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Originally Posted by 8 Ball
Travelling as a celiac must be brutal. Do you bring a lot of your own food?
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Ya, it's pretty tedious. I'll bring a large amount of emergency granola bars in my checked bag, and depending what the trip is, maybe some other stuff. I'll make a GF pizza the night before, and put half in my checked bag, half carry on. The checked bag is for emergency arrival issues when you are exhausted and just need food.
I try to go through every city and town before hand, flagging potential GF places so I don't need to waste my vacation hunting for meals. Typically I'll have 10 or so places flagged, and two or three are viable. Any chance I get I book a place with a kitchenette so I can have a quick safe breakfast and make a lunch or the day. Then it's only one foraging meal.
Cambodia and Vietnam were very hard, because although they use rice noodles, they also cook them in the same water as the wheat ones. Fun discovery watching an open kitchen that day, but it explained why I was sick constantly. I used to hunt down Indian restaurants, because a lot of their dishes have no reason to contain gluten. But then I found out I am also lactose intolerant, so that took most of the good stuff off the menu.