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I have had a horrible time trying to find gluten-free face wash in Canada over the past few years... it either doesn't work for my skin or the company fails to respond to my emails.

I am looking for a cleanser that is good for dry, sensitive skin and fights aging. Please help!

For up-to-date information on Victoria, you can always check www.victoriaceliac.org

There are lists of restaurants and grocery stores that have gluten-free food.

As for the Olive Grove, I have found them to be very accomodating. They even give you gluten-free rice crackers and hummus instead of bread to start.

Hi guys,

Anyone in Canada know of a gluten free sunscreen?

Thanks in advance

Email from Stride July 23, 2008:

Thank you for your inquiry concerning the presence of allergens in products produced by our company.

We are a food company committed to very high standards and we have a clearly defined policy of complying with food regulations. Additionally, we work closely with legislative authorities and other interested parties at all points along the food supply chain to ensure that safe and wholesome foods are provided to our consumers.

We have implemented an internal food allergen management policy, pursuant to which we have undertaken the labeling of any known allergens in the following categories: cereals (containing gluten and products of these including wheat, rye, barley, triticale, spelt, kamut, and oats, but not corn, rice, sorghum, or buckwheat), crustacea (including shrimp, prawns, crab, lobster, and crayfish), mollusks (including oysters, clams, scallops, and mussels), eggs, fish, peanuts, soybeans, milk, tree nuts, sesame seeds, and sulfites (greater than 10 mg/kg). Accordingly, we continuously assess our products and update supplier information in order to make new or existing labels accurately reflect the presence of the listed allergens.

If a product contains any of the top allergens, it will be on the ingredients list.

We appreciate your inquiry and welcome any additional questions you may have regarding any of our products.

Sincerely,

Consumer Relations

.......so it will be on the label

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Under events and local info, there is a large list of restaurants. Be sure to visit the conference too!

I have decided to record all my gluten free travel finds in a blog that I have listed in my profile. All of the information I compiled about being gluten-free in Shanghai is there. I hope it helps!

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to share some information I've found out.

I've had all the vaccinations now before my trip in December and wanted to tell everyone they were all gluten free. This includes:

MMR

Diphtheria/Tetanus/Pertussis

Typhoid fever

Influenza

Menactra (Meningitis)

Dukoral (oral vaccination for traveller's diarrhea/cholera)

Malarone (Malaria drug from Glaxosmithkline)

I confirmed the last two by phone directly to the companies

(note that I'm in Canada)

I know there are a few topics on China around here, but I was hoping there might be some new information. I'll be in Shanghai for a month this December and would appreciate it if anyone could tell me about specific restaurants that were good or any other tips.

I already know about La Rose Noire, but that's about it.

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Thanks in advance

Does anyone know if the alcoholic drink Alize is gluten free?

Thanks

I would like to do a work term in Japan for my degree...so I would have to stay there for 8 months. Has anyone here been to Japan and had a good gluten-free experience?

Thanks

Hi, I was in Vegas for 6 days in August and had a great gluten free experience. People should not be discouraged from going, I had the most options there than any other places I have ever been to. I stayed at the Venetian and ate only in the restaurants there. I should add that they were pricey, but even breakfast at the Grand Luxe Cafe I had no problem (which is not expensive).

When ordering, I make sure I am the last to order so I'm fresh on the waiters mind as they head to the kitchen. I ask them if they know what gluten is. If not, I explain and mention cross contamination.

I don't usually order steak because of marinades. There was the largest selection of gluten-free desserts I have ever seen and they were fabulous. I would especially recommend the restaurant Aqua.

I believe that someone mentioned Infusium hair products and I just wanted to add that I contacted the company by phone a few months ago to discover that they cannot guarantee their products are gluten-free. It could be hidden under 'fragrance'.

gluten-free products I use:

Dove Shampoo, Conditioner, Body Wash

Lancome Juicy Tubes, Star Gloss, black eyeliner, Definicils mascara

Chapstick

Tom's of Maine deodorant

I live in Victoria ,BC.

me too! I go to UVic.

Yep, the Smirnoff Twists are gluten-free, my drink of choice! The strawberry is my favorite.

My question is about liqueurs....are all of them okay? I don't really know much about their ingredients.

