04 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Allerglobal Food Allergy Cards

This neat little website was profiled on Lifehacker today: Allerglobal.

For those with food allergies who like to travel, conversion with restaurant servers in unfamiliar languages can be a challenge. Allerglobel hopes to alleviate that a bit by creating food allergy cards in a language of your choice to carry with you. How brilliant is that?

Simply check off the allergies you have, choose the language you want to have the cards in, download & print, and voila!

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21 November 2009 ~ 3 Comments

Eating Gluten-Free While Travelling: A bit of a dilemma

How do you manage to eat gluten-free while you’re travelling? How about when travelling in a different country?

Ready to Travel!Last week I was in Las Vegas for an internet marketing conference. I know, the US is so close it’s hard to think of it as a different country, but once you cross the border food can be very different.

So how do you deal with it? Travel usually means lots of eating out. And eating at places that you aren’t familiar with. And at unpredictable times, so if you need a snack you can’t just pop into the closest coffee shop and grab a muffin. So what do you do?

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