Gluten Free Travel and Dining

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Have to eat gluten-free eating away from home becomes a lot more inconvenient a lot more work.

And a lot more risky in this video I will share what I've learned from experience right how to eat at restaurants and on the road.

About quit getting myself good I was never much of a fan of chain restaurants before it became good.

Free hurts going to eat out I wanted to try a local place a little hole in the wall ethnic restaurant or someplace really fancy.

But the thing about being gluten-free is that you need reliability.

In your town you can probably get to know some local restaurants well enough to know if they were able to make a truly.

Gluten-free food but when you're on the road you don't have that luxury.

The good news is that a number of chain restaurants.

Actually gone through a grueling gluten-free certification process they have gluten-free dishes.

Their kitchen staff were trained not to cross-contaminate you and the wait staff a look at your like you've grown to pets for asking to have a hamburger without a bun.

Or your prime rib without you that doesn't mean that you can just go in there and lively order anything of gluten-free menu.

You need to make sure that the rate staffer actually paying attention.

And understand what you asked for so they can communicate with the kitchen.

You might still have to ask questions like and the gluten-free pasta is cooked in its own water right.

French fries don't share primarily with anything with read it right.

You didn't just pick the croutons of the regular celebrate my plain chicken breast isn't being cooked on a grill next with teriyaki chicken breast great.

I know it sounds ridiculous but you need to check.

People really don't understand how big a problem.

Cross-contamination is and they don't understand how sick weekend so we need to watch out and stand up for ourselves yes it makes you sound like a demanding special snowflake you can make up for it by tipping really well.

Their lists have gluten free restaurants online.

Are linked to a number is now on the gluten-free knowledge website.

You can look up gluten-free restaurants business city and they typically have user submitted ratings and reviews we also have an app for smartphones but if you want to book you can carry around a good one is Adam Bryant.

Gluten free guide to chain restaurants or.

There's also the gluten-free restaurant guide for trial dining.

Just bear in mind that the internet updates or at least its post you.

But a book can get out of date pretty quickly also.

While the Olive Garden chain is pretty good for gluten-free a particular Olive Garden restaurant might have been incompetent.

Or a lazy Brook the comments on a website might show that but a book has limited space spur-of-the-moment troops are going to be a little more difficult for you.

When you're traveling to the Newtown be sure to take advantage of the Internet to look up a look Asian too many favorite reliably gluten-free chain restaurants.

Also have a look at your gluten-free restaurant guide books and web sites to see what local restaurants are not to be friendly to gluten-free people organize you can but the actors isn't Google Maps are your GPS or even write them all down on paper in Markham on a paper map.

He's gotta do what works for you but what matters is that you have the information ready before you're hungry and running out of time.

You need to communicate with the people you're traveling and the people you're staying will need to understand that if they insist on going to fondue power serving.

With bonanza you won't be able to join a they should understand that you need to take the extra time to order.

So they through either let you go first or last.

Depending on your preference and not question you or distract you while you're talking to the rates.

Hopefully your family friends and colleagues are not europe's so they'll actually help you and stick up for you while you're traveling long distances and staying in hotels eaten eating gluten-free becomes even more challenging.

For some reason breakfast was an especially hard real to get gluten-free.

I'm guessing it's our society's fascination with Coast and rest stops almost never have anything good treaty.

You may not be able to get away from your day's activities long enough to get to a restaurant that can do gluten-free this calls for some creative problem solving but at least you'll know that your milk who's better than everybody else is my great breakfast burrito or nine dollars of its mostly iceberg lettuce and mayonnaise first of all make sure you that you will never get so hungry that you make the colossally stupid decision to eat something that is included free you'll be regretting it for days if not weeks bring shelf-stable snacks with you.

Bananas Apple's easily peeled oranges rice cakes with little single-serve terms of peanut butter and jelly.

In a plastic knife to spread the myth gluten free crackers and cookies.

Gluten-free power bars jerky not dried fruits and fruit leather all good ideas for day trips you'll need an insulated lunch box and freezer pack.

Stick a few healthy snacks Ameren by healthy I mean maximum operating you with blue I don't care if you even able wanna.

Margin he's a cornball as long as they're gluten free and they make you happy.

