Post by Silly Yak on Feb 18, 2011 11:03:18 GMT
From GF Hols website:
Iceland
The Icelandic Coeliac Society advises contacting them before and after arrival. They can provide a list of gluten-free foods, as well as local information on where to eat, and where gluten-free food is on sale.
Samtok Folks meo Glutenopol
Fannafold 231
112 Reykjavik
Iceland
Telephone: +354 860 3328
Fax: +354 560 3350
E-mail
magnus@esso.is
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Dining cards
www.celiactravel.com/gluten-free ... andic.html
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Restaurants in Iceland
www.celiachandbook.com/iceland.html
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From Dr Zap (on celiac com GF forum ) dated Dec 6 2007
I spent three weeks in Iceland summer before last, about 4 months after I was first diagnosed with Celiac's. A year and a half later, I can still say that Iceland is probably the most gluten-friendly place I have been (and I travel a lot). A spent a few days in Reykjavik and most of my time at the resort near Geysir.
As for food: for breakfast I generally got by with the local variety of yogurt (skirmir of something like that), tomatoes, pickled fish cheese and some kind of pickled fish. I was working and spent most days on a site 100 km north of Gullfoss so I had to come up with my on lunches. This was a combination of stuff I brought with me (I am a huge fan of fresh energy bars from the fresh energy bakery in reno, nv). and a few things I bought in Rekjavik. There is a health food store close to downtown Reykjavik. As I recally if you follow the main drag from the main square in front of the Town hall etc. toward the big cathedral, the health food store is just a couple of blocks from the town square. Sorry, I can't recall the address; I tend to wander till I find things.
For dinner, the restaurant at Geysir was very knowledgeable on Celiac's they even had gluten free bread though I don't know if they normally carry it or brought it in for me (I was there about two weeks). I ate a lot of fish and lamb; pretty much alternating between those two things. That was true pretty much eveywhere I went in Iceland.
Almost everyone I met in Iceland spoke English extremely well. They have a saying that if you don't travel you are not educated and Icelanders tend to place education in high regard.
Have fun; I wish I were there.
www.glutenfreeforum.com/index.ph ... ntry371486
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Iceland
The Icelandic Coeliac Society advises contacting them before and after arrival. They can provide a list of gluten-free foods, as well as local information on where to eat, and where gluten-free food is on sale.
Samtok Folks meo Glutenopol
Fannafold 231
112 Reykjavik
Iceland
Telephone: +354 860 3328
Fax: +354 560 3350
magnus@esso.is
*********************
Dining cards
www.celiactravel.com/gluten-free ... andic.html
**************
Restaurants in Iceland
www.celiachandbook.com/iceland.html
*****************
From Dr Zap (on celiac com GF forum ) dated Dec 6 2007
I spent three weeks in Iceland summer before last, about 4 months after I was first diagnosed with Celiac's. A year and a half later, I can still say that Iceland is probably the most gluten-friendly place I have been (and I travel a lot). A spent a few days in Reykjavik and most of my time at the resort near Geysir.
As for food: for breakfast I generally got by with the local variety of yogurt (skirmir of something like that), tomatoes, pickled fish cheese and some kind of pickled fish. I was working and spent most days on a site 100 km north of Gullfoss so I had to come up with my on lunches. This was a combination of stuff I brought with me (I am a huge fan of fresh energy bars from the fresh energy bakery in reno, nv). and a few things I bought in Rekjavik. There is a health food store close to downtown Reykjavik. As I recally if you follow the main drag from the main square in front of the Town hall etc. toward the big cathedral, the health food store is just a couple of blocks from the town square. Sorry, I can't recall the address; I tend to wander till I find things.
For dinner, the restaurant at Geysir was very knowledgeable on Celiac's they even had gluten free bread though I don't know if they normally carry it or brought it in for me (I was there about two weeks). I ate a lot of fish and lamb; pretty much alternating between those two things. That was true pretty much eveywhere I went in Iceland.
Almost everyone I met in Iceland spoke English extremely well. They have a saying that if you don't travel you are not educated and Icelanders tend to place education in high regard.
Have fun; I wish I were there.
www.glutenfreeforum.com/index.ph ... ntry371486
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