The FreeFrom Eating out Awards are in progress so if you are a food service company you still have a week or so to enter. You can do so online here: . Each year we meet to judge the entrants for foods suitable for food service and the quality just keeps on getting better and better. Apart from a huge loading of carbs because most of the products seemed to err on the side of … [Read more...]
Is gluten an allergen and do oats contain gluten?
At the recent judging session for FreeFrom Eating out Awards we had a heated discussion about oats and whether they came under the Top 14 allergens banner. I thought that oats were not in the Top 14 allergens but others disagreed. It turns out I was wrong. Very wrong. I know that oats don't contain gluten and many coeliacs can tolerate oats. So why would they be in the Top … [Read more...]
A must-read book for every coeliac
This week I have been mostly reading 'Coeliac Disease - What you need to know' by Alex Gazzola. This book is truly a must-read for all coeliacs. If you haven't read it, buy it today. You won't regret it. This is a new edition to the first book of the same name, published by Sheldon Press back in 2011. I reviewed a copy way back then when I didn't know that much about coeliac … [Read more...]
Allergic to wheat? List of wheat free lager and real ale
I'm really doing this for myself as a reference because I have a wheat allergy and a love of real ale - not always a good combination. I plan to contact the brewers to find out if their draft beer is made with the same recipe as their bottled beer. Could you safely assume that this would be the case? Then if the pub is a well kept and maintained and I know the beer is good … [Read more...]
Udi’s gluten free now in the UK
This is a bit of a belated blog post for Udi's as I received a HUGE box of goodies some long time ago (February - awful blogger, bad blogger #hangsheadinshame). It was right in the middle of a pretty nasty allergy infested time in my life and I was on a completely processed-food-free diet. However I sometimes make exceptions when goodies arrive in the post which don't contain … [Read more...]
