My husband was rather surprised to be offered 'bottom of the fridge sauce' with pasta the other day. I know his mother always had a menu plan for the week, so I suppose he'd never come across this particular delicacy before. My new resolution for the year is to avoid waste, and (obviously!) this pasta sauce was made with the things lurking in … [Read more...]
Allergy alert: Tesco’s granola squares contain wheat
I think it very unlikely that a coeliac will even have picked up a packet of granola squares to check the label, as granola is one of those products which almost invariably contains at least one of oats, wheat, barley and rye ... but if you did, you may have been misled by a packaging error. Tesco’s Finest Granola Squares (5 pack) with a best … [Read more...]
Gluten free, gluten lite, gluten full …
I mentioned yesterday that the UK rules on what counted as gluten free have been tightened up ... i.e. that the upper limit should be 20 parts per million, rather than 200ppm as it is currently. From Coeliac UK: Recent Codex Committee discussions have concluded that only foods that contain less than 20mg gluten/kg can be labelled as … [Read more...]
