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if you get the regular menu for the location of the bone fish grill you're going to you can see the prices at that location. use their website www.bonefishgrill.com

enjoy ! i went there once and LOVED it

when i went there, i went to PF chang's, it was actually my first time at pf chang's! check out their website for the exact location, if i remember correctly it was close to Duke

i should add.. i don't know about dairy or soy free there, but everytime i've been to a pf chang's they have been excellent about being gluten free and seem to have a good attitude toward food allergies. plus on their website they have ingredients for each menu item

hope that works out for you!

i don't know about beer, but a lot of bars i've been to in the DC/Baltimore area have cider on tap - strongbow or magners are both gluten free

i just moved to bethesda MD. there's a lot around here. in bethesda there's austin grill, a PF changs in north bethesda, legal sea foods in DC, and in the general DC/baltimore corridor there's outback and bonefish grille. there's cheeseburger in paradise in MD but i don't know where the towns are located. there's more locations of these restaurants than i know of, check out the webpages for them.

part of the problem might be that a company like amy's that is so understanding of allergy issues in general is more quick to change their food labeling. i bet their food overall is more gluten free than a lot of the "gluten free" food out there, since the US doesn't even have a standard and since the euro standard does allow a minimal amount of gluten

i have been there both in NJ and in DC. each time i've gone i've gotten very good service. the manager comes out and serve you personally. they seem very serious about dietary problems and understand cross contamination issues. plus the food is fantastic! i recommend the calamari (they bread it with corn meal) and the lobster casserole, which has gluten free bread crumbs!

my local walgreens printed out an entire list of all their medications that are gluten free. i now get all my otc meds from them cos they've made it so easy

best waffles (better even than normal waffles!) is definitely trader joe's !!

how was the food? what kind of stuff on the menu? i'm pretty close to there and i'm in newark every day

just to warn, at the bottom of the taco bell link it says that the list is current as of march 1, 2005 so the list is over a year old! might not be accurate

i was just there a few weeks ago, my mom and i go every year. when you make reservations at a restaurant include that you are gluten free. we were also able to get gluten free food when we went to a restaurant (the brown derby in MGM) without a reservation (they even had gluten-free rolls!).

i stayed at the grand floridian and their room service was really great about cooking gluten-free. you can also contact disney (i did it through the main website) and get gluten-free lists for each of the parks. things like hot dogs and burgers are gluten-free. at the quick service counters, ask for a manager. i found at the quick service counters it took awhile to get the gluten-free food but they do try and a manager will understand the cross contamination issues. the popcorn carts in all the parks are gluten free and i never had it, but apparently there's a gluten free brownie sold in epcot. a few places will do gluten-free pizza as well (i never did that though cos of the time it takes).

disney will also let you bring in food.

hope this helps! it's a great place for dietary needs. it's one of the reasons my mom and i keep going back.

i have spoken on the phone with ensure about the oat fiber. they say that ensure tests below the level of "gluten free" in europe. since america does not have a standard, they used that standard. i personally am ok with the european standard and i actually drink about 4 cans of ensure a week without any problems. i also eat anything labeled gluten free when i'm europe though so i guess it's just a personal decision as to whether or not accept the european standard since it does allow a very low number ppm of gluten (i forget what the number is)

bushmill's is my favorite whiskey.

is scotch not ok? i don't really drink it ever but i thought it was gluten-free for the same reasons whiskey is.

it does seem a little ridiculous they refer to them as 'wholesome' because clearly anyone concerned about the addition of these ingredients wouldn't view them as "wholesome"

tortellini, any kind.

i thought spices were someting that could contain gluten?

i'm backpacking in europe for 10 days beginning of march (so i can't really bring much food with me - no room!). first i'm going to edinburgh, i booked a hostel near a gluten-free pizza place! then i'm going to amsterdam ANY ADVICE WELCOME! i contacted their coeliac society and they gave advice for shopping at stores for food, but no restaurant advice and i don't speak dutch (but do have a gluten-free dutch card)

then i'm going to geneva. i have no clue about there haha. i'll bring french and german gluten-free cards (i believe german is the dominant language in geneva)

i end in belfast, i've been there before and always have good luck with gluten-free food.

