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I was planning on doing some gf pasta with some grilled chicken for tomorrow she can handle pure butter fine in small amounts so was thinking of doing buttered noodles with the chicken.

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I know you said she doesn't like hummus, but would she eat straight chickpeas? My kids like a salad of chick peas/garbanzo beans dressed with olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, and parsley. Or you could toss a few into a pasta salad.

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Yes she would.

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That sounds yummy! My friend does something similar with sweet potato, chick peas and salad leaves. And would she eat falafel? I'm not sure if that can be df though. What about some kind of bean salad?

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My falafel is dairy free - chickpeas, herbage, and baking powder. Sometimes people add wheat flour, so it's not gluten free, though or fry it in peanut oil, which my kids can't do.

My kids also like roasted chickpeas - we buy them because I just can't get the texture right at home. They are super crispy and come in lots of different flavors, just like potato chips. That may be an option if you just need something to fill in.

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I keep trying to make falafel and it not going well. I am going to go start a falafel thread because it sounds amazing in the summer.

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She not been a Falafel fan in the past but I might test it again.
The pasta and chicken was a huge hit and while she was really ready for dinner when I picked her up she said the pasta filled her so that one is a keeper.
I bought some crunchy chick peas as well so I'll see if she likes those. She is off till Monday so we get a little break. I might experiment with some of these suggestions though over the weekend to see what she might be willing to try.

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pasta and chicken sounds like a perfect solution! My kids would live off that if they could. :lol

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This week we did
Monday nutbutter and jam sandwich
Protein bar
Apples
Carrots

Tuesday
DF cheese gf crackers
Hard boiled egg
Olives and tomatoes
Strawberries

Wednesday
Nutbutter and banana sandwich
Pretzels gf
Apples and oranges slices
Cucumber slices

Thursday
Brown rice with grilled chicken
Broccoli and cherry tomatoes
Olives
unsweetened Applesauce pouch
Annie gf chocolate chip granola bar

These seem to fill her and she likes. I noticed she wasn't drinking much the first week despite heavy workout classes. This week I purposely snuck it a bit of some salty stuff like olives or a few pretzels to hopefully encourage her to drink more water.. It worked she is now bringing almost empty water bottles home.
She is performing this weekend for the local schools back to school rodeo. She is actually doing it with a younger class ( just them and the big girls) but they needed a few filled spots and she still little enough she can pass for a first grader lol.
One more week of the intensive. She is loving it.

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Ive gotten kind of lazy and have been going for stuff I can quickly put together but its her finial week...

Monday
Breakfast
GF oatmeal and peanut butter toast


Lunch packed
PB and J (sunbutter)
blueberries
tomatoes and carrots
Kind bar
She said good but not enough

Tuesday
Breakfast scrambled eggs and bacon

Packed lunch
PB and J
blueberries
tomatoes
hard boiled egg
cashews
kind bar
was happy said enough for lunch but was really ready for dinner

Tomorrow
Breakfast Soy vanilla yogurt with granola and blueberries and sausage

Lunch
GF crackers
dairy free sliced cheese and salami
black olives
cucumber slices
hard boiled egg
apple sauce pouch
mix almonds and cashews
fruit leather

We shall see.....
this used to be what she'd eat in like an entire month LOL

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How long does this go on? I quickly discovered the time my girls have done camps that some.how puting together lunches is so much harder for me than making lunch at noon time.

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Her last day is this Thursday so we are almost over. :phew

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Yay! You made it! Good lunches, mama :tu


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