Ideas for a great gluten free kids dinner?
May 31, 2010 by admin
Filed under Gluten Free
Cooking for children on gluten-free diets requires special planning and care to ensure that they are getting all the nutrients they need to grow and thrive. Replacing gluten-filled junk food with gluten-free junk food of course, isn’t good for kids.
- Explain to your child what foods are safe for them to eat and what foods contain gluten and are off-limits. The depth of this discussion will depend on the age of your child- use visual aids if you need to in order to help your child understand the concept of safe and unsafe foods.
- Help your child write their favorite gluten-free foods in a notebook or a recipe file. Divide the file into sections for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and “away from home foods.” This will help your child understand what is safe for them to eat and it will give you a “go to” file when you need meal ideas.
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Gluten-Free Pizza
You can buy already made gluten free pizza crusts at any health food store. Just remember to keep the toppings low fat.
What Kids Really Like:
- Children on gluten-free diets naturally want to eat foods that look and taste like foods they ate before being placed on a gluten-free diet. Kid-friendly recipes for gluten-free spaghetti, macaroni and cheese, pizza, cookies, muffins and gluten-free breads that look “normal” help to make the transition to a gluten-free diet much less traumatic. More and more gluten-free foods, both homemade and store-bought are looking extremely “normal”- even breads and pizza.
- Kids like to eat what other kids are eating, whether around the family table, at school or at parties. If everyone else is eating pizza, then it’s important to plan ahead and serve gluten-free pizza too.
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Glutenfreegirl on Mon, 31st May 2010 10:34 am
Gluten free homemade chicken nuggets (use GF cornflake crumbs (found on Whole Foods or other health stores) or use GF bread crumbs or flour to make your own nuggets
Make homemade fries and a side of veggie
GF cake by Pamela’s Luscious Chocolate Cake Mix with a fun frosting (homemade or bought, just read ingredient list)
For more ideas:
http://www.glutenfreegirl.blogpsot.com
http://www.csaceliacs.org
http://www.celiac.com
http://www.celiac.org
Bette Hagmans’ Gluten Free Gourmet cookbooks are great too
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§ Kelsey § on Mon, 31st May 2010 11:19 am
Gluten-Free Diet: GF Recipes: Pizza-Flavored Popcorn
Ingredients
12 c freshly popped popcorn
1/2 t crumbled leaf basil
1/4 to 1/ 2 c butter
1/8 t red pepper flakes
1/2 t crumbled leaf oregano
2 T grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 t garlic salt
Directions
Melt butter. Stir in seasonings and heat one minute. Put popcorn in a large bowl. Pour butter over popcorn and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese; toss to coat. Package in a plastic bag.
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Cream cheese penguins
INGREDIENTS
* 18 jumbo black olives, pitted
* 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
* 18 small black olives
* 1 carrot
DIRECTIONS
1. Cut a slit from top to bottom, lengthwise, into the side of each jumbo olive. Carefully insert about 1 teaspoon of cream cheese into each olive. Slice the carrot into eighteen 1/4 inch thick rounds; cut a small notch out of each carrot slice to form feet. Save the cut out piece and press into center of small olive to form the beak. If necessary cut a small slit into each olive before inserting the beak.
2. Set a big olive, large hole side down, onto a carrot slice. Then, set a small olive onto the large olive, adjusting so that the beak, cream cheese chest and notch in the carrot slice line up. Secure with a toothpick.
References :
http://www.recipezaar.com/reci.....inger-food