This is one of my favourite gluten free christmas recipes. We have always made star shaped biscuits to hang on the tree and I never get to decorate many because it’s one of the family traditions that the kids go wild with icing sugar and sprinkles so ever biscuit is a real sugar high, and [...] Read more »
A Gluten Free Christmas: Staying Away from Home with Your Celiac Child
Going away from home at Christmas can be stressful enough at the best of time, but when you have a celiac child who needs a completely gluten free diet at christmas, the interest levels sky rocket! The main aim is to somehow work out the Christmas celebrations so that your celiac child does not feel [...] Read more »
A Gluten Free Christmas: Gluten Free Christmas Spice Biscuits Recipe
My family (all of them – not just the celiac members) love these gluten free Christmas Spice Biscuits. And they are sooooo easy! So next in the series of a Gluten Free Christmas: my gluten free Christmas Spice Biscuits recipe: enjoy! Gluten Free Christmas Spice Biscuits Recipe Ingredients 225g gluten free self raising flour (or [...] Read more »
A Gluten Free Christmas: St Nicholas’s Day
When thinking about your gluten free Christmas you may not have even thought about St Nicholas’s Day! It is a day celebrated in Germany on December 6th. I lived in Germany as a child, so we celebrated it, and I now carry on the tradition with my children (and they love it!) The story goes [...] Read more »
A Gluten Free Christmas: Your Celiac Child at School
For the celiac child, Christmas can be a difficult time. It’s easier to manage at home, but making it a gluten free Christmas at school can be a tricky one. There are parties, students – and teachers- bringing in Christmas treats (few of which will be gluten free) and all sorts of challenges for the celiac child [...] Read more »
Gluten Free Christmas: Gluten Free Mince Pies
Gluten free mince pies have been on my mind since the beginning of November! It’s sad, I know, but Jamie absolutely loves mince pies, and when the first ones started appearing in Walmart it suddenly occurred to me that it’s his first gluten free Christmas and I can’t buy any for him this year. I [...] Read more »
Happy Gluten Free Thanksgiving!
I just wanted to post today and wish all my American visitors a very happy Thanksgiving! We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in the UK. I know there are historical reasons why you started celebrating it in the States but whether these are still remembered or not I think it is a fantastic thing to have a [...] Read more »
Gluten Free Lunchbox Ideas (without bread): Gluten Free Dip Recipes
Next up in the easy gluten free recipes for the gluten free lunchbox series: dips! Okay, if your child is particularly young or particularly messy you may want to skip this one, but I like it because it is easily one of the most healthy of all the gluten free lunchbox ideas and although it is [...] Read more »
Gluten Free Lunchbox Ideas (without bread): Honeyed Chicken Drumsticks
Easy gluten free recipes: the gluten free lunchbox I have found the gluten free lunchbox to be more of a challenge than the gluten free evening meal. Especially for children! The thought of sending Jamie into school with soup is quite scary (and I don’t think the lunchtime staff would be too pleased either) and [...] Read more »
Easy Gluten Free Recipes: Gluten Free Brownies
Another in the series of gluten free recipes: gluten free brownies take a little longwer to make than some of the other easy gluten free recipes but they are so well worth the effort! Gluten Free Brownies Ingredients 75g plain or milk chocolate (check it is gluten free!) 100g margarine 200g brown sugar 2 eggs [...] Read more »