Thanks

(I don't know how to use this message board...help!)

Anyway, to the person who's been to Italk, w/ good luck, w/ Italian website, etc....

I'm going to Rome, Italy.

Are you saying that some restaurants serve gluten-free pasta??? Or, you took your own and they accomodated you?

Thanks!!

I would bring your own gluten free pasta out for dinner with you...every place was accomodating when I did that.

As for the gluten-free restaurants on the Italian website, I would ask the concierge at your hotel to phone and ask what the options for you are there.

I wish I could get some of those bars in Canada.

I know you can get the Bumble Bars in Canada. The one I tried was absolutely disgusting though. Theres ReBar bars that were alright and organic fruit bar things (yellow packaging)...if you look at the bar section at health food stores a ton are labelled gluten-free on the box they are in.

Hi,

I know you said you knew about the Italian website, but it is helpful and you DONT have to speak italian to use it. I can't speak a word and I was able to figure out all I needed...you just print out the restaurants for the regions you will be in, they all will be able to serve you. I went to a few of them and, at all of them, had good experiences. I had good experiences at other restaurants too, dinner was actually pretty easy anywhere if you bring your own pasta and a card explaining the diet in Italian.

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I THINK i went to Il Portale in Florence...I went to one of the ones on the list at least. Anyway I had pizza there that was great.

Print out the gelateria gluten-free places too...a lot of gelato has gluten in it, be careful.

All the Pharmacias with the cross sign lit up have gluten-free food, a lot of it is delicious!

I wouldn't worry too much, people seem to all know about it there, at least that was my experience.

good luck!

There was no problem bringing the food I brought across borders: sealed granola bars, bread, peanut butter, cereal. I actually brought a ton of stuff home with me, there are lots of goodies you can get in Italy but not at home...croissants yum!

From my experience, I would say do not go to Germany if you are staying in hotels. Italy worked out ok.

Hey,

I'm also a university student so hopefully I can help. I often make all my meals first thing in the morning to take to school with me (and leave them in my boyfriend's fridge), so they need to be fast!

My toaster is my best friend. I eat tons of Kinnikinnik honey brown rice bread with pb and honey. Almond butter's good too. I also use that bread for sandwiches, its yummy...and sandwiches should only take a few minutes to make. Rice cakes and peanut butter is also a pretty obvious one. So for lunch I usually have toast, sandwich or rice cakes with an apple/orange and carrot sticks if I have the time to cut them. You can have crackers and cheese instead of a sandwich (I use Hol Grain plain brown rice crackers ...disgusting by themselves but surprisingly good with some marble cheese!). I eat brown rice tortillas with hummus, red pepper, red onion and lettuce. Kraft brand pudding can be another snack.

For dinner, I often have the Kinnikinnik english muffins which i cut in half and toast and then put a mixture of tuna, salsa, and red pepper on top...put it in the oven for a few minutes, sprinkle some grated cheese on top and put it back for a minute more...its so good!

In general, I eat a lot of Amy's soups and Imagine Organic soups. Lots of Thai kitchen noodle boxes, which are really fast (its white rice though so I try not to eat it too much). I make the Thai kitchen rice mixes a lot, they only take 20 minutes (when you want to actually 'cook'). As for Amy's Rice Crust pizza, I take a minute to cut up some red peppers, mushrooms, red onion, and Freybe cold cut turkey breast which makes it more satisfying while still a quick dinner. Amy's frozen Black Bean Enchilada whole meal is great and very fast but a bit expensive. Its always easy to make some spaghetti with premade sauce (I use classico) and cut up some veggies while its cooking. I don't bother to cook those.

For breakfast, cereal is fast and healthy. It's all I eat except for a rare weekend. The Nature's Path gluten-free cereals are good, Glutino apple cinnamon 'cheerios' and honey nut 'cheerios', EnerG granola (so good! But I can't find it anymore ). I throw some frozen blueberries right on the cereal and mix it in with the milk... then make lunch, by the time you're done, breakfast is ready. I eat banana on the way to school. There are some good gluten-free frozen waffle brands too. You can make smoothies with milk, yogurt, blueberries and frozen banana. You can cut a grapefruit in half for breakfast and save the rest for the next day.

