Gluten and Wheat free bread

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sabrinaray

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June 29th 2013

• Feb 17, 2013

• #1

My daughter and I are about to embark (30 June) on our first walk along the Camino trail. Only doing the last 130km unfortunately as we are time poor and coming over from Australia with only 2 weeks holiday. But we are soooo excited!! My daughter is a Ceoliac and I was wondering if there is any bread she can eat along the way as I believe it will be a large part of food intake???? There must have been many other people on the trail with the same intolerance. We are travelling from Sarria to Santiago de Compostela.

 

scruffy1

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Holy Year from Pamplona 2010, SJPP 2011, Lisbon 2012, Le Puy 2013, Vezelay (partial watch this space!) 2014; 2015 Toulouse-Puenta la Reina (Arles)

• Feb 17, 2013

• #2

Good luck on that one! As you walk through tranquil green quiet beautiful Galicia the pastoralatmosphere is broken only by the occaisional but incessant horn blowing of small delivery vans. One is the daily arrival of the traveling fish monger and do stop by there is everything from octopus to fresh hake in the back of those vans. The other is bread van which usally comes around twice a day chock full of baguettes, batards, whole wheat and white breads all chiock full of gluten. I have never checked but I seem to remember seeing gluten free in the supermarkets of larger towns so consider stiocking up in Sarria, Portomarin, Palas de Rei, Melide, Aruza, Arca, and Santiago. Do be careful with the pilgrims menu-vegatable soup (usually meat based) may be thickened with bread, meatballs of course, fried fish, and know that many servers will have no idea what is in the food or even what a Ceoliac might be.
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zammy

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• Feb 17, 2013

• #3

check here
food-on-the-camino-de-santiago/topic12971.html

 

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sabrinaray

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June 29th 2013

• Feb 17, 2013

• #4

Great thanks for your advice I thought as much. I realise due to the lack of english and understanding this maybe a hard one. We will just have to bring over plenty of supplies and buy the bread at a couple of the big supermarkets like you suggested. Thankyou

 

CaminoWalks

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• May 28, 2014

• #5

I have the same problem. Last time I brought a couple of packets of gluten/wheatfree crispbread in plastic boxes ( hard plastic). That helped me through breakfast and lunch. For dinner I ate meat ("steak") and vegetables. Lots of fruit, raisins, dark chocolate and nuts throughout the day.

 

mylifeonvacation

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• May 28, 2014

• #6

A Celiac friend of mine has traveled to Japan and South Korea using cards such as these and had great luck in communicating the dietary restriction.

www.celiactravel.com/cards/spanish/

She also went to New Zealand a couple of years ago and marveled at how easy it was to find gluten free foods in so many restaurants there.

I would think Tortilla Española (eggs, potato, onion, olive oil) would be GF, but the card should help to clarify.

Buen Camino!

 

paul.ferris

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• May 28, 2014

• #7

sabrinaray said:

My daughter and I are about to embark (30 June) on our first walk along the Camino trail. Only doing the last 130km unfortunately as we are time poor and coming over from Australia with only 2 weeks holiday. But we are soooo excited!! My daughter is a Ceoliac and I was wondering if there is any bread she can eat along the way as I believe it will be a large part of food intake???? There must have been many other people on the trail with the same intolerance. We are travelling from Sarria to Santiago de Compostela.

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sabrinaray said:

My daughter and I are about to embark (30 June) on our first walk along the Camino trail. Only doing the last 130km unfortunately as we are time poor and coming over from Australia with only 2 weeks holiday. But we are soooo excited!! My daughter is a Ceoliac and I was wondering if there is any bread she can eat along the way as I believe it will be a large part of food intake???? There must have been many other people on the trail with the same intolerance. We are travelling from Sarria to Santiago de Compostela.

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Unfortunately over much of the Camino Frances we were able to find only white bread. My wife has a gluten intolerance. She found though that the Spanish bread did not seem to bother her. I'm guessing that they do not use GMO wheat.

 

BeatriceKarjalainen

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• May 28, 2014

• #8

Im gluten intolerant and I brought gluten free hard bread with me to eat when I couldn't find anything else. In bigger stores I found some horrible gluten free bread (Bimbo brand). So dry, tasteless and non-eatable but I'm used to quite darker and more fibers. But I had a lot of tortillas instead.

I brought a card with info about my intolerances (I'm lactose intolerant and allergic to mushrooms as well) and some places told me they has wheat in the tortilla so then I had to buy fried eggs or something. I managed to walk 1120 km without eating gluten so it is possible.

But it takes some planning to not being able to grab a sandwich for breakfast and lunch.

Buen camino!