I realise, with horror, that it is well over a week since I even looked at this blog – but I blame it all on 'freefrom'..... It has, indeed, been a heavy couple of freefrom weeks: the closure of the entry for the FreeFrom Eating Out Awards on August 31st, an exciting webinar …
Gluten-free
Allergy medication and why are so many people going gluten-free?
A recent article in Natural News highlighted a number of possibly unanticipated side effects of allergy medication that you should probably know about if you intend to use OTC medications such as anti-histamines. Read the full article here but a few that I was not aware of …
What Allergy? Essential reading for all food allergics
This is just a mini rave about our friend and colleague, Ruth Holroyd's, excellent allergy blog, What Allergy? I am sure that many of you will already know or follow Ruth – but if you don't, you should! Around 80,000 people do read her blog every month, so if you don't, you are …
The benefits of dedication
Alpro's decision not to combine the manufacture their nut and their soya milks on one line is very good news – not just for those mums of nut- and dairy-allergic children who campaigned so hard to make them change their minds, but for the allergen-free food world in general. (For …
The hazards of feeding super sensitive children…
Nicola, who runs the Feeding My Intolerant Child blog was due to join our judging panel for Category 7 of the Freefrom Eating Out Awards last week but, at the last moment she had to pull out because her allergic little boy, Zac, was ill. I quote: It seems my Mum accidentally …