Delicious avocados!

Avocados are awesome, wouldn’t you agree? They taste great, they’re full of vitamins and minerals and they’re gluten free. Avocados are a great food for celiacs and also a very versatile food. I’ve incorporated avocados into breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. Avocados are also a great food for gluten free travellers as they can be eaten as a healthy snack when you’re on the move and they can be found pretty much anywhere in the world. These are some of my favourite ways to eat an avocado..

Sprinkled with chilli powder or salt

Fresh, ripe avocado sliced open and sprinkled with chilli powder or salt is one of my favourite high energy snacks!

As part of a smoothie

Avocado can be a great addition to lots of different smoothies. I like them best with banana, apple and lime juice.

All mixed up as guacamole or salsa

Gluten free guacamole or salsa are so simple to make as the ingredients are naturally gluten free. Guacamole or avocado salsa tastes great with chips, veggies or poured over a meal as a sauce.

Avocado with chilli powder

Quinoa salad with avocado

On gluten free toast

If you’re someone who likes a cup of tea with a piece of toast for breakfast, avocado can be a healthy, creamy, delicious substitute for butter. It can also be a great addition to any sandwich if you have tasty gluten free bread.

As part of a salad

Avocado adds a lot of flavour to a salad whether as a main ingredient or on top in place of a dressing.

With black beans, rice and egg

For a Mexican style breakfast, beans, rice and egg served with avocado is delicious!

In fajitas

Corn tortillas filled with grilled meat and veggies, perhaps some cheese. I love adding chunks of fresh avocado to my fajitas.

As a side to chilli con carne

Guacamole or simply fresh avocado is great as a side to any main dish and it’s my favourite side to eat with chilli. It beats out salsa or sour cream for me.

In sushi

If you’re looking for vegetarian sushi, avocado maki is one of the best. Add some wasabi and dip in gluten free soy sauce. it’s naturally gluten free and easy to find either eating out or to make yourself.

With sweet potato chips

By chips I mean chunky fries. Chopping up sweet potatoes, baking them in the oven with a little olive oil and serving them with avocado is one of my favourite dishes.

How do you eat your avocado? Share your ideas in the comments below..

Tasty sushi!

I found myself in Bakersfield earlier this week when my friend and I took a little road trip heading south for a few days. Bakersfield probably isn’t a town I would have chosen to visit without a reason but I was glad I got the chance to as we met some very friendly locals who helped me celebrate my 29th birthday!

Bakersfield is a five hour drive from San Francisco so by the time we arrived we were hungry for dinner (even after all the garlic ice cream in Gilroy!) We both felt like sushi and so we checked out Ichiban Sushi on 2641 Oswell Street, a place I’d found online which got some good reviews. I brought my own gluten free soy sauce as usual and our server seemed to think this was pretty cute. I explained to her that I was celiac and couldn’t eat anything with wheat or gluten. I asked if the sushi chef could change his gloves and prepare my meal separately to avoid cross contamination. The chef looked over and nodded at me as he changed his gloves to show that he was doing as I asked.

The sushi here was tender and delicious and had the perfect rice to fish ratio. The best sushi to me is that which melts in your mouth and this did. I ordered six pieces of nigiri  and one tuna roll. We were served some complimentary edamame on the side. Yum! I would definitely eat here again.

Gluten free shopping wise, I wandered into Nature’s Food Market and Juice Bar, located on 1918 G Street in the city. It’s a small market which sells various juices and a variety of groceries, a large number of which are gluten free. I noticed gluten free sauces, gluten free pastas and noodles, gluten free flours and oatmeal, gluten free bars and some gluten free ready meals. If I was a celiac living in Bakersfield I would definitely frequent this place.

Nature's Food Market

Gluten free products

I didn’t have time to eat here but Red Brick Pizzain Bakersfield does gluten free options. I’d never heard of them before but in looking at their site it appears they have locations across six states, including California. I called the Bakersfield location for further information on how they prepare their gluten free pizza and the guy I spoke with was really helpful. The gluten free pizza bases aren’t made in store but are shipped in. Whilst they use the same stove for cooking gluten free pizza, they use a separate container in which to cook it, separate cutters and utensils and a separate preparation area.  ’We do a good job of preventing cross contamination.’ the dude on the phone told me.  They have a bunch of locations in California so I’m sure I’ll find myself here at some point but if you have eaten here, I’d love to hear about your experience!

