I've removed previous posts on the subject because quite frankly there's a huge (insert expletives) problem. I've had to switch numerous brands over the years because retailers discontinue them and it's a staple ingredient for me. I discovered Maekrua Oyster Sauce via my OH who went to a local Oriental shop trying to source some as our previous brand was no longer available.
Living Gluten Free, Delicious Gluten Free Recipes, Gluten Free Food Reviews And Kittens!
Wednesday 31 October 2012
Nestle UK Gluten Free Product List - Updated December 2013
I found this list completely by accident but what a find! There's stuff on here that I didn't think I could have but now know that I can. Something to take note of is that Nestle UK guarantee that items on this list are safe so long as they are UK made, anything imported by retailers may not be safe so always check the label regardless. Always check labels!!!
Items listed are gluten free, items with a * contain 20pmm or less, the legal amount a product can contain and be labelled gluten free. I personally wouldn't eat these and wouldn't recommend eating them but they are considered to be gluten free by law so the choice is up to you.
I still think that gluten free should mean gluten free, no traces whatsoever.
Here's a new update, non underlined titles items in bold are updates or additions.
Items listed are gluten free, items with a * contain 20pmm or less, the legal amount a product can contain and be labelled gluten free. I personally wouldn't eat these and wouldn't recommend eating them but they are considered to be gluten free by law so the choice is up to you.
I still think that gluten free should mean gluten free, no traces whatsoever.
Here's a new update, non underlined titles items in bold are updates or additions.
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gluten free awareness,
gluten free food
Tuesday 30 October 2012
A Blast From The Past Perfect For Halloween!
Brain, Bacon and Cheese |
Once out of the oven it had a severed limb look about it. All you need is a bit of Barbecue Sauce and you've got a creepy looking creation that tastes amazing.
Brief post today but back tomorrow with some proper Halloween goodness.
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gluten free food,
gluten free recipes
Monday 29 October 2012
Weekend Eats 15 - Bad Blogger
Great gluten free food was eaten over the weekend as per usual but I have absolutely no photographic documentation of it. We've kind of been preoccupied by some new arrivals to the Free From G abode.
We did so much research to get to this stage. Who knew that choosing/keeping cold water fish could be so complicated?! All very calming and peaceful to look at now though.
We Got Fish |
Some people buy fish for their kids, we bought ours for the Persian. Thankfully she doesn't view them as dinner, just as entertainment from her spot on the bed. They had quite a relaxing effect on all of us yesterday but this morning with the full moon approaching and no fish viewing, the Persian had a heightened version of one of her hyperactive moods. Once on the bed though, calm. We should have got fish sooner.
So now you know why there's a bit of a photo drought for the rest of this blog post. The fishes did it.
So now you know why there's a bit of a photo drought for the rest of this blog post. The fishes did it.
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allergies,
gluten free food
Friday 26 October 2012
A Natural Alternative To Lemsip
Cold Fighter |
I'm not going to tempt fate but as an adult, aside from the need to be gluten free, yeah. I like natural remedies.
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allergies,
gluten free food,
gluten free lifestyle
Pickled Onion Pom-Bear - Halloween Special Edition and More
So Cute! |
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gluten free food,
random
Thursday 25 October 2012
Gluten Free Giant Chicken Kiev
It Ooozed |
I fiddled about with incisions and using the mini breast fillet as a 'plug' on numerous occasions, but the butter always leaked during the cooking process. I don't bother with incisions anymore, this is a sure fire way to make the perfect Chicken Kiev every time, even if it may seem a weird way of going about it. This is a Free From G Kiev after all, why use traditional methods?!
