This week Tanya Wright, dietician and allergy specialist at Amersham Hospital, and I journeyed to London for the Cookability gluten, egg, nut and dairy free cookery course, run by the inspirational Venetia Cameron-Rose. Venetia normally runs residential cookery courses for young adults and groups in Somerset but by popular demand she put on an evening session for five food … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2011
Tomato free red sauce for people with a tomato allergy
If you can't eat tomatoes for whatever reason, it makes eating out and cooking at home doubly difficult. You probably have other allergies too, and if, like me, those include dairy, sauces become a bit of a challenge. Nomato used to be a godsend with their ketchup, baked beans and pasta sauce which looked like tomato, tasted strangely like tomato but contained no tomato! A … [Read more...]
Milk and wheat allergen free fish and chips
If you're allergic milk and wheat some more creative ingredients are required to make safe allergen free batter. It's certainly left me feeling left out and like I'm missing the old treat of battered fish and chips. What is batter made from? I always assumed that the batter fish and chip shops used contained milk, mainly because when I've asked that very question I've … [Read more...]
Allergy Free Product of the Week – Bacon Crispies
These are Sainsbury's own brand and I think they are a copy of the branded Frazzles crisps that I remember from childhood. They are bacon flavoured maize snacks so no good for anyone who can't tolerate corn either. They are shaped like little bits of streaky bacon and just melt in your mouth. Sainsbury's Bacon crispies ingredients:Maize; Rice Flour; Sunflower Oil; Bacon … [Read more...]
A poem about having an anaphylactic attack…
I wrote this poem after my last very frightening anaphylactic attack which got me whilst I was on my own, at home, in the middle of the snow in February last year. Fear grips by Ruth Holroyd My lips are tingling I feel kind of odd My brain is now jingling Please help me God First of all it’s the wheezing My throat feels tight I touch my face And get quite a fright It feels … [Read more...]