food schedule

Just a helpful hint. We have found that Payson needs to be on a very strict eating schedule. I don't know if this is common for celiacs but since Payson is in all day school he needs to really have something every few hours. At his school they eat lunch at 11:10 and don't get out until 3:30 so by the time I get through with carpool it's 10 min to 4 or later some days. We have Payson eat at 7:30 in the morning with a very big breakfast then at 11:10 -11:30 he has lunch then at 2:00 he has snack in the office. I provide them with a box of Envirokids rice bars and he gets to bring a friend to the office to eat it and then he goes out to recess. When we get home he has a 4:00 snack and dinner is at 5:30- 6pm. If it's a wild day or he's going to bed after 8pm he also gets a bedtime snack. Here is a sample menu:

Breakfast
Bacon or sausage
eggs or omelet
bowl of cereal ( his DR. says that kids should be drinking the milk from the bowl because that's where alot of the vitamins from the cereal can be found. just FYI)
juice or milk
a little fruit if still hungry like a hand full of grapes or a couple of slices of apple

Lunch
school lunch or if I'm packing it the following:
Sandwich with double meat and cheese or wrap up etc..
cottage cheese and fruit ( i love the cottage doubles!! or I make my own version.)
string cheese
chips
veggies with ranch or fruit
GF cookie or mini size snicker something treat like

2pm snack
Enviro kids rice bar

4pm snack
apples with fruit dip or fruit cup or applesauce
tortilla chips and salsa or bean dip
a meat wrap or two or peanut butter on Glutino crackers YUM!!

Dinner
main meal
veggie or two
rice side or potato side

Bedtime snack when needed pike one:
Quaker snack size rice cakes
yogurt
corn tortilla quesadilla roll up.
popcorn
cheese stick
fruit
raisins

This schedule has really helped Payson with his moods and energy levels. I also give him a multi vitamin ( gf of course) and most days a vitamin milk drink. The reason I thought about sharing this with all of you today is because Payson forgot to have his 2 pm snack because they had inside recess due to weather and was a wreck after school! When we got home he had a total meltdown and then admitted that he had forgot about his snack and didn't feel very well. We had a small snack right away and had dinner early at 4:30 with seconds! and a bed time snack. Wow did missing that snack change his behavior. It was validation to me that this schedule is working for his little body.