Travel Gluten Free

S01 Episode #21 Interview with Ellen Bayens of the Celiac Scene   In this episode, we are going to explore the gluten-free scene in Victoria, British Columbia with Ellen Bayens, who founded the Celiac Scene and started the gluten-free revolution in Victoria a decade ago. the restaurants you will love in this city and why Victoria is the place you want to be when you're gluten-free!   How  the Gluten-Free Revolution started in Victoria, British Columbia   Do you love eating out at restaurants that are safe, friendly and have knowledgeable wait staff, that serve FRIED FOOD from dedicated fryers? Do you want the best ( and most ) gluten-free food you could eat while traveling? My friend, Victoria, British Columbia is the next place which should be on your vacation hit list!   Ellen and I jump into how she started the gluten-free movement in the restaurant scene in Victoria, British Columbia and how that is reflected in the gluten-free culture the city celebrates today.   The restaurants are fabulou

S01 Episode #20 Fun Things To Do in Victoria, British Columbia   Welcome to the Travel Gluten Free Podcast, where you, my friend, listen in on how to lead a gluten-free lifestyle with more fun and ease!   Why Victoria?   Do you love small towns that are walkable and easy to get around with a charming Main Street with more stories and tales than you can listen to in a week? Do you love boating, being near the water and harbors? How about museums which celebrate native culture, a town with inspiring stories from amazing people and the best "running of the goats"? All of this and more can be found in Victoria, British Columbia.   How to Get to Victoria   Have you been to SEA-TAC - the Seattle airport? Let me be the first to tell you its a zoo. Planning to fly into SEA TAC give yourself a good 2 hours between getting off the plane, renting your car and getting anywhere in Seattle. If you are within driving distance, I would suggest doing the drive. Beautiful scenery, great places to stop alo

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Lisa Cox from Gem City and Elikqitie from Travel Gluten Free podcast are hosting the first ever Dessert Walking Tour on October 2nd, 2018! Customers will receive a walking tour of the bakery, samples of six different gluten-free, mouthwatering desserts and a great swag bag at the end of the tour! Sign up today at Travel Gluten Free website for your complimentary tour! Limited to 15 participants.

    S01 Episode 17 Erika Demmer from Celiac and the Beast   Erika was diagnosed in 2009. She is a full-blown Celiac with a sprinkling of gastroparesis, osteopenia, hypermobility disorder, endometriosis, thyroid shenanigans, and a whole host of other health issues. She didn't realize that cosmetics could have wheat as the main ingredient, but when she realized that most of her cosmetics contained wheat, she threw out most of her shampoo, conditioner, body wash, and cosmetics and started with new, fresh gluten-free cosmetics.   Erika doesn't love cooking (aka she throws a lot of my failed dishes out). To eat, she uses a lot of gluten-free products. Erika is always looking for the newest gluten-free food item to review on her website.   She says she lives with a "great dude" who is super into the gluten-free lifestyle – even though he is not gluten-sensitive    In her past life, Erika's career landed in the PR, advertising, and corporate market, research. In this life, Erika is part of she knows.comexperts pr

S01 Episode #16 Back to School Gluten-Free    Episode 16 we are going to talk about back to school. Not just snacks and lunches, but how you can create a legal document which binds the school and every professional who comes in contact with your child to your child's diet for celiacs or gluten intolerance.   As a parent, we want our kids to be safe, at home, and school. When they aren't with us, we can't see what they are eating or doing. How, as a parent, can you add in some safety measures for your student at school, when you aren't with them?   Shop with your child.  Have your child have snacks in her backpack that are gluten-free that they can always eat on the go that is easy for them to handle depending on the age level there are different treats or snacks that are easy for them to feel.    If your child is in elementary school, their teacher may be able to keep a box or a bag of pre-made shelf-stable snacks in their room for your child. If you go this route, mark your bag CLEARLY with your

