They are also pretty easy to make providing you have an electric whisk and you set the oven at the correct temperature. I’ve tried out a few combinations of recipes and oven temperatures and this is the recipe that has worked the best for me.

Meringue Ingredients List (makes 9)

• 3 large Egg Whites (1 egg white will make 3 meringues, so use as many as you need here)
• 150g of Caster Sugar (use 50g of sugar per 3 meringues)
• 1 tsp of lemon juice
• Optional – double cream and fresh berries

Gluten Free Meringue Recipe Method

Start by heating the oven to 140 degrees C (280 degrees F) and make sure that you have no plans for using the oven for the next few hours as the meringues will stay in here with the oven turned off after cooking.

Next separate the egg whites. If you are inexperienced at this use a separate container for putting the egg white in while you are separating it and then a second container for putting each egg white in after separation. This means that if you mess up the separation of one of the egg whites you don’t ruin all your egg whites in one go!

Next add a teaspoon of lemon juice to the egg white mixture and use an electric whisk on a low setting and start to whisk the egg whites.

After around 2-3 minutes the mixture will become bubbly and frothy. At this point turn the whisk up to a high setting and continue to whisk until the egg whites form into soft peaks. You should be able to lift up some of the egg whites at this point without the mixture falling off the whisk.

Now it’s time to add the sugar. Start to add the sugar into the egg white mixture one tablespoon at a time while continuing to whisk the mixture at a high speed. Once you’ve finished doing this the mixture should look very glossy and shiny.

Finally, spoon the mixture on to a baking tray covered with baking parchment. If you are making meringue nests just use the back of a dessert spoon to make the nest area.

The first time I made these meringues I decided to be smart and use a pipette to try and make the meringue nests look pretty. Unfortunately my kitchen ended up looking like a scene from Mr Bean due to me filling up the pipette too full and the meringue mixture oozing out of the top, all over me and the wall! So a tip for any inexperienced cooks using a pipette – only fill this half way!!

Once you’ve done this put the meringues in the oven at 150 degrees C for 30 minutes, then turn the oven off and leave the meringues in there until they have dried out. This usually takes around 3 and a half to 4 hours. Serve with freshly whipped double cream, berries and a sprinkling of icing sugar.

I hope you enjoy this meringue recipe and let me know if you have any tips.

You can find Wok & Wine on 57a Frederick street – it’s just a couple of minutes from Princes street and is downstairs, just down from Rick’s bar.

We went to Wok & Wine at 6pm on a Wednesday night so expected it to be pretty quiet, but there were actually quite a few diners there already. The menu is quite unique for a Chinese restaurant as it includes both main course sized portions and “bite sized” portions. I love this, as it gives you a chance to try a few different dishes without pigging out!

The choice on the menu for gluten free diners is quite impressive. There are a few different soups and over 30 different dishes including beef, chicken, prawns, seafood and a good selection of vegetarian dishes.

We opted for the spicy hot crispy aubergine (bite size), spicy hot king prawns with onion and chilli (bite size) and beef with pak choi, ginger and spring onion. If you want to look at the menu just visit the Wok & Wine website. There is a gluten free menu on there although it seems slightly different from the menu that we got in the restaurant as I didn’t see any spicy chicken dishes on the GF menu in the restaurant.

While waiting for our food we were brought some prawn crackers and a couple of tasty chicken wings with lemon grass (gluten free of course), which was a nice touch. The food arrived quickly and was very fresh and tasted delicious. The aubergine was very tender and the spicy prawns had a great kick to them. The beef was also very succulent and came in a tasty sauce

Here is a photo of our food:

The staff at Wok & Wine are very friendly and they always confirm that the food is gluten free when they bring it to your table. I really like it when people in restaurants do this as it just gives you that extra bit of reassurance that they’ve not forgotten your order is gluten free!

If you are in Edinburgh and fancy a bit of Chinese food, I highly recommend giving Wok & Wine a try, whether you are on a gluten free diet or not. The food is top notch and I’ll definitely be returning there in the near future.

I’d also like to say that I’ve been here twice and never felt unwell, so I am pretty sure that they are preventing any cross contamination from occurring in the kitchen.

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Rosa Mexicana is a chain restaurant and can be found in two locations in Miami – Lincoln Road Mall and in Mary Brickell Village, which is a shopping mall in downtown Miami.

You can also find Rosa Mexicano in Boston, LA, Washington DC, Atlanta, Minneapolis and a few others.

