Friday, June 11, 2010

Gluten Free in Israel

Emily is going on a five week trip to Israel this summer, so we're gathering information on eating gluten free in Israel. Israel seems to have very good labeling laws and alerts consumers to the presence of all gluten -- not just wheat -- on the ingredient label. Still, it isn't always easy to read a label, especially if Hebrew is not your native language, so we're trying to gather information about specific products that are gluten free -- AND easily available. So far, thanks to some very helpful friends of friends in Israel, we have created the following list (published at this URL -- http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd7mfvqr_15cbxtsrc3 So, if anyone has additional suggestions, please add them to the comments!

A teen and her family's experiences living gluten-free.