<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Here is my continuation of my summary for the above areas. thanks to everyone for their input: Fort Lauderdale restaurants: Hops Roadhouse Grill Outback Steakhouse Burger King further recommendations: order fish and meat seasoned only with salt and pepper, ask if anything breaded or seasoned is prepared on the same place as yours will be cooked (if the answer is yes, ask to prepare on a separate baking dish or clean skillet) use only real butter, not margarine bring own gf dressing area health food stores: Bread of Life- 2388 N. Federal Highway, Ft. Lauderdale, -954-565-7423 Bread of Life- 7720 Peters Rd. Plantation -954-236-0600 Mother Nature Natural Foods-1303-B SE 17th St. Ft. Lauderdale -954-453-06574 ?? Wild Oats Community Market-2501 E. Sunrise Blvd., Ft. Lauderdale -954-566-9333 Unicorn Village- 3565 NE 207th St., Norht Miami Beach -305-933-8829 Los Angeles area restaurants: Outback steakhouse-several- excellent recommendation can try but not as highly recommended: TGIFriday, Stewart Anderson's, Marie Callendar's Health food stores; Wild Oats- many check out their website: http://www.wildoats.com/markets/CA/calif.html Whole foods- LA - Brentwood 11737 San Vincente Blvd. 310-826-4433 or 310-826-6653 West LA 11666 National Blvd. -310-996-8840 or 310-996-9510 (fax) their website is http://www.wholefoods.com/company/locations/body/californ.html Thanks again to everyone for their input. I will let you all know how I fared. take care, God Bless. Kathy V