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I have spent the last month in Turkey and Greece and wanted to let you guys know how it is being gluten-free here. While I haven't been contaminated once, my diet has been pretty repetitive. Gluten-free bread/pasta/crackers/anything do not exist here. At all. Once you accept that, then you can start working out what in their diet is naturally gluten...

I'm not sure on Midori or Breezer pre-mixes, but I know we can have Smirnoff Ices and Lemon Ruskis Is anyone here from Perth or WA?

Andrew you legend! I'm going to most of those places next year, so I'm stoked I found this thread. I'm 21, from Australia, leaving in April 2008. The plan at the moment is to go Turkey, Greece, Italy, Croatia, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, UK. I've already printed out the restaurant cards in about...

Hey Jackie did you end up finding any info on the availability of gluten-free food in Greece? I'm going to Europe in April next year, and figure I better start thinking about how it's gonna work. Cheers.

I'm also struggling with the idea of treating gluten as a poison and replacing all my pots pans utensils chopping boards colander etc et etc. At the moment I'm saving every spare penny to get overseas early next year, and I just dont want to replace it all! Also I mentioned it to my housemate and he was saying "pfft cmon its not poison". And then I was like...

Well you can have original flavoured potato chips, and a range of lollies and chocolates (i like minties personally) so theres the junky stuff sorted. For "proper" foods, frittata is awesome as someone else mentioned. Also you could make sushi, or have cornchips and dips? Guacamole, hummus, salsa etc. Some gluten-free bakeries make turkish bread, and party...

I am so sorry for all you guys having this trouble! I'm in Perth, Australia, and was diagnosed 2 months ago. Happily, almost everyone (professionals and just friends/family/colleagues) has been very supportive. Only once has someone said something along the lines of making it up or blaming all random symptoms on Celiacs diesease, but since this was my housemate...

what is a geographic tongue?!

Does anyone else get this? Had my first coffee today since going gluten-free 2 weeks ago, and I'm burping a lot, and now feel I may throw up. I've never been a big coffee drinker, only 2-3 a week at max, and drink mochas which is why I've basically stopped cos my usual cafe uses chocolate powder that contains gluten. But today I got a flat white from there...

my tongue now seems to have recovered hooray! except in its place i have a full cold and sore throat. but i didnt have mouth ulcers or anything, and there was nothing noticeably wrong with my tongue it just felt bad. you know what sucks tho? i took cold n flu tablets last night, then went to have some more this morning and was doublechecking the amount...

what kind of mouth irritations do you get? I have been gluten-free for almost 2 weeks (still eating some by accident i think) and the last couple days i have 1) been soooo hungry and 2) my mouth feels really sensitive. you know when u eat heaps of salty or sugary things and your tongue feels sensitive and your teeth feel razor sharp on your tongue? its been...