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Gluten-Free Family Dinner Ideas
Family dinners that skip gluten, with the label checks that keep them that way.
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Pick gluten-free products as you shop: gluten-free soy sauce for the honey garlic chicken, gluten-free taco seasoning for the Mexican-style dishes, gluten-free pasta for the casseroles. Read each label before it goes in the cart. Some of these dinners run in a slow cooker or an Instant Pot, and a few can be doubled or frozen. This list covers mains for a family table. It leaves out desserts and sides, and it assumes gluten is the only thing you're avoiding.
Why these items are on the list
- Chicken parmesan pasta casserole. Bakes in the oven with gluten-free penne and marinara. Easy to put together on a weeknight.
- Salisbury steak with mushroom gravy. Made with ground beef. The gravy's good over mashed potatoes too.
- Slow cooker barbecue meatballs. Ground beef in a brown sugar barbecue sauce. Works as a main or an appetizer.
- Instant Pot chicken and dumplings. The gluten-free biscuits are made from scratch, so plan on mixing them yourself.
- Sloppy joe casserole. Macaroni and ground beef baked together, so there are no buns to swap out.
- Steak and potato kabobs. Beef, onions and baby red potatoes, brushed with a rosemary oil mixture and baked.
- Slow cooker lasagna soup. The meat and sauce cook first; Small Farm Big Life adds the gluten-free noodles 30 minutes before serving.
- Swedish-style meatballs. Serve with pasta, or on cauliflower rice if you want it lower carb.
- Taco bar. One cook feeding nine, two of them gluten sensitive, relies on it. Check the taco seasoning label.
- Baked potato bar. Another build-your-own dinner from the same cook. Everyone tops their own.
- Honey garlic chicken over rice. Be sure to use gluten-free soy sauce. Rice or quinoa both work underneath.
- Chicken taco soup. Double or triple the batch for a bigger table, and keep the extra for a busy night.
- Burrito pie. One family of ten gets dinner and leftovers out of it. It also freezes.
- Slow cooker cranberry pork roast. Serve it fresh, or freeze it to cook later. Add green beans and dressing, but check the label says gluten-free.
- Pork chops or fish with vegetables. A reader's simple answer: plain meat or fish, broiled, poached or baked, with any vegetables.
Keep it open on your phone at the shop and tick as you go, so the label checks happen before the cart's full. Easy to pass to whoever's cooking tonight.
When to use it
Useful when you're planning a week of dinners for a household where at least one person avoids gluten.