Do you ever eat something to be polite? Or to avoid waste? I had an interesting conversation recently when Sainsbury's sent us a box of their new Christmas range to try out and report on (thank you, Sainsbury's!). The box was wrapped in festive paper—the other children had assumed it was a present and discreetly ignored it—and … [Read more...]
Question: Birthday Cake without Wheat, Eggs or Milk
One of the things I enjoy about writing this blog is that I get a lot of questions in my inbox about living gluten free. I do try to reply to all of these—and it occurred to me that if one person is asking, probably there are others out there who'd also like to know. So I thought I'd start occasionally putting some of the answers up … [Read more...]
Gluten Free at the YHA
We regularly spend Christmas self-catering at a youth hostel - there are just too many of us to fit in anyone's house any more. Did you know you could hire an entire youth hostel? Not all of them, and not all year, but there are some magnificent places to stay—we loved Eskdale—and if you're a big group, it's a reasonably cheap way … [Read more...]