But I like apples and peanut butter and then if you're lazy just head over to partly because they're the absolute best at making nutritious filling and tasty gluten-free lunch just tell them that you needed to be gluten-free and I know exactly what to do.

Even change their gloves to prevent cross-contamination and the burrito bowls are perched perfectly good even if you can't really.

If you're not lazy or if for some reason you don't like to pull away.

Or if you're in some remote corners the world that doesn't have a cheaper way.

We can pack your own lunch I like the brain chicken likes pick them in the oven and serve chilled.

About urs not be using some comments may be a rocker box the rice crackers and you're set you can also buy super missus and Packers.

Do chillier nice sloppy your career stir fry.

Make everybody jealous with everything we go through entitled to these little pleasures.

In most areas staying at a hotel makes things a little more complicated.

Much you're willing to go to the Outback Steakhouse and have a stake in a big sweet potato for every meal during your trip the solution is what I like to call camping.

First get a hotel room that has a microwave and mini-fridge some hotels even offer rooms with kitchenettes what they cost more.

Her to reserve an art really necessary second buyers of a really good cooler.

Coleman next three day and five takeovers the number is how many days it will keep your eyes for frozen and your food cold when you get into town here at the grocery store for ice and fruit you're probably going to want to bring your shelf stable stuff from home just to save a little money.

You can have a kid setup I have a little bottle of olive oil spices in all tic tac containers in single-serving packets on every continent you can think of also clubs like beaches in Costco are good for buying Rosenbach.

Like this said before you'll also want pack copious quantities of shelf-stable clinton-proof snack.

Assertive lightweight dinnerware from a camping supplies store will make your life better if you've ever tried in state for chili of a leaky.

Lobby paper plate you know what I mean to round out your hotels booking capabilities.

Buyers over fifteen dollar hot plate mesoderm cookware from a camping supply store.

Now it's lightweight and easily packable work you want to you can just bring a sauce pan frying pan.

Ladle and spatula from your own kitchen you're also going to run a knife and cutting board those colorful little knives with Chiefs are safer to bring an easy to find in any kitchen supply store.

Probable cutting boards are easier to pack and lighter weight than regular one additional mandatory equipment or strainer.

A vegetable peeler a can opener and a rubber spatula that's not a concave side so you can use it as a serving spoon if you like and of course bring a little bottle dish soap and a sponge if you wanna get really fancy bring a smoker my friend with Syriac disease discovered this because she goes to a lot of science fiction conventions that last the whole weekend she didn't want to take a lot of time out for presenting scheduled to cook.

Fish make something in your slow cooker every day and it's ready for her whenever she has a moment to get back to our room even make slow cookers with two compartments you can have two different dishes.

Working at the same time needless to say if you're going to be doing your own cooking when you travel.

Camping has a lot of potential for one thing it's much cheaper than staying in a hotel for another when you're camping everybody is leaving home cooked food because that's just what you do.

That way you feel less like an outcast because everyone else is going to restaurants.

Another possibility for saving money and healing in my application.

Is renting a vacation house instead a hotel room it's very economical if you have a family with multiple children or a group of a little.

There even website 3 can arrange with people from other cities to trade houses or apartments for a week.

Although I've never tried traveling for work is a real bear.

There are certain social and professional expectations of us and dealing with needing to eat and sometimes disturb a fragile near that were perfect little working machines with impeccable professionalism.

Will probably wake up without morning brother bed and come up with some innovative solutions before breakfast.

Our culture work one has to leave her personal life at the door.

But this part her personal life has to come with us everywhere ended.

Isn't always very good at staying in the background so conferences some hotels are known for having gluten-free options at the restaurant some college cafeterias are capable of providing gluten-free meals.

Their students but I have never once found a conference either held at a hotel.

Were held at a college campus can offer me a real good premium in some cases it's obvious that they can't guarantee its not.

Cross-contaminated.

In other cases they just straight up say they can't do it the people they hired to do catering programs are often not actually employees.

And they just don't give them training and the food that they make for advances optimized the economical for large groups not for the more varied options at a restaurant or a cafeteria on the off chance they do provide something that's actually safer usually so inedible.

Are meager but it doesn't really count pack a bag lunch and lots of snacks fortunately I don't have to do business lunches right have to impress my potential clients are screen potential cock collaborators in Cali.

