Camryn's Mommy

[Dee]

Hope this helps! Of course you will have to check some of these products if your little sweetie is casein intolerant too.
GF Kid-Friendly Foods and Meal Ideas (Good Ideas For Adults, too)
This list is current as of May 2008, but please, 'always check labels" and if there is ever a question, don’t use the product. There are many, many more options out there, of course. These are just some ideas.
Breakfast Ideas:

Pancakes (Bob Red’s Mill mix, Pamela’s mix, or from scratch)
Van’s Frozen gf waffles; Trader Joes also has a great GF pancake & waffle mix and a GF brownie mix that are great.
French toast – made from a loaf of gf bread; Ian’s and Glutino make premade gf french toast
GF Cold Cereals

a. Envirokids brand: Gorilla Munch (like Kix)—now comes in indvidual bowls too
b. Envirokids brands: Koala Crisp: (like Cocoa Pebbles)
c. Envirokids brands: Amazon Frosted Flakes—now comes in indvidual bowls too
d. Envirokids brands: Panda Puffs (Peanut butter flavored balls)
e. Nature’s Path Honey’d, Plain or Fruit Juice sweetened Cornflakes
f. Health Valley Corn Crunch ‘Ems and Rice Crunch ‘Ems (like Corn or Rice Chex)
g. General Mills Gluten Free Rice Chex
h. Barbara’s GF Honey Rice Puffins (sweet but tasty…as of 2008, the company took them off the gf list because of the shared harvesting equipment; no change in formulation of product: it’s the same as when it was on the gf list, but they are concered about cc during harvesting)
i. Barbara’s Corn Flakes
j. Eewhorn gf brown rice crispies (one with dried fruit too)
k. New Morning gf cerelas, including Cocoa crisps

l. Perky O’s (Plain, Cinnamon Raisin, and Frosted)
m. Bakery on Main GF Granolas

Biscuits with sausage patty/egg…Biscuits and gravy / Biscuits and honey with some fruit on the side; Toast or biscuit with peanut butter and jam (I use Skippy Reduced Fat or Jiff and Smuckers 100% fruit). I use Cause Your Special Hearty Biscuit mix.
Sausages and bacon (I use Jimmy Dean Turkey Sausage Patties) and Oscar Meyer Bacon
Eggs

o. scramble eggs
p. omelets
q. eggs in a basket (cut whole in bread, cook egg in whole)

Bagels:

r. Enjoy Life Cinnamon Raisin, Plain and Sesame ( – not like a gluten bagel bagels)
s. Glutino makes a plain and sesame seed bagel that are kind of like the gluten Lender’s bagels
t. Kinnikinnik brand also makes bagels

Muffins / Sweet Breads (e.g., pumpkin bread) and donuts.

u. Various mixes or from scratch
v. Whole Foods carries some from their bakehouse / various online vendors (like Kinnikinik)

Hot Cereal

w. Bob’s Red Mill Mighty Tasty GF Hot Cereal
x. Quinoa Flakes
y. Buckwheat flakes / hot cereal (Bob’s makes one)
z. Certified GF oatmeal (only appropriate after being gf and having a negative antibody test; ½ cup raw per day is the amount tested to be safe; some individuals with CD react to certified oats the same way they do to gluten; it’s a personal decision to use oats within the proper guidelines).

Cereal Bars

aa. Envirokids (like rice-crispie type bars in peanut butter, chocolate, and berry)
bb. Enjoy Life (like a soft granola) and Glutano have different flavors (like a standard cereal bar with fruit filling).

Snacks

Cereal Bars or Energy Bars

Envirokids (like rice-crispie type bars in peanut butter, chocolate, and berry)
Enjoy Life
Lara Bars
Glutano

Cookies

Mi-Del Cookies: animal crackers (very good) , chocolate chip, pecan, ginger snaps (spicy), chocolate sandwich cookies (Oreos); The Mi-Del are great for toddlers – small and hard.
Envirokids vanilla gf cookies (great for a crumb crust)
Pamela’s brand (many flavors) – these are bigger / softer cookies
Enjoy Life brand (many flavors)—they make individual bags now
Ian’s make individual bags of cookies
Kinnikinnik (different flavors; their K-Toos are the best Oreos, in our opinion)
mixes and recipes

There are so many different cookies out there now (2008)---too numerous to list

Pretzels by Glutano or Ener-G Pretzels
Salty Crackers / Chips

Ener-G Gourmet crackers are good (like a big saltine without salt).
Glutino’s new ritz cracker! Yes, like a ritz (2007)
Dr. Schar are really good, but break easily; their Pizzeralli ones have a good flavor. Dr. Schar has had availability issues in 2008
Blue Diamond Nut-thins (various flavors)
Lundenburg Rice chips
Lays has a gluten free list; there are many gf chip brands, but the gf status should be checked
There are no gluten free goldfish or cheez-its
Popcorn (Orville and PopSecret are gluten free)

Sweet Crackers:

Graham crackers from specialty companies
Ener-G cinnamon crackers are great

Trail mix that you make up using dried fruit, raisins, nuts, etc.


