{"id":1436,"date":"2011-01-03T16:11:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T15:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2017-05-20T11:47:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T10:47:17","slug":"gluten-free-honeybuns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/gluten-free-honeybuns\/","title":{"rendered":"Gluten Free Advance Party: Honeybuns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/swimming.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"swimming\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" align=\"right\" \/>Week in, week out, for the last 11 years, I&#8217;ve been taking my children to our local leisure centre swimming pool for swimming lessons.<\/p>\n<p>All of them can now swim well, and only our coeliac still goes: she&#8217;s doing it as part of her Duke of Edinburgh Award. (How they do grow up!)<\/p>\n<p>In all that time, there&#8217;s been nothing in the leisure centre cafe that my coeliac daughter could eat, except a plate of chips or a jacket potato. Like so many small cafe-snackbars, they offer a range of hot and cold sandwiches, pies, burgers, cakes and pastries; naturally, none of their main range is gluten free.<\/p>\n<p>However, this week we arrived and discovered a breach in the wall of gluten munchies: <a href=\"http:\/\/honeybuns.co.uk\/\">Honeybuns<\/a> have arrived!<\/p>\n<p>In my experience, Honeybuns mount an excellent spearhead action, beating a path for other manufacturers to follow.<\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t know, Honeybuns provide pre-wrapped, portion-sized, gluten free cakes and biscuits, usually available near to the till in cafes and lunchtime providers. The benefit of pre-wrapped goods is a two-fold reassurance: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the purchaser gets the reassurance that there&#8217;s no cross-contamination in an inexperienced servery area (how often have you seen people using the same serving tongs for gluten free and for not gluten free stuff?)<\/li>\n<li>and the seller knows that the unsold products will last a little longer than if they&#8217;d been cut off a single large cake (because the new-to-gluten-free stockist won&#8217;t know how fast the products will shift). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plus, they taste nice.<\/p>\n<p>My hope, of course, is that having realised there is a market out there, people will look at expanding their gluten free range. I think that the Honeybuns offering &#8211; or others like them &#8211; are a great way for first-timers to add a gluten free option, no matter how small, to their standard menu. Yay Honeybuns!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"small\">Image: Copyright (c) <a href='http:\/\/www.123rf.com'>123RF Stock Photos<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week in, week out, for the last 11 years, I&#8217;ve been taking my children to our local leisure centre swimming pool for swimming lessons. All of them can now swim well, and only our coeliac still goes: she&#8217;s doing it as part of her Duke of Edinburgh Award. (How they do grow up!) In all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[167,1,27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-market","8":"category-living-gluten-free","9":"category-gluten-free-shopping","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}