But most of us who work sometimes have to eat with your coworkers.

If you can do so pick the venue figure out what restaurants are in the right area and have the right price point and I'll be a and see which have them have at least one thing on the menu that you can eat.

And prepared without.

Cross-contaminating then selector suggests those places if you're not the one doing the inviting or if you're not local it's harder.

You're going to have to be up front about your needs and do a little bit of educating keep it simple and keep your group requests minimal basically you need something you can eat safely.

Not necessarily something delicious it's a dry and seasoned chicken breast on a bed of plain lettuce.

You may have to deal with it and pretend you're fine with it but don't think they're requesting your health needs being met is unprofessional or a sign of weakness it's just another aspect getting the job done if you're a wheelchair user you couldn't go to a business lunch held on the second floor of a building without an elevator and holding that against he would be severely unethical this is the same kind of thing in the past bringing up this kind of thing had more of a stigma associated with it unfortunately it's still the fact that some people will remember your weird food thing before they remember more important things about you like the resources.

Connections and skills that you brought to the table the best thing you can do is be matter fact.

But not your food issues become a topic of conversation keep steering it toward business business matter at hand or more pleasant small talk.

Stay positive and confident even if you have to fake it some people's weddings have provided me with delicious gluten-free food.

Other times not so much the thing about weddings is that the people planning them are also the people who are most excited and nervous turnover.

And overwhelmed about them so they often miss little details like the fact that one of their gas has approved sensitivity if you're close to the couple getting married talk to them early about the catering arrangements.

If you're not close to them wait until you've gotten your invitation.

And call them when you RSVP sometimes the couple chooses a caterer based on their ability to accommodate diet dietary restrictions.

And that's good news for you as long as the caterer knows we need you have something to eat sometimes disposed to tell the couple and they tell the kidder other times the couple just give you the caterers wrong number and it's up to you to contact them directly.

Ask them the same kinds of questions you would ask at a restaurant.

And if you don't get the answers you need earthly sound unsure don't trust that they can give you good free food.

If the couple is chosen to have a meal served buffet-style you're probably out of luck buffets are impossible to keep free in cross-contamination but it may be possible to make special arrangements.

Have a gluten-free plate made up in the kitchen and deliver to your table.

Just like with business one has a wedding isn't the occasion to talk about your frustrations with gluten-free diet muster at a table full of people similar issues you want to talk about that.

Bring you should come up with something else to talk about that won't bore gross outward oppress the people around you if you know that a wedding can accommodate you just keep before you go.

Even if you're expecting that they can serve you a gluten-free meal.

It's better to be safe than sorry in a light meal before you go.

And make sure to have some gluten free snacks on hand because the caters may not have gotten a massive.

Or they may have made a mistake if all else fails you can eat alarab are in the lobby and sip some wine.

To wrap up whether you're taking a day trip or staying a week or eating out for business or pleasure or social obligation like a wedding.

Never let somebody trying to nag convince persuader guilt you into eating something that you suspect is insane.

They're not the one wants to live with the consequences you are and he'd given to them bill only do it again not only to you but to everyone else in my life and one last piece of advice from experience it's hard to eat gluten-free particularly outside your home in surrounded by family friends and colleagues.

Its tired and have to be constantly on guard it's depressing to have to deprive yourself.

Things that you want that everyone else is enjoying it feels isolating.

And sometimes it actually is literally isolating when people decide to go on without you because it's just more convenient not have to deal with your needs.

It's hard not to any let it get you down many people are used to comforting a rewarding ourselves with food and many of the foods that we would like to do that with are no longer on the menu for us it's important to make sure that you have a way to treat yourself an online it gives you something to look forward to so that you can make it through a difficult situation and not give into a.

Self-destructive temptation it should be something that simple and affordable so that it's really.

Within reach whenever you need it but it should also be special just make sure that you have something that will make you feel like you've got your just rewards for soldiering through a 16 hour day.

For breakfast lunch and dinner consisted of nothing but rice Chex.

Jerky and dried fruit /url wedding where the only things you could eat more carrots and celery sticks.

Your tree might be a model cappuccino on the deck instead of the usual coffee in a hurry /url injuries battles that have a quick shower if you take a nap gluten-free baking.





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