The time has come: Gluten free for four weeks! The biggest challenge for us will be snacks. No crackers or tortillas? What? Luckily, I have recipes ready to go, I just haven't made them in a while. Here's the plan: Results are in italics.
Breakfast
Crazy Cake - Yes, you can eat this for breakfast!!
Eggs and melted cheese + fruit or veggies This was a hit with Sweet Son. Daughter still won't try it. She's been eating Zbars and fruit. We'll have to work on this next week.
Lunch
Leftovers! We've been eating everything with taco chips. Another thing we'll have to work on next week.
Salad with leftover chicken, tuna or canned salmon - Me
Fruit and Veggies
Dinner
Monday: Lasagna type pasta (gluten-free of course) I may just eat this without the pasta.
Broccoli or Garlic Green Beans, salad, fruit Side note: I don't do much measuring when I cook. I try to make things as brainless as possible but still have it taste good. First I mixed a small tub of Ricotta cheese with a quart sized bag of shredded mozzarella. Then I layered gluten free penne pasta (Barilla brand which I bought at Walmart), cheese mixture, ground beef, and spaghetti sauce in a glass bowl until full and put the lid on. Popped it in the small electric "toaster" oven we have on the counter until melted and bubbly. Hubby really liked this. He brought it for lunch all week.
*Cook up extra ground beef for Wednesday!
*Cook Crockpot Quinoa in crockpot for Tuesday.
Tuesday: Southwestern Chicken Salad Lettuce Wraps
*Cook chicken in the crockpot. Shred and add celery, onion?, mayo and taco seasoning to
taste. Serve avocado, salsa, etc. on the side. Cook extra chicken and freeze it for later!
I ended up using leftover chicken I found in the freezer. I cut it up into small pieces with my chicken scissors. Forgot about the lettuce, ate with corn chips. This is a keeper.
*Quinoa mixed with something to make it Southwestern-onions, cilantro, cumin, garlic?
How about green chilies? This is not a keeper. Turns out everyone refuses to eat quinoa, including Hubby. Good thing I have chickens to feed it to. The crockpot did cook up the quinoa nicely, though.
*Veggies and Fruit
Wed: Asian Ground Beef Stir Fry
*Use ground beef from Monday. Sautee onions, green pepper and garlic. Add meat, teriyaki sauce, woreceshire, red pepper flakes, water chestnuts and whatever else you like. Just found out soy sauce and teriyaki can contain gluten! Must look into this and re-read my labels. This was a hit with Hubby and Son.
*Asian salad?, veggie, fruit, quinoa No quinoa for my family! Served with rice.
Thursday: Summer Chicken "Burgers"
*Grill or bake chicken breasts to your liking. Serve with melted provolone, green chilies,
sautéed onions, avocado Ended up crock-potting two large packages of chicken. Used water and lemon juice, cooked on high 4 hours. I have a ton left over! Yeah! Using the same baking bowl from Monday, layered shredded chicken, sliced provolone and green chilies. Baked in small oven until melted. Hubby said this was a keeper. Daughter, who ate just plain chicken, said it was really good. Victory!
*Salad, Green beans or broccoli, refrieds, corn chips
*Fruit and Veggies
Friday: Shredded Beef Tacos (crockpot), refrieds, Spanish rice? Make extra for weekend lunches. Cook in crockpot with water, garlic and salt. Have green chilies on hand at dinner time for Hubby.
Sat and Sunday: BBQ, salad, veg, fruit Sunday, grill extra meat for use in meals next week!!!
Snacks:
Almond Bars This wasn't a big hit this go-round. Son said it needed chocolate chips. I agree. Everything is better with chocolate chips!
Lots of fruit and veggies! We had a ton of these on hand.
Frozen grape kabobs. Slide grapes onto BBQ skewers, put in a freezer zip lock bag and keep in the freezer. The kids love these!
So far, so good. The kids are the ones really missing bread, crackers, etc. Especially when we walk past the Subway inside Walmart. It smells so delicious! Planning meals ahead of time is such a blessing and something I haven't done in a long time!
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