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In celebration of Celiac Awareness Month, Linda @ Gluten Free Homemaker has put together a great event full of resources! Linda has pooled together 10 experts who each have chosen an area to focus on for daily, brief tips relating to starting and/or maintaining a gluten free lifestyle. You will need to visit each individual blog to see their daily tips and advise.
Here are the topics I’ve covered in this series of lunchboxes: Reusable Lunchbox Wares, Sweet GF Wrap Ideas, Packing a Balanced Lunchbox, Stocking Up w/ an Oatmeal Snack Cookie, Lunch on a Stick, GF DF Dips & Spreads for a Lunchbox, 10 GF Wrap Ideas, Making Use of Leftovers, Muffins & Waffles for a Lunchbox?!, Top Foods for a Healthy Lunchbox,
I am happy to be participating and will be sharing tips on lunchboxes and snacks! Here are the participating bloggers who will also be posting daily:
Getting Started – Linda @ The Gluten-Free Homemaker
Resources – Wendy @ Celiacs in the House
Traveling – Karen @ Gluten-Free Travel Blog
Eating Out – Heather @ Gluten-Free Cat
Frugal Tips – Janelle @ Gluten Freely Frugal
Cooking – Carrie @ Ginger Lemon Girl
Baking – Jules @ Jules Gluten Free
Kids – Lynn @ Lynn’s Recipe Adventures
Shopping – Laura @ Gluten Free Pantry
My goal for this series is to help people realize gluten-free lunches and snacks can still be great! I hope to provide you with ideas that will help spice up YOUR daily fare with something you may not have thought of before. Going gluten free is not a jail sentence: it’s an opportunity to take care of yourself and feed yourself real, nourishing, and new foods. Come along these next two weeks as we explore: Gluten Free Lunchboxes and Snacks!
See that whole-wheat looking tortilla? Recipe coming this week!
Today’s Theme: Wrap It Up!
Wraps are a lovely way to change things up in a lunchbox. They look cool, provide a bit of novelty, and taste great!
Your wrap options:
- Brown rice tortillas – To use these, heat a 1/2 teaspoon of oil in a pan over medium heat. Turn tortilla once, this makes them pliable and very tasty! Do not short-cut this step or they will crack and break.
- Gluten free flour tortillas. My favorite tortilla recipe I have tried. Cybel Pascal also has one.
- Corn tortillas
- Teff tortillas (contains corn)
- Rice paper wrappers – Asian section of most grocery stores
- Lettuce leaves (iceberg, read leaf, green leaf, butter, napa cabbage are all good options)
- Nori – I prefer toasted and this seaweed used for sushi applications is found in almost all Asian sections.
Here are 10 different wrap ideas to get your creative juices flowing:
- The Orig: Chipotle cream cheese (pureed chipotle peppers in adobo sauce mixed w/ allowed cream cheese to taste), romain lettuce, turkey slices, slice of crispy bacon.
- Tuna Hummus Humdinger: favorite hummus (we use a spicy version), tuna salad(we just mix tuna w/ a bit of mayo and mustard), Romain lettuce, pickled jalapeno slices.
- Holey Guacamole! Guacamole, ham, peeled cumber
- Beaneriffic: Refried beans, favorite cheese, rice, lettuce, avocado, tomato or salsa
- Asian Salad Rolls: Favorite veggie saute wrapped within a rice paper wrapper along with some chicken or tofu. (at right)
- Eggtastic: Egg salad, romaine lettuce, pimentos, red peppers, pickles
- BLT: Bacon, lettuce, tomato, and some mayo!
- Medditerrean: Goat Cheese, olives, red peppers, lettuce, tomatoes and favorite deli meat or salami
- Italian: Salami or pepperoni slices, allowed mozzarella, onion, lettuce, marinated artichokes
- Grilled Veggie: Marinate some favorite veg (summer squash, mushroom, eggplant, peppers, etc), Grill it all up, and wrap it up with some cheese, cooked rice, or both!
What about you, what sorts of wraps have you put together, please share with us!
