5 Back to School Gluten-Free Lunch Ideas

Finding gluten free lunch options for your child can be a challenge when it comes to school lunches! Here are some of our favorite easy gluten free lunch box options that we hope will inspire your kids next school lunch.

Gluten-Free Lunch Ideas for School

If your child has a gluten-free diet, today’s Family Food Live with Holly & Chris is for you!  We showed you 5 Back to School Gluten-Free Lunch Ideas for the upcoming school year.

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Here’s what you will need for these lunch ideas.  And we used this set of BPA free lunch containers that give you at least 3 options per lunch.

Lunch 1 – Chicken Salad Lettuce Wraps with Banana Chips

Shopping List For Gluten Free Lunch:

• Roast Chicken (cooked), cut into square pieces
• 3/4 cup Plain yogurt
• 1 tablespoon Dijon Mustard
• 2 tablespoons Chives, chopped
• 1 Granny smith apple, cut into square pieces
• 1/2 cup Celery, chopped
• 2 cups Red grapes, cut in half
• Juice of half of Lemon
• Salt & Pepper
• Lettuce slices

Instructions To Make A Delicious Gluten Free Lunch

1. In a mixing bowl, add the chicken, apple slices, celery, grapes and chives and combine
2. In a separate bowl, mix together the yogurt, dijon mustard and lemon juice
3. Combine the two bowls and add salt & pepper to taste
4. Fill the lettuce slices with the chicken salad mixture
5. Add your banana chips to another section of the lunch box
6. Don’t forget to add your apple sauce. Open the lid for easy access.

Lunch 2 – Chicken & Cottage Cheese

Shopping List For Gluten Free Lunch:

• Cottage cheese with blueberries
• Cucumber slices
• Chicken slices

Instructions To Make A Delicious Gluten Free Lunch

1. Cut up leftover chicken or rotisserie chicken.
2. In same section add a cupcake liner and add blueberries.
3. Peel and slice cucumbers in a section of the cucumber slice.
4. Add cottage cheese to a section and make a smiley face with blueberries.

Lunch 3 – Pepperoni Turkey rolls with Cinnamon Apples

Shopping List For Gluten Free Lunch:

• Pepperoni wrapped in Turkey
• Apples with cinnamon
• Pistachios
• Red Grapes

Instructions To Make A Delicious Gluten Free Lunch

1. Lay out your turkey and place a few pieces of pepperoni in it and then roll it up. Add 3 or full rolled turkey and pepperoni to the lunch box.
2. Rinse off purple grapes and dry them off and add them next to the rolled meat.
3. Add pistachios to a different section of the lunch container.
4. Wash and dry your apple before dicing and then add a dash of cinnamon.

Lunch 4 – Ham Roll Ups, Carrots with Honey & Tomato Salad

Shopping List For Gluten Free Lunch:

• Spinach & Tomato salad
• Ham roll ups
• Carrots with honey
• Red Grapes

Instructions To Make A Delicious Gluten Free Lunch

1. Roll up some slices of lunch meat ham.
2. Wash and dry grapes and add them next to the ham.
3. Add a small cup with honey.
4. Cut up carrots and put them in a different section of the lunch containers.
5. Slice up cherry tomatoes and add spinach for a simple salad.

Lunch 5 – Turkey Wrapped Tomatoes, Eggs, Grapes & Nuts

Shopping List For Gluten Free Lunch:

• Turkey wrapped tomatoes
• Hard boiled eggs
• Walnuts
• Red Grapes

Instructions To Make A Delicious Gluten Free Lunch

1. Lay out your turkey and put a slice or two of tomatoes in them.
2. Roll the turkey and then slice them in half.
3. Rinse and dry grapes and add them to the section of the lunch container with turkey.
4. Add walnuts to the other section as well as a boiled egg.

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Do you have a gluten free lunch box idea for kids that we missed?