Easy Gluten Free Recipes: Gluten Free Apple Crumble

When it comes to easy gluten free recipes this is another winner.  And another of those relief moments for Jamie when he realised that apple crumble was still on the menu for him. Of course, gluten free apple crumble could become gluten free rhubarb crumble or gluten free apple and blackberry crumble or gluten free [...] Read more »

Easy Gluten Free Recipes: Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

These gluten free chocolate chip cookies are a definite favorite in our house: they never last for more than a couple of days!  (especially delicious warm from the oven!) Ingredients 100g castor sugar 100g margarine                                                 1 egg (beaten) half a teaspoon vanilla essence 6oz gluten free plain flour half a teaspoon xantham gum 6oz milk [...] Read more »

“Great Gluten Free Baking” – Book Review

“Great Gluten free Baking” is an excellent book which I have used more than any other in our gluten free journey! Easy gluten free recipes with ingredients which generally can be bought from the local supermarket. We love the peanutty squares and lemon drizzle cake especially. When you are baking twice a week to fill [...] Read more »

Gluten Free Flour

Finding a good gluten free flour has got to be one of the top priorities when baking for someone on a gluten free diet!  Basically, once you have your gluten free flour sorted, you can bake just about anything. When Jamie first started a gluten free diet, I knew that one of the hardest things [...] Read more »

Gluten Guilt Trips

Jamie has been on a gluten free diet for four months now. My kitchen is as ‘gluten kosher’ as possible: I check labels continually, I haven’t used ‘normal flour’ since the summer and I make every effort to make sure he has a completely gluten free diet. But sometimes he still gets stomach aches. Not [...] Read more »

Easy Gluten Free Recipes: Gammon, Cheese and Leek Pie

This is one of our favourite gluten free recipes.  In fact we have been eating it for years, and Jamie was very relieved to realise that he could carry on eating it as it is completely gluten free!  This is a great recipe, takes about half an hour to cook or can be made earlier [...] Read more »

Reactions to Celiac Disease Diagnosis

When Jamie got his celiac disease diagnosis it was hardly a surprise, and most people close to us knew he was already on a gluten free diet already. But a few people’s reactions took us a bit by surprise! People who thought we were being ‘over the top’ or ‘fussy’ parents.  I guess if people [...] Read more »

Gluten Free Barbeques

How do you make a barbeque into a gluten free barbeque? This was one of the first of the many “gluten free challenges” I faced with my celiac child. As Jamie was diagnosed with celiac disease at the start of the summer, we were invited to quite a few barbeques over the following few months [...] Read more »

“Kids With Celiac Disease” – book review

Amazon.com Widgets I read "Kids With Celiac Disease" in the stage between Jamie's positive blood test and his biopsy. I found it an incredibly useful book as Danna covers just about every aspect of celiacs - from your emotional response when you hear your child has it, through to really detailed advice on where to [...] Read more »

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