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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am really sad for your family OP. And the family of some of these PPs. You would really cancel your vacation, or significantly ruin your vacation, over food? Are you serious?

Your nephew has a severe AUTOIMMUNE disease. This is not an allergy. This is something that will affect his life forever. It will affect his growth and development and can lead to several other very serious diseases. Sure, he might not be all that sensitive. Sure, it might not need to be that serious. But please appreciate how his parents, your FAMILY MEMBERS, feel. They are stressed out. This is new. Their pediatric GI doctor likely put the child under anesthesia, performed an endoscopy and said that his body is literally attacking itself over the food that you are very nonchalantly saying you cannot possibly eliminate from your children's world for 5 days.

I can't believe some of the posters. You would really not visit your family if they had to deal with this? Are you kidding? That is INSANE!

My daughter is 4. She has celiac. Her friends have been over to our house. We have had family at our house visiting for weeks at a time. They had young, picky children. We made it work. We have a gluten free house. Sure - they went out a bit. But they also ate a lot of our food. And they were fine. Sure - one day they only ate fruit and hotdogs for lunch without any buns because gluten free buns are terrible. But they were okay. We made a lot of rice and potatoes. The kids were fine!

I make this gluten free mac and cheese all the time when family and friends come over: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/242268/easy-gluten-free-macaroni-and-cheese/. I don't do the topping/baking thing and just serve it creamy. My nephew said it tasted like Panera. He is super picky and loved it. I use the Wegmans elbow pasta, but Barilla works and I love the Tinkyada brand. Make sure you wash it with cold water so you can get the residue from the water off.

Bread is impossible to replace. We just kinda eliminated it from our daughters diet. We make a lot of wraps with deli meat in it and use corn tortillas. Both our kids love it. We then give them some skinny pop, veggie straws, or pirate booty, or regular chips (all gluten free) and fruit they that's lunch. We also occasionally use glutino English muffins, which are crunchier than normal English muffins, but the kids like them slathered with loads of peanut butter. Glutino also makes great snack foods. Their oreos are amazing and the pretzels are perfectly serviceable.

Vans makes a good fish stick that you won't be able to tell is gluten free.

These are ideas, but really think about how you go about this week with your family. Celiac is a really hard diagnosis. I still get very sad over all of the things my daughter will miss out on. The number of eye rolls I get at restaurants are really frustrating. It doesn't help at all when your family isn't supportive. It is NOT an allergy. It is a lifelong struggle that is only manageable with a gluten free diet. But gluten is in EVERYTHING, and that is hard. It is also hard when your child is young, and cross contamination is a much more difficult issue. It is also hard when your child is extremely sick, so even trace amounts can wreak havoc on him.

The fact that SO many PPs are talking about how this will potentially ruin your vacation makes me sad. If not having bread on vacation will legitimately ruin your time, I am sad for you... [/quote]

Look at all the options here. Look at all the opportunities to try something new.

OP, enabling you and your picky kids sound way worse than poor gluten kid/vigilant family members, in terms of "people making vacations difficult."[/quote]

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