A very small selection of the 200+ products that were entered into this year's FreeFrom Skincare Awards – and which we spent two very long, balm-filled and fragrant days judging last week. By the end of day two my right arm had been 'polished' (with the aid of salt, sugar and nut …
FreeFrom Food
Pasta and greens…..
This scarcely counts as as recipe but is so delicious that I feel that I have to share..... Through one of those muddles which happen every now and then to everyone who orders on line, I ended up last week with an amazing quantity of fascinatingly different greens in my Farm …
The glass-half-full approach to a restricted diet
A few days ago I got a panic-stricken email from a lady who had just been diagnosed with a salicylate intolerance. She had been looking at a clutch of websites that listed all the foods that contained salicylates. There was nothing left that she could eat! A salicylate …
Big Business moves into freefrom
Whenever I am asked where I think 'freefrom' is going – my answer is that it is, over the next few years, going to move into the mainstream. That it is, indeed, going to become mainstream. So rarely have I felt smugger than when I heard, a couple of weeks ago, that Heinz was …
Food allergies considered as disabilities
Many American universities, unlike those in the UK, require students living on campus to 'participate in a meal plan'. This, in the case of Lesley University in Massachusetts, has brought them into conflict with the 2009 amendments to US disability law that now class 'episodic …