Candy – many, many – again, too many to list (check on allerygrocer.com)
Dole or Del Monte fruit cups
Del Monte applesauce cups
Raisins or nuts (Sunmaid and planters – read the labels for wheat).
Jello cups (or from a box / mix)

Pantry Staples
Note: Check your condiments, sauces, syrups you already use – many may be gluten free (e.g., Hellman’s mayonnaise). I did not include these here.

1. Pasta: Tinkyada Rice Pasta is a good standard everyday pasta and works well in casseroles (DeBoles will fall apart if stirred too much)
2. Rice: Plain rice is gluten free; Kraft Minute Rice. Some flavored rice mixes like Zatarans, but you must check these
3. Betty Crocker Potato Flakes
4. Lipton Onion Recipe Secret Mix (packets) – read the labels, some flavors are gluten free, others are not
5. Imagine Brand Creamy Portabella Soup
6.. Soy Sauce:

LaChoy makes gf soy sauce (read ingredients for gf one)
San-J Wheat Free Tamari Sauce – it is so much better than La-Choy

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7. Tortillas

Soft Corn tortillas – Mission, Aztec Brand, or Whole Foods Brand 365
Food for Life Soft Brown Rice tortillas
Hard Shells – Old El Paso or Mission
La Tortilla Facorty Teff (Ivory and Dark) gf soft – these are the best soft ones for fajitas or wraps, in our opinion, but not quite the same as the gluten version.

10. Taco / Mexican Seasonings: McCormick’s and Old Elpaso will clearly label gluten
11. Pam non-stick spray (not Pam for baking, with wheat)
12. Mrs. Leepers mixes (like Hamburger helper mixes)
13. Hunts Sloppy Joe Mix (Manwich)
14. Velveeta and Kraft Cheeses (slices and shredded)

Premade Items / Frozen

Chicken nuggets (Can make your own)

a. Ian’s brand.
b. Bell and Evans
c. Wellshire Farms

Dr. Praegers gf fish-sticks and fish patties.
Pizza Crusts:

d. Kinnikinnik
e. Chebe
f. Whole Foods crust
g. mixes or recipes

Tator Tots and Fries (Inland Valley and Oreida have gf lists)
Amy’s Entrees (check gf list) – may or may not be kid friendly, depending on age
Taste of Thai Entrees and dishes (check gf list) – may or may not be kid friendly, depending on age
Dinty Moore: Beef stew and chicken and rice microwave meals
Hormel’s ready to serve (heat and eat) Beef roast au jus and Pork Roast au Jus
Canned meats (tuna, chicken, salmon) – check gf status of any with flavorings
Lunch Meats: Hormel and Kraft (Oscar Meyer) – read label


Meal ideas.

Chicken Nuggets* or Fish sticks with Fries/Tator tots (make bigger nuggets or breasts and use for chicken patty sandwiches or a chicken-bacon-ranch wrap)
Hamburgers, hotdogs and brauts– make your own buns
Healthy Choice Sausage (or other brand) over rice (with green peppers and onions)
Spaghetti and meatballs
Pizza
Pasta Dishes and casseroles
Chicken and Rice casserole
Beef Stew* (Dinty Moore Beef Stew is gf too)
Sloppy Joes (from scratch or using Hunt’s mix) – this can go over rice, biscuits, on a bun
Mexican

a. Tacos
b. Quesadillas
c. Fajitas / Burritos

d. Nachos

Chili Mac or Chili Dogs (start with a can of gf chili and its really easy; all Chili Man chili with beans are gluten free – not the ones without beans. Amy’s make a bunch )
Beef Stroganoff
Sandwiches or wraps: you can do these on bread, biscuits, or rolled soft tortillas. Use deli slices of meat (Hormel or Oscar Meyer brand).
Soups (Progresso will Clearly label; Amy’s; Walnut Acres)
Meatloaf (Lipton Onion Soup Mix is gluten free -check, not all the varieties are, but the regular one is)
Chili
Various bean and rice dishes: Red Beans and Rice
Loaded baked potato (with whatever gf ingredients you like)
Chinese stir fry (using frozen Chinese mix, gf soy sauce)
Hot wings, teriyaki wings, plain chicken wings
Various type of roasts or pieces of meat / fish (with gf marinades or BBQ sauces too)
Wrap sandwiches
"Gf lunchables" – Blue Diamond nut thins, cut rounds of bologna or other meat, …add cookies, chips, cut carrots, apple chips…whatever

Side Dishes

Rice made in any which way shape or form – check gf status of any rice mix that has flavoring (e.g., brown, white, short grain, long grain, wild rice, Mexican rice, simple rice pilaf)
Mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, oven roasted potatoes (olive oil / Lipton onion soup mix – yum!), boiled new potatoes
salads (green salads, rice salads, pasta salads, potato salads, cole slaws)
veggies (steamed, roasted, from frozen, grilled)
baked beans in so many varieties
corn muffins* or biscuits (Cause Your Special Hearty Biscuit mix is our favorite) or rolls (recipes)

Simple "Recipes"
1.Chicken Nuggets: Cut boneless skinless breasts into nugget size; crush gf cornflakes in food processor and then mix with salt and pepper, to taste; coat chicken in gf mayo (I use Hellman's); roll chicken in cornflakes; bake (on non-stick sprayed foil) at 400 until done (turn them once). For my husband, I put cayenne pepper, garlic powder, and a Cajun seasoning in the coating…kids just get a dash of salt and pepper!
2. Little pigs in a blanket: Take Chebe mix and follow directions on the package.