Taco Del Mar and PF Changs are two other chains I found in Bakersfield which offer gluten free options. If you know of any more gluten free eateries in the area please share!

Eating Galbi

The amazing Seoul

As my South Korean adventures were prior to being diagnosed as celiac I didn’t plan to write a post on travelling gluten free there. That is until I received a few emails from fellow gluten free travellers who were headed there and looking for tips. They told me that my advice on staying safely gluten free in South Korea was really helpful hence my decision to write this post.

I spent the year of 2006 in Guri, just outside of Seoul, as an English teacher. I found my job on an online job board, had a quick interview over the phone with the school’s director, received my one year alien visa from London, packed my rucksack and boarded the plane to Seoul. I knew very little about what was waiting for me but I was off in search of adventure. I was 22 years old. I didn’t realise it at the time but looking back I was brave. Not everyone would have done that. I met lots of other interesting and wonderful people who did though. One of them was John

Eating is a large part of the culture in South Korea. During my year there I ate out for at least one meal every single day. In thinking back I could probably still eat now most of what I ate back in 2006. My husband and I plan to return in the near future and I am not worried about returning as a celiac. There are plenty of naturally gluten free dishes for me to enjoy.

The fact that bread does not play a large part in South Korean cuisine is great. Whereas many restaurants you visit in North & South America and Europe will serve bread on the side, this is not the case here. South Korea are all about the rice which is wonderful news for gluten free travellers. We don’t have to worry about crumbs cross contaminating everything we eat. It’s not that Koreans don’t ever eat bread it’s just nowhere near as popular as rice.

Korean Dishes

Gong- ge bap (plain rice) can be ordered anywhere so if ever get hungry and can’t find anything else, there is always rice. As the rice is made in a rice cooker there are no cross contamination issues there.

Kimchi (spicy fermented cabbage) with rice is the staple in South Korea. It can be eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner and you may find yourself eating it for all three on occasion. It’s simple, cheap, addictive and can be found anywhere and everywhere throughout the country. John and I got addicted to the stuff and we buy it whenever we can find it here in SF.

All over the country you will find Korean fast food eateries. Many are called Kimbap Chonguk (Kimbap Heaven) or Kimbap Nara (Kimbap Country) but there are various others too, all of which sell the same types of simple Korean dishes. Locals eat here, teachers eat here, everyone eats here. Everything comes with a side of kimchi and you can get anything from a bowl of plain rice (gf) to a pork tenderloin with cheese and curry sauce (not gf). You can eat in, you can take out or you can call up and have your meal delivered. It will arrive in the same metal bowl you would get when eating in and when you’ve finished eating you just leave the dirty dishes outside your door and someone will return to pick them up. Genius! You can’t visit South Korea without eating at one of these fantastic little places.

Pots of kimchi

My favourite meal in South Korea was bibimbap, a dish made from steamed rice and topped with veggies. You can order bibimbap hot or cold but in my opinion the hot (dolsot bibimbap) is by far the tastiest as it is served in a hot dish with a fried egg on top. When it arrives you have to stir everything together to avoid too much rice sticking to the bottom of the bowl but some of it always does and this is the most delicious part. Mmm! The dish can differ slightly depending on where you get it and sometimes they add meat as a topping too. Normally it’s beef. If you don’t want the beef say go-gee -opshee (without meat). The go-cho-jang (red pepper paste) which comes with it is made with wheat so be sure to ask for it without. Gochojang opshee (without red pepper paste)

Kimbap (Korean style sushi roll) is everywhere in South Korea. An older Korean woman is usually the one making it and you always find it at the Korean fast food eateries I mentioned above. The basic kimbap is freshly made from rice, seaweed, veggies, immitation crab and processed ham. The immitation crab meat contains wheat and the processed ham may contain gluten so ask for yours to be made without these two things. As you can almost always watch your kimbap being prepared you don’t have to worry about cross contamination. Kimbap tastes great either on it’s own or topped with kimchi. Since it’s made right in front of you it’s still warm if you eat it straight away. This was my lunch almost every day. Sometimes I would even get two. Yum-my!

Korean barbeque is very popular. My memories of South Korea take me back to numerous late nights spent around the grill with a bunch of new friends, toasting with shots of soju (Korean rice wine). Sam gap sal & Oh gap sal (3 layers of fat & 5 layers of fat) are pork and taste a lot better than they sound. Galbi sal is beef and my favourite. It is the least fatty of the three and in my opinion tastes the best. At these barbeque restaurants you order the meat you want and they bring it over to your table/grill where you then cook it yourself. The meat is served with kimchi and vegetables so nothing gluten containing there. Just make sure they don’t marinade the meat in anything that could be gluten containing but most of the time they don’t and it’s just straight up delicious meat. You could always ask your waiter to clean your grill before beginning your meal just in case but since you ( and others before you) will most likely only be eating meat, veggies, kimchi and rice you should be fine. Delicious!