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gluten free recipes
Wednesday 24 October 2012
Sea Bass, Samphire, Bacon and Toms
Tuesday Night Dinner |
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gluten free recipes
Tuesday 23 October 2012
Burts Potato Chips - Pesto Flavour
Roddy Fried These* |
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gluten free food
Monday 22 October 2012
Weekend Eats 14 - Colds, Chocolates and Quiche
*Sneeze* |
That photo says a lot about the weekend, there are stinky colds afoot. The lovely Glutenite got progressively worse as the weekend went on and Lemsip didn't seem to be helping, so I took my usual natural remedy approach and added a huge tablespoon of Manuka Honey to his last mug last night. Sure enough he was vastly improved by this morning.
Though Lemsips are gluten free (all but the Lemsip Max All In One Wild Berry and Hot Orange) they don't agree with me. I caved from my natural approach last year whilst suffering from flu and it made me beyond woozy, I don't like woozy. I'll stick to my hippy dippy approach thank you very much, hence the Jakemans Honey and Lemon Menthol sweets pictured above. The cold hasn't fully got me.
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gluten free food,
random
Friday 19 October 2012
Gluten Free Chicken Soup That Anyone Can Make
Chicken Soup Goodness |
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gluten free recipes
Thursday 18 October 2012
Gluten Free Cheese Straws
I Baked! |
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gluten free recipes
Wednesday 17 October 2012
Feedback On My Novice Baking Attempt
I'm yet to do what is hopefully the final experiment on the cheese straws because quite frankly, I'm afraid of eating them. I don't know where these thick people who go gluten free for weight loss get that idea from, this blog is in danger of increasing my weight quite rapidly! I'm not baking them until my Glutenite is home from work, safety in numbers.
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random
Tuesday 16 October 2012
First Gluten Free Baking Experiment, Done!
You know what? After my last update I honestly thought that it was going to be an experimental disaster. However, 2 hours before dinner and extremely full after eating 3 of my 4 test creations (oops), I can honestly say that on first attempt, I'm almost there!!! Woo!!!
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Baking Update
My foray into baking was a bit delayed due to my iPhone battery being dead and having still not unpacked everything from the move it took me an age to find a camera. Which also had a dead battery. I figured that I'd do the early stages without needing to document them photographically.
I am now at the 'dough' phase having charged my iPhone and documented a couple of steps. I have to say chaps, it's not looking good.
I am now at the 'dough' phase having charged my iPhone and documented a couple of steps. I have to say chaps, it's not looking good.
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Weekend Eats 12 3/4
My Glutenite still doesn't believe that Roddy and his chums are actually frying the crisps. My mum does think I'm slightly mad but has some recollection of the McCain pizza toppers. Some. I think she was humouring me to be honest.
I've taken it upon myself to get to the bottom of this. I've sent a message to Roddy via the website. This is what popped up after I hit send:
I've taken it upon myself to get to the bottom of this. I've sent a message to Roddy via the website. This is what popped up after I hit send:
I didn't ask anything rude, naughty or stupid, I asked which other flavours were gluten free. I'll let you know if I get a reply.
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gluten free food,
random
Monday 15 October 2012
Oh.
Poor Roddy. He IS front page material (I knew it) just like everyone else in an alternating way when you hit refresh or go back to the fryers page. I falsely accused Burts of overlooking a much valued member of staff :/
I have since hit myself over the head with a packet of Firecracker Lobster Chips for being so hasty.
Here, have a pic of my seasonal Haribo I just ate so we can forget all about it:
What will tomorrow bring? ;)
I have since hit myself over the head with a packet of Firecracker Lobster Chips for being so hasty.
Here, have a pic of my seasonal Haribo I just ate so we can forget all about it:
Frogs and Spiders, A Bat and A Worm |
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random
Weekend Eats 12
Weekend Eats are always my favourite posts to write, if only the weekend came around quicker and lasted for longer though. They fly by way too fast for my liking. I don't always do a Weekend Eats post because lots of times we have the same meals because we love them so much, but this weekend I made some new discoveries.
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gluten free food,
random
Friday 12 October 2012
Sleepy Head
Late mini post due to one thing, I've been asleep for most of the day.
