<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Hi, Since it's been a day or two since I recieved the last post of suggestions for my upcoming field trip, I thought that I'd summarize for the whole group: I can relate, I had to do the same thing last week. I took a corn pasta salad. Cooked corn pasta, black olives, a bunch of lightly cooked vegetables, garlic, pepper, olive oil, vinegar. I often pack a lunch for the day and things I like include: yogurt, rice cakes and cream cheese (in a separate container--they get soggy if you spread them in the morning), boiled eggs, rice and salsa and sour cream (I know that's kind of a weird one), chips, fresh fruit of course. How about a themos of soup with a bag of fresh veggie sticks. My favorite sandwich is almond butter with banana on toasted GF bread it taste great after being in the brown bag for a few hours. Oh yeas and some cookies!!! The possibilities are endless. Fruit and vegetables for sure. Some g-f sandwiches, crackers, cookies. apples, cheese, bread with a small container of GF mayo, roast beef, the GF wasa bread or other crackers. Soda...the possibilities are endless and only limited by your imagination. Fruit and cheese always makes a good lunch/snack For example, make a salad and bring that. If you have gluten-free bread, make a sandwich, bring a piece of fruit or a bag of chips, and a drink. If you're close to a Wendy's the chili and baked potato are GF. A bag of slaw and margetti cole slaw dressing makes a emergency quick lunch. pack hard boiled eggs, tuna sandwiches (on GF bread, of course!), drinks in boxes or a thermos, GF chips (corn chips), fruits . . . Don't forget to take plastic utensils if you pack some salad! Whenever I go on day trips, I always take some of my muffins. This is a recipe changed a little from Bette Hagman's recipe. 1/2 cup sugar 4 T shortening 3 eggs 2 cups gluten free mix (2 cups rice flour, 2/3 cup potato starch, 1/3 cup tapioca starch) sprinkle of salt 4 tsp baking powder 1 cup milk Cream sugar and shortening with mixer. Beat in eggs. Sift flour, salt, baking powder and add to sugar and shortening mixture with added milk. Add 1 cup blueberries or 1 cup diced apples if desired. Spoon into muffin tin and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Bake at 350 deg for 20 minutes or until brown. These keep very well and don't need to be microwaved before eating. I keep them in the freezer and take out as needed. If you have your own bread, make a sandwich with Louis Rich Carving Board Meat. crackers cheese (brick style) Dannon Yogurt vegetables such as: carrot or celery sticks, green peppers, cauliflower any kind of fresh fruit rice cakes dried fruit jerky sardines dry roasted almonds or cashews raisens Healthy Valley Tropical Fruit Rice bars apples and bananas They sell "pop-top" cans of tuna or salmon (you just pop them open like cokes). These don't need refrigeration until opened. Open when you are ready to eat. You can eat right out of the can. Salmon or tuna chopped Raw carrots, red peppers (any raw veggies in a baggie) Rice Cakes Chunk cheese - GF Potato Chips - GF Oranges, Bananna, apples etc. etc. raisen packs for a snack Water bottle Have you tried the Fantastic soups which come in a serving cup and you add hot water. There is also a canned turkey meat which comes in a larger than a tuna size can that is GF and could go with any salad that you can buy. I ususally prepare chicken and rice the night before a trip. I bring cold chicken in an insulated case. The rice can be cold as well. You can add raisins or apricots or chopped veggies to make a salad or you can do rice and beans which are fine cold. muffins, fruit, nuts and seeds(mix all together with dried fruit for a trail mix), juice boxes or water bottle, gluten free cookies or brownies or cupcakes, if you have a bread you use you can make any sandwich you like and add chips onthe side plus fruit and a dessert if you like. Cold chicken or tuna if you use an ice pack. Thanks to EVERYONE who wrote me. Many ideas I did not even think of. Bill Kane Normal, Illinois USA