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Celery and carrot sticks keep quite nicely in a container of water in the frig and actually taste better that way! Celery with nut butters is a quick, healthy treat and raw celery is supposed to help with morning sickness! Carrot sticks with some kind of dip are another healthy snack ~ dh makes a delicious dip using plain Greek yogurt, granulated garlic, onion powder and worchestershire sauce.
Don't know if this would be helpful or not ~ dh recently brought home a small frig from Sams Club (around $100) to help with the overflow from our much-too-small-for-a-family refrigerator. We now have a "snack frig". It nicely corrals yogurt, string cheese, juice and snacky type foods and really cuts down on the number of times our regular frig gets opened! We put ours in the spot where our deceased dishwasher used to reside. Thought I'd share in case a similar setup might be of help!
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Adding a delicious, cheap and barely cook meal that my husband prepared today (had our baby yesterday!!  )
Thinking this is a good fit for the categories of large family, pregnant, easy, etc....
Tray of pulled pork (Sam's Club), baked potatoes, salad. Served with shredded cheese, butter, sour cream. So the selling point for us was the discovery of how well potato skins after being emptied of their delicious contents, make the perfect "bread" for a pulled pork sandwich.
Maybe I am just ravenously hungry, but BOY was that delicious!! 
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I don't eat breakfast or lunch with the kids. They make their own. I make my own that's compliant.
Family Dinner is usually whole30 compliant unless the family had requested something in particular.
This works for us.
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When I was diagnosed with celiac disease seven years ago, I was the only one eating gluten-free and made separate meals for myself a lot of the time. My kids were age 9 and under and it was a little crazy, but it's gotten better.
Since then, my four children have moved to a gluten-free diet most or all of the time. My oldest has also been a vegetarian for over a year now and that is more difficult to accommodate sometimes than gluten-free, but what has happened is that we generally all eat both gluten-free and vegetarian most days, with separately cooked meat added to sauces or soups or served on the side. I really try to cook something that we can all enjoy together, rather than a lot of separate meals, but it doesn't always work out, and that's OK too.
At home, I keep a 99% gluten-free kitchen. The only wheat products in my house are pre-packaged crackers, ramen noodles, one loaf of whole wheat bread, and occasionally store-bought pastries that my 13yo eats. I don't keep separate dishes or cookware, and we share the toaster.
If we go out, it is generally only to sit-down restaurants that have a gluten-free menu. Drive thru is pretty much out except the Taco Time chain, which has gf options.
My mom has gotten better at making gf holiday foods over the years and this year everything except some dinner rolls will be gluten-free. My sister has tried a gf diet for a limited time and it helped her, so when we go to her house, she knows what we can eat.
Other family members don't quite get the level of strictness necessary. One year, my aunt was a little hurt that I wouldn't eat her turkey that had "just a tablespoon" of wheat flour on the bird to crisp the skin. I didn't make a big deal, just said no thank you, but I think she felt like I was judging her food as unclean or ritually impure. :/ That may be why we don't get invited to extended family holiday meals.
But regardless, it is certainly a lot less stressful to eat food made in my own kitchen where I don't have to worry about it.
Things I always have on hand: whole fruit, cheese, nuts, chocolate, popcorn, tortilla chips, guacamole or salsa, raw peppers or carrots, hummus, yogurt, steel-cut oats (I can eat these, some celiac people don't), eggs, pepperoni or salami, ham, protein shake powder, peanut butter, corn tortillas, canned beans, gf bread of some kind, either in the fridge or freezer.
Being dairy free would be much harder at this point...we rely on eggs, milk and cheese a lot.
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Oh, rice and potatoes, too.
We tend to go through cycles of grains/carbs that fill out the meal: a lot of tortillas one week, potatoes next week, then rice and so on.
One thing that has helped is making bigger batches of things that can be recombined into other meals, rather than having a rigid meal plan where there are completely different kinds of foods and spices every night. Make a big batch of rice or ground beef and use it more than one or two days of the week.
The other day I cooked up two steaks for my meat-loving 13yo and she will have the second one on a day I make only a vegetarian entrée for dinner. My kids have gotten really good at packing their own snacks and lunches when needed.
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I recommend the site www.meghantelpner.com she has some fabulous recipes on there. Her book Undiet is great too.
I have an intolerance that does better when I go wheat free, but I haven't made a permanent switch. I tested negative for Celiac's however. I fell off the wagon a couple weeks ago when dh had an accident and just haven't gotten back on.
There are many options out there. I am still working on homemade bread gluten free. The trick is a mix of flours,apparently, but I haven't found the right blend yet.
I have successfully made brownies with coconut flour, and no issue with it, even the kids liked it. Berry crumble from Meghan's site was gone. It was so yummy, the girls had it for breakfast int he morning and I got a whole 2 tbsp..lol.
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