Playdate gluten-free help please!

[madeofwaxlarry]

A friend is coming over tomorrow with her 7 year old who is coeliac.

I'm not used to hosting and cooking stresses me out.

Please help! What should I feed them for lunch?

Get some gluten free pizza, easy lunch and most 7 year olds like pizza. You can pick up lots of GF snacks in the supermarkets too.

Potatoes! Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew...

Good shout on potatoes - could you do jacket potatoes and a few different fillings?

M and S have a good range of gluten free options if you want something you can stick in the oven. Make sure to line any tins so cross contamination isn’t an issue.

And if you add butter/spread to veg or whatever it needs to be from a pack or tub that hasn’t been used for/with gluten containing products.

Tbh the cross contamination issue is more problematic than finding GF foods.

But it can be done!

You need to ask them what they eat - naturally gluten free food like eggs, rice, potatoes, meat, salad etc or special GF versions of food that normally has gluten in it, which is generally expensive and not very nice.

Best thing to do is ask.
but you can do some lovely gf pasta
chicken wings?
dinos hotdogs- but find some gf buns
gf nuggets
gf bread and make sandwiches

be careful with cross contamination. It’s a big issue for coeliacs. If I were you, I’d only cook and serve GF food that day/play time to avoid cross contamination

I'd ask them what they like, surely? Jacket potatoes and fillings is a good idea. unfortunately most of the GF products sold are heavily processed so I'd avoid and stick to naturally GF.