{"id":637,"date":"2009-07-03T11:50:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T10:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=637"},"modified":"2017-05-20T12:08:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T11:08:28","slug":"when-are-gluten-free-products-like-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/when-are-gluten-free-products-like-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"When are gluten free products like buses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/ds-sausage-rolls.png\" alt=\"ds-sausage-rolls\" title=\"ds-sausage-rolls\" width=\"280\" height=\"255\" align=\"right\" \/>Wait for a long time&#8230; then you get two at once.<\/p>\n<p>Not only do we have the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=610\">new gluten free fish fingers<\/a> from a &#8216;normal&#8217; fish finger provider &#8211; a break from tradition in itself &#8211; we now have two new products from a dedicated gluten free provider.<\/p>\n<p>Dietary Specials have announced the arrival of their new wheat-free and gluten-free frozen pastry and sausage rolls.  These should be available from Sainsbury stores across the country (UK, I&#8217;m afraid) and some people are already <a href=\"http:\/\/members2.boardhost.com\/glutenfree\">reporting<\/a> that they&#8217;ve found them.<\/p>\n<p>The press release overstates it a little bit, announcing that this gives coeliacs the chance to enjoy readymade pastry for the first time&#8230; this isn&#8217;t strictly true, as it has been possible to buy readymade frozen gluten free pastry from a range of different suppliers for a while now (online, from G-Free and Sussex Larder at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreecatering.com\/store\/browse.php?tpg=Frozen%20Products&#038;tsg=Pastry&#038;showsg=Frozen%20Products\">Johnson&#8217;s Provisions<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gffdirect.co.uk\/index.php?id=66\">Gluten Free Foods Direct<\/a>,for example, or on the high street from local providers such as our local shop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenislandchippy.co.uk\">Just For You<\/a>) and we&#8217;ve been buying readymade gluten free sausage rolls from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gfdiet.com\/\">Lifestyle<\/a> for years.  <\/p>\n<p>But it is true that this is the first time that readymade gluten free pastry and sausage rolls have been available in a national supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>For some people &#8211; perhaps those who prefer to buy from supermarkets, those who don&#8217;t want to buy in the bulk quantities sometimes required by online providers, or those who don&#8217;t usually buy gluten-free, but need to cater for a visitor &#8211; this is a big step forward.  Hurrah for Sainsbury and Dietary Specials!<\/p>\n<p>My shopping list is getting ever longer &#8211; I need to put the keyboard down, stop working and go out to the shops&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wait for a long time&#8230; then you get two at once. Not only do we have the new gluten free fish fingers from a &#8216;normal&#8217; fish finger provider &#8211; a break from tradition in itself &#8211; we now have two new products from a dedicated gluten free provider. Dietary Specials have announced the arrival of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[24,1,27],"tags":[7,5,4,6,36,35],"class_list":{"0":"post-637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-gluten-free-finds","7":"category-living-gluten-free","8":"category-gluten-free-shopping","9":"tag-avoid-gluten","10":"tag-celiac","11":"tag-coeliac","12":"tag-gluten-free","13":"tag-pastry","14":"tag-sausage-rolls","15":"entry","16":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","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=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}