Can confirm, it's twice the price for half as much.
In #Scotland, people diagnosed with #Coeliac can get staples (bread, pasta, flour, Xanthan and so on) on prescription from the #NHS.
Which is great. But you don't always get what you ask for, and often the stuff you actually like is unavailable.
I am fortunate* that I can afford to pay these prices for the most basic of foods.
*I shouldn't have to be
When you ask for gluten free diet at a 2-day-conference and get back an email indicating that it will be buffet and you will for sure find something you like.
"Like"? 🫣😖 Honestly?
It's not a lifestyle, it's an autoimmune disease. Will bring my own food – again (and again, and again...).
Yesterday morning I used the door handle to get in/out of the Post Office. It was the ONLY thing outside of my house that I touched.
Felt ill in the afternoon, pain throughout the night, lots of dry-heaving this morning.
It's felt like - and still does - the flu.
Someone with gluten on their hands used the handle, then I did, and then somehow it got inside me even though it was invisible.
I really do feel like crap
Coeliac Vegans!
Attending a summer picnic and sitting there jealously looking at your friend's partner chomping on a scotch egg, your vegetarian friend enjoying a meatless scotch egg and your vegan friend eating scotch breadcrumbs??
Worry no more!
Simply remove the meat coat, the egg and the breadcrumbs and hey presto, your very own delicious scotch air! You'll be hungry but you're beachbodready!
@tamsin I'm not sure if you can get testing kits.
Our eldest is very sensitive to gluten, so we stick to things that are clearly gluten-free (fruit, veg...) anything with the crossed grain logo and we avoided anything containing oats.
Having separate spreads, toaster bags helps. (Apologies if you're already doing this, but these are things that caught us out!)
Oats contain avenin, a protein similar to gluten, that most coeliacs are unaffected by. We suspect our eldest was possibly sensitive to it as well.
Any Q's, just ask.
https://coeliac.org.au/the-coeliac-australia-awareness-week/
All those coeliac sufferers out there, strength to you!
This lovely story that hit our inbox instead of Sara Cox’s (we hope it made it to her too) is a great example of #kindness in friendship and some M&S employees going above and beyond.
“My friend just found out she’s #coeliac and was sad about having to give up her favourite snacks. Luckily another coeliac friend recommended some chocolatey favourites so I could pass that on and also told me about the new GF Colin the Caterpillar that M&S had just released."
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Rez
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Andy 🫖🐧
Tamsin
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Sarah | Time for Kindness