Ideas for Gluten free snacks for school

** Disclaimer** while some products should be Gluten free such as Cornmeal it could be manufactured in a company that makes wheat containing products. So me companies will not guarantee that the product is not cross contaminated during production and therefore you may need to call the company or look in your 

2011/2012 Gluten-Free Grocery Shopping Guide by Cecelia's Marketplace

 

Fruit

Any…

Vegetables

Any

If you are cutting these up please make sure to wash your utensils with gluten free soap such as Dawn. Wipe down a area in your kitchen with something such as Clorox wipes so that there is no cross contamination that takes place.  

Chips

Pirates Booty – Veggie 

Pirates Booty – Smart Puffs, Wisconsin Cheddar 

Mr. Krispers – rice crackers – various flavors 

Food Should be good – chips / crackers -various flavors:

*Lunburg farms – Rice tortilla chips – various flavors 

Lays potato chips 

Baked Lays 

Crackers

Glutino – original, vegetable and cheese flavor 

Glutino – vegetable 

Glutino – cheese 

Glutino – multi-grain 

Mary’s gone crackers – Original 

Mary’s gone crackers – Caraway

Mary’s gone crackers – Herb 

Blue Diamond – Nut thins – various flavors 

Out of the Bread Box – Gram Crackers 

Out of the Bread Box – Cheese crackers 

Out of the Bread Box – Multi grain crackers 

Cookies and treats (in cookie or snack isles)

Pamela’s- Cookies – many flavors 

Mi-Del – Ginger cookies 

Mi-Del – Sugar cookies 

Ian’s – Animal crackers 

Ian’s – Cookie bites 

Glutino – Vanilla wafers – chocolate covered 

Glutino – Chocolate wafers – chocolate covered 

Glutino – Chocolate covered strawberry wafers 

Glutino – Chocolate covered lemon wafers 

Glutino – Chocolate Vanilla Crème Cookies 

Glutino – Vanilla Crème Cookies 

Glutino – Chocolate Chip Cookies 

Enjoy Life – Snicker doodles 

Enjoy Life – Chocolate chip cookies 

Enjoy Life – Ginger cookies 

Out of the Bread Box – Cookies 

Envirokidz Organic crispy rice bars

Most of the Chex cereals are GF

Candy

-junior mints

-mini and regular hershey bars

-m & m  packs

-hershey kisses

-lemonheads candy

-sweedish fish

-tootsie pops, tootsie rolls

-after eight candies

-popsicle brand popsicles--many types, check packaging!

-push-ups, italian ice, lemon chills

-milk duds

-gogurt--great frozen

-silhouette brand fudgesicles

-dove ice cream minis or regular

-haagan daaz mini ice cream cups --obviously not with cookies or brownie pieces!

-kinnikinnick k-toos (just like oreos) and chocolate chip cookies (really divine!)

-wholefoods frozen brownies, cupcakes

-chooclate covered strawberries, fruit kabobs

-edy mini ice cream cups

-edy's dibs

-jello pudding snack packs

-smarites--roll candies

-dairy queen pre-packaged ice cream bars

-starburst fruit chews
-skittles

Haribo Gummies

Sharie’s Candies Gummies

Trolli Gummies

Gold Medal Cotton Candy

-three muskateer bars
-glutino kit-kat like chocolate wafer cookies (a favorite of the gluten free boy!)

Places that are good to get Gluten free food

Publix  (The one on 9th has a section of Gluten Free (GF) food up front as you walk in it is on the right hand side)

Winn dixe (Most have a small section of GF food and they are mixed in too)

Walmart (The one on davis has a small section of GF food but mainly mixed )

Evermans (Mixed in)

Walgreens  (Mixed in)

Oh Snap! Cupcakes  has Gluten free items as well as nut free

http://www.ohsnapcupcakes.com/

http://allergicliving.com/  A great site to check out for both gluten free and nut free products and info.

http://www.livingwithout.com/ another great site that has information on both nut and gluten free information.

http://glutenfreekidsworld.com/favorite-kids-gluten-free-snacks

ideas if you wanted to make something

http://www.bettycrocker.com/search/searchresults?st=7&term=gluten%20free#/?term=gluten%2Bfree&pi=1&ps=10

UNSAFE FOODS/ ITEMS unless they say GF or you make them with GF products

Gluten

Wheat

Barley

Rye

Enriched white flour

All purpose flour

Cookies

Bread

Buns

Cake\cupcakes

crackers

cereal

doughnuts

poptarts

pretzels

pancakes

waffles

pie

pasta noodles 

spaghetti 

Chocolate with

Crispies or Cookies

Twizzlers

candy not on safe list

ice cream (verify)

Cheese sauces

Processed cheese

hot dogs (fillers)

gravy

soup

margarine

malt vinegar

vegetable oil (verify)

spices (verify)

flavorings

food coloring (verify)

MSG

salad dressings

mayonnaise (verify)

Oreida Tator Tots

Pickles (verify)

Suntan lotion (verify)

hand lotion (verify)

Soaps with Wheat germ oil

Toothpaste (verify)

Paper Maché

Play Doh

Finger Paint

Straw

Stamps (glue contains gluten)

Things to avoid if you want to know them

http://glutenfreekidsworld.com/gluten-free-ingredients-to-avoid

I know they look scary 

Halloween, and a how to for home made face Paint (sorry It has been so long since I posted)

Sorry for not posting in a while I had a ton of work to do on daughter's costume, cupcakes to make,  and I now have the flu.

I Think I will do a couple of smaller posts today so that things don't get smashed together

I took my little one Trick or Treating We starting having the talk of this is the one time you can take food from someone and not ask if it is GF.  Take it and put it in the bucket we will go through what you have when you get home and what is not GF we will replace with GF candy. We had this conversation MANY TIMES.  She also asked every so many house to make sure that she would still get candy and could not eat any yet.  She is only 3 years old though so the fact that she ate no candy and only asked a couple of houses, "Is this Gluten Free?" left me proud.




We had pre-bought GF candy that she liked and replaced it with what she had gotten when she was not looking.

I found this recipe that you may be able to try out during the year and use next year hope it helps.  


***Please note this is not my recipe, I have not tried it yet, and the author's name is at the bottom***

Make your own Halloween Face Paint (I prefer to use commercially available products purchased AFTER the holiday, however)
1 tsp. cornstarch
1/2 tsp. water
1/2 tsp. cold cream (supposedly this keeps the food coloring from permanently coloring the skin)
1 to 2 drops food coloring
In a small bowl, combine water and cornstarch. Mix in cold cream. Add food coloring.



This is my latest recommendation. We have a box in the house right now as a matter of fact and we can eat it straight out of the box it is that good.  My daughter is having cereal for the first time in her life and loving it.  So go grab a box near you.