Whew! Day 2 over..... Whew only because we had three categories with enormous entries to judge. However our judges did a stirling job working their way Food-to-go and then a HUGE number of pizzas and pastas. You can see them here hard at work on the latter. Judges …
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Alpro in the dock over defensive labelling
What an absurd situation! Alpro, makers of one of the very few products that nut and dairy allergic children can eat safely, are actively preventing that very group from buying them! How? By slapping defensive 'may contain traces of nuts' warnings on all of their products. For …
FreeFrom chippie in Whitby
I had literally just pressed the 'publish' button on the last post when Alex forwarded me a press release about the Quayside fish and chip shop in Whitby. While a number of fish and chip shops now offer a 'gluten-free Friday' (or Monday, or Tuesday) the Quayside has gone the …
FreeFrom Eating Out Awards on a roll
The advantage of being a 'small compact team' is that you can be ultra flexible and move forward quickly on an idea if it seems like a good one; the disadvantage is that you are all too likely to leap into something without really having looked as carefully as maybe you …
47% of MEPS suffer from allergies!
Not only were the members if the European Parliament staggered to find how many of them suffered from allergies, but so were the team from the EAACI (European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology) who organised the tests! 'We knew that allergies are a major health issue …