{"id":239,"date":"2007-07-17T10:02:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T09:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2017-05-20T12:25:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T11:25:05","slug":"no-cookery-lessons-for-the-gluten-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/no-cookery-lessons-for-the-gluten-free\/","title":{"rendered":"No cookery lessons for the gluten free?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was shocked to read about a small boy with multiple allergies and his coeliac friend who were not able to join in cookery lessons at school, but instead had to sit in a corner and read a book (read more on this in the Daily Mail<\/a>). This shouldn’t be happening …<\/p>\n

allergyfreecookbook.jpg<\/a>\"\"My daughter has been able to join in cookery in her primary school (though she couldn’t taste all the sandwiches her classmates made in the ‘design a sandwich’ lesson) because they’ve used gluten free flour and baking powder – and her secondary school, where she will go in September, has assured us that there won’t be a problem there either. <\/p>\n

Now, this small boy’s allergies include eggs and peanuts, which are dangerous allergies, so I can understand the school being reluctant, but there are ways around the problems other than simply excluding the children from lessons. <\/p>\n

The point of the article was that his mother, Alice Sherwood, has written a book: the Allergy Free Cookbook<\/a> (aff), with variants for each recipe including dairy-free, nut-free, gluten-free and egg-free.<\/p>\n

We can do gluten free easily enough by now, but the thought of needing to create interesting meals that are also dairy-free and nut-free is a real challenge. I’ll be looking out for this book, perhaps in our local library … in the meantime, I think Alice should talk to the governors of her son’s school, and see if between them they can arrange a better solution to cookery lessons.<\/p>\n

I’d love to know what you think! (Alice, are you out there?)<\/p>\n

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