If you like sushi it’s everywhere in South Korea. There are hundreds of sushi restaurants for either eating in or take out and most of them are fairly priced. I must have eaten at over 20 different sushi restaurants during my year there! You can also buy pre-made (with each piece of nigiri pre-wrapped) sushi at the grocery store chain, Lotte Mart. I ate this so many times as I lived right next to one of these supermarkets. I would doubt that any of the restaurants there offer gluten free soy sauce so I would recommend bringing your own, going without or eating it with kimchi instead!

Tasty sushi

One of many fruit markets

Fruit is plentiful and delicious in South Korea. Almost everywhere you walk you will find fruit markets or fruit trucks selling whatever is in season. I was addicted to korean melons, satsumas and persimmons. Picking up a fruity snack when you’re out and about should be simple and inexpensive.

If you’re considering visiting South Korea don’t worry that your gluten free diet will prevent you from exploring this wonderful country. There are plenty of naturally gluten free and extremely delicious dishes awaiting you. Noribang (Korean karaoke) is awaiting you too and it’s probably the most fun night out ever!

Kimchi on the grill

Kimbap

Tips for travelling gluten free in South Korea

• Cross contamination is of course going to be an issue in some places and it will be difficult to explain this (even in good Korean) so try to eat at restaurants selling naturally gluten free meals such as barbeque, sushi, kimbap. bibimbap, etc.
• It’s definitely a good idea to learn a few words/phrases to help you on your search for safe food. Learning the Korean alphabet and some basics are far easier than you would think (I’m certainly no language expert and could have pretty decent conversations with cab drivers nearing the end of my year there) and if words don’t cut it don’t be afraid to use hand gestures and point to things that you do or do not want. This often worked for me.
• When going for Korean barbeque ask your server to clean your grill before you get started. As it tends to be simply meat, veggies and kimchi which are cooked on these grills there shouldn’t be a problem but it never hurts to be extra careful.
• If in doubt, kimchi and rice. It’s everywhere and it’s cheap and fast so you won’t go hungry.
• In some restaurants they put barley in their water so be cautious and make sure it’s just plain water before drinking it.
• Visit Noribang (Korean karaoke) as much as possible. It’s addictive…you’ve been warned!

John and I at Noribang

With candy wasabi

Candy Sushi!

As much as I’m not a fan of Kellogg’s (as none of their products are gluten free as yet) I looked to their recipe for Marshmallow treats as they thought they may know something about quantities when making these things. I used Kallo rice cereal and Haribo marshmallows. I didn’t use any butter in my recipe as I didn’t feel it was necessary.

Ingredients (makes both Maki & Nigiri)

• Gluten free rice cereal (approx 225g)
• Marshmallows (approx 200g)
• Gluten free candy in the shape of fish
• Gluten free worms or other long and thin candy

How to make Maki

• Melt 200 grams of marshmallows into a medium pot
• Add 225 grams of rice cereal to melted mallows and mix until cereal is covered (Add extra cereal if there are more than enough mallows)
• Scoop mixture onto foil covered tray
• Flatten mixture into flat rectangle shape
• Take jelly worms and lay across mixture
• Roll mixture into a circle and cut to create maki

Use remaining mix to make Nigiri

• Take small amount of cereal/mallow mix into your hands and roll into sushi rice shape
• Top with fish candy to look like nigiri
• Serve and enjoy!

This discovery got me looking into other airlines and their policy on serving gluten free meals on internal flights and it appears that there are none out there who do. After further research however, it appears that over the past few years airlines have one by one been putting a stop to complimentary meals on domestic flights altogether. It seems that it is no longer only coeliacs and customers with other allergies who have to come prepared with their own in flight picnic.

So…since it looks as though we are all in this together, the next question is what will they allow us to bring on board? There is of course the option to spend $8 on a salad or $12 on a sandwich at their on board cafe (with no gluten free options) but most of us would agree that bringing our own is probably the best bet.

