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Old July 27th, 2016, 04:45 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
Jack Campin
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Default 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.

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