For coeliac families
Packing a gluten-free lunchbox and getting school ready gets easier with the right bits and pieces. Here are a few things coeliac families often talk about: toaster bags, lunchboxes with separate compartments, cookbooks, and a toaster or air fryer kept just for gluten-free food, alongside our own printables. Always check labels and follow your child's clinical team and Coeliac UK for the facts. Different food, same adventures.
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A cheap, packable way to toast gluten-free bread in a shared toaster at home, on holiday or at friends'. Coeliac UK suggests toaster bags or a separate toaster to help avoid cross-contamination; check the bag before each use and replace it when it wears.
Separate compartments keep each part of a packed lunch in its own space, and a box kept just for your child's gluten-free food can make lunchtime simpler.
Gluten-free recipes for the foods families miss, from bakes to fakeaways, written by UK authors who live gluten free. A good gift for a newly diagnosed family, and handy for the rest of us.
Some families keep one just for gluten-free food so there's less to think about at breakfast and teatime. Long slots fit larger gluten-free slices and toaster bags. If you share a dual-drawer air fryer, choose one with fully separate drawers and keep one drawer gluten-free.
Six UK gluten-free cookbooks that families may find useful. Each link below is an affiliate link to Bookshop.org UK, marked Ad. Always check ingredient labels, even when you're following a recipe.
by Becky Excell · Hardback, Quadrille, 2021
Over 100 gluten-free recipes, from home comforts and fakeaways to cakes, desserts and bread.
by Becky Excell · Hardback, Quadrille, 2024
Over 100 gluten-free recipes made in an air fryer, including pizza, burgers, sausage rolls and doughnut holes.
by Sarah Howells · Hardback, Yellow Kite, 2023
100 easy everyday lunch and dinner recipes, including batch-cooking meals, fakeaways and desserts.
by Laura Strange · Hardback, Hardie Grant, 2024
100 recipes in two sections, meals for everyone and baking, with practical notes on cross-contamination and meal planning.
by Jane Devonshire · Hardback, Absolute Press, 2018
Over 100 gluten-free family recipes, from soups and dips to casseroles, desserts and a baking chapter.
by Clare Marriage · Hardback, Ebury Press, 2023
100 gluten-free baking recipes from the founder of FREEE, from classic cakes and puddings to bread, pizza and pasta.
Our own printables, sold through our Etsy shop.
Ready-to-use pages to brief your child's school: a parent letter, a teacher page, a kitchen and packed lunch note and more. England and US editions.
Products are suggestions, not endorsements of safety. Always check labels, and follow your child's clinical team and Coeliac UK for the facts. The Coeliac Parent is independent and is not affiliated with Coeliac UK.