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I received so many replies to my request for ideas on what a celiac can eat
while travelling! Thanks so much to everyone, it was quite a big help.

I also received a few requests for me to share the answers I received.
There are so many, I've decided just to compile a few. Here they are.

Susan Malmrose
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"There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle." --A. Einstein

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Perky's Nutty Rice, a cold cereal, mix it with roasted chopped
almonds--carry dried fruit and yogurt,
I put the cereal and nuts in individual zip lock bags so I can take them to
breakfast and then mix
the dried fruit in.

Also bean dip makes a filling lunch--Taco Bell's is GF also with other
fruits and vegetables.


I make Betty Hagman's Biscotti as my bread.


Check out K-Mart or Wal-Mart. In their appliance section there are low
priced electric appliances that will serve your cooking needs. Covered
electric fondue pots can be used for boiling water, boiling potatoes,
cooking rice, steaming veggies, making omlettes or scrambled eggs. Usually
a recipe book is included with the appliances you buy.


Here's a checklist of things you might need:

Coffepot
Electric fondue pot
Frying pan
Sauce pan
Grill
Plates
Bowls
Cups
Measuring cup
Knife, fork, spoon
Mixing spoon
Sharp knives for meat
Cutting knives
Potato peeler
Spatula
Strainer
Can opener
Bottle opener
Matches
Tablecloth
Dish towel
Bucket for cleaning dishes
Water jug
GF soap and GF dishsoap
Scouring pads or metal sponges
GF salt and GF pepper
Hatchet
Small saw
Tupperware for leftovers
Foil and plastic wrap
Paper toweling


Sandwiches on GF rice bread
Rice cake sandwiches such as - red pepper, cheese, gf mustard peanut
butter, honey, raisin humus, cucumber, sprout
pepper, cheese, gf dressing GF dinner leftovers such as rice pasta and
sauce with parmesan gf soup mixes - gas stations have free hot water if you
bring in your own insulated mug (don't bring in the soup or they will get
pissy!)
Homemade bread of any kind and an assortment of cheeses, etc. Roasted,
salted soybeans and peanuts for snacking
Dried, and/or fresh fruit
Baby carrots
Cans of tuna with rice crackers, cheese, and tomatoes (I bring along a
cutting board that can go on my lap and be rinsed off at gas stations)
Popcorn
If you do end up starved, there is always the 99 cent Wendy's baked potato
that you can pile salad bar offerings on!


Raisins, Lays potato chips, Fritos, canned tuna (starkist), canned and
fresh fruits and veges (bring a can opener and hot pot), gf soups (sorry -
don't have my list here, and I only eat healthy request split pea).
Tostitos and salsa. McDonald's, Wendy's or Burger King's burgers without
bun, mayo or pickle, McD's or BK's fries and vanilla shakes and milk;
Wendy's has a salad bar that is inexpensive, but bring gf dressing; Mary
Kitchen corned beef hash, Dinty Moore beef stew, Hormel Chili WITH beans
(without beans isn't gf). Archway coconut macaroons. Dannon yogurt (he'd
have to eat it right after purchase, assuming you don't have a fridge);
Orville Redenbacher popcorn if you'll have access to a microwave in any
hotels. Homemade muffins usually last several days - not as long if fruit
is added. The hardest thing will be bread, as it goes bad quickly. The only
thing I can suggest is to find a health food store every 3-4 days and buy a
new loaf. Expensive and inconvenient, so perhaps it's easier to do without.


Peanut butter
Rice crackers, rice cakes
GF Tuna (pop-top cans)
cheese
raw veggies
fresh fruit
corn chips
GF Salsa
GF Rice bread
Instant rice (just add hot water) & canned beans, corn
GF baked goods (can be found in some health food stores, but best to make
and bring your own home made)
GF Yogurts


I recently drove from DC to Atlanta and found that I could save a lot on
food if i ate Kame rice crackers (very good because they remain crunchy)
with peanut butter, which I kept in a cooler in the car. With some drinks
and some unmessy fruit like raisins, apples and grapes, I got quite along
way--much better and more nutritious than sweet stuff. Try it. If you want
a full meal, try hard-cooked eggs too. And I also did well on Boston
Chicken from the restaurant of that name. You can call them for a list of
safe menu items, much better for you than fast foods and not very
expensive.


Fruit
Yogurt
Corn chips
Peanutt butter
rice crackers
cereal
vegetables
hard candy
koolaid (not given me problems)
gatorade
raisins
dried fruits
applesauce
grits (instant)
beans
jello
other types of drinks


My recent trip went quite successfully by stocking up on rice cakes and
corn cakes of various flavors before my trip and then carrying a small
cooler with gf peanut butter, cheeses, mustard and lots of fruit. So if the
people that I visited or the food places that I stopped didn't have
anything for me, I feasted out of my cooler and was quite happy.


