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10 Tips for Guests with Celiac Disease

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celiac disease, house visitorsLookout- we’re coming to visit and so is celiac disease.
Be prepared for 20 questions (or more) and perhaps some garbage picking while we’re looking for ingredient labels.

Welcome to the world of gluten-free, here’s your crash course.

How do you prepare for a few days or a week long visitor that has celiac disease?  It may make you uneasy but trust me, the person with celiac is the one who is truly strapped.  The odds are not in your house guests favor that they will leave unscathed from your gluten laden kitchen.  The good news is, with some simple planning you will all survive.

You may think (to yourself please) that your friend or family member has lost their mind when you see how they have to live with celiac disease.  It is such a particular lifestyle and one that is quite easy to pollute.  Refraining from teasing them or making snide remarks is probably in your best interest.

10 Tips for Guests with Celiac Disease:

1. Ask your guest to bring their specialty products if they can.  Most people with celiac are used to doing this, they won’t feel put out.  Better yet, ask what you can have in the house for them when they arrive.

2. Try to cook gluten free meals for everyone while your house guest is there.  This serves many purposes- it decreases kitchen anxiety but it also makes your guest worry less about cross contamination.  If you are cooking with gluten, prepare the gluten free foods first.

3. Invite your guest into the kitchen and discuss meal plans.  You may think you are cooking a gluten free meal but accidentally add spices or soy sauce or something containing gluten.  It is in so many products including cooking spray, soups, salad dressing, etc.

4. Your guest is the gluten free expert, enlist their help before and during the visit.

5. Things to avoid- toasters, wooden utensils, cutting boards, pots that you have repeatedly cooked gluten pasta in, any condiments you have double dipped into (knife into mustard onto bread and back in mustard contaminates the source), and butter dishes are always full of crumbs.

6. Find a local restaurant that is celiac friendly and go out for a meal.

7. Get a new sponge, gluten loves to stay on sponges, have paper towels and clean cloths available.

8. Place your flour under lock and key while your guest is there, don’t use it at all.  Flour is so hard to contain, once it’s airborne forget about it- everything will be contaminated.

9. Check out this Gluten Free Baking Conversion Chart which will replace gluten flour in any meal.

10. Think simple whole foods.  The less ingredients the better, it decreases the margin for error.

See She Sugar’s articles for further information on celiac disease, books, recipes and what gluten free really means.

Gluten Free- What’s That?

What is Celiac?

Celiac Blogs- A great source for recipes

 

 


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