I’m going to try and cover most lunch options as our circumstances differ, so here goes. We try to stay wheat free due to Daniel’s food issues, but there are loads of other options.
For the kids we pack of the following, along with the snacks from yesterday’s post, diluted fruit juice and/or a fruit. Daniel also gets a healthy cooked lunch at school, we are very happy with the menu.
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Rice cakes
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Nairns Oat Cakes (available from Pick and Pay and Dis-Chem)
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100% Rye bread
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Wheat-free bread from our favourite Deli
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Maize Crackerbread
As toppings we mix it up between Peanutbutter, Cream Cheese, a little bit of St Dalfour Jam, Cheese, Ham and Bovril. Even just grating cheese instead of slicing it makes a difference.
Sugar-free yoghurt is hard to find as once you find yoghurt with AB Live cultures AND rBST hormone free you are very limited. We do compromise on sugar and rather have other good stuff, especially because Daniel is lactose intolerant. Alternatively, buy Bulgarian yoghurt and keep frozen boiled, liquidized berries or some of that apple sauce I spoke about yesterday to liven it up. I find that works quite well. And it’s cheaper.
Etienne is very easy to please with a sandwich he makes himself (I know, he’s a keeper!) with some nuts as a snack and I try to have a salad and either tuna or smoked chicken. Alternatively rice cakes with cream cheese topped with salad goodies.
I am however REALLY bad at lunch as I am notoriously disorganized in the morning, so most afternoons I shout “what’s for lunch!?” from my office and then toodle on down to the shop for some slap chips and a cheese griller. Very very bad.
What I do find helps is making soups and freezing them, especially now in winter. I take it out the freezer as I’m running out the door in the morning and by the time I’m ready for lunch it’s mostly defrosted. I just have to make myself eat the soup and not run down to get that bloody cheese griller.
As a side-bar: for supper last night we fried some lightly spiced chicken breasts in coconut oil* and added a tin of creamed sweetcorn. We then boiled some pasta and added that to the chicken/corn mix and the kids LOVED it with a little grated cheese on top. How easy a meal is that for kids? And quick!
*I am in love with coconut oil. If I could marry coconut and have its babies I totally would. I use it for absolutely everything and even Etienne is grudgingly getting used to it. It seems expensive, but you use a lot less than you would normal oil and it is 100 times better for you. Try getting the Dis-Chem brand, it’s well priced compared to the rest. I dare you to try and fry some potatoes in the oven sprinkled with coarse salt. You will never look back.
Tonight I’m going to try my hand at some sugar-free cookies as I found some really amazing websites here, here, and here. Stay tuned for those results!
Lastly: What ideas would you make for supper that is completely sugarfree. I’m officially crowdsourcing supper. So please leave me a comment to your blog or tweet me or let me know on FB and I will add it in tomorrow’s post