What do you bring for your gluten free picnic at 35,00 feet? A gluten free sandwich? Filled corn tortillas? A salad? Fruit and nuts? Gluten free bars? I like to eat sushi when I’m flying! A friend of mine likes to challenge herself on how much ‘outside food’ she can get into the movie theatre. Do you think I could get away with taking this much on board a flight??

Sushi for my domestic flight?

All of this training means that I’m hungry pretty much constantly and finding interesting and varied gluten free meals to eat gets pretty difficult. Much of what I’ve read talks about loading up on carbs and since many carb filled foods tend to also be filled with gluten, I’m careful to ensure I still get enough carbs whilst remaining gluten free.

I’m doing the first half of my training in Iowa and my second half when we move to Argentina, 2 months before the race.

Tasty Chex for breakfast

Vegetable sushi

My tasty tortilla lunch

Cream of Rice with pineapple and cinnamon

In Iowa

I like to start my day with a bowl of Chex. On a short run day I’ll nibble a few pieces of fruit before my run and leave the cereal for afterwards but on a long run day I’ll fuel up with cereal first thing when I wake up. I’ve starting mixing corn, rice and honey nut Chex and I love it. Some days I substitute Chex for Cream of Rice, which tastes great with fruit and cinnamon.

For lunch, I’m all about corn tortillas with various fillings. Recently my favourite is ham with cucumber/spinach and cottage cheese. If we go out for lunch, I like to fill up on lots of Sushi with wheat free soy. New Pioneer Co-op in Iowa City does some great, fresh Nigiri and Maki sushi sets, which are gluten free. They also have wheat free soy. When buying pre-packed sushi, always check with whoever prepared it that it’s gluten free and stay away from imitation crab meat and any sauces. Fish Nigiri and either fish or vegetable Maki are usually the best bet.

Blue Bunny with strawberries

Yoplait yoghurt

Glutino breakfast bars

Envirokids snack bars

I find myself getting hungry between meals, especially on my long run days, and I try to keep my snacking pretty healthy. I eat a lot of yoghurt (normally Yoplait as the fat free is gf and says so on the label) with rice cakes for dipping, gluten free bars, lots of fruit, and sometimes a bowl of Blue Bunny vanilla Ice Cream.

For dinner I find myself eating lots and lots of rice. Lucky for me I love the stuff but I still like to bring new ingredients in to eat with it to spice it up. Some of my favourites are Chilli with rice, ground beef with pineapple salsa and rice, black beans with rice, Kimchi with rice and Bolognese with rice. On the few occasions I don’t have rice, I eat various omelettes, tasty Iowa sweet corn or gluten free sandwiches (although I’m yet to find a great tasting gf bread in the States)

Tasty chilli

Yummy Iowa sweet corn

Running around 40 miles a week means that I can eat pretty much whatever I want but I try my best to eat the right things to fuel my body and prepare me for long distances. I don’t eat as much variety when it comes to my meals as I did in my pre-coeliac days but I’m working on this….

In Buenos Aires

My marathon training diet had changed quite a bit since moving to Argentina but thanks to a few great gluten free stores and eateries, I’m managing to keep my carb intake high. Cereal was such a huge part of what I was eating in the states but as there is no gluten free cereal to be found here, I’ve had to make a few changes to my diet. Before short runs I eat a cereal bar and if I’m going on a longer run I like to have a bowl of crushed up rice cakes with milk which is the nearest thing to a bowl of cereal here. Almost every day, the first thing I eat post run is a big bowl of polenta with fruit and cinnamon.

Pre-run cereal bars

Polenta with apples

For lunch, I’m all about the empanadas (usually ground beef or chicken) or gluten free baguettes with ham and cheese from Celigourmet. As my weekly mileage is increasing I’m all about eating between meals too so I find myself eating a lot of yoghurts, fruit, nuts and chocolate covered gluten free snacks. My favourite snack here is Chocoarroz which is two small rice cakes stuck together with a layer of dulce de leche and covered in milk or white chocolate!

Choco Arroz

Empanadas de carne

Celigourmet baguettes

Tasty yoghurts

Dinner in Buenos Aires, like in the States, is almost always something with rice (or rice with something the night before a long run). Here I eat a lot of rice with egg and cheese, rice and veggie stir fry or my favourite, chilli with rice. Again, not a huge variety in what I’m eating but I try to vary it as much as possible and I enjoy everything that I eat.