Not sure why, but exhaustion just crept up on me and I've not been able to keep my eyes open. I'm keeping the cold at bay and I've not ingested any gluten, so I'm at a bit of a loss as to why today I've been so tired. I feel fine except I could happily go back to sleep now, it's all a bit odd.
Normal service will be resumed on Monday. After more sleep :)
Have a wonderful weekend.
Not sure why, but exhaustion just crept up on me and I've not been able to keep my eyes open. I'm keeping the cold at bay and I've not ingested any gluten, so I'm at a bit of a loss as to why today I've been so tired. I feel fine except I could happily go back to sleep now, it's all a bit odd.
Normal service will be resumed on Monday. After more sleep :)
Have a wonderful weekend.
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random
Thursday 11 October 2012
Superpowers!
I was watching the Morrissey and Stephen Colbert interview where they talked about Morrissey's militant vegetarianism and how for the day that he was on set, the entire building had to be meat free. Everyone had to adopt the vegetarian diet whilst he was around.
Initially, I was thinking, what a cheek! Then it struck me, if I could have the power to make everyone gluten free in my presence, would I?
Labels:
gluten free awareness,
gluten free lifestyle,
random
Tesco Gluten Free Choco Snaps
Definitely Not Aimed At My Age Demographic |
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gluten free food
Wednesday 10 October 2012
The Free From G Italian Style Bacon Bomb
One of the reasons that I didn't experiment further with the onion rings last night is because dinner was calling and dinner was this:
You Can Never Have Too Much Cheese. Or Bacon. |
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gluten free recipes
How To Get Batter To Stick To Onion Rings
I've made these a few times since being gluten free but they've never come out to my absolute satisfaction. I've always had issues with coating the onion rings in the batter and then ensuring that it stays on whilst cooking. Inevitably I've ended up with the onion and batter coming apart and well just not a great overall result at all. That's why I've never posted the recipe! I only ever post recipes that I'm truly content with and I have pretty high standards for my food, you'll only ever see a disaster if it's worthy of a laugh.
As this is a request from 54mu5 I figured that I needed to step my game up a bit. How can I make the batter stick to the onion rings properly? That's the only problem here, the flavours are great.
As this is a request from 54mu5 I figured that I needed to step my game up a bit. How can I make the batter stick to the onion rings properly? That's the only problem here, the flavours are great.
Labels:
gluten free food
Tuesday 9 October 2012
Knorr Stock Pots Are Gluten Free!
At Last! |
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gluten free food
Monday 8 October 2012
The Perils Of The Gluten Free Sourcing Food Shop
So y'know, you take a wander down the world food aisles in the hope that you'll find something new and brilliant like the Cheese Bread discovery. You're scouring the various exotic looking items on offer in the hope that you'll see a gluten free label or at the very least no gluten on the ingredients list. You're just taking in everything you can in the hope that something will jump out as instinctively gluten free and you happen upon these things:
(Please note that I have no idea if these things are gluten free or not. I kind of got distracted from investigating.)
(Please note that I have no idea if these things are gluten free or not. I kind of got distracted from investigating.)
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random
A Friendly Word Of Caution
Sourcing products that aren't branded gluten free but are safe takes time and effort. If I recommend something to you, you can be sure that I've personally researched, tried it and that it is gluten free.
If I give you a link of where to find a product, that's the only thing I'm recommending. I can't control what a site will consider to be a related product on the same page, I can only give you the name of the one that I'm recommending.
If you choose to go for a related product and not the one that I've researched and know to be safe then be sure to check the ingredients listed because a related product doesn't mean it will be gluten free.
ALWAYS, ALWAYS check ingredient lists whether you're buying in person or online.
Stay safe!
If I give you a link of where to find a product, that's the only thing I'm recommending. I can't control what a site will consider to be a related product on the same page, I can only give you the name of the one that I'm recommending.
If you choose to go for a related product and not the one that I've researched and know to be safe then be sure to check the ingredients listed because a related product doesn't mean it will be gluten free.
ALWAYS, ALWAYS check ingredient lists whether you're buying in person or online.
