TRAVELLING GLUTEN-FREE

Some weeks ago I was invited by the Coeliacs Association of Basque Country to take part in a meeting about Celiac Travellers. The objective was to share experiences and to encourage young celiac people to travel and to overcome their fears of following a gluten-free diet out of home.

It was an interesting meeting in which, from different points of view, we share the way we face celiac-disease when travelling around Spain or abroad. We were a young entrepreneur who has to spend some periods of time abroad, a professional sportsman diagnosed more than 30 years ago, a woman who has lived in different countries, a gluten-free travel agency and a person who likes to travel and does her best to cope with her gluten-free diet (me).

I focused my presentation on the resources I use when I have to prepare a trip. While preparing the presentation I realized that there are many of them available nowadays, mostly on the Internet, and I want to share them here:

12 APPS FOR LIVING GLUTEN-FREE IN SPAIN

UPDATED 2015-10-17 (15 apps already)
Here you have some apps that can make life easier to people with a gluten-free diet. They can help you in the store, in the chemist’s / drugstore, when eating out or even in the kitchen, because this list includes apps for different purposes:

• Provide the gluten-free manufactured foodstuffs of Spain, by means of a searcher of products and brands, or a bar-code reader.
• Provide the medicines that contain gluten.
• Locate the gluten-free friendly bars, restaurants and stores.
• Translate into other languages the Coeliac / Celiac Card (things that people who is going to prepare and serve your meal should know about the gluten-free diet).
• Cookbook.