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Air fryer vs Microwave with food allergies

19/12/2022 by Ruth Holroyd 2 Comments

If you have a small kitchen but want the time savings of a microwave the air fryer might be a brilliant alternative. Having just updated my tiny kitchen I wanted to try and integrate a microwave but I've not had one for so long... and worktop space is precious in a small kitchen. Where would I put the microwave? They're big and take up counter space. I'd also been … [Read more...]

Top 10 allergy books for adults and kids

04/03/2021 by Ruth Holroyd 2 Comments

It's Allergy Awareness Week so I've updated and recycled this post. Apologies if some of it's familiar. These are my favourite allergy books: I had to start with my own, because it's a life's ambition to write this book and also it's the book I wish I'd had, the hand to hold mine as I tried to make sense of why my body was reacting in such a scary way to certain … [Read more...]

Vegan-ish for Veganuary

08/01/2021 by Ruth Holroyd 9 Comments

So many people think I'm vegan and some days I am, but I'm torn with this. Because I really want to be vegan for so many reasons, I'll share those below shortly. I've given a lot of thought though and basically, I can't do it, it's impossible - for another list of completely different reasons... see below. So this is my post for Veganuary - about why I'm only going … [Read more...]

Buying FreeFrom food in a pandemic

01/04/2020 by Ruth Holroyd 2 Comments

This blog should be called finding freefrom food in a pandemic! Because there isn't any. No plant milk. No Gluten free bread. No Coconut yogurt... Where has it all gone? There is very little choice in the freefrom aisles and as someone with complicated allergies, I shop for certain dedicated freefrom products and these are very hard... no impossible to find! What's going … [Read more...]