Stay safe!
Labels:
gluten free awareness
Friday 5 October 2012
Friday Fun But Not As Intended
Sorry guys, the fun thing that I had planned on posting today didn't happen so I'll be making sure that it does over the weekend to post on Monday. It requires lots of pics. Reason it didn't happen last night is because I'm not feeling great, nothing coeliac related thankfully just a touch of cold that has been threatening me with its presence for the last couple of weeks.
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random
Thursday 4 October 2012
Happy 2nd Birthday Free From G!
Well isn't this funny, I didn't even know when I posted earlier. I was thinking about potential posts for the future when it dawned on me that Free From G was created around this time of year. Had a check back and sure enough, 2 years ago to the day my blog was born. Never celebrated the first one, oops.
I can think of no better way to celebrate other than to post some random unseen pics from the past year, hope you enjoy! Oh, and y'know, thanks for reading my rambles :)
I can think of no better way to celebrate other than to post some random unseen pics from the past year, hope you enjoy! Oh, and y'know, thanks for reading my rambles :)
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random
DS Gluten Free Chicken and Mushroom Pies
It's A Pie! |
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gluten free food
Wednesday 3 October 2012
Tesco Gluten Free Double Chocolate Cake Bars
The Things I Do For This Blog |
Have to say, I've been quite impressed with Tesco branded gluten free stuff recently, these only add to that.
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gluten free food
Tuesday 2 October 2012
The Eliza Doolittle AKA The DS Salami Pizza
I said that I wouldn't be surprised about the topping this time, but I was. I thought there may have been a slight possibility that this one might just look a bit like the photo on the box. But, to say I was wrong is an understatement.
This time we had an extra piece of salami which meant we had a grand total of 8, now we're getting somewhere! Except, we weren't. We weren't at all.
This time we had an extra piece of salami which meant we had a grand total of 8, now we're getting somewhere! Except, we weren't. We weren't at all.
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gluten free food
If You've Ever Wanted To Know What I Look Like...
"I noticed something funny about having you on my lock screen" Said my Gorge in an email earlier.
That was attached.
I listened to Capital Gold when I was a kid, odd yes, but that's me. This song I heard over and over and only in the past few days at age... 20 something..., did I find out it was by the late, great George Harrison. Very weird for an ex muso.
I may go deeper into this as I have so many funny stories about musicians, but then again, I may not, we'll have to see (if I can tie it into the gluten free stuff I will. Hard task!)
Night All.
Appled |
Such a stunning look, moon face!
Keep eating the cakes Lee, keep on keeping on.
BTW, have a listen, so lovely;
I listened to Capital Gold when I was a kid, odd yes, but that's me. This song I heard over and over and only in the past few days at age... 20 something..., did I find out it was by the late, great George Harrison. Very weird for an ex muso.
I may go deeper into this as I have so many funny stories about musicians, but then again, I may not, we'll have to see (if I can tie it into the gluten free stuff I will. Hard task!)
Night All.
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random
Monday 1 October 2012
Weekend Eats 11
It's been months since I wrote a Weekend Eats post so I thought it was about time for another. Only problem is that I don't have any photographs through laziness, but maybe I'll come up with something as I'm writing. It's going to be a case of scroll and see for both you and I dear reader.
Since we moved Saturdays have become pig out day for me, I've no idea why. I wake up hungry and spend pretty much the entire afternoon eating once we're back from our weekly food shop. Like I say, this has only been since we moved and is quite out of character for me as I've never been a big eater. I guess maybe I've found some contentment after months of stress and worry and my appetite is healthier. Much healthier.
Since we moved Saturdays have become pig out day for me, I've no idea why. I wake up hungry and spend pretty much the entire afternoon eating once we're back from our weekly food shop. Like I say, this has only been since we moved and is quite out of character for me as I've never been a big eater. I guess maybe I've found some contentment after months of stress and worry and my appetite is healthier. Much healthier.
Labels:
gluten free food
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