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Travel with allergy in Europe
My child and I are planning to travel very soon to Germany. We need to avoid eggs and nuts and peanuts.
Do you know if the restaurants there are aware of allergies? Any food suggestions to pack while travelling on the plane and while we are there? Thank you, Christina |
Travel with allergy in Europe
On 07-26-2016 14:15, wrote:
My child and I are planning to travel very soon to Germany. We need to avoid eggs and nuts and peanuts. Do you know if the restaurants there are aware of allergies? Any food suggestions to pack while travelling on the plane and while we are there? http://travel.stackexchange.com/ques...gies-in-europe -- Wes Groleau |
Travel with allergy in Europe
My child and I are planning to travel very soon to Germany.
We need to avoid eggs and nuts and peanuts. Do you know if the restaurants there are aware of allergies? In large cities you won't have a problem (and you will be able buy specialist foods from shops if you need them). Small towns and villages are more of a lottery. It will help a lot if you can talk about the problem in German. Packaged foods in the EU will usually be labelled in several languages with the officially defined high-risk allergens boldfaced. https://www.fsai.ie/legislation/food...allergens.html Any food suggestions to pack while travelling on the plan and while we are there? Any transatlantic flight should offer a range of dietary options. That particular bunch of allergies isn't one of the harder ones to manage. Dairy anaphylaxis is really difficult. If you shop in places intended for Eastern Europeans there is a good chance that the ingredients lists on the packaging will not be in any language you can understand. This happens in Polish food shops in the UK too. Even large transnational companies adopt a policy of labelling food in only Western European or only Eastern European languages, never a mix of the two. This is a bloody nuisance because often the stuff available in Polish shops has a more limited range of ingredients and would actually be a good option for people with food allergies, if only they had a way of knowing what they were getting. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin |
Travel with allergy in Europe
On 7/27/2016 11:45 AM, Jack Campin wrote:
If you shop in places intended for Eastern Europeans there is a good chance that the ingredients lists on the packaging will not be in any language you can understand. This happens in Polish food shops in the UK too. Even large transnational companies adopt a policy of labelling food in only Western European or only Eastern European languages, never a mix of the two. This is a bloody nuisance because often the stuff available in Polish shops has a more limited range of ingredients and would actually be a good option for people with food allergies, if only they had a way of knowing what they were getting. I've found a smartphone very handy in Polish food shops - the staff know only the Polish names, I know the English ones. Use the online translator of your choice. (Now I can buy whole-grain rye flour!) |
Travel with allergy in Europe
"Jack Campin" wrote in message ... My child and I are planning to travel very soon to Germany. We need to avoid eggs and nuts and peanuts. Do you know if the restaurants there are aware of allergies? In large cities you won't have a problem (and you will be able buy specialist foods from shops if you need them). Small towns and villages are more of a lottery. It will help a lot if you can talk about the problem in German. Packaged foods in the EU will usually be labelled in several languages though not necessarily in English just in the 6 languages that the pack is designed to be sold in tim |
Travel with allergy in Europe
On 07-27-2016 11:54, tim... wrote:
"Jack Campin" wrote in message ... My child and I are planning to travel very soon to Germany. We need to avoid eggs and nuts and peanuts. Do you know if the restaurants there are aware of allergies? In large cities you won't have a problem (and you will be able buy specialist foods from shops if you need them). Small towns and villages are more of a lottery. It will help a lot if you can talk about the problem in German. Packaged foods in the EU will usually be labelled in several languages though not necessarily in English Man doing crossword puzzle: "Only speaks one language" Wife: "Monolingual" Man: "M O N O ... no, too many letters" Wife: "American" -- Wes Groleau |
Travel with allergy in Europe
Wes Groleau:
Man doing crossword puzzle: "Only speaks one language" Wife: "Monolingual" Man: "M O N O ... no, too many letters" Wife: "American" Man: "Still too many." Wife: "English". -- Mark Brader | YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE CRAZY TO WORK HERE Toronto | WE'LL TRAIN YOU | --Seen on "Help Wanted" sign |
Travel with allergy in Europe
Hello,
Thank you for all the informative replies! Are you familiar with any specific stores or restaurants in Munich that would cater to food allergies? Thank you, Christina |
Travel with allergy in Europe
Are you familiar with any specific stores or restaurants in
Munich that would cater to food allergies? The "dm" chain of shops is a good place to buy specialist foods, in Germany and neighbouring countries (I've just come back from Croatia, and there were at least two branches in Rijeka alone). But if the problems are just with nuts and eggs, you shouldn't need to buy any special "free from" products. I'm forwarding your question to someone in Munich who has similar problems and has been dealing with them for years. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin |
Travel with allergy in Europe
Are you familiar with any specific stores or restaurants in
Munich that would cater to food allergies? if the problems are just with nuts and eggs, you shouldn't need to buy any special "free from" products. The owner of an Indian restaurant in Easingwold caused the death of a customer by substituting ground peanuts for ground almonds. This was after he almost killed another customer and had been warned by trading standards. The owner is now serving a six year prison sentence. Indian restaurants are not common in Munich. My wife (who is severely wheat- and dairy-intolerant) survived a night out at a Georgian restaurant there, and Georgian food is not all that intolerance-friendly (it tends to be made of visually unanalyzable brown stodge). So their information was ok. She wasn't very impressed with what it tasted like, though. Turkish food is a good bet since eggs will be easily identifiable (except for glazes on some kinds of bread - you're probably used to spotting that), and nuts will only occur in sweet dishes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin |
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