I really never eat out, when I'm starving at school it is usually because I didn't pack enough food so I'm forced to eat something out of a vending machine (usually reeses pb cups or snickers). I think the more you eat out, the more of a chance you are hurting yourself with all those opportunities for cross contamination. Unfortunately I think its the best way to go. I sure miss subway. I hope this helps a bit, I know its such a pain to cook

I have eaten the chips on the gluten free list with no problem. I'm in Canada too and have not seen Lays Staxx labelled as gluten free. I think it is only labelled that way in the US. I have never tried the Staxx kind.

hey,

I have been to those places, but not while I was gluten free. I have only been on one trip (to Munich and around Italy) while on this diet and it wasn't too bad.

For Italy, I printed out a list of gluten free restaurants and gelateria places. I did end up at some of them and they were quite good (I even got pizza once!). It can be a bit of a pain to go across a big city like Rome for a certain restaurant though, and I never once became ill from eating anywhere for meals (I DID get sick from 2 gelateria places though--they definitely put gluten in waaay more of their ice cream than we do here, we can't eat most of the ice cream).

At almost every restaurant I went to, the owner's wife, cousin, aunt, etc. had celiac and knew about it. The first night I went to a place that even had breadsticks (styrofoamy though) and pasta for me (yummy). I brought cereal and bread and the unhealthy kind of peanutbutter that doesnt need to be refridgerated along with bread for breakfast for me everyday (then just got fruit from the buffets). I highly recommend you bring your own breakfast food with you. I did a Globus tour for part of it and the tour guide was VERY helpful, very accommodating.

Lunch sucks. They have very boring salads everywhere that have 2 ingredients and are usually gross. Its always safer to go to the fancier restaurants I found. I brought a lot of granola bars and veggie type bars with lots of fiber. I lived off granola bars. I also bought a lot of plain chips and plain nuts at the Autogrills we stop at in between cities.

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In Munich it was pretty hard to eat out, gluten is in pretty much everything. I stayed with family and my relative was very good about it and bought me tons of stuff from the grocery store nearby. Apparently there was a bakery nearby that made bread too. I think you just have to search.

I didn't get my gluten free meal on the plane ride over. Make sure you call earlier than they tell you (they told us the wrong time so it was too late to get it on the plane I suppose). My meal on the plane back was really good! I flew Lufthansa.

Good luck!

p.s. I laminated about 8 or so cards explaining my gluten free situation in German and Italian and always carried them with me (mine were copies out of the back of the Gluten Free Bible). I showed them to every waiter I had when I was not with my tour guide (who took care of that for me).

Can anyone tell me if cold-fx medicine is gluten free? Can't call them on the weekends

Wow, thanks for sharing everyone!

Its interesting to see how many people seemed to have been triggered by illness. I definitely thought a lot more people had symptoms from birth.

Hi,

I didn't really know where to put this but here it goes...

Just out of interest, I was wondering how everyone here acquired celiac...born with it? induced by illness/pregnancy?

Its been confusing for me to try and figure out how long I have actually had celiac disease and what actually caused it so I am interested to hear people's stories.

Obviously there is the genetic element, but I think I acquired it after food poisoning when I was in Belgium in Aug. 2004. The next day we travelled to Spain and I ended up in the hospital for 4 days there as, during the food poisoning, I got a terrible infection. Anyway, it is my belief that from my stay in the hospital there (where I was given very high doses of antibiotics and was in extreme pain) that I got celiac, in addition to external endometriosis. The doctors don't seem to want to ever help explain this to me. Its difficult to try and get answers when you have to see so many specialists and there is no communication going on.

Regardless, I think I'm pretty lucky to have been screened for celiac when I only complained of dizziness to a doctor at a drop in clinic at my school two months later. I think I only had celiac disease for those few months until i was diagnosed for sure by biopsy in April 2005. It is hard to tell though, because the previous January I would feel dizzy once in a while after exercise. Maybe illness sped up the process? It seems like my doctors don't consider the body as a 'whole' at all that is affected by everything, at least in my somewhat uneducated opinion

Anyway, please share! Thanks.

I emailed the people at Vasoline, it is gluten free, as well as their lip chap.