S01 Episode 15 Meredith the "Celiac Cutie"   Meredith was diagnosed with Celiac Disease on January 29th of 2016. She remembers this day because it was her sister's birthday and also the first family gathering where she had to figure out what she could eat now that she was celiacs. That day marked the beginning of her journey with an auto-immune disease. She says even with a supportive family how alone Celiac makes her feel at times or just how many times I could be humiliated at a restaurant. She became an instant friend to those who understood her whether it was the doctors and researchers at the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University or the random people that shared their stories with her on social media.   While trying to find out where she fit in, in this new gluten-free community, Meredith found some gluten-free t-shirts. Most shirts were very down and cynical about being gluten-free. Meredith, being positive and happy, didn't feel those shirts reflected who she was and how she wanted to be per

Episode 14 Amanda from Smart Flour Foods Back in 2005, Georgia, a local baker and foodie in Austin set out to create a better gluten-free flour blend for her friend Erica with celiac disease. Her mission was to improve the taste, texture and nutrition of all the rice blends on the market. She experimented with Teff, sorghum amaranth and the gluten free blend was born. They decided to create a company around this blend Gluten Free Kneads.  A few years later,  Charlie pace discovered he was gluten intolerant and on his search for gluten free foods he tried one of their pizzas in a local restaurant and loved it so much he bought the company in 2011 and changed the name to smart flour foods.  Share Travel Gluten Free with a Friend! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/travel-gluten-free/id1353825723?mt=2 Looking for a Great Travel Deal? Visit my Travel Deals page on my website! It's packed with deals for discount airfare, car rental, airport parking and much more, including discount trips to Italy.  Support T

Ten Best Tips to Road Trip Gluten-Free with Elikqitie   How do you road trip gluten-free and navigate all the crazy hazards that come your way? Listen in to hear what the 10 best gluten free road trip recommendations are for those of us who love to travel on the road.

Episode 12 Alice Medrich and her newest book: Gluten Free Flavour Flours Get on your note taking hat because this episode is full of baking techniques which you can apply to your gluten-free baking today! My guest for this show is a culinary expert and a big believer in delicous! Today I'm here with a special guest who has recently hit the gluten-free scene with, what I consider, a book that should be a staple in your kitchen if you are A. Gluten-free and B. Like to bake. She is largely a self taught baker and pastry chef who started out working with chocolate, when, after living for a year in Paris, she returned home with her landlady's hand written recipe for chocolate truffles and began to make and sell them in local gourmet shops. She then opened my own shop, "Cocolat— in 1972 which grew into 7 shops before she sold her shops in 1990. She then focused on publishing and created her first cookbook, "Cocolat" which she received my first Cookbook of the Year award from the James Beard Foundation.  She has si

Episode #11 Interview with Taylor Nakakihara Taylor  Nakakihara is a celiacs who is a lifestyle blogger. She is currently working full time as an executive assistant, going to school full time, and, in addition to working and going to college full-time, she trains for Spartan Races and is on track to run six Spartan Races this year!  She was diagnosed with celiac disease on Halloween of 2013 and writes her blog about living life and living well, even with mental and physical obstacles to overcome.  We talk about Taylor's struggles with Celiacs, how she overcame them after being introduced to Spartan racing (and training for the race for a year) when her high school ceramics teacher gave her the info on Spartan. Her blog and her lifestyle reflect how you can really live your life to the fullest, even with Celiacs disease. Find out how she lives on a day to day basis, her life philosophies and the food she misses most! Listener Shout-Out! She is a Celiac Mom with Wanderlust who is gluten and dairy free. She

Travel Gluten Free Podcast S06 Episode 16   Find Me Gluten Free App developed by Jason Elmore, is the best tool for finding safe, gluten-free food when eating at restaurants! Whether you are home, traveling within the US or abroad, Find Me Gluten Free gives those who lead the gluten-free lifestyle a convenient, easy way to find a good place to eat out in the big foodie world!

Gem City Fine Foods provides a quality of dessert that is unmatched! Their commitment to their dedicated gluten-free facility, along with recipe development and variety of desserts offered create a company who serves the gluten-free and allergy-free communities around the US with desserts a foodie can appreciate!

