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A Thermomix for Christmas please…

27/10/2012 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  6 Comments

Having just reduced the third saucepan this week to a blackened remnant of its former self, I know what I want for Christmas – a Thermomix! Yes, I know it looks like a cartoon character in the making – but it genuinely is an amazing creature – the result of over 40 years of …

Category: Allergies, Dairy-free, Food, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-freeTag: 'raw'cooking, Adriana Rabinovich, allergens, automatic timers, built in electric scales, cleaning equipment to be allergen free, cooking by numbers, cooking in small quantities, energy efficiency, energy saving cooking, fail safe Hollandaise sauce, fail safe mayonnaise, food processor, German craftsmanship, Glutenfree4Kids, kneading dough, liquidiser, OK in a dishwasher, smooth emulsions, Steaming vegetables, thermal jug, Thermomix, www.glutenfree4Kids.com

Judging the FreeFrom Skincare Awards…

10/03/2012 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

I am not sure what I expected when I sat down for our initial judging of the products entered for this year's first ever FreeFrom Skincare Awards... It was obviously going to be a very different experience from judging the FreeFrom Food Awards which we had done only three weeks …

Category: Allergies, Chemicals, Eczema, FreeFrom Skincare, Gluten, NutsTag: 'commended', allergens, Allergy + FreeFrom show, bad labeling, Beauty Bible testers, clean formulations, dairy, Eczema, food allergies, FreeFrom Food Awards, Freefrom skincare, FreeFrom Skincare Awards, Gluten, illegibly small print, innovation, labeling, natural chemicals, natural skincare, organic skincare, psoriasis, sensitive skin, skin health, synthetic chemicals, The Beauty Bible, too much marketing hype

Should allergens be banned from a household with an allergic member?

03/12/2011 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  3 Comments

I just came across an article from an recent Sunday Telegraph headlined 'Food fight over allergy ban' which investigated, once again, the extremely knotty problem of whether or not you should allow allergens into a household with an allergic member.  There are in fact, two …

Category: Allergies, Dairy-free, Food, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, NutritionTag: allergens, Allergy, Allergy Action Plan, Allergy education, Banning peanuts from schools, calcium, calcium sources, CMA, Coeliac, Cow's milk allergy, Dairy products, Epipen, expense of freefrom foods, FAAN, FeeFrom Food, Food allergy, Food allergy bullying, Food intolerance, food sensitivity, FreeFrom Food Awards party, Gluten, Hugging your non allergic child, infant allergy, Milk Marketing Board, nuts for nutrition, paranoia, Peanut/treenut allergy, peanuts, pregnant women eating peanuts, Sensitisation, Sibling issues, Stress, sunday Telegraph, Tourette's Syndrome, What Allergy? blog

FreeFrom Skin Care Awards……..

02/12/2011 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Well, we were keeping these a deep, dark secret and had planned not to spill the beans until later this month, but Amy, our lovely American intern who is running our social media sites, thought she might test the water yesterday afternoon by setting up a Twitter account …

Category: Allergies, Chemicals, FreeFrom Skincare, Gluten, NutsTag: Alex Gazzola, allergens, Allergy and FreeFrom Show, Beauty Bible, Chemical free skin care, Chemicals, Cold pressed nut oils, Freefrom food, FreeFrom Food Awards, FreeFrom skin care, Gluten, gluten-free cosmetics, Green & Black's, Green Beauty Bible, Jo Fairley, NATOrigin cosmetics and skincare, Olympia, Sarah Stacey, Twitter, YOU magazine

Judging the FFFood Awards – parts 2, 3, 4 & 5!

13/02/2011 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

Well, here I am, three days on, still ploughing through tasting sheets and judges' comments – and realising, especially in the light of some of the comments on my previous blog, that the FreeFrom Food Awards are less of an industry award than a blueprint for how freefrom should …

Category: Allergies, Dairy-free, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Nutrition, RecipesTag: 'may contain' labelling, allergens, Allergy/intolerance, deep clean for allergens, deliciousness, FreeFrom Food Awards, innovation in food manufacture, labelling for allergens, labelling of freefrom foods, manufacture in a dedicated factory, nutritional profile of freefrom food, Raw food, Uncategorized

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