When I first started learning about the whole gluten free approach it sounded like it could be pretty easy.  There are lots of great foods out there like Kind bars.  They are gluten free and delicious granola bars that you can purchase at Target without needing a home equity loan!  My mother also said that Walmart has a section with a lot of good gluten free foods.  I haven’t ventured to Walmart yet.  I try to avoid that place at all costs.

The first thing I thought of for how I would approach my day is that I could probably get away with going gluten free without even knowing it!  I could have an oatmeal for breakfast, my tea, a kind bar for a snack.  Then I could have an apple for lunch, macaroni salad (made with quinoa pasta) and for dinner I can have fish and rice and veggies.  That doesn’t sound so hard. Another option for lunch could be a large salad with hard boiled eggs or tuna.  Dinner could include a sweet potato instead of rice or include a salad as a side as well.

I think lunch would be the challenge for me after a while.  I could eat a macaroni salad with apples in it and peas for a few days; but then I’d need to come up with some other ideas.  I never mind scrambled eggs with fresh veggies baked into a baking dish like a quiche without a crust.  That’s a good choice for a good protein-rich lunch.

When thinking of what you can’t eat with gluten in it, it’s easy to focus on what you can’t have.  But there are a lot of foods that you can have.   I can make my own soup, that’s always a good choice and a good source of veggies as carbs to add to my diet with less carbohydrates.

Some easy snacks to munch on are almonds and sliced up apple.  A cheese stick with grapes.  A kind granola bar, yogurt with Kind granola.  There’s a lot of choices!  I’m just getting started researching what you should and shouldn’t eat and trying to focus on what I can eat.  But I still have more to learn.

Do you have any advice for some lunch and dinner ideas?