We now seem to be spending far too much time in supermarkets reading lables and it is becoming more and more frustrating. There appears to be only a small amount of gluten free and wheat free food available but when you start searching and reading the ingredient lables there is more out there - its just difficult to find. This is probably true for the other food allergies I need to ask friends and family and see if they are as frustrated as us!
Eating out in restaurants is also interesting; some places have a gluten free menu which sounds great but then it turns out that the steak is wheat free! oh and the salad is wheat free as well what a surprise! To be fair there are some better restaurants that provide detailed allergy information for all their dishes. We will start a list of food allergy helpful restaurants and add it to these pages soon.
Another frustration is not knowing how easy it is for the rest of the world to find this blog. We are aiming to write an entry every day and try and provide helpful information to other people with food allergies but it is difficult to know when google, yahoo and the others will get round to including us on their pages. Also, when they do we will probably be on page 10,000!
If you are reading this then please create a login and leave me a comment!! Also if you know any web sites or blogs that we could create mutual links with please let me know as this will help our non existant page rankings!!!
Hello! I have found your blog through the link from Karina's kitchen. I am in the UK too - most of the allergy/gluten-free blogs I have found seem to be US based.
My little boy is two and a half and has allergies to egg and dairy. We took him off gluten too to see if it would improve his tummy which it seemed to do. He is now having a gluten trial and last week had blood taken for a coeliac test - we await the results.
I havn't been blogging for a few weeks as I've been distracted by other things, but plan to return soon.
Good luck with your blog and with label reading. One of my frustrations is the inclusion of barley malt extract in seemingly all rice crispie type products - not handy for making GF crispie cakes!
Sarahx
Hello! I'm US based but you might find some of my gluten free recipes and info helpful!
ps. Sarah...I use Erewhon Crispy Brown Rice cereal to make my rice crispy treats gluten free :-)
Katie
http://glutenfreekatie.blogspot.com
You can use the Natures Path Crispy Rice in the UK as that is gluten free