The first night in town our friend whom we were staying with took us out to his favourite sushi restaurant in the city, Zen Sushi. I checked with the staff that their sushi was completely gluten free and they assured me that it was. We ordered lots of nigiri and maki all of which was fresh. When the sushi came it looked amazing and whilst I was almost certain the answer would be no, I asked our waitress whether they had any gluten free soy sauce. Much to my delight and surprise they did have and she brought me the bottle to check and use myself. I told the waitress how pleased I was that they provided this special soy sauce and she said that they have a few regular customers who have gluten and wheat allergies. The sushi was delicious and the vino tasty. With the addition of the gluten free soy sauce for mixing with wasabi, my dinner at  Zen Sushi was altogether awesome!

Perfect Nigiri and Maki

GF soy sauce

Whole Foods Market is a great place to find gluten free foods in Boston. This organic supermarket, which has branches throughout the country, sells lots of different things and various gluten free products throughout the market as labelled so, making it easy for coeliacs to find safe foods. They sell gluten free cereal, cakes, biscuits, bread and hundreds of other products.

The store I visited in Boston, as well as groceries, has a deli section where you can make your own salads or buy hot or cold prepared meals. Each food has a nutritional information label detailing what’s in the food and whether there are any allergens. This is extremely helpful from those of us on a gluten free diet but as always with these types of things, the possibility of contamination puts me off. The store also has a sushi bar. Different rolls have been prepared and the labelling provides information on what’s in each box. Reading the ingredients of the simple maki and nigiri boxes, most of them sounded gluten free but to ensure no cross contamination issues I asked the sushi chef if he would clean the preparation area and make me a fresh batch. He made me a tuna and cucumber roll and it was delicious.

Whole Foods, Boston

Freshly prepared sushi

On our second night in town, we decided to buy some things to make a gluten free dinner at our friend’s place. We got ground beef, black beans, salad and sweet potatoes to

Beef burgers and sweet potato wedges

Gluten free food for the train

make hamburgers and sweet potato wedges with salad, black beans and a couple of bottle of vino….very tasty! We also bought a few simple ingredients to allow us to prepare a gluten free dinner to take with us on our long Amtrak ride from Boston to Iowa. We made rice with black beans and salad…simple and tastes great either hot or cold!

Gluten Free Restaurants:

I came across a few restaurants with gluten free menus or options that I would have liked to try if I’d had more time/funds.

Sweet gluten free treats

Modern Pastry Shop (on 257 Hanover Street) sell gluten free muffins and whoopie pies, which looked like some sort of oreo cookie dessert.

Nebo

Nebo (on 90 N Washington Street), is an Italian restaurant, which has a full separate gluten free menu with a huge variety of interesting antipasti, pizza and pasta options including a sweet pizza topped with chocolate, nutella and chopped hazelnuts…sounds very sweet!

Marco

Marco, (on 253 Hanover Street) also does gluten free options. There was no special menu to look at but customers should speak to their server or call in advance to speak with the manager if interested in finding out more.

I’d done some research before leaving for the States on where to eat gluten free in the city and I found gluten free registry to be the most helpful. It gave me a few ideas for restaurants to check out and I was pleased with the ones that I decided to try. Walking for miles around the city also gave me the opportunity to randomly discover a few other eateries, either with gluten free menus or options. I’m sure there were a great many gluten free wonders that I didn’t discover as I only spent 3 days there but I found enough coeliac friendly places to enjoy a few fun, gluten free days in NYC.

GFRAP sticker

Most of the gluten free friendly places I found in the city were part of the Gluten Free Restaurant Awareness Programme. GFRAP is a programme of the gluten intolerence group of North America which gives gluten free people a place to find somewhere to safely eat wherever they go.  A variety of eateries have joined this programme throughout the country and all gluten free menus or menus with gluten free options offered by GFRAP restaurants have been reviewed by a registered dietician. This is the kind of thing I love to hear about as it provides hope for gluten free travellers who visit places that they don’t know much about or have never visited before.

I can safely say that the Big Apple has plenty of Coeliac friendly places to eat whatever you’re looking for whether it be breakfast, lunch or dinner but be sure to do your research first so that you have an idea of where you want to go. There are plenty of gluten free eateries throughout the city but they can be difficult to find if you don’t know where to look.

