Tips for wheat free school lunch box please.

[orangehead]

I know you can get special bread, but ds only really likes it when it toasted which is a bit hard to do at school. Also it quite expensive for what you get and could really do with cutting down on shopping bill at the moment. I thought boiled egg and salad. Any other suggestions? Thanks

i recommend the dietary specials crispbreads, glutano crackers (holland & Barrett)also Mrs crimbles lightly salted corn cakes, though they tend to go a little soggy dd still loves them (if we are out and about we take the fillings separate but this is too fiddly for school!). Plain pop corn?

or homemade GF cheese scones, cold GF pizza

I would be very very wary of school catering....it varies so much. I have read accounts of schools who have bent over backwards to accommodate, and those who have said point blank they cannot/will not do it.

I know a teacher who is coeliac went on a course where they claimed to be able to provide Gf lunch - she got ploughmans and a GF roll, was ill for a few days and on phoning them to check they discovered the grated catering cheese they used was tossed in wheatstarch as anti caking agent......they did not know enough about GF requirements to realise they had to check EVERYTHING

so watch out if a schol is offering baked potates cheese and beans, beware the cheese, also some use those dreadful "coated" fries and roasties, also not GF

Good news is many places are getting much better thanks to Jamie Oliver

forgot to say Mrs crimbles also do an apple flavoured rice cake (rectangles not round) which are also nice, found these in a huge tesco