Colorado gluten-free Food Help Neede

[brrmm]

I'll be visiting Eagle Co in December 2007 for 6weeks or so and need some information about where to get gluten-free foods. Are they readily avail in supermarkets there?

Where / how to dine out in the area?

USA labelling on goods.

I'll also be skiing a Vail and Beaver Ck, so any info on any gluten-free foods avail there would be great too.

Be very grateful for any information you can extend to me.

Thanks

[brrmm]

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[confused]

I am in colorado, but i have not had to go to vail or eagle since being gluten free, so i cant really help. But If there is a safeway or king soopers there, they will have some gluten free foods in their supermarkets. I would do an search for health food stores in eagle and see what it comes up with. I am sure they have lots of places that will be accomadating. Are you going to go to like denver or just stay at the ski resorts for the 6 weeks.

paula

[DarkIvy]

I live in Colorado, but I spend most of my time in the Denver/Boulder/Fort Collins area. I've only ever driven through Eagle, and that was well before I ever needed to worry about finding gluten free food. I do know that they probably have a Safeway and/or King Soopers. They usually have a a health food section where you can find some gluten free items. They may have a Whole Foods, which has a LOT of gluten-free options. They have a gluten-free freezer for baked goods and put "GLUTEN FREE!" labels on the shelfs near some of their gluten-free items. I say "some" because not all of their gluten-free items have been labeled this way.

If you make it out to Denver at all, there are several Whole Foods, as well as a couple Wild Oats and I think a Vitamin Cottage. Wild Oats is another health food store, but a bit smaller. They've actually been bought out by Whole Foods so it's hard to say whether they will still be around in December. I actually like Vitamin Cottage best. They're smaller than Whole Foods, but their prices are lower and they stock a lot more gluten-free food than any other store I've seen. Denver also has Deby's Gluten Free Bakery, which I've never tried but hear is absolutely amazing. There's another similar bakery in Erie, which is west of Denver. Both of these places have websites, I can search and post them a little later. Eagle may have a Whole Foods or Vitamin Cottage, I suggest searching for either on Google and looking up their Colorado locations.

As for restaurants, again I'm not really familiar with Eagle so I don't even know what they have! I can say that most "nice" restaurants are very accomodating and you can usually find something safe to eat. Do some research into the restaurants in that area and perhaps send an email or call ahead to find out. If you go to Switchboard.com and type in the location and search for "restaurants" that will give you a pretty complete listing. Some of these places may have websites. Most of the restaurants I know are in Boulder and Fort Collins.