Make 10-12 balls after you get it all mixed up. Then roll each ball out flat. Take a GF hot dog, cut it in half and roll up in the flattened out ball. Bake 375 for 25 minutes.

3. Corn dogs made in muffin cups. See my recipe for sweet cornbread. Make that up and then cut up GF hot dogs and mix in the cornbread batter. Put paper liners in muffin cups and fill 2/3 full with the mixture.

Bake at 375 for 18-20 minutes.

[JLH]

Wow, THANKS, Dee. Great help. I need to see if there is a Trader Joe's in B'ham when we go to Whole Foods.

[barbaranoela]

bless U DEE--U are truely amazing---thats not just a TIP --thats a whole menu smack dab on the table--


luve Barbara

[Gloria]

You outdid yourself with this list, Dee. This will be helpful to everyone.

Gloria

[kate_ce1995]

I'll add my 2 cents to this great list!

Van's waffles are as good as Eggo IMO. And they have gf apple cinnamon, and blueberry as well as plain. Plain are also great as a bread with peanut butter on them...probably better tasting than some breads.

The EnviroKids cereals I've tried are great (Koala Krips and Panda Puffs (peanutbutter). The Koala Krisps make great rice krispie treats. I just haven't tried the other varieties.

The Envirokids cereal bars are good. The peanutbutter ones are the sweetest and almost like a candy/cookie alternative at least to my palate.

I vouch for the Kinnikinnick K-Toos (oreos). As good as the real thing. I get mine at Hannafords. Kinnikinnick also has frozen donuts now available in regular stores and they are pretty darn good.

I'm going to have to print and peruse this list again later for new ideas for myself too, but for now it's off to work.

Katy

[MaggieRedwings]

Morning Dee,

You are truly a wonderful person and the help you give is so appreciated by all. What a line up you were able to give to Camryn.

Love, Maggie

[Babsey]

Thank you so much Dee. I've prinited it out to carry for the next time I have to shop. I've pretty much been living on chicken breast and baked potatoes since I'm still unclear about the whole gluten thing and haven't had alot of time to organize.

You're the best!

[JLH]

How about opening a boarding house? You could move on to run an assisted living/nursing home. The latter situation really scares me to death. Who will really look out for our dietary needs?

[Camryn'sMommy]

Dee - thank you so much....this is a wonderful list! I appreciate the time you but into it. Camryn LOVES the peanut butter puffs. Trader Joes also makes gf/df frozen pankcakes that she really likes. Trader Joes will give you a list of all the gluten free items they have in the store....Whole Foods does the same. This list from Dee is great b/c I can take it to my local grocery store as well. Trader Joes and Whole Foods are about 30 minutes away from me and I can't always get there.

Big hug for Dee! :)

[JLH]

No Trader Joe's for us. The closest is Atlanta.

Whole Foods is probably and hour and a half away in Birmingham.

[JLH]

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[JLH]

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[Gloria]

Babsey,
This list is very helpful - just be aware that some of the gluten-free bakery items (Van's waffles, Kinnikinnik donuts, etc.) are made with eggs, which you list as an intolerance.

Gloria

[G'ma Mary]

This list is exceptional! I've been using many of these products already, but gathering them all together like this is wonderful.

One of my favorites is the Ian's products! Ian's makes products that are not GF, so be sure to read the label. Those that are, though, are really allergy/intolerance friendly and kid friendly. They contain no wheat, no gluten, no casein, no milk, no eggs, no nuts, no soy! Wow - sometimes it makes me wonder what I'm eating! But, if I turn the box over, I find nothing but healthy stuff and things I actually can pronounce and recognize! I do not eat red meat, but I love fish and I avoid poultry except that which is raised without antibiotics, growth hormones, etc. Ian's chicken nuggets fit that category, and the fish sticks and fish patties are great! I've even seen GF (and many other allergy-free things listed) TV dinners for kids. I actually bought one once just to see how it was - I got chicken nuggets, I believe it was french fries and, of all things, a GF brownie (which was raw dough and baked as I microwaved my dinner)! It was great! I think this company deserves kudos for helping out the nation's kids with allergies/intolerances!

Hope you can find these for Camryn to try - bet she'd love them!

G'ma Mary

[tamijoy2000]

thank you thank you Dee. U dont know how much that has helped me. Now i know what i can buy and what i can try and stay away from. I appreciate that you took the time to do that list. so when i go back to the store i know what i can eat and wont get sick.

again thank you and thank you.

Tami