The restaurant is very bright and colourful and the one we visited in Miami was also pretty big. They  have a seperate gluten free menu, so if you just mention when you arrive there that you are on a gluten free diet you’ll get this menu.

I was quite surprised at the large number of choices on the gluten free menu and felt quite spoilt for choice. We decided to start with Guacamole, which was freshly made in front of us and served with gluten free tortilla chips, soft corn tortillas and 3 different spicy salsas.

There’s a guy in the restaurant who does nothing but wheel a trolley around and make great tasting guacamole -a really nice touch and good to see it being made right in front of you. He got very confused when I asked him if the spicy sauces were all gluten free, but it turned out that he didn’t speak much English. I managed to double check this with the waiter afterwards and he confirmed that everything that comes with the guacamole is gluten free.

You can see the guacamole in the photo above – it looks pretty massive, but the bowl wasn’t as deep as it looks. Other appetizers on the menu included a market salad with mixed greens, avocadoes and honey vinaigrette, Flautas de Pollo (crispy chicken tacos), Pacific Yellowtail Tartare, Garlic and Lime smoked ribs, crab turnovers and a few others.

I had a very tasty frozen margarita with my dinner and Stuart went for an odd sounding beer cocktail – not something that he had tried before, but he enjoyed it.

For the entrees there were also a lot of gluten free choices available.  I opted for the chicken tacos – grilled and marinated in chilli, garlic, cumin and peppers, topped with slow cooked peppers and served with warm corn tortillas, cheese, rice, beans and various other condiments. The meat was very tasty, well seasoned and came in a cast iron skillet (see below).

Other gluten free main courses included duck, veggie, chicken or crab enchiladas, steak or lamb tacos, marinated red snapper, grilled steak with chipotle shrimp, shrimp brochette, barbequed tuna loin and a few others.

Over all I really enjoyed Rosa Mexicano – great choice for gluten free people, the food is tasty and there’s lots of it! If you are on a gluten free diet and enjoy Mexican food you will definitely be spoilt for choice here. I will definitely go back here the next time I am in the USA.

I’ve found that Mexican restaurants in the UK tend to use wheat flour tortillas a lot more than they do in the USA, where they seem to favour corn tortillas. I think this is one thing that makes Mexican restaurants in the USA pretty gluten  free friendly.

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Recently I started making my own hummus and I was amazed at how quick and easy it was to make. I can usually make this in around 5 minutes and it keeps in the fridge for around 2-3 days.

It’s also very versatile and you can add things like fresh herbs, sundried tomatoes, caramelised onions, or even spice it up with a fresh chilli. Here is my basic recipe for gluten free hummus.

If you’ve never made hummus before you may want to try this basic recipe first to see how you like it and then add a few extras the next time you make it.

Ingredients for Gluten Free Hummus

• 400g of cooked chickpeas (a standard tin is fine)
• 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed (or just the one if you are not as fond of garlic as I am!)
• Juice of 1 large lemon
• 2 teaspoons of seseme seeds (optional)
• A large bunch of fresh herbs of your choice e.g. basil or coriander (optional)
• Salt and Pepper

Simple Recipe for Gluten Free Hummus

1) Rinse the chickpeas in water

2) Add the crushed garlic, olive oil, herbs, sesame seeds, lemon juice and chickpeas to a food processor.

3) Blend until smooth.

4) Taste and add a little bit salt and pepper to season. If the mixture is not moist enough you can add a little bit more lemon juice and olive oil to your taste.

5) That’s it!

If you want to make this recipe a little more fancy, just add whatever else you want at step 2). I like spicy food, so I often add a nice raw chilli at this step. You can then serve this up with a drizzle of olive oil over the top.

There are many things you can do with this hummus:

• Spread it on rice cakes or gluten free crackers
• Dip carrot sticks in it (or celery, pepper etc)
• Dip corn tortilla chips in it
• Toast gluten free pitta bread and dip this in it, or spread the hummus on it
• Eat it off a spoon

Hope you enjoy this recipe and please leave a comment if you have any more suggestions about other things to put in the hummus, or dip in the hummus!

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Another good thing is that you don’t need too many specialist ingredients. You can buy all the dried herbs and spices from your local supermarket and they’ll last in your store cupboard for many months or years.

My latest creation is something that I call “Chicken Spinach Jalfrezi”. I’ve made this a few times now and my husband Stuart has declared that this is his favourite curry. It can be nice served on its own with rice, or with a dal. It takes around 15-20 minutes to prepare this curry and another 45 minutes or so of simmering.