Visit the GFAF Gluten-Free Expo June 23rd and 24th in Glendale, Arizona

Three easy ways you can find gluten-free restaurant options outside your hometown

Episode 06 Laura Huffman from Vivian's Live Again Foods We are here today at My Gluten Free World expo broadcasting live, but not live from the show!  It's so exciting to be a part of this expo and I've met some really great people at the expo. My next guest is, I feel, one of the best gluten-free food purveyors in this community. She also provides food that is easy to take on trips, and bring on your travels! Laura Huffman grew up in a home where the food philosophy was food should always taste good and bring people together. She feels like love is one of the most important nutrients in food. She started cooking gluten free for friends at church who were gluten and dairy free. They never came to functions with food. Laura didn’t want them to miss the love so she invented cream of mushroom soup so that the church ladies could cook recipes they knew but make it for everyone. It turned out she was good and creating GF and dairy free so Laura grew it into a business. She feels her greatest business success is

Kate Call from Kate's Kitchen Episode #05 Kate Call of Kate's Gluten-Free Kitchen We are here today at Gluten Free World expo broadcasting live, but not live from the show!  It's so exciting to be a part of this expo and I"ve met some really great people at the expo. Kate's been baking and eating gluten free for 11 years. She is a health educator by profession and love helping people learn to navigate the gluten free lifestyle. This year she decided to combine my love of baking and educating and she decided to open Kate’s Gluten Free Kitchen. Being gluten free is a family affair with Eating Gluten Free, GF Blends, GF Preppers. Kate chats with me today about how her business started, the history of her celiac's disease and how the entire family is now vested in selling gluten-free items in their companies. You'll enjoy this wonderful young lady as we talk together about her delicous gluten-free baked goods! Share Travel Gluten Free with a Friend! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/travel-gluten-free/id13

Polly at Townshend's Tea House Episode 04 Interview with Polly Rihm Townshend's Tea House I must admit that I have a selfish personal tea inception going on in my pantry with 57 different types of tea of which 10 percent are directly from Townshend’s tea house. Walking into Townshend’s tea house gives one the feeling of walking into a tea sanctuary where one can find more combinations of tea than one could drink in at least several spiritual reincarnations and an atmosphere which feels like tea nervana.  In my interview with Polly, we chat about matcha tea origins, how she creates bubble tea, and the different types of apothecary tea Polly has available at Townshend's. We also dive into the creation of the tea house in Park City, Utah, why Polly decided to make this a place in the Junction area of Park City and the gluten-free baked goods she carries as options for those of us who are celiac to eat. Share Travel Gluten Free with a Friend! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/travel-gluten-free/id1353825723

Why are some foods labeled "Gluten Free"? Episode 03 The differences between certified gluten free foods and gluten free foods Have you ever seen the symbol which contains the letters "GF" in bold with a bold circle around the letters? Or the symbol with a grain of wheat with a line crossed through it? Ever wonder what these symbols stand for? These symbols stand for certified gluten free food, which contains an extremely small amount of gluten. If you're celiacs, you know it is safe to eat these foods. But what about foods that read gluten-free, but aren't certified? Are they safe to eat? Gluten Free Food: Generally gluten free food are food are free from gluten ingredients. They are named to be gluten free, but actually they are not 100% free from gluten. They are not 100% free from gluten if these foods are made in a facility which also creates producst that have gluten. For the gluten intolerant,  gluten free food are relatively safe. For those who have celiacs, gluten free foods are not 100% safe. What

Travel Gluten Free gives people who lead the gluten-free lifestyle a better way to live. Travel Gluten Free's host Elikqitie gives insights to how to easily lead a gluten-free lifestyle at home, at work and during travel. Learn the ins and outs of how to successfully be gluten-free with less hassle and more fun and enjoyment! Elikqitie explores the gluten-free side from chefs, restaurant owners and people who lead a gluten-free lifestyle.