spanish brand names

[mum2twoloudbabies]

I'm travelling to spain to visit family with ds soon and mil has kindly said she will buy in the basics before we get there.

Could you lovely ladies help me with a few brand names to make it easier for her.

I need a wheat and egg free pasta, dairy free spread, wheat, egg and nut free bread (we usually get DS(dietary specials) here).

Thank you.

Honestly I'd take your own pasta etc as they're more readily available here than there and saves you the worry

I wouldn't have thought she'd have any problem getting them. They live not far from a massive supermarket and they're not in a very touristy area so much wider range of products. Have you found they don't really stock much 'free from'?

I've never really had a problem when travelling except the bread but then I have problems getting that in the UK.

Not in Spain particuaraly but in USA was suprised at how many things u could get in say asda sains etc I could only find in whole foods tgere rather tgan Walmart
I'm sure you'll be fine it was just a thought

Hi. I am not sure about brand names but last time I visited family in Spain I was amazed at the huge range of products available in any old supermarkets. There is a bug range of gluten free stuff, Alpro is available (That's the only brand I can think of - sorry :(

In terms off egg free and gluten free in pasta etc she needs to look for 'sin huevo' & 'sin gluten' respectively.

I've never tried to look for dairy free marg but can ask my sister to have a look in her local supermarket if it would help.. We tend to do a 'when in Rome...' thing and dip bread in yummy olive oil when we're there.

Happy to help with translations or any other questions that I can answer from UK or by getting relies to have a look.

Im sure you'll be fine if you have helpful family there - there is a huge range of foods.. Might be worth popping out to the supermarket for a quick peek yourself to see if there are some 'treats' in terms of baked stuff etc that you might not gave thought of :)

Bread is a really big deal to us Spanish folk so though I haven't tried any of the gluten free ones I bet you'll have lots of choice and hopefully something decent :)

We have a house in southern Spain so travel there a lot and I have to admit that I do take a lot of food with me (DS allergic to milk, wheat, eggs, nuts, DD coeliac). I speak Spanish so am able to read all the labels etc but have found that only one big supermarket near us stocks any 'freefrom' food at all (Al Campo). The main gluten/wheat free brand name over there is Schar (yellow and red packaging) and they do a range of bread, pasta, biscuits etc. You can check out their website here: www.schar.com/us/gluten-free-products/. I'm pretty sure they are linked to Glutafin/Dietary Specials somewhere along the line as their products are remarkably similar. We have also found Dietary Specials freefrom fish fingers over there.

As for spread, for some reason we found that Flora Original and Flora Oliva are both dairy free over there even though they aren't at home but you will need to read the label to check (make sure it doesn't say leche in the ingredients). There's also another brand called Artua Maiz which is made from maize and that's also dairy free.

Hope that helps!

I've just checked in with a friend in Spain whose DD is coeliac.
She tends to shop in Mercadona - large supermarket chain who apparently label all their gluten free products - apparently the owner's granddaughter is coeliac!

For the biggest range of freefrom things she recommends 'herbolarios' (kind of like health shops over there) rather than supermarkets though.

She also recommends this website to search for coeliac friendly places to eat out etc - I'm posting in case it's of interest to Spanish speakers www.viajarsingluten.com/

I guess in past looked for CMP free stuff (which is not too bad because they cook with dairy a lot less than here) but does involve lots of label reading! And straight gluten free is well catered for. Egg free will prove more challenging I guess for our next visit and I can imagine looking to multiple allergens must be a challenge...
freefrommum :-S

I am really grateful for any tips in this thread as now DD is fully weaned and new allergies / intolerances crop up visiting family will become more of a challenge.

A word of warning, 'sin gluten' does indeed mean 'gluten free' but, as in this country, it doesn't necessarily mean wheat free so for those with wheat allergy you need to check the ingredients carefully and make sure they don't contain the word 'trigo' ('harina de trigo' is wheat flour). This is because some gluten free products contain gluten-free wheat starch but this can still cause reactions in those with wheat allergy (as opposed to coeliacs or those with gluten intolerance).

So to be clear, the words in the ingredients you need to watch out for are:
trigo (wheat)
huevo (egg)
leche (milk) or productos lacteos (dairy products)

With regards to 'nuts' this is not quite so clear cut as there is no generic term for just 'nuts' in Spanish. The term 'frutos secos' covers all nuts plus all dried fruits so you need to look for the individual nut names. The most common are:
nueces (walnuts)
cacahuetes (peanuts)
almendras (almonds)
avellanas (hazelnuts)
castanas (chestnuts)

Thanks all. FreeFrom my DS has similar allergies to yours.

Will check out the Dr Schar site. Good tip on the Flora, I think they use that anyway so that would be good.

Thanks for the tip about the sins gluten too, I always read the labels but mil may rely just on the big labelling so will point this out.

Thankfully her spanish is super so label reading won't be a problem.