Our local grocer is in the process of remodeling.  Because of this, they have lost about 1/3 of their frozen foods section - eliminating less popular items like gluten free bread.  So to get bread we either need to make a 1/2 hour drive or make it ourselves.  While we have a lot of experience and success in GFCF baking, my bread always turns out horrid!

Well, no more!  I have finally figured out a quick, easy, and (relatively) cheap way to keep my kids sandwiches supplied with a bread like substance that I can make without fail.  What is the secret to my newfound success?   Flatbread. It’s no-rise, it stays together, and  my kids will eat it.  However, it is definitely not wonder bread - your kids will have to be  willing to have bread that looks and tastes a little different.  Mine think it tastes  better and have had not a single complaint.  Cost-wise it all depends on how thin  and big around you roll them out - I’m getting about a loaf’s worth out of a  22 oz bag of sorghum flour - making the cost a bit less than most prepared GFCF bread.  It’s been a major convenience improvement for us!

Dorothy had a big, overnight, school trip out of state recently, and one of the big challenges to her going was the food (of course!). She is on a strict GFCF diet, and is allergic to 40 other foods - making her ability to eat at the buffet or fast food non-existant. In order to allow her to go on the trip, we provoided all of her food for her. The lunch below is a great example of what we packed for her:

Everything was packed in small ziplock bags (we normally use Reynolds Cut-Rite Sandwich Bags as they are waxed paper and Dorothy is allergic to plastic - but for the sake of not spilling went with plastic bags for the trip).

Here you can see the contents:

We packed rice cakes (as our local store was out of GFCF bread…) with GFCF mayo in a squeeze, lunchmeat, and some lettuce for an instant sandwitch (that isn’t soggy), carrots, pumpkin seeds, a pear, and some chips. Not the paragon of nutrition, but way better than McRonad’s…..

On today’s menu we have Applegate Farms turkey on Food for Life White Rice bread with canola mayo from Spectrum.  We have a lovely, voluptuous, organic pear (low in phenols, folks) and carrots with tiny tomatoes (not so low in phenols, we’re not perfect.) We have pumpkin seeds, also called pepitas if your health food store is snooty, and some sweet potato chips, because our kiddo is allergic to white potatoes and corn. Last but not least, we have a digestive enzyme to help it all get where its supposed to go, and some bottled water. It’s not Evian, but it is in such a cute bottle. The thing to notice here is that there is plenty to eat when you’re gluten and casein free. And yes she does eat all of this- the picky eater syndrome goes away when you get serious about the diet.