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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We went gluten free for awhile (elimination diet) It was also expensive.
Shouldn't this thread be moved to SN? After all, OP is being asked to completely change her family's cooking and diet for a "vacation" and a "possible" contamination issue. I think many of the posters are forgetting what travelling with young children is like. Kids do not always love travelling and tend to cling to the familiar and be fussy. And BTW, my kids just returned from overseas and yes, they brought their own PB&J with them. It saves on high overseas costs and availability. It was not their favorite food, but that what they ate. However, they are not 4 years old.[/quote]

OT, but I cannot fathom taking my own food overseas so that I would not have to eat the local cuisine.  I pack some snacks to have on the plane and in my bag, but we eat from the local grocery stores and restaurants and street vendors.  It's not like there's never anything familiar or familiar-ish: pretty much every culture has some form a bland starch--noodles, rice, bread, potatoes--that you can rely on in a pinch, but half the fun of travel is trying new foods.

OP doesn't even have to totally change her cooking and diet.  Really, she has to avoid bread, but not tortillas or crackers, since there are gf versions of these that are much better than the bread and pasta replacements.  Make PB&J tortilla roll-ups or PB crackers.  It sounds like her kids eat "kid food," and if they can't survive a week on rice, macaroni and cheese, chicken nuggets, hamburgers, etc., then she has bigger problems.  I mean, she was complaining that they couldn't have ice cream in cones.  Really?  The in-laws might be over-reacting, but they just had a young child diagnosed with a serious medical condition and they are adjusting.  Have some compassion.  [/quote]

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