Ingredients for Gluten Free Chicken Spinach Jalfrezi

• 2 garlic cloves (crushed)
• 1 green chilli (sliced)
• A chunk of fresh ginger (grated)
• Fresh coriander
• 1/2 teaspoon of cumin seeds
• 1/2 teaspoon of fennel seeds
• 1/2 teaspoon of ground coriander
• 1/2 teaspoon of chilli powder
• 1/2 teaspoon of ground cumin
• 1/2 teaspoon of ground ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon of garam masala
• 400g of boneless skinless chicken thighs (or breasts if you prefer)
• 1 onion sliced
• 1 pepper sliced
• 150g of spinach
• 4 large fresh tomatoes (chopped)

Method for Gluten Free Chicken Spinach Jalfrezi

1) Heat some oil in a heavy based saucepan and add the cumin and the fennel seeds. Fry the seeds until they start to crackle then add the sliced onions, garlic, grated ginger and tomatoes. Fry for 2-3 minutes.

2) Add all of the dried spices and mix well. Continue to fry for another 5 minutes or so until the tomatoes and the onions are soft.

3) Take half of the mixture and put this into a liquidiser, along with 50ml of water. Add a handful of fresh coriander and whizz up until smooth then add back into the saucepan.

4) Add the peppers and the chicken breasts to the saucepan and add enough water to ensure that all the chicken is covered. Bring to the boil then put a lid on and leave to simmer gently for 45 minutes.

5) Take the lid off and taste the curry. At this point you will need to season it with salt and pepper to your taste. If it isn’t spicy enough for you, you can also add a little extra garam masala as well.

6) Tear up the spinach and add this the curry. Stir and leave to cook until the spinach has wilted.

7) Serve with rice and a handful of fresh coriander.

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I’d done some research online the night before and decided to go to a Thai and Sushi restaurant called Sushi Siam for lunch. I figured that this would be a safe bet as there are so many naturally gluten free Thai and Japanese dishes that the likelihood of cross contamination would be low.

This turned out to be a big mistake! I asked the waitress if she could advise me on gluten free dishes on the menu and she looked at me like I had spoken to her in Martian. I kept repeating “gluten free” and she just looked more and more confused. I have a feeling that her English was limited and asked if I could speak to someone else. She then brought who I assumed was the restaurant owner and I asked her the same question. Her English was much better, but again she clearly didn’t understand what gluten free meant. I tried to explain and then she told me that she didn’t know what was in the curry paste as it was brought to the restaurant in big tubs and also told me that she was feeling very scared at the thought of serving me food in case I had a reaction. At that point I decided that it was a wise move to go elsewhere! If you are wandering up and down Lincoln Road Mall looking for a gluten free meal, don’t bother with Sushi Siam!

My next stop was Sushi Samba and thankfully I had a much better experience there. The waitress didn’t blink an eye lid when I told her that I was on a gluten free diet and mentioned that they also had gluten free soy sauce and gluten free soy paper for the sushi. She told us to pick what we fancied from the menu and she would double check with the chef if it was gluten free. She also mentioned that one of the chefs had a daughter with a gluten allergy.

The menu was a little confusing to Stuart and I, as we’d never heard of most of the dishes before. The food is kind of a fusion style between Japanese and Brazilian, so we recognized most of the Japansese dishes, but not the Brazilian ones. We decided to go for a few different sushi dishes. One called Ebisu San, consisting of snow crab, shrimp, coconut, chili  for $14.00, a spicy tuna roll (about $7 I think) and a salmon and avocado roll (again, around the $7 mark). We also picked a dish on the small plates section of the menu – a calamari dish for $13. The waitress confirmed that all the sushi dishes were gluten free and she would request the special gluten free soy paper. She wasn’t sure about the small dishes, so we asked her to check that and come back for us to choose another dish if it wasn’t.

Overall the food was lovely – beautifully presented and very fresh and tasty. My only gripe was that she brought us an alternative dish from the small menu without asking us whether or not we wanted it first! Aparantly all the small plates contained gluten apart from this one dish and she forgot to tell us. Luckily it was something that we both liked – Tuna Tataki white asparagus, fresh heart of palm, avocado, tatsoi, citrus soy for $15.00. Here’s a photo of the Tuna Tataki – we had eaten two of them before I remembered to take the photo!

