gluten free goodies

kaaloo

suzy g

You get a list of prescribable products - you then have a quota depending on you age. However, if you have a good gp like ours, they dont worry if you go a bit over on your ordering. Im not a coeliac but my toddler is so his medication is free. Im not too sure how it works if your paying though

kaaloo

Hi suzy g

I think I double posted but anyway, there is a list available from your nhs dietician or GP showing the prescribable products. Also, most GF companies mention what products can be obtained on prescription when they advertise in magazines sent by the coeliacs society etc.

If all else fails, move to Wales where prescriptions are free to all!

kaaloo

Ok so on my day off, I chose to stay in even though the sun in beating down and do some gluten free baking. Sad I know but I faniced a challenge!!

So here's my home made gluten free pizza base recipe!! All guess work!!

4 oz -Tritamyl Gluten Free Flour (from https://www.Odlums.ie available on prescription)
4 fluid oz's of milk
1/2 tsp of veg oil

I put the flour in the mixer, added the milk and oil and left it to mix for about 10 mins. It formed a runny dough (like pancake mixture).
I the transfered it to a small greased victoria cake tin - the flat ones.
Added pizza sauce, tuna, sweet corn and topped with grated cheese.
A few dashes of olive oil and baked at 200 degree centrigrade for about 20 mins.

I tasted ok - a lot better that the pizza bases you get - was soft but may have been a bit undercooked.
For a first attempt, it was quite easy and not bad to taste!

ANNEGEDDES

As far as getting stuff on script you need to do the following

speak to your dieticain or gp who will work out how many units you are allowed this is based on age weight activity etc. You then have a monthly allowance of gf food

you just get this as a script every month or two paying (if you pay) for the price aof a script ( not sure what it is think its about £5 mine are free) this is for all the food on that list

if you are a coeliac you must do this is so much cheaper!!!!! i also get shortbread and digestives so its not all very basics

also if you are new to it all write to all the food companies
dietry special juvela etc and ask for free samples I did and literally i had loads i had a massive box off glutafin this way you know what to get from your gp

also have a look at the coeliac uk website its bril;ll

xx

full-time-mum

purpleprincess wrote: »

Semolina is ground wheat and highly glutinous!

Whoops, I didn't know that - personally can't stand the stuff so only ever have ground rice in the house anyway.

full-time-mum

soolin wrote: »

No not spelt, it does contain gluten and not suitable for a coeliac. Some gluten sensitive people can tolerate it, but being coeliac is not about tolerating foods as the damage it does to the villi is invisible. I'm a coeliac and am not sensitive to gluten or wheat much at all, which makes it dangerous as I can't tell if I accidentally eat any, but ultimately it will kill me just the same.

Sorry for not spelling (pardon the pun) it out but I didn't say it was gluten free, just that some people with wheat-intolerance seem to find it OK. It is an ancient variety of wheat, and as wheat contains gluten, it follows that spelt does too.

Don't know much about coeliac disease but I've often wondered if you have to avoid gluten to the extent that you can't buy products "produced on a production line which has previously handled wheat".
Is it similar to nut allergy where even the tiniest of trace produces a problem?
Just wondered as my DDs teacher described herself as coeliac although she said it was mild and she can eat oats (?). I'd like to bake a cake at the end of the year (become a bit of a tradition) and I wondered whether it was OK - I bake wheat-free for me but I also bake with wheat flour for rest of family. So would be baking in a kitchen that has previously handled wheat - IYSWIM.

full-time-mum

kaaloo wrote: »

Buying is as you well know, very expensive. It seems like most companies feel they can slap an extra 40% on the price of anything that has the words GLUTEN FREE on it.

Whilst I'm sure that companies do use it as an excuse to slap on extra, there are other very valid reasons why free-from food is more expensive. It was discussed on a radio consumer programme a while ago and the manufacturers said that to label it Free From, every single batch has to be tested.

Also, it is obvious that the markets for these products aren't as big so that the bulk manufacturering isn't as cost effective etc.

It would be nice if the supermarkets would take some pity on those with the misfortune to be allergeninc in some way and would sell the products at more or less cost but then pigs would fly and the moon would be blue - I'm sure that they add at least their standard markups and probably a bit extra as they know that some people have no choice - there is no chance for free from food being treated as a lost leader

What really annoys me is when sauces and soups etc are thickened with wheat-flour when cornflour would be a perfectly acceptable alternative.

smousie

You're better of getting a yearly pre-paid prescription. It's about £95, which works out less than £2 a week, and for that you can get as much bread/flour/pasta/biscuits/crackers etc as you want. This also covers you for anything else you might be prescribed too (I also get eczema cream, antibiotics and whatever without paying any extra).

ANNEGEDDES

i made nigellas flourless choc brownies on the weekend from the new express bk they are amazing!!!!1 xx

anyone know how to put all the gf threads together and perhaps strat a gf recipie index for all of us coeliacs xx

Boomdocker

^^^That would be very helpful.