I eat nuts etc and will probably bring a stash of nut bars with me!

Ad astra per aspera

In every large city I've been in, there have been street markets and grocery stores - even in Eastern Europe - where you can easily get fresh fruit & veggies.  If these exist in Chicago, Paris and Moscow, I'm incredulous that they don't in Prague, etc.  

Things like fruits, nuts, power bars, vitamins, are small and can easily be carried with you.  Since you don't eat dairy or bread, I don't know what you normally eat to feel full, but if possible, bring something like that along with you.  Maybe Also try to concentrate on breakfast, which will keep you full and energized through the day, and dinner, which you probably want to sit down and enjoy, and not worry about "getting lunch on the go."  Just carry snacks with you.  And something for your stomach should you get an unfortunate surprise.  

I don't think German and Czech cuisine are radically different from each other, or even radically different that the cuisine of other parts of central Europe, comparatively speaking.  Pretty meat n' vegetables heavy.  Though, again, the cities probably offer everything from sushi to felafel.

You'll be ok, I think.  

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

I didn't know that lactose intolerance could have such serious long-term effects. Are you sure that you don't have milk allergy, a rather different condition?

Most supermarkets DO have a good range of stuff in special shelf sections.

I presume all this reflects the high rate of such allergies in the Finnish population.

You can't be me, I'm taken

isn't it wonderful to find you don't have to live like that any more?

waking up in hospital with plastic tubes meeting above my eyes, trying to concentrate in school with cluster headaches, stomach feeling like it was breaking rocks...

raised three kids their first years vegetarian, they got to keep their appendixes, tonsils, adenoids.

the fat molecules in dairy are built to support a calf's rapid growth, not a human's gradual one, ergo lymph solidification, bloating.

the fact that it's better for the planet too makes it a no-brainer...

i feel so bad for all the kids with lactose intolerance that will have to wait till they are 18 or so to know what 'well-being' really is, as i did.

so, well done for speaking up, in wales, and for having the discipline to take good care of yourself. good luck while travelling!

i'd carry some miso with you, for the morning after, if you have to go a bit off your usual diet. a tsp in some hot water can turn things round again better than anything else i know.

hard to pull off on the road, but here's melo's surefire cure for what ails ya

a cup of freshly boiled water
1 tsp barley or rice miso
1 small leaf dried wakame sea vegetable, or a good pinch of kelp powder
1 tsp brewers' yeast
1 tsp minced parsley
1 tsp lemon juice
2-3 drops umeboshi vinegar
2 drops tabasco
2 tbs cooked brown rice

drink deep, and be weller!

 for travelling, i usually get individual sachets of dried miso, which do the trick.

for you who get occasional stress headaches, i recommend picking up some CEPHYL aspirin, available unfortunately only in france and switzerland, afaik. they really are amazing.

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do." Jim Hightower

if the mother's tummy is unsettled, her milk can pass this on to baby.

some foods like cabbage fr'example, can digest fine in mom, but still cause all kinds of reactions in baby.

or too many spices, basically too much fermenting, causes gassiness and colic.

sometimes nursing moms have to modify what they eat to accomodate a baby that has very much its own set of better or worse-digested foods.

i bet sam knows this already... generally, simple is good.

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do." Jim Hightower

They reckoned that the lamb/potatos/peas diet was the lowest level of  likelihood alergy meal that you could get and still bre medically ok.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Buh-bye to any thoughts of drinking those wonderful European beers.

Not quite, there are gluten free beers, in fact there's even a gluten free beer festival.

Check this for a list

keep to the Fen Causeway

Ulcers:  Not the anti-biotic type.  Really, it's under control for the most part.  But in college I was in the hospital for a while.  I kept complaining of stomach aches, and every doctor thought I was either being a hypochondriac or just had heartburn (which I've never had, actually).  They even told me I didn't know where my stomach was, and when I pointed to the area where the pain was, they were like, "Hm.  Well.  That is where you stomach is.  Most people don't know..."  It got to where I could not even stand, and that when I went to the hospital.  So after 6 months of complaining to doctors who told me to take some Tums, they did an upper GI and said, "Your stomach is full of ulcers!  How have you been surviving that pain?"  Omg, did I want to strangle them!  I just love how doctors don't take your complaints seriously and then reprimand you for not taking action sooner.  Idiots.  I didn't test positive for the bug that causes the ulcers that can be cured with anti-biotics.  It's entirely stress-induced; I had a rather insanley traumatic childhood.  I did have to stick to a very strict diet for about 9 months.  Horrible.  No alcohol, chocolate, cheese, nuts, fried food, spicy food, acidic food.  Toast.  I ate mostly toast.  And oatmeal.  And I was on one of those new-fangled pills that is supposed to help your stomach repair itself.  It worked.  I still have a terribly sensitive stomach, but I've not been back in the hospital in pain.  

Svelte:  Eh ...  Sveltish, maybe.  But that's only because I didn't eat for several weeks last year (emotional crisis) and my stomach shrank to the size of a pea.


"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

Maybe it's completely different in the south, but I find that Germans tend to overdo it in the sauce/dressing department.