Incapacity benefit + special diets - any advice?

~Chameleon~

Why are people replying to posts almost 4 years old???? :rotfl:

KimYeovil

A vegan diet is neither special nor more expensive than an omnivore diet. Feeding a single person on benefits is, however, very difficult and more awkward and expensive than if you are with a partner or children. But this difficulty is faced by all single people regardless of the nature of their diet.

And, as already mentioned, your citing soya milk is VERY strange. Soya milk and dairy milk are very similar in price (if buying in 1L quantities). (63p for soya compared to 70p for dairy milk where I am.) Where does it cost four times the price?

KimYeovil

Blast! Like Chameleon said, who bumped this back up to embarrass us? T4two, you're in trouble!

VfM4meplse

filigree wrote: »

A friend of mine had a baby with lactose intolerance and he had to have soya milk, which she got on prescription. She wasn't on benefits, but the milk was free of charge because children don't pay for prescriptions. I'm sorry not to offer any concrete advice, but you could try asking your GP if you can get special foods on prescription.

Okay the OP is out of date but the issues are real...

Firstly, nutritional supplements are allowable on the NHS only under specific circumstances. GPs nationwide are sick of being asked to provide them to solve social care problems because a) the NHS rules don't permit it, it is their delightful job to inform you of this which 9 times out of ten compromises the doctor-patient relatuionship / b) they are busy enough without considering inappropriate requests c) a GP is a GP is a GP and not a supermarket clerk.

Secondly, stop using meat / dairy substitutes. Both the money and vegan diet question can be answered by following the Indian approach to cooking vegetables and lentils, bread and rice. I agree desserts might be a problem as ghee / milk / yoghurt are central but fruit is always an option.