Based on the knowledge of the waitresses and the good selection available, I recommend Sushi Samba to people who are on a gluten free diet. The restaurant has a lively atmosphere, with seating both outside and inside and the sushi is all made fresh by the chefs in the centre of the restaurant. If you like sushi, or Brazilian food, this restaurant will appeal to you.

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We decided to go to PF Changs for lunch rather than dinner, since the nearest one was in downtown Miami and we were staying in South Beach.

We were doing the Big Red bus tour, so got off at the Bayside marketplace and walked to PF Changs, which took a little bit longer than expected. Afterwards we discovered the Miami Metromover, a free train that covers most of downtown Miami and took this back to our starting point – a much better option in the afternoon heat!

The gluten free menu at PF Changs is actually within the main menu and they serve all the gluten free food on different plates from the regular food and bring you gluten  free soy sauce to your table. The waiter was also very knowledgeable and aware of gluten free food, so I felt quite safe.

We ordered the chicken lettuce wraps to start with – this was a very tasty appetizer and big enough for two people to share (see photo below). If you want to add a bit of spice you can mix some of the chilli and soy sauce mixture into it as well.

For the entrees (aka main course in the UK) you have the choice of Sichuan beef, beef & broccoli, GF Changs spicy chicken, ginger salmon, shrimp with lobster sauce, Mongolian beef and a few others. You can take a look at the PF Changs’s menu here – just click the gluten free link to see the options.

We chose the GF Chang’s spicy chicken and the Beef with broccoli, both gluten free to share. Both were absolutely delicious, with nicely cooked meat and excellent sauce. You can see a photo below.

We managed to polish off everything on our plates and unfortunately I was too stuffed to try out the dessert. There was a gluten free flourless dome cake on the dessert menu that sounded very intriguing + a mini gluten free chocolate mousse.

All in all, it was a fantastic meal and my mouth is watering just thinking about it again. If a PF Chang person ever reads this, please open a restaurant in Edinburgh, Scotland, or if not send me a few of your recipes instead

PF Chang’s can be found at 17455 Biscayne Blvd in downtown Miami, and in various other locations across the USA. I highly recommend it for gluten free food and I had no ill effects afterwards!

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Overall I thoroughly enjoyed the cruise on Celebrity and I am pleased to report that I didn’t get sick at all (unless you count a bad hangover from too many Martinis one night and a bit of sea sickness on a couple of days!). I am very sensitive to gluten cross contamination so based on my experience I’m confident that they must have very good practises in the kitchen to avoid this.

The ship itself was beautiful. The interior resembled a 5* hotel in many places with stylish bars, restaurants and lots of different areas to relax, eat and drink. The main dining room is called the Moonlight Sonata and there are two sittings – one at 6.30pm and one at 8.30pm. You also have the option of dining at any time you wish, but if you are on a gluten free diet or have any allergies I think it is best to get a fixed sitting. This allows your waiter to get to know you and to help ensure that you will always get your gluten free food. You won’t need to explain your diet every night that you go into the dining room if you choose a fixed seating. Here is a photo of one of my main courses in the main dining room – trout with a seafood sauce, rice and veg.

In the main dining room there are two menus each night. One menu stays the same for the whole cruise and the other changes every night. This is great because if you don’t fancy the food that night there will usually be something that you will like on the regular menu. Choices on the regular menu included things like shrimp cocktail, lobster bisque, french onion soup, salads, sirloin steak, broiled salmon, chicken, creme brulee, ice cream and more.

When we arrived in our stateroom there was a note to let me know that they knew about my gluten free diet request and I could go into the dining room that day in the afternoon to speak with the maitre’d. We went along and they didn’t really tell me much apart from the name of the maitre’d that I should ask for at dinner. Here is a pic of our stateroom on the Celebrity Eclipse:

On the first night at dinner you need to find your maitre’d and let him know that you are on a gluten free diet. You’ll have a restricted choice of food on the first night, but at the end of the meal you will get to see the next day menu and you can then choose what you want to have the following night. I pretty much chose whatever I wanted each night and was never told that I couldn’t have it. All the soups are made without gluten so you can have any soup you wish and anything else is made to order. The only bad thing about this is that you are often choosing your food when you are full up from all the food you’ve just eaten for dinner! I did consider asking to see the menu at the beginning of the night instead, but I didn’t as this was one of the busiest times for the waiters.

Overall dinner in the Moonlight Sonata was good – the choice was varied, the service excellent and the portion size was generous, but not too big.

