Christmas giggles and advice….

12/14/2012 By 2 Comments

If you want to give your coeliac friends a quick giggle, you should sign them up to Alex Gazzola’s Food Allergy and Intolerance Ink blog – just so that they can read his Christmas blog….

He has lots of useful advice, naturally – but he also offers you a choice of ‘The Worst Christmas Present for a Coeliac Ever’ (mine is present no. 1…) – which will certainly give you a giggle!

More useful Christmas advice comes from the EAACI (European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology…) here  and a great article from Dr David Dowson – Christmas guts – intestinal function and festivities – on how to help delicate digestions through the festive season.

And, of course, if you have not already checked out our Christmas pages you will find Christmas foods here, Christmas skincare gifts here, loads of Christmas recipes from Adriana at GlutenFree4Kids here – loads more to come from yours truly this w/e (check out the newsletter for links) – and of course the opportunity to give the allergic person in your life a dream freefrom skiing holiday in the Alikats free from chalet!

Enjoy!!!

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Christmas goodies and Advent calendars

11/02/2012 By Leave a Comment

Do you know what the most search-after’ on this blog was last year? Dairy-free advent calendars!! So for all of you Advent Calendar searchers out there, we thought we had better do an update.  This update is also to be found on the  freefrom Christmas goodies page of FreeFrom FoodsMatter – so do take a look at what else is on offer this year in the way of Christmas cakes, puddings and pies…..

 

Plamil DF, NF, EF, GF, SF, WF

Plamil make a range of freefrom Christmas advent calendars, in no added sugar, and dairy free. Plamil also make dairy free chocolate in many flavours, no added sugar chocolate and chocolate spread, a soya milk and carob products. The site is also nut free. Available from independent shops across the UK, and online.

D & D Chocolates DF, GF

D & D Chocolates make a range of advent calendar options including felt Father Christmases, snowmen and Nordic Advent garland which can be reused each year and filled with their chocolate or carob shapes.

Available from their new website, for 2012 they are also offering carob tree decorations, carob advent calendar fillers, chocolate novelty shapes and delicious mint-filled mini snowmen. Available online.

 

 

Celtic Chocolates dairy free calendars

Available in Asda

 

 

Moo Free

Moo Free’s calendar is filled with 130g of their quality, organic, dairy-free milk chocolate alternative and features five of the Moo Free animals enjoying a dairy-free chocolate Christmas together.
They have lots of on-line and high street retailers stocking the calendar so check on their site to find the most convenient for you. The calendar costs around £4.75.

Billy Goat Stuff

Billy Goat Stuff use a re-usable cloth calendar to fill with their tasty goat’s milk chocolates – although it is a bit hard to see what it looks like from this picture. The calendars costs £12.99 and they say that the design will vary. Order direct from their site.

 

Kinnerton Nut-safe calendars

All the Kinnerton confectionery advent calendars are made with their ‘nut-safe’ promise but none are dairy free.
Available from all major supermarkets.

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Gluten-free wines for the ultra sensitive

11/22/2011 By Leave a Comment

For mega-gluten-sensitive souls, Micki Rose has been doing research into how wines that are theoretically gluten-free may have been stored in ex-grain spirit barrels…. Read her post here.

She also talks about the SoLo sulphite-free wines which also feature on our Christmas site – if you have not already had a look, you can find the link here.

Apologies for dearth of recent blogs – bit of  a hectic couple of weeks…  Am just off to do a presentation on electrosensitivity for the McCarrison Society and tomorrow is the judging of the Christmas category of the FreeFrom Food Awards-cum-Christmas party for tasters – turkey going in the oven when I get back from electrosensitivity presentation…  And this w/e is newsletter w/e…..

In the very unlikely event that I have not already persuaded you to sign up for our excellent free fortnightly e-newsletter alerting you to all the new articles, research, new products, recipes etc on the FoodsMatter family of sites – you can sign up here. And none of that irritating registration required – just your email address….

Normal blogging service will be resumed next week!!

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