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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, this is your vacation too.
Now, I am sensitive to food issues as a mom of an allergy child myself, but it seems like your relatives are used to being parents of just 1 child, and all the "control" they can exert over their own child and home, and are just not thinking rationally about asking an entire extended family to eat their child's limited diet for an entire week.
Have they never eaten out? No preschool or daycare? No birthday parties? They never go to anyone else's home to visit? 
I'm having a hard time seeing how an entire home, 2 kitchens, has to be wiped of any trace of gluten. It's not an airborne allergy.
They need to be parents and protect their child, and if that means part of their vacation is spent taking turns eating alone with him in he cabin, or playing outside with him while your kids eat, then that's parenting!
You can do your part as family by being meticulous in cleaning up the food, making your kids participating in storing food up and away, hand cleaning the floors and checking for particles, but you can't expect your kids on their vacation to not enjoy their normal foods as well[/quote]

+1 Sanitizing and separating everything could be easily done if they were in a hotel room, by them selves, in Manhattan (or in a hospital). But at a remote cabin with other children? It sounds like a nightmare "vacation"[/quote]

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