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Dairy-free
The dreaded allergen thresholds – again…
A post on the Sugarpuffish blog last week illustrates yet again the frustrating unintended consequences of the FSA's attempts to keep allergic people safe. Sugarpuffish, who is very intolerant of dairy, noticed that one of her favourite snacks, 9Bars, had taken their 'dairy …
The Allergy and FreeFrom Show 2013 – food and skincare
2013 Allergy and FreeFrom Show? Packed - humming - hectic – and that was at 10.30 in the morning. Come 1.30 – try rammed, jammed and 'don't leave your stand as you will never get back'... To be fair, large buggies swollen to twice their width by hundreds of bulging carrier …
Horses – labels – and freefrom…
A report on the radio last night suggested that the horse in your lasagne could have gone through around 12 'virtual' hands as it was traded from Romania (where there is a glut of horsemeat as horse-drawn carts have been banned from the highways) to Italy, to France, to Poland to …
The wonders of coconut…
I never thought I would hear myself saying this but – I love coconut... For years I was haunted by the memory of those multi-coloured dessicated coconut fudge sweety things that I was forced to eat at parties as a child – and which brought me very close to disgracing myself by …