Menu for Week of 25 Sept 2016

Menu for Week of 25 Sept 2016

Sunday - Parmesan Chicken Casserole (Parmesan Chicken Casserole) with Gluten-Free pasta and salad

Monday - Cheesy Ground Beef Rice Casserole (Cheesy Ground Beef Rice Casserole) with a side of cantaloupe

       This is more for the kids. I've never made it before and I hope they like it.

Tuesday - Raviolis with Prego, garlic bread and corn.  These are the raviolis that I use (E's Favorite  Raviolis)

     We are celebrating E's (our celiac's) birthday on Tuesday and this is her favorite meal, otherwise I  typically don't make such "big" meals every day throughout the week.

Wednesday - Breakfast Bowls (OUR FAVORITE)!!!

     This is simply just tater tots (Ore Ida's are GF), GF sausage and scrambled eggs layered in a   bowl, with shredded cheese on top. Always a hit in our house.

Thursday - Potato and Salmon Patties (Potato Salmon Patties) with broccoli

Friday - GF Meatballs (GF Meatballs) with mashed potatoes, GF brown gravy and mixed vegetables

Saturday -  Papa Murphy's Gluten Free Pizza (Papa Murphy's GF Pizza Recommendations)

     This will be our first time trying Papa Murphy's since going gluten free but since we are celebrating E's birthday with her friends this day, we thought we'd try it (along with some GF cupcakes from our local GF bakery).

Thank You for Small Favors

One of the biggest challenges for my 9-year-old daughter when she found out she had to go gluten free was giving up the typical snacks that kids seem to gravitate to: Goldfish crackers, a lot of her favorite chips, cereals, cheese sandwich crackers, etc.  Then about a month ago her endocrinologist gave us a sample of these wonderful little nuggets that will change gluten-free parenting forever - Lance Cheddar Cheese Sandwich Crackers. They are delicious and taste almost like their Ritz counterparts. I couldn't find them in any of our local stores so I ordered them from Amazon (I was that desperate for my daughter to have them). I highly recommend these crackers...

Here's a link to where I found them on Amazon Lance GF Cheddar Sandwich Crackers

Enjoy!

Jackie's Fantastic Gluten Free No Bake Cookies

I LOVE  No-Bake cookies - I mean really love them. In fact I rarely make them because I love them so much that I eat them until my stomach hurts. But with baking season just around the corner I needed to try out something that I can make for the holidays; something other than the cardboard-tasting cookie and cake mixes that I find at local grocery stores that I cover with inches of delicious frosting to hide the boring taste. So I found a recipe at my favorite trusty recipe site, Yummly, and made some tweaks and they were OUTSTANDING. My kids loved them, I loved them and my husband tolerated them (he's not a big sweet person - crazy, I know).  Here is the recipe. You're welcome.

Fantastic Gluten Free No Bake Cookies

Adapted from Eat, Live, Run (ELR No Bake Cookies)

3 Tbsp. butter
3/4 C. sugar
1/4 C. milk
1 1/2 Tbsp. cocoa
1 1/4 C. milk chocolate chips
1/4 C. peanut butter
1 3/4 C. Gluten Free Old Fashioned Oats (I used Bob's Red Mill)

Prepare cookie sheet by placing a sheet of wax paper over it.

Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over low-medium heat until melted. Add the sugar, cocoa and milk and stir well. Add the peanut butter and chocolate chips and continue stirring until everything is melted together and looks smooth. Add the oats and stir well to ensure all the oats are fully integrated into the mixture. The mixture should now be "chunky" and if it isn't, add additional oats by 1/4 C. or so until the mixture is chunky. Remove from heat. Drop the mixture by spoonfuls onto the wax paper covered cookie sheet (or roll into balls and place on the wax paper) and let cool/harden for 30-45 minutes. These can also be placed in the refrigerator to expedite cooling.

Menu for Week of 18 Sept 2016

Menu for Week of 18 September 2016

Sunday - Brats w/ Kettle Chips (Cape Cod brand are GF)

Monday - Chicken Cordon Bleu (Chicken-Cordon-Bleu) and broccoli
     This was my husband's request this week and will be my first time making it. Hopefully it turns
     out :-)

Tuesday - Grilled New York Strip Steak, Jasmine Rice and Crock Pot Cream Corn (Cream Corn)

Wednesday - Parmesan Crusted Fish (Parm Crusted Tilapia), GF Fish Sticks, Salad, Peas

Thursday - Mexican Pizza (Mexican Pizza), Corn Tortilla Chips, Queso (Rotel & Velveeta), Corn
        For seasoning I use GF taco seasoning, I omit the pizza sauce, and use hamburger instead of  
        sausage

Friday - Tomatillo Chicken (Crockpot Verde Chicken), Jasmine Rice, Mixed Vegetables
       I do not use cilantro and I actually use Herdez Tomatillo Verde Cooking Sauce for this. You can 
     also add a can of green chiles if so desired (my family doesn't like hot and spicy so I leave them
     out). SO DELICIOUS.

Saturday - Parmesan Meatloaf (GF Parm Meatloaf), Mashed Potatoes, Broccoli
     For breadcrumbs I tear up pieces of GF bread and it works fine.  I also use only hamburger and
     Prego Marinara or Prego Traditional pasta sauce.