? 2 or 3 coolers and several small ice-packs: 1 fairly large (eg hardsided
plastic) cooler, and a couple of smaller coolers, possibly 1 or 2 small
soft-sided insulated coolers. The large one is used to store bags or a
block (if cooler is big enough) of ice bought along the way, with enough
room left over to cool down the ice packs + store any food bought in the
grocery (cold-cuts, cheese, fruit, etc.). Use the cold ice packs to keep
food in the small coolers cold, this can be for things to eat along the way
(eg keep in front).

-- Some gluten-free food that can get by without refrigeration: The bread,
and especially the hamburger buns, from Ener-G come sealed and stay quite
well in a car for ~ a week. Use this with things from the cooler, or peanut
butter etc., for sandwiches.

-- Keep several rolls of paper towels and cleaner handy, along with
container of water for clean-up.


We often take along an electric frying pan or a toaster oven. I prefer the
frying pan. Super markets often have roasted chicken. We take a ice chest
with us and a chicken will often make two meals if we put the leftovers in
a instant casserole with canned potatoes, dried onions and a small can of
vegetables. I usually take some dried rice along also. Take a bottle of
detergent and a dish towel along. A cube of ice lasts longer in an ice
chest then cube ice does. I start out with bread in Ziplock bags, two
pieces to a bag. They will stay good for over a week if you keep them in
ice. your car is cooler then the trunk. Park in the shade whenever you can
and crack the windows.

Supermarket deli's often have a lot of food that he will be able to eat. Do
not buy a pound when 3/4 pound will do.

I always made bars of marshmellow, nuts chocolate chips, dates and cereal.
Wrap them individually.

Wendys restaurants have baked potatoes and 99 cent salads. We often get a
large salad and divide it if it goes with a meal. Archway sometimes has
macaroons in their cookie display. Breakfast is often supplied at motels
now with fruit, juice, and milk that he will be able to eat. I seldom find
a cereal that I can eat. Some motels have microwaves in the rooms. If you
know anyone with AAA their books usually give that information.


I've been making a sunflower "spread" and using it on top of rice cakes...
You blend (before you leave!) sunflower seeds, salt, water, olive oil,
brown rice vinegar and garlic if you like garlic, in a blender and then
refrigerate. It travels well...and can be changed by adding a slice of
tomato on top or cucumbers or even just lots of more chopped garlic.
I also like to make rice balls....rice rolled up inside of Nori sheets
(seaweed).

I love to take Vegetarian Sushi with me....it travels great too.
Then there's always the old standby of p-nut butter & jam on rice cakes.


What would I take? Probably the old rice cake stand-by, peanut butter,
canned tuna and sardines in spring water (I can't tolerate soybean
anything), cans of plain beans, stops for fresh fruit and vegetables, hard
boiled eggs, cans of chicken in water, Fantastic foods instant soups that
are GF, Nile instant soup (the split pea seems to be GF), I might make a
batch of muffins knowing they will get dry in a day, if a cooler was taken
I would start with a few planned overs.


I travel alot for short 3-4 day trips. These items should be helpful.

Rice cakes
peanut butter
fruit
yogurt
cereal gf
rice bread
tuna fish in a can
mayo
gf crackers and cookies
salads and dressing
juices and soda
block cheese

I usually pack breads, cereal etc in a bag. I have a big cooler that I use
to store the mayo, salad dressings, yogurt. I buy the ice packs that you
can freeze and change the ice in the cooler every day. I bring plastic
plates and regular utinsils (they travel better). Don't forget a can opener
and containers to mix tuna. Also bring a travel size dish soap,
and dish towel to wash your dishes.


I buy from the babyfood isle, little dogs in a jar ( chicken) these are made
by gerber.  He might want to try them before you go, they take some getting
used to .  We each grab a jar and eat.  I prefer them with mustard.  I also
buy a food from the heath food store called no fries.  Its like a potatoe
stick puffed up.  Now this is also a get used to food.  I also buy turkey
breast and we have rollups.  They also sell rice rolls at the healthfood
store, which again need get used to time if there eaten room temp.  In the
heathfood store there is something called ricebran crackers,cookies, These
are in the cookie isle.  My husband and kids like the energ spagetti cold,
this is also found in the health food store.  The healthfood store also
carries in the cereal isle made by breadshop, they are frosted corn flakes,
(they taste real) In the reg.  grocery store made by quaker , Cocoa blast.


I toast our local rice bread (Cybros in Waukesha, WI 414-547-1821) in the
oven at 250 degrees for about 4-5 hours until it is golden through
out--similar to rusk or zwieback. Hard but good w/ peanut butter or cheese.
Given that good g.f. crackers are non-existent, & wouldn't be affordable or
packable it they were, this is a bood alternative or cornchips all the
time. Also, Quacker instant grits area very versatile--Take along a ceramic
mug & mug heater.

Good w/ sugar & milk or jelly at breakfast, or cheese or butter & pepper
later in the day.

Wendy's is one of the better g.f. places. Plain grilled chicken breast,
hamburger, chilli, taco salad (w/out dressing, made w/ their chili), baked
potatoes & many item on the salad bar are g.f. Even the frosties--no malt
in them. They did have a g.f list on their web page, www.wendys.com, but
not sure if it is there. They do have a good ingredinet list, but you may
have to ask for it.