Allergy/intolerance

[paramart]

Does anyone on here have a food intolerance just been told i can't have any gluten based products
Just wanted to know if you pre buy and cart it from the off
Still trying to suss out what's available to use ta mart

[Gasman]

My daughter can’t gave gluten.
Always best to cook from basic ingredients if possible. Tesco have a very good range of products under their “Free from” range. Even get gluten free beer!!
Watch out for hidden gluten, eg in sauces etc.
Bread wise- she prefers the Warbarton range, less cardboard like than others.
Look on the bright side- lots of curry and rice!

[Bearbonesnorm]

Dee's gluten free Mart. As Simon says, takes a while to discover where the gluten's hidden and eating out can be a pain but cafes / pubs do seem to be getting better.

Another vote for Warbies

[paramart]

went to Tesco's tried some bread it was dry so will look out for the warburtons 1, never realised everthing I liked was keeping the problem going, saw a good selection in morrisons this morning pizza's and brekkie stuff, early days yet found some nice bars for snacking etc,

[Scud]

No advice other than Magic Rock brewery do a beer called "Fantasma" which is gluten-free and bloomin lovely if you like your strong IPA's....

[Trail-rat]

Coeliacs runs in my family - develops in older age.

What to watch is

A. most things marketed as gluten free in the supermarket tend towards (not always) having too much sugar and salt in to make up for lack of gluten - so pay attention to that.

B. There are a lot of gluten free options available on the normal shelfs once you learn to as Stu says read food labels and more so cook from scratch using basic ingredients you can make your own versions of most things and just miss out or substitute the one thing that usually has gluten in and ruins it for you

Top tip is that Sainsburies have not only got the best gluten free stuff but have made alot of their normal own brand stuff gluten free (the owners daughter is a coeliac). Its more expensive no denying but its worth it as its food everyone in the house can/wants to eat rather than just you.

Biggest thing my dads found is - learning to make his own bread as other than his prescription bread, the bread is usually the worst of the gluten free culprits for poor taste and texture. Its possible to make your own bread that tastes decent - it just doesn't last long.

Vagabond Gluten free beer is nice though - and there are more and more gluten free options on that front coming forward.

Gluten free isnt toooooooooo bad for bike packing its more mainstream now than ever with people at least mostly having an understanding of what it is even abroad. My mate is Gluten and Dairy intolerant - even a little of either will stop play for hours. He carries all his food which makes for heavy packing but when the alternative is a 4 hour enforced stop in the middle of no where its the better of the two options.

[restlessshawn]

I’m vegan, I always carry too much food just in case I can’t get anything. Usually end up coming home with atleast one meal and a handful of bars uneaten.

[psling]

Food allergies / intolerances seem to be a lot more prevalent these days.
I have a nut allergy. As a young child (a long time ago now!) people used to comment how unusual that was!
These days I have to avoid (or am supposed to...) alcohol, fatty foods, & spicy foods An unfortunate consequence of excesses in a previous life

I seem to be surrounded by people with lactose, gluten, various other intolerances these days and do wonder if this is due to greater medical awareness or poor food/food production (processed foods?) or evoution?

[middleagedmadness]

Dee's gluten free Mart. As Simon says, takes a while to discover where the gluten's hidden and eating out can be a pain but cafes / pubs do seem to be getting better.

Another vote for Warbies

Not very happy with all this love for warbies ,please every one buy Allison or kingsmill or any other AB foods product otherwise my pension will be sh@te back on topic daughter has dairy intolerance mart and it took a good while to get it right

[Richard G]

Much, much easier to be gluten free these days as for quite some time it became fashionable to declare yourself gluten sensitive. This is great news for people with an actual problem.

I had to do it about 10 years ago on medical advice and it was an absolute nightmare.

[Bearbonesnorm]

Warbies 'Artisan Tiger Bloomer' gets the nod in our house - seems to be about the nearest thing she's found to proper bread unless you want to make it.

[Trail-rat]

Glutafin is the bread of choice in my folks house .... even i can eat it - it doesnt turn to explosive sawdust when toasted like the others.

IIRC its only on prescription though :(

[Richard G]

Easily solved by not eating bread of course... that stuff is the devil for weight gain.

[Trail-rat]

No worse than any other food if you exercise portion control and balance in your diet.

Supermarket bread on the other hand deserves to die.

[Richard G]

Sure, but most people don't when it comes to bread. I've seen people knock up 1,000kcal sandwiches without having a clue.

I was flat out addicted to the sh*t. Why have one slice when five would do.

[Cheeky Monkey]

A prescription only loaf - I am amazed such a thing exists

[BobCatMax]

I'm gluten free, I can just about get away with gravy and crisps, but pastry/bread anything like that and I'm not pleasant to be around.

there's loads of great options now, 10 years ago it was an absolute nightmare. as everyone has said, it does give the retailers a licence to double/triple the price and as trail-rat said, there are lots of gluten free things that aren't advertised as such. I didn't know that about sainsburys. we haven't been there for a while but i'll look again.

current fav is the Hike bars in Aldi

feel free to drop a pm

[Gasman]

A prescription only loaf - I am amazed such a thing exists

You wouldn’t believe how much it costs the nhs.

[Cheeky Monkey]

A prescription only loaf - I am amazed such a thing exists

You wouldn’t believe how much it costs the nhs.

My Mrs is a nurse (ex NHS) and now private (travel medicine) and a mate's a rep / technical specialist for surgical products. I can imagine the insanity of pricing associated with a "prescription loaf". Weird old world

[paramart]

thanks for the replies, offers of help much appreciated, morrisons have the best choice near us, already learned to take my glasses shopping now, found a warburtons loaf not the 1 recommended but will give it a bash,