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Post by Silly Yak on Feb 13, 2011 11:11:32 GMT
Re: GF in Baltic States
Posted by Suzy, Dorset on 21/5/2009
Gf board
… I spent about 6 weeks in Lithuania in 2007. I'd only been diagnosed about 3 days before I went so I wasn't as clued up as I would be now but I thought the food was absolutely great and really enjoyed it.
They eat tons of fish and buckwheat. I ate the sort of things Lithuanians eat at home and I think I had fish twice a day just about every day, accompanied by buckwheat and cooked veg or salad. It's a very healthy, unprocessed diet and easily adaptable to gf. The only problem is beer, which is plentiful and very cheap!!
I'd certainly take some dietary cards with you as nobody seemed to really understand about coeliac disease, although English is pretty widely spoken. Not perhaps by the chefs and waiting staff though. Certainly their local food is often naturally gf so you're on to a head start there. I do remember taking a lot of rice cakes and apricots with me as emergency rations but supermarkets seem to have quite a good gf section and you can buy both those things there. I think I had rice cakes every day for breakfast and had cooked tomatoes and mushrooms on them with bits of cheese on top. That was the only meal that was a bit tricky for me but I don't eat meat and there always lots of sausages and bacon around.
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