A list of restaurants in Vienna where you can have a gluten free meal.   One of the most dreadful thing that you can do when you live a gluten free life is going out. You are outside of your kitchen safety and at the mercy of the cook/waiter. Fortunately, Vienna offers to tourists and…

This is the first recipe on our blog and is a special one for us.   When our daughter was diagnosed with coeliac disease she was eating bread every day and flour tortillas every other day. In Vienna you can have Mexican flour tortillas or Durum flour tortillas and we were eating a lot of…

The best places to buy gluten free food in Vienna for local and tourists alike.   When you search for gluten free labeled food in Vienna, you have quite a few places where you can find it. When our daughter was diagnosed with coeliac disease I felt like a tourist the first time I entered…

The Pantry   We gathered all non-refrigerated foods and pantry items, read all ingredient labels, and made list as we done with the refrigerator. Everything without gluten was relocated so that we could vacuum and wash with mild detergent all shelves and cabinets where shelf-stable food had been kept. I also washed all jars of…

 The Refrigerator/Freezer   We turned off the refrigerator/freezer, removed all the food, read ingredients, and separate them in two groups. Gluten-free foods went into one group; foods with gluten, into a second. We paid special attention to foods that did not naturally contain gluten but could have been cross-contaminated (example: butter, jam or peanut butter…

The first step in a gluten free life takes place in the kitchen. This is where the vast majority of gluten products in your house is located.   In order to eliminate gluten from your kitchen you should play detective on three areas: Equipment Refrigerator/Freezer Pantry We thought of these areas as a crime scene…

Civilizations around the world have developed and thrived on gluten-free grains and starches and have not made wheat the most pivotal ingredient in their diet, as the European and North American countries did. From strictly a mathematical point of view there are more gluten free options than gluten ones: Amaranth Arrowroot Buckwheat Corn Garfava Job’s…

If you are reading this, then you probably chose to eat gluten free from now on. This choice was forced on you in case you were diagnosed with coeliac disease or gluten sensitivity or was a life style decision based on the numerous articles that promote the so called gluten free diet. First of all,…

We are a family of three living in Vienna. Our life changed when our daughter was diagnosed with coeliac disease. It was hard at the beginning and this site exists to help anyone who wants to live a day, a week, a month or a life gluten free in Vienna.…