Everything you need to travel safely with celiac disease, in one place. Whether you’re planning your first trip or your fiftieth, start here for our most useful guides, tools, and trusted recommendations.
🧭 Start Here
New to celiac travel? These foundational guides walk you through planning a safe trip from start to finish, including how to research destinations, communicate your needs, and avoid cross-contact on the road.
- What to say at a restaurant: word-for-word scripts
- How to read a menu: 10 hidden sources of gluten
- Bringing food through TSA: the rules explained
- Eating safely at airports
- Free English celiac restaurant card (download)
- Free 12-page Celiac Travel Starter Guide
🛡️ Trusted Tools & Recommendations
A curated list of organizations and tools we trust. These are independent resources, shared because they’re helpful, not because of any paid relationship.
🔬 Celiac Organizations & Research
- Celiac Disease Foundation – patient advocacy, education, and research updates.
- Beyond Celiac – nonprofit focused on driving research toward a cure.
- Gluten-Free Certification Organization (GFCO) – one of the leading gluten-free product certification programs.
- Gluten Free Watchdog – independent gluten product testing and data.
- Coeliac UK – the major UK coeliac charity, useful for travel in the UK and Europe.
- UChicago Medicine Celiac Disease Center – an academic medical center and trusted clinical resource.
🧰 Helpful Tools
- Gluten Dude – a celiac advocacy blog and restaurant-finder app. Its listings are vetted for cross-contact, with notes flagging anything that isn’t fully gluten-free.
- Find Me Gluten Free – a widely used app with a large, community-sourced directory of gluten-free-friendly restaurants and reviews. Broader coverage, but less strictly vetted than Gluten Dude.
👧 Raising Celiac Kids
Parenting a celiac kiddo? We put together a dedicated page of New England support organizations, gluten-free camps, mentorship programs, and school 504 plan resources — drawn from our own family’s experience.
- Restaurant scripts — the exact words to use when ordering
- Translation cards guide — how cards work and when you need one
- Destination guides — where we’ve eaten and what we verified
- Free starter guide — the 5-minute download that covers the basics