese
Refried beans or mashed beans of choice
Miso with sunflower seeds, shredded carrots and honey mustard dressing
Sandwiches:
Nut butter with jelly or natural (raw) honey (Try almond butter, cashew, macadamia, or sunflower seed butter.)
Humus spread with sliced lettuce and tomato
Chopped black olives, CF cream cheese, and chopped cucumbers with seasoning
Veggie sandwich with sliced tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, lettuce, avocado with mustard and mayo of choice
Snacks:
Fresh fruit and/or veggies:
Bananas
Apples
Carrot sticks
Celery sticks with nut butter
Jicama peeled and cut like French fires (eat raw)
Put in something salty such as allowable potato chips, corn chips, sunflower seeds (roasted in oil and salted with no other ingredients), raw or salted macadamia nuts, or other allowable raw nuts.
Something sweet such as apple cinnamon rice cakes, Stretch Island Fruit Leather (preferably organic and only from the health food store), home made macaroons, nut butter cookies, or other home made sweet item. Make cookies ahead and freeze them and pull out a few as needed.
Home made trail mix consisting of chopped almonds, raisins, dates, apricots, cranberries, sunflower seeds, shredded coconut (without sulfites) etc.
Beverages:
Fruit juice or bottled water
Note: See my cookbook recommendations on my book list for better health.
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