This recipe was shared with Hearth & Soul, Gluten Free Wednesday, Whole Foods Wednesday, What’s Cooking Wednesday, Frugal Days Sustainable Ways,These Chicks Cooked, Sugar Free Sunday, Real Food Wednesday, Cast Party Wednesday, Pennywise Platter, Thriving On Thursdays, Full Plate Thursday, Fight Back Friday, Fresh Bites Friday, Freaky Friday, Real Food 101, Better Mom’s Linky, Slightly Indulgent Tuesday, Fat Tuesday, Tasty Tuesday,Kids in the Kitchen, Health 2Day Wednesdays, Friday Foodie Fix
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When her third child was born with severe food allergies, Tessa took to the kitchen to figure out how to feed her family well. Always up for a culinary challenge, their journey has taken many twists and turns! Lots of Paleo, and lots of top 8 free. Good food for families, that's what she's about!
Yum! Came for new lunch ideas and am not disappointed! Thank you!
This giveaway is great for us celiac people! Thank you!
I’d love to win this…what a wonderful giveaway! The lunch ideas are wonderful too; I have to look for brown rice wraps, I’ve never seen those before
I am totally a wrap person, my favorites are corn tortillas and rice paper wrappers, but I now have some new ideas to try. Thanks!
Thanks for these lunch ideas.
Tx for the filling ideas–love finding new ones to try out!
Thansk for the great ideas..cant wait to try the recipe
The entire idea of the ten days of info is great. I look forward to reading it all. Thanks for your part and for the chance of the giveaway!
What great wrap ideas. I just shared it on Facebook but couldn’t tag you in the update. Tagging often doesn’t work for me for some reason.
Great lunch ideas!!! Great giveaway!!
All great options. I look forward to trying.
I do love wraps! Such great ideas. My fave is a greek(ish) wrap- avocado, romaine, tomato, feta, italian dressing and hummus (which is what really makes it, I think).
how do you do the rice wrappers without them getting all gooey? i am really looking forward to the wrap recipe!
Jillian, the trick is to under soak them a bit. They continue to soak liquid from the filling. It’s not super finicky, you just have to wrap them tightly in plastic wrap to keep the air away!
Great lunch wrap ideas. Looking forward to the rest of the days of ideas.
great ideas, thanks
Tessa, thank you for the wrap ideas. I look forward to all your lunch box posts. Kelly @ Spunky Coconut also has a very good wrap recipe. http://www.thespunkycoconut.com/2011/02/tortilla-wraps-egg-free-grain-free.html
still looking for the perfect tortilla/wrap option that is gluten free or even grain free. thanks for posting these!
Thanks for the ideas. Never considered wraps
I love wraps — lettuce wraps are my favorites. I love your filling ideas, they look great!
Your wraps sounds & look delicious! and I love Bob’s Red Mill!
Thanks for the giveaway!
cant wait to try some of the wrap recipes, i really miss flour tortillas…
Tess, great round up of recipes and ideas here. I love me a good wrap. Thanks for the mention as well : )
I have always LOVED sushi rolls, but since most contain Gluten I haven’t had them for almost 16 months! I would have never thought of using the Nori to roll other things. Yummy!!
Great post! I have not tried brown rice tortillas yet, but would love to since I avoid corn!
I love anything I can wrap and eat – made my own GF flour tortillas this week, they are 100 times better than store bought.
Thank you! This is really helpful.
I wasn’t happy with the rice tortillas I bought so I’m glad to find some other options.
sometimes Melissa, it’s how you prepare them, by themselves, the brown rice tortillas are pretty gross, dry and unpalatable!
We are having wraps for dinner. Thanks for the egg salad reminder. I so love egg salad and haven’t had it in ages.
Thanks for some great ideas! I also enjoy gluten free millet / flax lavash as a wrap! They come in a couple of great flavors. I look forward to checking out the gluten free tortilla recipe! Thanks!
I have never seen the gf Lavash…you get that at the store Which one? Curious!
What delicious ideas for wraps! I like them all but my favourite has to be the Tuna Hummus Humdinger.
I’m fond of using sturdier greens, blanched, for wraps. Collards work very well, and savoy cabbage add a fun texture. All I do to blanch is wash, shake off extra water, roll loosely, and microwave for 15-30 seconds or until bright green. You can either immediately rinse in cold water, or immediately fill it with a cold filling. I’ve found that they travel fairly well too, which is lovely.
great idea Stephanie!
I love using lettuce as a wrap! Made some yesterday with lettuce I got from the farm I work on . . . divinely tasty.
Thanks for these ideas – they look yummy
More great ideas!
thanks Tessa – pinning and sharing from Kids in the Kitchen!