Traveling To The Us

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We did this last year and were forced into a gluten-challenge at the airport. (my daughter is gluten-free). We live in asia, and so know what and how things are cooked, and what we can eat out in situtions where we've eaten all our snacks from home. And frankly, most places in asia have diets that are rice based so it's much easier to be gluten-free. Once we were in a supermarket and my daugther starts complaining she was hungry. At the time she would have hypoglycemic reactions if she went hungry so i was in a panic. Fortunately there was a women selling baked sweetpotatos right there in the store. how convenient!

Anyway, for our trip back to the states last year, I prepared some gluten-free food to carry along for the lay-over. However the in-flight gluten-free food we ordered was not gluten-free so we ate the lunchbox and thought we'd fine something in LA to eat when we got there. Not a thing gluten-free! (except one thing that sold apples and she's allergic to apples). I was just amazed! pizza, subs, bagels, pastries, pretzels, cookies, cakes, crackers, pies. My goodness, no wonder so many americans suffer from health problems! Maybe it was because it was 5am and the bigger restaurants weren't open? Still i'm not sure what these places could have offered that would have been any better.

So i need to be better prepared next time. I'm sure you all have experience for what to do when you are hungry at the mall. (My daugther is also sensitive to milk, soy, and juice (phenol). But i suppose we would have to choose our battles.) We will be traveling most of the time, so altho i will carry my rice-cooker with us, i would guess we will be eating most of our food out for the weeks we are visiting.

thanks!