Post by Silly Yak on Feb 18, 2011 11:08:26 GMT
From Bobby on GF board:
Posted by Bobby on 15/6/2005
If there is anyone intending to travel to Sweden then this post health.groups.yahoo.com/group/UK ... ssage/6056 on the Yahoo board may be of interest.
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Sweden
We've just returned from a holiday in Sweden (Gothenburg)- it was so nice to experience such a different attitude to gluten free food (Anna you are so lucky!) - for example, it is the norm for gluten free pasta to be available in Italian restaurants. I found a website on gothenburg Restaurants which had a section for gluten free friendly restaurants - we ate mainly at these. My girls had gluten free pasta, crackers, bread and desserts when we ate out.
We had taken a gluten free card printed from the Swedish coeliac society website which explained about coeliac disease in English and Swedish, but in the majority of restaurants we didn't need it - they knew all about gluten free. The only thing we didn't manage to track down were gluten free pizzas - one restaurant we went to did do them but they weren't available on the day we went. It wasn't so easy to find lunch - there are lots of places that do sandwiches and pastries with no sign of gluten free food, but we did find baked potatoes, pasta and salad on lunch menus. It took a while to track down the decent supermarkets but then we found Ica which had a good gluten free section and the prices were pretty reasonable (possibly cheaper then the UK).
Apart from the food, which was absolutely fab, Sweden is a beautiful country and Gothenburg was a very interesting city with loads to do - I'd thoroughly recommend it
Posted by Bobby on 15/6/2005
If there is anyone intending to travel to Sweden then this post health.groups.yahoo.com/group/UK ... ssage/6056 on the Yahoo board may be of interest.
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Sweden
We've just returned from a holiday in Sweden (Gothenburg)- it was so nice to experience such a different attitude to gluten free food (Anna you are so lucky!) - for example, it is the norm for gluten free pasta to be available in Italian restaurants. I found a website on gothenburg Restaurants which had a section for gluten free friendly restaurants - we ate mainly at these. My girls had gluten free pasta, crackers, bread and desserts when we ate out.
We had taken a gluten free card printed from the Swedish coeliac society website which explained about coeliac disease in English and Swedish, but in the majority of restaurants we didn't need it - they knew all about gluten free. The only thing we didn't manage to track down were gluten free pizzas - one restaurant we went to did do them but they weren't available on the day we went. It wasn't so easy to find lunch - there are lots of places that do sandwiches and pastries with no sign of gluten free food, but we did find baked potatoes, pasta and salad on lunch menus. It took a while to track down the decent supermarkets but then we found Ica which had a good gluten free section and the prices were pretty reasonable (possibly cheaper then the UK).
Apart from the food, which was absolutely fab, Sweden is a beautiful country and Gothenburg was a very interesting city with loads to do - I'd thoroughly recommend it