Gluten free bread was brought to the table each night at the start of dinner. It wasn’t the best gluten free bread, but it was edible. Later on I discovered some delicious gluten free foccacia bread in the Tuscan grill – soft and warm with a tomato topping (see the photo on the left). I was told that I could also request this in the main dining room the night before so I did, and received this on the last few nights at dinner – yum!

This is probably the best gluten free bread that I have ever had, but it’s probably just as well that I didn’t get it every night as I devoured the lot each time!

Lunch in the Moonlight Sonata was a different matter! You don’t get the same table as you do in the evenings so you’ll end up with a different waiter each time. On the first day I was told that I should have ordered from the lunch menu as well as the dinner menu the night before! Unfortunately nobody actually told me this so I was given one choice on the menu – a boring salad with pieces of processed turkey, tomatoes and lettuce. I asked for some goat’s cheese or mozzarella to make things more exciting, but didn’t have any success.

I was still hungry after lunch so went to Cafe Al bacio for some ice cream, only to be told that none of the ice cream was gluten free! By this point I was feeling a little pissed off, so decided to settle for a large glass of wine instead.

The second day at lunch wasn’t much better. I had ordered something the night before, but somewhere along the line, my order was lost. However, this time they gave me a little bit more choice on the menu and I ordered some chicken satay, followed by a barbeque salad. Unfortunately there was no satay sauce involved in the chicken satay, but the chicken was perfectly cooked and very nicely seasoned (see photo below). I had taken a bite out of it before I took the photo – sorry!

I received my starter at the same time as my husband Stuart’s main course, and the main course after he had finished, but apart from that it was very good.

The following day we had to go to the buffet for lunch as the ship was in port during the day. I was a bit worried about this, but managed to find a maitre’d who walked me round the buffet and told me what I could and couldn’t have. There was actually a lot more choices than I imagined – anything from the salad bar, Mexican tacos with beef or chicken, guacamole, sour cream and all the toppings apart from refried beans, any Indian curry from the curry bar and a few of the desserts. From this point onwards we decided to stick with the buffet for lunch and I was happy with a salad followed by either tacos or Indian curry.

At 5.30pm each day there was an amazing sushi buffet. We visited this almost every day and loved it. I brought my own soy sauce with me on the ship, so just chose the sushi that I wanted and had it with my own soy sauce.

This is a great option if you are not dining until 8.30pm!

There are 3 speciality restaurants on Celebrity Eclipse – QSine, Murano and the Tuscan Grill. All of these incur an extra fee of $20-30 per person, but the food in here is fantastic and a few notches above the main dining room restaurant. We visited the Tuscan grill on our second night and loved it. There were lots of gluten free choices and the focaccia bread that I mentioned earlier as well. We liked it so much that we booked it again for a second night. The only bad thing is that the portions are so huge, you need to go for a lie down afterwards I’ll write another blog post about the Tuscan grill later.

I hope that gives you a good idea of what it is like to be gluten free on Celebrity. Apart from the problems with the lunch in the main dining room I had a fantastic gluten free experience on this cruise and I would highly recommend it to anyone with coeliac disease. It is nice that everyone is so knowledgeable about gluten free food and that you do not have to continually explain yourself or worry about cross contamination all the time.

To finish off, here are a few tips for being gluten free on Celebrity:

• Be sure to tell the cruise as far in advance as possible that you are on a gluten free diet
• Introduce yourself to the maitre’d on the first day
• Ask your waiter for the next day menu each night after dinner (also the lunch menu if you are having lunch in the main dining room)
• Don’t be afraid of eating from the buffet, but ask one of the maitre’d's to walk you round and explain everything.
• Ask for the gluten free focaccia from the Tuscan grill to be brought to you for your dinner
• Go to the speciality restaurants on the first day and ask what gluten free choices are available for you. They are all open on the first day so that you can have a look.
• The sushi buffet makes a great afternoon snack
• If you get fed up of creme brulee and ice cream for dessert ask for a different one the night before e.g. chocolate mousse or something of the chef’s choosing.
• For breakfast you can have eggs, fruit and gluten free toast. The eggs are cooked in dedicated pans and the bread is toasted away from regular bread. You can have your breakfast in the buffet or the dining room.
• Try to time your onshore excursions so that you can eat dinner when you return or have a decent meal before you leave. This will mean that you don’t have to risk getting glutenized at local restaurants!

If you are planning on a Celebrity cruise I hope you have a great time and feel free to post a comment below if you have any questions about anything!

