gluten free familyA mum's blog about gluten-free living in Australia

You often hear me belly-aching about how difficult it can be catering to gluten-free diets when venturing beyond the homestead. It turns out I am not the only one to suffer frustration on this score.

Fortunately for the gluten-free fraternity, one of the people struggling with this very dilemma happened to be married to an iPhone developer and the end result is that iPhone users can download  a free glutenfreeNSW app which tells them where to find gluten-free eateries and restaurants in any particular town within NSW and ACT.

Darko, the app developer, says: “My wife is a coeliac, we only found out about 1 year ago and we have been finding it very hard to find places to eat that cater to a gluten free diet especially when we are out and about in areas that we dont know very well.

“We recently went on a trip to Bega and the app came in handy many times when we stopped off for lunch in different towns on the way. Normally this would of involved us going door to door checking out all the menu’s of each cafe.”

The data in the app was sourced from websites, as well as from personal and friends’ experiences. Darko says the original plan was to build the application for all Australian restaurants and cafes, but the massive amount of time required to collate all the data, meant he had to narrow it down to NSW and ACT.

While there are gluten free apps already available for the iPhone, most of these are menu or ingredient based – making this the first to publish a local guide for coeliacs and gluten intolerant people seeking out eateries.

Unfortunately for non-iphone owners (like me) Darko hasn’t any immediate plans to port his app to other mobile phones, but over 500 people have already downloaded it so I figure he is definitely onto something.

LH

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