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My 6 year-old son, 4 year-old daughter, and my self camp regularly. My son
and I are both Celiac. Eating in groups is tough. You're better off
bringing your own food. Out in the wilderness is not a fun place to get
sick from accidental contamination. We have different food depending on
whether we are just going on an overnighter, or whether we are going
backpacking and need to travel light. Some of the things we eat are...
Overnighter- Oscar Meyer hotdogs cooked on a stick, "camp-fire"
marshmallows. "hobo" dinners (foil filled with carrots, potatoes, onions,
and ground beef), breakfast is bacon and eggs, or we make more Hobo dinners
and have them for b-fast too.
Backpacking - Alpine aire makes many GF freeze-dried entrées. I get them at
REI or online. Idahoan potato flakes. We get freeze-dried hash browns from
Costco. Beef Jerky, homemade, and store bought (call manufacturer). Nuts
and raisins.
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I would suggest you to ask your questions at this other excellent site:
http://forums.delphiforums.com/celiac/messages
There are very kind & knowledgeable people there, among them doctors, to
answer your questions.
There also is a GF product list, updated regularly.
Also, I have voluntarily posted many hundreds of GF recipes.
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Take your own cooler and do foil dinners - take frozen chicken / meat, cut
up potatoes, carrots onions, green peppers whatever you like with a little
butter and fold all in foil (wrap twice will help if you are still learning
to do it) - then cook in the fire .. mmmmm good and easy and nothing else
has touched it!!!!
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I am involved in a Girl Scout program where we teach older girls (13-18)
about backpacking, and I have Celiac Disease. In backpacking there are even
more restrictions about food as you are limited by weight. Some thoughts I
have for you are below:
- I would make sure there are plenty of easy to grab and eat snacks, being
outside makes you hungry. I recently got back from a family car-camping
trip and I really liked having those Organic rice bar treat thingies (sorry
I don't have the box..I ate them all :) but they have Panda pictures or
Koala bears on them ) They are like rice crispy treats and are in flavors
like peanut butter or chocolate. Fruit roll ups or dried fruit, whatever
snacky things your daughter usually eats, fresh fruit is of course good if
she likes that sort of thing. Some people also like jerky for the salty
version of snack and I like cereal mixed in snack size ziplocs (sometimes
with a few M & M's thrown in, I am not eating nuts right now (more
allergies) but I used to like GORP alot but with crasins not raisins).
-As far as meals go. I eat a variety of one-pot meals while backpacking.
Usually with cheese, so I don't know if that would be an issue. Cheesy
chicken and rice (use a quick cooking rice like jasmine and add a can of
chicken and cubed cheddar cheese) Mac and cheese (with or without chicken
again or freeze-dried or dehydrated veggies) Using a GF noodle...I like the
quinoa noodles. Also a Cheesy Bac O Spuds (make instant mashed potatoes
with added cheese and dried bacon from the salad dressing section of the
supermarket).
If everyone is going to share food, she and dad could make one of these
dishes and eat mainly it with maybe bag salad or carrots. The biggest
concern I have is clean dishes. I inform all the participants of our
program and suddenly getting dishes really clean has a new meaning.. Lots
of time when eating in a pass it around environment, I just like to go
first so that I know none of the utensils have been contaminated. Also
everyone is warned to not pass food over my plate/bowl.
I would also encourage her to drink plenty of water. I am a little
fanatical sometimes about hydration. A good method is to get a 16-20 oz
Gatorade or the like bottle. Drink the Gatorade and then you have a
fabulous bottle for water. The mouth is wide enough to pour into and easy
enough to drink out of. Stickers can easily make it identifiable and
customized. Carry it around and drink from it. :)
You can find books in the library or while browsing and drinking coffee at
Barnes & Noble and get other ideas. Most things can be converted to GF.
* Visit the Celiac Web Page at www.enabling.org/ia/celiac/index.html *
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