Gluten-Free Camping

Thank you for sharing your experience, we share coeliac disease and a horror of spiders. I also am intolerant to salicylates, amines and glutamates, but haven't yet been able to contact anyone else who has the same food issues. Good to know your food intolerance isn't limiting your lifestyle. Many thanks, Lee

I just came back from a camping during which I had the misfortune of having a celiac attack--or being celi-whacked as I call it. The culprit was probably the Kielbasa (Wolf's Head). It was labeled gluten-free but there must have been something in it. My husband was unaffected.

Let me tell you, having an attack in a developed campground, in a tent, far from a bathroom--we'd chosen a site for privacy not convenience to restroom facilities--in the rain no less was not pleasant. We are talking about a mad rush for the woods here.

Not that this is going to keep me from camping--many foods--even those that do not need refrigeration are fine and several of the freeze dried backpacking food manufacturers are now putting out gluten-free foods and labeling them as such. Natural High and Alpine two which I've used with great success. Mountain House has some meals which are fine but are not labeled gluten-free.

It's just real important to be careful.

I just came back from a camping during which I had the misfortune of having a celiac attack--or being celi-whacked as I call it. The culprit was probably the Kielbasa (Wolf's Head). It was labeled gluten-free but there must have been something in it. My husband was unaffected.

 

Let me tell you, having an attack in a developed campground, in a tent, far from a bathroom--we'd chosen a site for privacy not convenience to restroom facilities--in the rain no less was not pleasant. We are talking about a mad rush for the woods here.

 

Not that this is going to keep me from camping--many foods--even those that do not need refrigeration are fine and several of the freeze dried backpacking food manufacturers are now putting out gluten-free foods and labeling them as such. Natural High and Alpine two which I've used with great success. Mountain House has some meals which are fine but are not labeled gluten-free.

 

It's just real important to be careful.

I say I was 'glutened'.

I'm so glad that your attack will not hamper your future camping excursions.

I think it is so important to keep a social life, get outside, do things and to not let food or the worry of bad food stop us from having fun.

You make me want to go camping too. I can't think of a better excursion for those who are gluten-free than one that requires you to bring all of your own food anyway.

You make me want to go camping too. I can't think of a better excursion for those who are gluten-free than one that requires you to bring all of your own food anyway.

I know right!? Just because we have to be so careful with our food, this doesn't mean we shouldn't be outside having too much fun. If/when you do go camping, let me know how it went.

Hello!

This article is very happy, but I was wondering what you actually brought to eat. My boyfriend is gluten intolerant and I don't want to take things he cannot eat on our camping trip this summer. What sort of foods to you suggest?