1. Bring the basics with you, pack in the checked in luggage: GF/CF pasta, Chocolate GF/CF cookies, Oreo-like GF/CF cookies, a loaf of non-frozen GF/CF bread, and GF/CF pretzels, and a box of GF/CF frying mix/crumbs.  Always leave them in the trunk of your rental car. By having those with you, it relieves the stress of trying to find them at your destination, a huge stressor for the mom usually.  Another reason is other children tend to eat more such snacks on vacation, so when your children wanted them too, you will either have substitute or let them eat the gluten/casein foods.

2. Bring Gluten Enzyme with you for accidents and occasional moments of weakness.  It’s hard to find GF/CF foods on the road, especially at restaurants.  Gluten Enzymes give you the safety net when you are exhausted and hungry but can’t find a place with GF/CF foods.

3. Bring with you Triumph Dining’s grocery shopping guide and restaurant guide books.  Go through it before your trip, plan your eating out ahead, make some reservations.

4. Many luxury hotels’ kitchens are willing to cook food according to your directions.  You don’t have to stay there, just make dinner reservations with specific requests and eat there.

5. If you are in an area where there is hardly GF/CF restaurants, shoot for seafood places and Chinese or Thai restaurants where large amount of gluten is only present in battered foods.  Avoid battered foods, the butter and the cheese, the rest of the entrees are fairly safe.  If the kids have good self-discipline, buffet restaurants can work as long as they promise to skip the ice cream ahead of time.

6. Try staying at a condo or resort with full kitchens.  Cooking may seem a hassle but so is leaving the beach after just two hours to try to find a decent lunch place.  Our experience has been, as much as cooking seems hard on vacation, a child load up on gluten and casein is much more of a hassle and pain. J

7. Bring a full print out of what food is allowed and what are not to the grandparents’ house, if that is where you are going.  Ask them ahead of time to purchase GF/CF ice cream instead of the regular ones.  If your child is older, ask them to tell the grandparents “wheat and dairy makes me sick”.

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