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Disney World, Gluten Free

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Original post: November 2013 Updated: July 2020 There are enough posts out there on other blogs stating how amazing Disney is at dealing with food allergies. They rock. All but one restaurant we visited followed the same process - tell them about your food allergies and the chef will come out and tell you what you can order, if buffet show you what is safe, and then any food you order is brought out by the chef. When we visited in 2013, we were not glutened a single time and we were there for a week. We have since visited two more times and have also never been glutened.  Here are our top 10 places to eat gluten free at the Walt Disney World resort: Cinderella's Royal Table - Magic Kingdom Sanaa (Dinner) - Kidani Village Resort Boathouse (Dinner) - Downtown Disney Be Our Guest (Lunch & Dinner) - Magic Kingdom T-Rex (Dinner) - Downtown Disney California Grill - Contemporary Resort Crystal Palace (Lunch) - Magic Kingdom Chefs de France - EPCOT Pinocchio Village Hau

Flying Gluten Free

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Traveling gluten free can be so depressing. I'll never forget the layover I had in Seattle when flying from San Francisco to Anchorage. 2008 - our first full year gluten free. We had eaten the gluten free wraps and fruit I had packed for the first flight, and still had a slew of bars and dried fruit & nuts we were saving for our vacation. The terminal had a few eateries- Starbucks, Pizza and Burger King. Of all those places guess what our options were? A banana at Starbucks. Even the prepared salads had croutons sprinkled on top. Fruit cups topped with granola. Fast forward a few years- now most airports have plenty of offerings although you still have to do your homework. I've had Greek salad in Phoenix, soup in San Francisco. But I still pack a slew of food our flights and trip. The only airline I've seen offer a gluten free snack box is Alaska Airlines (although I have not flown with them in over a year so they may not now). I've done a few International busine