We will be leaving for Paris soon. This is the first time I have traveled outside the U.S. while on a gluten-free, egg-free AND milk-free diet.
Traveling gluten-free and egg free has never been much of an issue for me, but for some reason having to remove milk and milk-based products from my diet has proven somewhat challenging, especially when eating away from home.
So, needless to say, eating during this trip should be an interesting adventure!
Even though I ordered a gluten-free meal on Air France, I packed food for the plane trip, including "sandwiches" (using Van’s gluten-free waffles as bread) and plenty of homemade cashew butter cookies.
My husband is concerned that all this suspicious food will trip us up going through security. I will let you know…
I always pack breakfast and snack food when traveling — tons of Lara bars, Enjoy Life Foods fruit and nut mix, and Andean Dream quinoa coconut cookies. I tend to eat breakfast in the hotel room or bring my own food into the breakfast room if the hotel serves a buffet or continental breakfast.
Also, for psychological reasons, I have to know I have plenty of safe snack foods. If need be I could probably survive the week solely on the food I brought! Just in case I need more, though, I have a list of natural foods stores that supposedly stock gluten-free (though not necessarily milk and egg-free) food.
We will be eating lunch and dinner in restaurants so I have been practicing my French. While I can't vouch for their accuracy, there are several free online translator services. Just Google “online language translation” to find them.
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