Healthy allergy-friendly lunch ideas for your child at school

Making lunches has become more difficult for parents as schools ban more foods and childrens allergies lead to limited options.

Thats the focus of this weeksD is for Dinner on CBC Radio's All in a Day, as author Shirley Plant shares a recipe from her cookbook called,Finally Food I Can Eat!

• LISTEN | Shirley Plant shares her lunch menu ideas

Plant also shares ideas on her website, deliciousalternatives.com.

Check out her recipe below and check out her blog post on ideas for parents.

Plant had to come up with a lunch menu that avoids five of the most common anaphylactic allergens: peanuts, tree nuts, seafood, eggs and dairy.

Her lunch menu, which includes links to her homemade ingredients, is:

• Sweet potato and lentil soup.
• Celery sticks with Daiya cream cheese (Dairy free).
• Healthy cold cuts.
• Rice cake with homemade nut-free Nutella(Partly made with sunflower seed butter).
• Sweet potato muffin(Wheat-free, made with spelt flour).

All in a Day also wants you to write in your menus for a lunch and two snacks, suitable for a child in elementary school. They must be free of the five common anaphylactic allergens mentioned above. There are bonus points if you can also avoid these ingredients: wheat, mustard, sesame, soy and sulphites.

Please email your lunch menu to allinaday@cbc.ca. The deadline for entries ismidnight Sunday, Oct. 5. The winner will receive a copy of Shirley Plants cookbook.