<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Dear Members, I have listened in for close to a year now without the need to post a general query. But here I am now. My company has chosen to send me to a two week education course in Memphis, TN. At home I have settled into a pattern that many of you have probably become familiar with; eating certain things, avoiding certain things -- relying upon family members to watch for things I might miss on an ingredient list. Knowing my cupboard is safe to a certain degree, and knowing where to buy foods that have larger odds of being safe. That will not be the same for two weeks in a hotel room, across the country. I am actually quite scared. I will need to have my brain at the sharpest it can be, at a time when I will be going through a lot of "foraging" stress. Understand, I do not show classic celiac symptoms when I ingest gluten. I get along just fine for a day or so, with just very mild classic indicators, then suddenly my brain fogs up, my head starts pounding, my skin breaks burns and breaks out, I become immediatly allergic to whole groups of foods, and I deteriorate from there. The archives had little concrete information on the health food stores in the area, and restaurants. I am more interested in health food stores, I have yet to find a restarant that can provide me with anything that doesn't make me sick the day after, though Indian foods are better than most. I know a few of you do live there from the archives, but I thought a general posting would get me better information. Last time I journeyed south, to OK, everything seemed battered or bread crumbed, I did fine with the help of my family, but I will not have that crutch now. Plus, during classes everyone will probably want to "go out for lunch", and I will have to try to find a way to grapple with that. I will definitly take some comfort foods with me - both sent ahead to my hotel, and on the trip, but not really enough to cover me for half a month. Thanks in advance, Matthew Schneider Portland, OR