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Here are 7 tips to help make your gluten free travel abroad go more smoothly.

1) Book your gluten free meal if you are travelling by air – if you are flying to your destination it makes sense to book a gluten free meal well in advance. You may find that many airlines require a few days notice for a gluten free meal, so make sure that you request this as far ahead as possible and not just when you are checking in online.

2) Pack gluten free food -put a supply of gluten free snacks in your hand luggage just in case of delays or in case the airline is unable to supply you with your gluten free meal. Fruit, nuts, gluten free sweets, crisps and gluten free cereal bars make good snacks for travelling. You may also want to pack some gluten free snacks in your main luggage if you have enough room.

3) Search for restaurants before you go – have a search on Google for the places that you plan to visit on vacation and search for gluten free restaurant reviews to try and find restaurants that cater for gluten free diets. You may also want to try asking on a coeliac or gluten free forum, or on a travel forum in advance to see if anyone has any recommendations for you. A quick email or phone call to some restaurants can also be worthwhile as you can find out more about the menu and get a feel for how experienced they are with cross contamination.

4) Look at the Coeliac site for the country you are travelling to – many countries have a coeliac website with information about gluten free travel and eating out in that country. You may be able to find out what gluten free brands are available in the country you are travelling to or even get a list of restaurants that serve gluten free food.

5) Take Translation Cards – if you are visiting a country and you don’t speak their language you should consider getting some gluten free translation cards. When I visited France last year I printed out a stash of French gluten free cards. There are a few websites such as celiac travel that offer these cards for free and all you need to do is print them out and carry them with you. The cards explain that you have coeliac disease and list the foods that you are unable to eat. You can hand these to the waiter or waitress if you feel that they do not understand your dietary requirements.

6) Tell your hotel in advance that you are on a gluten free diet – phone or email your hotel well in advance to see whether or not they can cater for your gluten free diet. They may be able to get some gluten free bread or gluten free cereals for breakfast. If they are unable to cater for you then you could opt for the foods that are naturally gluten free such as fresh fruit, yoghurt and eggs.

7) Try to Get a Room with a fridge or kitchenette – this will allow you to buy a few gluten free items from the supermarket and store them for snacks or a packed lunch. An even better option would be to go to a self catering apartment to allow yourself the choice of either cooking in the apartment or eating out.

Gluten free travel certainly takes some effort in the planning stages, but if you take the time to do this you will have a much better chance of having an enjoyable and healthy trip.

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After a little research, which involved reading the websites of different cruise companies, looking at cruise forums and reading cruise blogs I got the impression that many cruise lines are excellent when it comes to dealing with different dietary requirements. I found lots of people saying that they’d had a very positive experience eating gluten free on a cruise and managed to get tasty, varied food without getting ill. From what I’ve read, it seems that many cruise lines will present their gluten free guests with a menu for the following night each time they are at dinner. They can then choose what the want to eat for dinner and it will be safetly prepared for them, gluten free, the next evening.

This really appealed to me as it is much easier than going to a different restaurant in a foreign country each night and trying to explain your gluten free dietary requirements in another language. It also sounds like there is much less chance of cross contamination.

We eventually decided on the Celebrity cruise line and chose a 7 day cruise in the Caribbean on the Celebrity Eclipse. So the plan is for my husband Stuart and I to fly to Miami, stay overnight in a hotel, then head off on our 7 day cruise to Puerto Rico, St Kitts and St Maartin. Since neither of us have cruised before (unless you count a 2 day mini cruise I took about 10 years ago), we decided that a 7 day cruise made more sense than a 10 day or 14 day cruise. That way if we end up hating it we are only on the ship for a week. After our cruise we’ve booked a three night stay in South Beach, Miami, where I’ll have to be a little more adventurous and go out for dinner and lunch every day.

We are heading off next month (March) so my plan is to do lots of blogging about Celebrity Eclipse, the choice of gluten free food and whether or not I manage to get through the full holiday without getting glutenized! We’ve decided that it makes sense to eat our main meals in the main dining room and avoid the buffet (apart from perhaps some fresh fruit or salad). There are also speciality resataurants on board – QSine, Tuscan Grill and Murano. We may eat in one or two of these restaurants as well – it depends on what is available on the menu for gluten free diners. I’ll also write a few reviews of the restaurants that I visit while in Miami.

Have you been on a gluten free cruise before? If so, I’d love to know what your experience was, so please feel free to leave a comment below

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