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Easy To Eat Healthy In Costa Rica

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sick&tired Newbie
sick&tired
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I just returned from a 12 day trip to Costa Rica. It was a fabulous trip and best of all, I never had an issue with food. First of all, the typical Costa Ricans don't eat a lot of food with wheat and they do eat a lot of fresh foods. A typical meal would be a meat, rice, beans, fried plantains (bananas), or yucca, and a cabbage salad with a couple of fresh corn tortillas. Lots of fruit is served at breakfast and breakfast is usually included with hotel stays. I did have a card I made up myself stating I had Celiac and what I could and couldn't eat. I laminated about 5 of them but only pulled them out a couple of times.

I knew where we would be staying during our travels and emailed all the hotels ahead of time. I can't say enough good things about one of the places we stayed, Bosque del Cabo. It is at the tip of the Osa Peninsula, a gorgeous setting 500 feet above the Pacific and Golfo Dulce. Every evening was a gourmet buffet and the cook made sure everything on that bufffet was GLUTEN FREE!!!. I have never been treated so nice anywhere before. Turns out the owner's best friend is a Celiac so she knows all about it. I was so tickled to eat all the same food as everyone else. She would make me my own special fruit deserts.

I encourage anyone with Celiac Disease to travel throughout Costa Rica with not many worries. I didn't see any breaded fried food but that doesn't mean it's not there. Also, all the tortillas I came across were corn. Didn't see any wheat tortillas.

-Bobbi

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Carriefaith Enthusiast
Carriefaith
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That sounds wonderful! Thanks for sharing. So Bosque del Cabo caters to people with celiac disease?

Rusla Enthusiast
Rusla
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This sounds like a place to add to my Caribbean vacation list.

sick&tired Newbie
sick&tired
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That sounds wonderful! Thanks for sharing. So Bosque del Cabo caters to people with celiac disease?

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No, it's more like they will do what ever they can to make anyone happy. You would have to let them know you were a celiac and then they would take the proper measures.

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em2005 Rookie
em2005
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Ha! We were in Costa Rica at the same time! I just returned home from Costa Rica about a week earlier than you did. I travelled around there for 2 weeks, and I agree...not having to deal with a lot of food issues was GREAT!! I loved eating rice & beans everyday..and those frescos (tropical fruit blended with water or milk) were divine...and so inexpensive, too! Also, we travelled all around the country and weren't staying at a resort, and I still didn't have much trouble eating anything on the menu at restaurants. However, we did eat out at a mexican restaurant by the Arenal volcano, and I am pretty sure my fahitas had wheat wraps and not corn, so i just didn't eat the tortillas.

Other than that, no problems!

em

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jessicaljensen Newbie
jessicaljensen
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Is there any way you could post the information you had on your card? I'm new to all of this and especially to traveling over seas with it.

psawyer Proficient
psawyer
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Is there any way you could post the information you had on your card? I'm new to all of this and especially to traveling over seas with it.

This is a very old topic, and the original poster has not been online here in almost five years. Maybe someone else will have some info for you.

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etta694 Explorer
etta694
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One way I did it... don't know how accurate it is.. was to type it onto google and then ask for a translation in the language of choice. Perhaps it isn't the best but it went with my friend to Mexico. They had a wonderful gluten free time.

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