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Second even if it is gluten-free in Sweden does not mean it would be gluten-free in the US.

the US doesn't have a gluten-free standard. i would be much more skeptical of something "gluten-free" in the US than I would in europe since at least there they are actually adhering to a standard.

personally, I prefer american products that are voluntarily using the European standard. i just feel more comfortable having an actual standard than just someone's word that something is "gluten free"

another thing i'm confused on - if these beer tests are only testing for wheat gluten, and the beers are only made from barely, why are they coming up with ANY gluten in there at all?!?! it seems if a beer is only made from barley (which many are) it should actually be coming up at 0 ppm on a purely wheat gluten test. that has always confused me.

i remember a while back someone saying you couldn't test for the "gluten" (horedin) that's in barley - but wouldn't that effectively mean we shouldn't eat anything from a facility where barley was also used since a company could never see if their product was suffering from cross-contamination or not?!

i'm very confused

recently outback took bleu cheese dressing off of their gluten-free list. i was pretty worried cos i used to eat it every time i went there and wasn't getting sick. i get ranch now, but i wonder if maybe they took it off the list cos of the bread thing ?

eating at disney world is AMAZING! every restaurant will accommodate (just tell them gluten-free when making a reservation) and i've had great luck also when we just walked into a restaurant without a reservation.

at the parks, the popcorn is gluten-free and sooo good! in magic kingdom, there's a stand in frontier land that sells only mcdonalds fries (literally no other food is sold there). i'm usually saving room for a great dinner at a restaurant so i just snack on popcorn during the day. me and my mom always stay at grand floridian and room service is AMAZING about accommodating me. they even made me a gluten-free mickey shaped waffle! they really understand not just gluten-free, but also cross contamination (our hotel chef told me he uses all separate cooking pots/utensils).

i really can't speak highly enough. what's so much fun is that at home i pretty much just eat out at the same few restaurants and always end up with the same stuff (plain steak, potato, etc). at disney you can eat at all types of restaurants, even italian! (they have gluten-free pasta) and really experiment with foods and sauces.

all in all, i can honestly say one of the big reasons my mom and i keep going back (i'm 25 now) is that it's so easy and fun to eat gluten-free down there.

some of my fave restaurants are the one at the wilderness law (i forget the name), CA grill at contemporary hotel, and the flying fish cafe at the boardwalk.

enjoy !!

outback is my favorite gluten-free restaurant. i never get sick eating there. tonight when i ordered my usual salad with bleu cheese dressing, they said that the bleu cheese dressing is not gluten-free anymore. whether it always wasn't or newly isn't i wasn't clear on, and they said it's cos it's made with wheat vinegar.

first off i wanted to warn everyone, but secondly, for those who do eat vinegar derived from gluten containing sources, is this even a problem ??? i ALWAYS got bleu cheese dressing on my salads from there. i'm confused !

does anyone else have more information ? the person was a little unclear on the matter.

there's an outback in rapid city, probably some other chains that have gluten-free menus too

they are expensive, but happyhappyhappy.com (the bakery in NYC posted about in another thread) has gluten-free/DF cookies - i just ordered some they should arrive next week. it's like $25 for 18 cookies (!). my sister in law is vegan and just gave birth so i thought it'd be fun to surprise her with some, plus i can enjoy them too!!

i'm in law school too ! i totally feel you on having to bring food with you and eating on the run. my caf at my school is buffet style so even if they had something gluten-free it'd be cross contaminated beyond hope.

some good ways to get fiber are:

making flax/psyllium seed waffles (they're pretty good and loaded with fiber) i got the recipe on here

dates are a good snack source of fiber, plus i cut them in half and stick mixed nuts in them (also fiber) and it's a perfect quick snack - and i ALWAYS have a pack of peanuts on me for high calorie, high fiber, but very small to keep in my backpack food

there's some pastas made from beans that are LOADED with fiber but pretty bad tasting so i mix them with normal pasta in something lasagna to hide the taste but get fiber

potato pasta which is actually pretty good has some fiber

sweet potatoes are another good source, sometimes i bake a bunch at a time then refridgerate them. they microwave really really well so i'll bring them to school for lunch

of course there's beans, which i've found microwave pretty well so it's another thing you can bring to school

that's it for now off the top of my head. pretty much i've just tried to start paying close attention to what has fiber and what doesn't. with pasta and things like that i'm at the point where i usually just get the kind with fiber and only occasionally eat no-fiber

RIZLA rolling papers are gluten-free (i got them in europe, where everyone rolls cigs) i'm not sure if they're sold anywhere in the us though but maybe a tobacco shop would have them. i e-mailed the company and being from europe they are more familiar with celiac/gluten/etc and assured me all the papers are gluten-free