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Allergy Show Roundup…

10/05/2011 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  5 Comments

As anyone will know who has ever worked on a stand at an exhibition, it normally takes about a week to recover – so I am making no excuses for only getting round to blogging about the Allergy Show today! Indeed, given that it only finished on Sunday I am pretty impressed that I am doing it today…

I am putting my relative perkiness down to the fact that it was an excellent show (always makes one feel better), that Alex Gazzola was running the stand for us which meant that not only was it beautifully run but that it was great fun to work on, and to the fact that I upped my nightly dose of oxygen to counteract the heavy electrosmog of Olympia – and it seems to have worked a treat!

We were at the show to promote the FreeFromFood Awards – and were delighted to see so many award winners also there promoting their delicious freefrom products. If you want to see a full list of exhibitors, including freefrom foods and lots of freefrom skin care, you can find them on the Allergy Show site.  Visitors also got the benefit of an excellent programme of seminars and workshops, including a workshop for the parents of allergic children run by Action Against Allergy with the allergy team from Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital. This is one of series of workshops which the charity has run over the last few years and is now developing on line in conjunction with talkallergy.com. Check in at the Action Against Allergy site over the next week for details about the hay fever on-line clinic they will be running for a week from May 20th.

Meanwhile…. for more on the show, if you did not manage to get there, see What Allergy?’s  Top 10 Highlights from this years’ show post and Alex’s own post on his blog.

However, that will not allow you to buy a special offer copy of Alex’s new book – Coeliac Disease: what you need to know which you could have bought at the show…. But, never fear – you can still get it from via his piece on the foodsmatter site…
Nor will it allow you to buy a copy of my new recipe book, Cooking gluten, wheat and dairy free which we had also hoped to sell at the show but which, sadly, did not arrive from the printers in time – but which you should be able to buy on Amazon in a couple of weeks time. More anon…

Category: AllergiesTag: Action Against Allergy, Alex Gazzola, Allergy, electrosmog, FreeFrom Food Awards, Freefrom food/recipes, talkallergy.com

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  1. Janet Woodward

    10/05/2011 at 12:40

    Always good to see you Michelle…and yes despite the workload..you did look well….and was in full flow with your presentation on the Free From Food awards.
    For the fashionistas….Michelle was modelling a rather nifty green hat….

    I met Alex too…and am now a proud owner of a signed copy of his book. Its a no-nonsense guide for both beginners and the more established Coeliacs and others who dont bother with that wheaty stuff….

    The Allergy show was a good all-round event…with something for everyone.
    As usual…not enough places to sit down to rest feet…was even grateful for the seat on the packed train back north…..

    Till the next time….take things steady…

    Janet
    Wellfoods of Barnsley

  2. Ruth Holroyd

    10/05/2011 at 12:52

    Hi Michelle. Great to see you and Alex at the show. I only attended for two days and I was exhausted (not helped by bus replacement hell) so you two must have been really tired. I’m really interested in your oxygen treatment. My uncle is promoting it for MS sufferers. Can we discuss at some point soon? It’s something I’m quite interested in.

  3. admin

    10/05/2011 at 14:14

    HI Ruth – the oxygen treatment is amazing – well it is for me anyhow. I presume you read the article? So simple…. Happy to chat any time.

  4. admin

    10/05/2011 at 14:15

    Great to see you Janet – and thanks for joining my hat appreciation society!! Sorry about the lack of seats – bigger stand next year and we can offer you a sofa!! Look forward to the formal launch of that cracking looking new Wellfoods site…..

  5. Alex G

    10/05/2011 at 15:50

    Oops, just catching up now on all my reading… Thanks, Michelle – it was lovely to spend time with you on the stand, and thanks Janet and Ruth – nice to see you both and glad you’re both finding the book helpful. I will now slip away and continue my rehabilitation into non-allergy-show life…

    Alex

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