Re: travel snacks

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For travel snacks: peanut butter is high-calorie, but it's also high protein and satisfying with apple slices. Udie's bread doesn't require toasting and lasts for quite a while without refrigeration.

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From: <kristin_boston@...>

Sent: Sun, Apr 11, 2010 10:25 am

Subject: Re: [ ] More thoughts on my Asia trip

Hi Sue,

I know exactly what you mean! I feel that way often in San Francisco, which is such a restaurant, foodie-centric town. It's plainly dangerous for me to eat out, yet all social connections in the city seem to happen from going to restaurants, or somehow involve food.

For travel, I try to go to cities I am familiar with, stay somewhere with a kitchen or fridge, and handle my own food. Even better, go to a city, like Boulder or New York that makes it easy for us and plan the trip around the food and restaurants that I can eat at.

When I can't do any of the above and must go somewhere out of the safe zone, I bring my own food and snacks so that I can remain safe. Things that travel well are important. I bring nuts and crackers, rasins, canned tuna, energy bars. It's not tasty but it will get me through the day. It's just not worth it to get glutened on a trip. I acknowledge beforehand that the trip is not about food. Food is merely the fuel to get me through the day. And if I have gotten through the day safely, and have seen the people and the sites, then I am happy.

So, try to focus on the non-food aspects of your trip. Your son is getting married, you get to go Korea, you will be with friends and family. Explore the scenery and sights, try to learn the language, think about the differences from here. Forget about the food. Make sure you have enough snacks (with protein) to bring so that you don't get hungry.

Hope this helps! Let us know how the trip went.

Best,

From: CalicoSue <susan.hersomgmail>

Sent: Fri, April 9, 2010 9:51:19 AM

Subject: [ ] More thoughts on my Asia trip

Thank you for your responses! Celiacs can sometimes feel emotions that most people don't - i.e., feeling deprived when you can't eat something everyone else is enjoying, sometimes feeling isolated and different, not being able to totally enjoy eating out. Boy, we could go on and on, couldn't we?

When we visited Italy a few years ago, I had heard so many stories of how easy it was to eat g-f in Italy. I found that not to be true, for me anyway. Of course, I had my own food and the pharmacies in Italy had g-f food that I could snack on, but to be able to easily eat lunch or dinner somewhere was very hard. We took taxis at night to certain restaurants that I had researched before we left to make sure they had g-f pasta and pizza, so I knew I had at least one meal a day I could look forward to, but it was so hard to walk around the cities in Italy during the day and not be able to enjoy a slice of pizza, etc. for lunch like everyone else. All I

could find to safely eat was gelato (and my snacks). By the 5th day or so, I was starting to cry and dreaded eating the same old thing again. I think I even started feeling resentful. I think my deep-seeded fear is that I'm going to ruin our vacation to our son's wedding by not controlling my emotions – and I know I WILL be deprived because I cannot eat most of what will be offered to me in Asia. Thank goodness we will only be gone for a week, but I'm a bit disappointed in myself for not being a stronger person. Geez, I'm really opening up, aren't I?

Any thoughts on how to control these emotions of feeling deprived and a bit resentful?

Sue