Simple ways to replace the traditional sandwich:

• Keep pre-cooked rice in the fridge: This can be refried and served with eggs, beans, or whatever you feel like with it. Also, you can make a quick salad with the cold rice.
• Potatoes: Keep some precooked potatoes in the fridge to make a salad with. Also, you can cook a potato quickly in the microwave and top it with any filling you like, e.g. salsa, avocado, cheese.
• Crisp-bread: There are lots of gluten free crisp-breads available, rice and corn cakes are naturally gluten free and economical. You can top them with pretty much anything you would put on a sandwich.
• Soup: Make some quick soup; you can make one with a powdered gluten free stock, and some vermicelli noodles (rice noodles).
• Gluten free bread: It is fairly expensive to buy, but can satisfy the craving for regular bread. There are also some great gluten free bread mixes on the market that make a delicious loaf. Gluten free bread does not keep as well as the standard loaf, but it makes great toast. If you find you don’t like the bread, try and make some savoury flavoured bread and have it as is, with no fillings, served with a side salad.
• Quiche: Make a big quiche, cut it into squares and keep it in the fridge, makes a great easy to grab meal or snack.
• Go Asian: Asian food is often naturally gluten free, just be aware that soy sauce is often made with wheat, you will need to order it without soy sauce, or bring your own to add.
• Make sushi at home: it doesn’t have to look perfect, and doesn’t have to be filled with raw fish. Just cook up some sushi rice, put it in the nori (seaweed), you don’t have to roll it, you can just put it in the middle and fold the seaweed across it (like a parcel) if you prefer. Place your filling in the middle of the rice, it can be anything, salad, beans, tin fish, smoked fish, egg, whatever suits your taste.
• Salad: Make any simple salad for lunch; you can make it more filling by adding in heavier ingredients such as beans, eggs, meat, etc.
• Pizza: Make a gluten free pizza using flat bread as a base, or make your own base using a bread mix.
• Fruit: Mix it up by having fruit for lunch, cut up a big fruit salad, top it with some natural yoghurt, honey, and sprinkle with nuts.
• Mezze plate: Adopt a great Mediterranean tradition, and serve yourself a mezze plate. Mezze are appetisers. You could make a plate with cut up vegetable sticks, dips, rice crackers, some cheese, maybe some meat strips, or nuts. (if you use pre-made dips, be sure to check the ingredients label for hidden gluten)

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