{"id":2552,"date":"2013-07-04T08:57:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T07:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2017-05-20T11:38:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T10:38:49","slug":"allergy-free-from-show-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/allergy-free-from-show-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick of the Day: Allergy and Free From Show 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allergyshow.co.uk\/go\/lucyfreefromblog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/allergy-free-from.jpg\" alt=\"allergy-free-from\" width=\"700\" height=\"125\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/allergy-free-from.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/allergy-free-from-300x53.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been back from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allergyshow.co.uk\/go\/lucyfreefromblog\/\">Allergy and Free From Show<\/a> in London for a while now, and have had time to mull over the various things we learnt, new things we tasted, and food we liked enough to bring home.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, it&#8217;s a little like coming back from holiday with some kind of local gourmet treat, and finding that it just isn&#8217;t as good out of context&#8230; In other cases, you know that you&#8217;ve found a real treat, and will go out to hunt down more.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas last year, I&#8217;d say the theme was cupcakes, this year it was definitely back to basics, but with a twist: pasta (especially fresh), and wraps.  My poor coeliac tried so much of both that we didn&#8217;t need to find lunch. <\/p>\n<p>The pasta that we really liked came from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dellugo.co.uk\">Dell&#8217;Ugo<\/a>. Not so much the fresh chickpea pasta&mdash;they&#8217;d sent me some of this to try in advance, and if you&#8217;re missing wholewheat-style pasta, this is the one for you&mdash;but the fresh penne and tagliatelle. We thought these were very good, and although they are fresh, they&#8217;ll last for 35 days in the fridge, apparently. We will be buying this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asda.co.uk\">Asda&#8217;s<\/a> fresh gluten free pasta deserves a mention too; again, we&#8217;d been sent some to try in advance, and it was also good. Sadly, we don&#8217;t have an Asda near us, but if you do, you should try it. (Asda are launching 95 new gluten free lines this summer. 95! Go check them out&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Then I must mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gf-foods.co.uk\/\">Feel Free&#8217;s<\/a> ravioli. We&#8217;ve been wanting a decent ravioli for ages, and here it was! This is a frozen meal, with meat and ricotta inside the ravioli, and will be available in Budgens and Londis. We bought some to bring home&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdpdistribuzione.com\">Celi Good&#8217;s<\/a> pasta pronto range (this would be useful for camping\/expeditions etc &#8211; we bought some of this too)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There were a range of different wraps\/flatbreads available. It&#8217;s as though manufacturers have suddenly worked out how to do it, so they&#8217;re all giving it a try&#8230; We liked (and bought) the chapatti from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.f-faf.co.uk\">Free From Authentic Foods<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfreefoods.com\/\">BFree<\/a> were cooking breakfast wraps, which our coeliac enjoyed (these will be in Asda and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocado.com\">Ocado<\/a>, and are probably there now).<\/p>\n<p>Other products that we liked enough to carry home from London:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delidivine.co.uk\">Delidivine&#8217;s<\/a> sausage rolls<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreegoodies.co.uk\">Sin<\/a> chocolate brownie<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consciouschocolate.co.uk\/\">Conscious<\/a> dairy and gluten free raw chocolate (mint)<\/li>\n<li>Sensa Glutine pizza bases sold by <a href=\"http:\/\/bruschettaglutenfree.co.uk\/\">Bruschetta<\/a> (a gluten free restaurant in Kingston)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilumiworld.com\">ilumi&#8217;s<\/a> ready meals in pouches &#8211; ideal for trips away, expeditions etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There were lots of new products being launched. I&#8217;ve mentioned Asda; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newburnbakehouse.com\/\">Warburton<\/a>&#8216;s told us they would have new products out by the end of June (we&#8217;ve already found brown and seeded wraps!); <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sainsburys.co.uk\">Sainsbury&#8217;s<\/a> will have new products on the shelves in September, including a chocolate log and gingerbread men. <\/p>\n<p>So which products would we buy again?<\/p>\n<p>Actually, all of the ones we brought home. We picked well!<\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t get to London, do go to Liverpool (get your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allergyshow.co.uk\/go\/lucyfreefromblog\">free tickets<\/a> here). It&#8217;s well worth it. An extraordinary event, packed with great products &#8211; and, well, just packed. 21,000 visitors in London over the three days! 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