Thank you for all your help
I tried to respond to the following privately, but got an error message. Phyllis, perhaps you could send me your correct e-mail addy. I hate to make personal replies through the list. In a message dated 08/23/2001 8:26:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time, the100acrewoodcc@... writes: . I couldnt think of a single thing to make for lunch that my kids would eat, since they dont like the HFS bread, which got me worrying about what I am going to do when schools starts next week (help still needed in this department cuz the kids do not like Tofu, Vegan cheese,or anything else out of the ordinary), and I finally ended up on the floor in the bathroom crying my eyes out for over 1/2 hr. Dear Phyllis: OK. Wipe your eyes. You can do this! My daughter and I did it, with both of us working fulltime, and with kids 13 months apart. It's hard, but SO worth it! Our David gained SEVEN years in test scores when we started the diet, from 16-33 months to 2nd thru 5th GRADE at age 5 years, 8 months. The most important thing here is to think outside the box! Forget traditional "lunch" menus and make a list of what your kids will eat. Then figure out which of them are portable! In David's case we came up with the following: - strips of meat (chicken, turkey, ham, or beef) can be bagged to eat with fingers, used to top a salad, or added to other ingredients and wrapped in a corn tortilla or lettuce leaf. - chicken drumsticks, roasted, barbecued, with a lemon-honey glaze, ovenfried, etc. - raw veggies with hummus as a dip (hummus is ground chickpeas, and high in protein) - chicken salad, egg salad, or ham salad, on lettuce, or wrapped in lettuce leaf or corn tortilla, or wrap egg salad in a slice of ham or turkey lunchmeat. - peanut butter on rice crackers - skewers of cooked chicken, cherry tomatoes, broccoli, etc. - chicken or beef fried rice, in thermos - taco salad (pack the tortilla chips or slices in a bag, the veggies in a bag, and the taco meat in a thermos, and have the child dump them together in a disposable bowl) - fresh fruit, esp. melon slices (watermelon, honeydew, canteloupe) Fortunately, you can buy many gfcf chips, fruit rolls, etc. at your local grocery store. You can also send a bag of gfcf cereal, and a thermos of whichever milk sub you use. Or let them eat a dry cereal as a snack or chip (at least they have vitamins added.) We've been doing this since 2/12/1997, and it DOES get easier. Good luck! Carol