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Post by Silly Yak on Feb 10, 2011 9:25:03 GMT
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Post by Silly Yak on Feb 12, 2011 10:30:45 GMT
Holland From Paulina For Holland, www.livaad.nl is a great resource. It's a database of over 20 000 gluten free products sold in Holland. There's a list that you can search with key words, but also separate lists of different supermarket chains you can print and take with you if you really want to do serious food shopping. There's also a list of celiac friendly restaurants , click on "horecaad". The supermarket chain Albert Heijn marks products of their own house brand AH with a gluten free and/or milk free symbol, and they have good allergy info on the labels. You'll probably run into one of their stores in Amsterdam. Gluten free bread and cookies etc. can mostly be found in health food shops, just ask a loccal for the nearest one. I don't know Amsterdam well enought to recommend one. The labelling law in Europe is that gluten has to be marked on the label, either separately in an allergy statement or so that you are able to make it out from the ingredients (of course assuming that you know the language). The only thing you need to watch out for are the words (in Dutch) "glucose stroop", "dextrose" or "maltodextrine" on labels, because those can be made from wheat, and they are excepted from the labelling laws for now. If you don't usually react to very small amounts of cross contamination, you probably won't react to those either, but you should know so you can make the choice. Most celiacs that I've spoken with in Holland do eat products with glucose syrup etc. without problems (which is why for now they are an exception in the labelling). Pretty much everyone I've met in Holland speaks excellent English. |
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Post by Silly Yak on Feb 12, 2011 10:31:18 GMT
Holland From Ria … I'm English but live in the Netherlands. You can buy gluten free food at Albert Heijn, the Co-op, and Plus (the bigger stores). You can also find it at health stores and De Tuinen. In England you can find it in all of the supermarkets and health shops. In Germany I found the restaurants very helpful, but not the motorway cafes. Much of the gluten free (gluten frij) food in Dutch stores comes from Germany. In France I found food in health shops. Here is a link where you can print off little restaurant cards in many languages to hand in at restaurants. I used it with success in France, Germany, and here in the Netherlands in fact. It's easier and saves all the explaining. No matter how good people's English is, you always get young people who don't have a clue and don't want to ask for you. www.celiactravel.com/restaurant-cards.html |
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Post by kickingfrog on Feb 15, 2011 19:15:34 GMT
In the Netherlands, you can buy gluten free products in so called reformwinkels or natuurvoedingswinkels (health shops). If you look at www.schaer.com --> salespoints à map search, then you must choose Europe and then the country (Netherlands) en the region you will visit. Then you will see a list of shops that sells Schär products. Most of the shops will have more brands than only Schär. You can also buy glutenfree bread (deep frozen) in a supermarket called Albert Heijn. You have to ask for it by the bread 'department' of the supermarket, because they store the gluten free bread in the freezer. Not every Albert Heijn sells it, but most of the big Albert Heijn shops sell it. Some supermarkets, for example Albert Heijn, Super de Boer, Jumbo and Konmar (only the big ones) also sell glutenfree cookies, pasta and crackers from Glutafin (Nutricia). The supermarkte Albert Heijn (AH) has it's own 'glutenfree logo' on their own brand products. You will find an example by clicking on the following link: www.ah.nl/allergenen/index.jsp On our website you can find a list of restaurants where people with coeliac disease have eaten a good glutenfree meal. But it's very important that you always ask the restaurant if it's still possible to eat glutenfree. Look at www.glutenvrij.nl, then go to "De regio's" and go to "restaurantenlijst" (list of restaurants). ……. Kind regards, Met vriendelijke groet, Heidi Schelling bureaumedewerker Nederlandse Coeliakie Vereniging Postbus 65 3860 AB NIJKERK www.glutenvrij.nl *************** |
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