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Legally, school districts are required to provide a nutritionally balanced meal for our kids - just as the do for kids with every other type of food issue.  I have never forced the issue, because I was able to get the cafeteria staff to heat up my children's meals along with all of the other students, but I am tired of paying for the food & then being charged for the meal again, just because they heated up the meal (pizza, hamburgers, chicken nuggets, etc... on the same days that there peers have them), but economics being what they are, I will now let the district do their legal responsibility.
Tami

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>From: Lindsey Grayzel <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Jun 19, 2008 12:38 PM
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>Subject: Re: Lunch Ideas for Kids at School
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>I love the thermos.  If you fill it with boiling water for a few minutes
>then dump the water and add the hot food, the food will stay nice and hot
>until lunch time.  (or cold if your'e going that route).  We send soups,
>leftover rice pasta w/ sauce, leftover stews and yogurt smoothies (cold) in
>the thermos.  Other staples: yogurt, sandwiches and bagels w/ GF bread, GF
>cornbread, quesadillas, GF pizza (everyone likes cold pizza), tamales from
>trader joes- heat in Am and wrap in aluminum foil.  They're not exactly hot,
>but my kid likes them lukewarm OK.  String cheese, the usual carrot sticks,
>applesauce, grapes, apples and peanut butter, corn chips, fruit leather,
>hummus with rice crackers, used to do the rice cake thing with peanut butter
>and honey but we overdid that and now my kid  refuses to eat rice cakes.  A
>nice sweet treat is peanut butter, honey and dried milk mixed together into
>little balls, wrap in waxed paper, it's like candy.  Nuts!  Nature Valley
>makes nut bars that are gluten free and regularly on sale at Safeway.
>Popcorn.  That's all that comes to mind at the moment. Beef jerky.
>
>Cheers,
>Lindsey
>
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>On 6/19/08 9:13 AM, "Laura B." <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> <<Disclaimer:  Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>>
>> 
>> Hi Everyone!
>> 
>> I'm sorry to ask this question again - but the last couple of times I saw this
>> question asked, I asked for a summary and never saw anything.  In case I
>> missed it - my apologies.
>> 
>> I'm looking for lunch ideas (elementary school age) for kids with Celiac.  The
>> school has no possibility to heat things up so I either need to send things
>> cold 
>> or in a thermos. 
>> 
>> I think with Celiac it is easy to put yourself in a rut - but it doesn't need
>> to 
>> be - I'm sure there are great ideas out there.  Please help!!!
>> 
>> I WILL summarize.  Note - Rude responses are never included in my summaries.
>> 
>> Thanks for your help!
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Laura
>> 
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