If you look up recipes for the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, GAPS or paleo these are generally excellent. You can heal the gut using GAPS/SCD, rather than just attempting to manage symptoms with a GF diet. GF diets used to be pretty good because they meant you had to make good, basic food from scratch. These days they can often be full of just as much processed food given the amount of GF products available- and as you have noticed, very high in sugar.
We are on the SCD and for breakfast we have eggs, avocado, sauerkraut and homemade pork sausage patties (I make up a weeks worth every weekend).
Good snacks and lunches include homemade beef jerky, baked chicken legs, meatballs, cheese crackers made with coconut flour & cheese, a piece of fruit, vegetable fritters with veggies and eggs, fish cakes and coconut flour pancakes. The pecanbread website has a list of SCD recipes for kids and there are many other good blogs such as The Well Fed Homestead and Mommypotamus.
Hey Divvy, my mum is coeliac. She was diagnosed about 15 years ago and we have seen a huge increase in the amount of GF foods available and general awareness of coeliac in that time.
Mum eats a GF muesli for brekky some days with some yoghurt and milk. She gets it form the supermarket, in the health food aisle, but I can't remember what brand it is. She is a big label reader and I'm sure it will be acceptably low in salt and sugars for her! I can ask her the brand if you think your DS would eat muesli. Mum's a big brekky eater (most important meal of the day apparently!) so she often has bacon, eggs, tomatoes, mushies... as well.
Lunch is usually salad, with some leftover roast meat or the like. You can buy GF wraps at the supermarket, they're not bad and would be good for school lunches. Rice and corn cakes are generally GF. I like the corn better than the rice, but it's personal preference! They're good topped with avocado and tomato...
We tried making our own bread for years, but we just couldn't get the recipe right. I stumbled across a bakery which makes gluten free bread about 10 years ago and mum has been getting her bread from there every since. It tastes pretty good and they make several varieties (sunflower, fruit...). It's not as crumbly as most GF breads and doesn't have that 'wet dog' smell that most of them do! What state are you in? If you're in Vic I can give you the name of the bakery and you might like to try them. Even if it is a bit if a hike for you, mum usually orders about 10 loaves then freezes them when she picks them up. The bakery also does a large array of GF pies and cakes and stuff. GF is not cheap, I think it's about $6 for a loaf of bread.
Dinners are easy, you can make GF just about anything!
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