Breakfast Diner

Breakfast at Bloom's

Breakfast our first morning in the city was a huge success and as meals tend to do in the States, it kept me full until dinner time! We ate at a diner called Bloom’s Delicatessen Cafe (on 350 Lexington Ave), which has a full gluten free menu with tonnes of tasty options. They do a variety of omelettes as well as gluten free pancakes and french toast for breakfast. I  ordered a three egg spinach and tomato omelette, which came with potatoes and 2 slices of gluten free bread. As you know I’m a cereal for breakfast kind of girl but this place was great and I would highly recommend it to any gluten free travellers who are looking for a hearty breakfast in the Big Apple. Bloom’s also serves lunch and dinner and their menu includes burgers served on a gluten free bun, salads, sandwiches served on gluten free toast and entrees.

Bloom's extensive GF menu

Bloom's Cafe

Delis

One of many delis

On almost every street in NYC you can find deli’s serving many different dishes, hot and cold, from fruit and salads to curry and pasta dishes. Due to the possibility of cross contamination I wasn’t able to eat much of what they had to offer but one evening I did decide to go for a fruit salad to eat with some gluten free yoghurt that I’d found. These deli’s are pretty expensive but at least you know that you can get a big bowl of gluten free fruit and yoghurt if you need a snack.

Dinner Out

The fantastic Risotteria

On our second night in the city we decided to go to Risotteria (on 270 Bleecker Street), a gluten free restaurant that I had found through gluten free registry and was very excited about visiting. I saw on their website that almost everything on their menu was gluten free, including their free bread sticks and large selection of desserts. I was not disappointed…..this place was fantastic! Something which is very rare for me these days is having options where eating is concerned. Everyone else has their pick of the menu whilst I’m stuck with the one thing that’s gluten free. This place was not like that at all. I had so many choices and everything looked great! Pizza, pasta, panini, salad. I had one of their pasta dishes, linguini with meatballs in a spicy tomato sauce, and it was very tasty. For dessert I had a huge gluten free chocolate cupcake and also got to try some of the cheesecake and oreo cookie desserts that my friend and boyfriend had chosen. What a great feeling to be able to try what someone else has ordered! If you are a gluten free traveller who misses the lack of options when eating out and the chance to try your friend’s meal then you will love Risotteria. Their vino selection is pretty good too and they also do gluten free beers

Delicious gf breadsticks

My gf cupcake!

Pasta and meatballs

gf Oreo dessert

Sushi

Although from what I’ve found Sushi generally tends to be gluten free I don’t like to buy pre-packed stuff due to contamination issues. One sushi place in New York City, which went by the name of Go Sushi (on 756 E 9th Street), was excellent and prepared my salmon and cucumber maki from scratch. I told them about my concerns with contamination and the friendly chef said that was no problem and that he would prepare my sushi in a newly cleaned area.

Go Sushi

Other Gluten Free Restaurants

These are the only eateries in the city that I had first hand experience with during my short visit but I also came across a few other restaurants with either gluten free menus or gluten free options….

Nizza

Nizza (on 630 9th Ave): an Italian restaurant with an extensive gluten free menu including pasta dishes, chickpea pancakes with interesting toppings and various mains. I really wanted to try this place as it looked awesome but we ran out of time!

Otarian

Otarian (on 947 8th street): a cafe with a few gluten free options including salad, soup and curry dishes

Gobo

Gobo (on 401 Ave of the Americas) serves a number of gluten free dishes which aim to please each of your 5 senses.

Sitting-in at the cafeteria style restaurant costs a little more than take-out. You can get a good amount of delicious sushi for 2 people for around £20 (take-out) and £25 (eat in). If you eat in there are a variety of drinks to choose from. Beer is out for us but there’s wine, cider, sake, soft drinks and teas and coffees. If you love Sushi then I’m sure you’ll love Ichiban!

Sushi was one of my favourites before being diagnosed and thankfully still is. From my experience of sushi preparation, Nigiri and Maki sushi tends to only consist of rice, fish and sometimes rice vinegar so it’s generally a safe option for Coeliacs. I always check when ordering however that there hasn’t been anything extra added in the preparation of

Sushi in Copenhagen

the rice as sometimes Sushi restaurants use mayonnaise which can contain gluten. I confirmed here that both the Nigiri and Maki were safe and we decided to order four varieties of Maki…tuna, salmon, prawn and avocado with lots of wasabi. I of course gave the soy sauce a miss and instead ordered a side portion of delicious Korean kimchee for spicy dipping instead.

Just before getting back on the road the following morning, we managed to stop at Irma, a local supermarket, to see what kind of gluten free products they had to offer. This supermarket didn’t have a specific gluten free section but we found gluten free (gluten frit) products such as breads and cereals on the shelves next to their glutenous versions.

Gluten Free museli

Gluten Free bread