Coeliac food recommendations

M&s sausage rolls. Get them once in a blue moon as a treat. Sooo tasty

tossy

bluewolf wrote: »

M&s sausage rolls. Get them once in a blue moon as a treat. Sooo tasty

Thanks for that tip i won't be able to resist now

AMKC

StillThinking wrote: »

Just back from Tesco and see there own range of gluten free products are 25% off at the minute. Was only a quick run in so didn't look if it was all gluten free products or just their own brand

It was more then just Tesco GF products. Ends today do unfortunately. Luckily I have stocked on products. Would have posted about this sooner but only noticed it now.

Jellybaby1

Last week Supervalu were selling Mallon's GF sausages on special offer for €2 a pack of six I think. I hadn't seen them before. Tasting them in the shop they were delicious. However tasting them at home was a tad different. They smeared some butter on them in SV and I tried it but still didn't taste the same. They were still very nice though.

tossy

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Last week Supervalu were selling Mallon's GF sausages on special offer for €2 a pack of six I think. I hadn't seen them before. Tasting them in the shop they were delicious. However tasting them at home was a tad different. They smeared some butter on them in SV and I tried it but still didn't taste the same. They were still very nice though.

Apart from Nolans in kilcullen the best GF sausages i've found are in M&S, particularly fond of their chipolata ones.

jim salter

tossy wrote: »

Apart from Nolans in kilcullen the best GF sausages i've found are in M&S, particularly fond of their chipolata ones.

Lidl have some GF sausages and they are really nice.

Clonakilty Ispini Mora are really nice too

still a dancing queen

Apart from claiming back tax, is there any help available for someone who is on a low income and doesn't pay tax?

jim salter

still a dancing queen wrote: »

Apart from claiming back tax, is there any help available for someone who is on a low income and doesn't pay tax?

in the past (10 years ago afair) there was a supplementary welfare payment for a gluten free diet - it was a small sum but still was a help...

still a dancing queen

It seems from earlier posts that tax rebates of about 500 Euros per annum are paid out. 10 Euro per week would go some way to meeting the cost! How can I find out more about this supplementary welfare payment?

jim salter

still a dancing queen wrote: »

It seems from earlier posts that tax rebates of about 500 Euros per annum are paid out. 10 Euro per week would go some way to meeting the cost! How can I find out more about this supplementary welfare payment?

From this page http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Dietary-Supplement.aspx it appears that diet supplement was discontinued in 2014

http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/SWA---Diet-Supplement.aspx

Apologies

still a dancing queen

Thanks Jim for your reply. I've been reading the info on the links you provided and it appears that the weekly cost of the gluten-free diet was E68.43. To calculate the amount of supplement they deducted one-third of income, which in the example given was E61.93, and so the supplement would be (have been) E6.50. My niece gets E107.70 jobseeker's allowance, so 1/3rd of that is E35.90. It seems she would have gotten E32.50 if she'd applied before 1/2/14, but nothing if she applies now. The site offers no explanation at all as to why new applications are not accepted. This seems very arbitrary, or as my niece would say, very random!

jim salter

still a dancing queen wrote: »

Thanks Jim for your reply. I've been reading the info on the links you provided and it appears that the weekly cost of the gluten-free diet was E68.43. To calculate the amount of supplement they deducted one-third of income, which in the example given was E61.93, and so the supplement would be (have been) E6.50. My niece gets E107.70 jobseeker's allowance, so 1/3rd of that is E35.90. It seems she would have gotten E32.50 if she'd applied before 1/2/14, but nothing if she applies now. The site offers no explanation at all as to why new applications are not accepted. This seems very arbitrary, or as my niece would say, very random!

I believe it is a total disgrace and looking at the other dietary supplementary allowance offered, there should be outrage about this.

The Coeliac Society of Ireland is not pushing as hard as they could

goat2

It is the same problem with the diabetic products, they are priced way over the top,

still a dancing queen

I posted a thread on State Benefits to find out more about the possibility of some help with the cost of the diet. The general response seems to be unsupportive of the idea that any financial help was necessary or should be provided. One view regarded all specialist gluten-free products as luxuries and that Coeliacs should manage on naturally gluten-free products rather than getting hung up on bread and pasta (and expecting the taxpayer to help). Another who is a Coeliac claimed that apart from GF pasta he follows a non-processed diet which is the same cost as a non-coeliac diet. Another agreed that a Coeliac diet is expensive if you insist on eating processed foods, but that he can feed himself and his wife for 50 euros per week and spends almost no more on his wife's food than on his own apart from flour, he does not believe a subsidy is the answer. Should I encourage my niece to avoid these specialist products and forget about Social Welfare supplements and tax rebates? Is it possible to follow a healthy gluten-free diet at little or no extra cost?

tossy

still a dancing queen wrote: »

I posted a thread on State Benefits to find out more about the possibility of some help with the cost of the diet. The general response seems to be unsupportive of the idea that any financial help was necessary or should be provided. One view regarded all specialist gluten-free products as luxuries and that Coeliacs should manage on naturally gluten-free products rather than getting hung up on bread and pasta (and expecting the taxpayer to help). Another who is a Coeliac claimed that apart from GF pasta he follows a non-processed diet which is the same cost as a non-coeliac diet. Another agreed that a Coeliac diet is expensive if you insist on eating processed foods, but that he can feed himself and his wife for 50 euros per week and spends almost no more on his wife's food than on his own apart from flour, he does not believe a subsidy is the answer. Should I encourage my niece to avoid these specialist products and forget about Social Welfare supplements and tax rebates? Is it possible to follow a healthy gluten-free diet at little or no extra cost?

You should definitely encourage her to stay away from that holier than thou shower, attitudes like that are about as helpful as gluten to your neice!

honestly i think a lot of meat, veg, rice, fruit, potatoes is a good staple for a diet, and it does all tend to be naturally gluten free.
i love bread but it is pricey. i was chatting to a woman who was recommending making porridge bread which would do for ages - i haven't yet!

i think anything else i buy specially gf is generally as a treat. whether that's cakes, biscuits, pizza, eclairs, cornettos. it's not stuff i actually need. so if someone is new to it i'd suggest not rushing out buying specially gf stuff or at least not regularly

aldi do have 89c gluten free sausages though, i'll throw that out there...

mille100piedi

I wouldn't eat any gluten-free processed food. I just don't trust other people prepare the food that I eat. I bought years ago a pack of cookies and after reading the ingredients i noticed that they were made with pea protein. I think I am eating cookies but I also eating peas?then people start having a problem with a lot of food and they don't even know why. Eating gluten now is really like eating plastic. I eat meat, fish and veg and i don't need anything else. I make bread sometimes using coconut, almond or flax seed flour. Many people are not coeliacs but gluten affects them very much. My boyfriend couldn't lose weight and he had terrible mood swings, doctor said he was depressed/bipolar but he just stopped eating gluten and now is not any more dr jekyll and mr hyde

0lddog

Quorn recalls a batch of its 2 Gluten Free Burgers packs because of undeclared gluten :


https://www.food.gov.uk/news-alerts/alert/fsa-aa-53-2018

Jellybaby1

I've never tasted Quorn. After I checked it up on Wikipedia, I never will.

irlirishkev

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

I've never tasted Quorn. After I checked it up on Wikipedia, I never will.

I have. Out of curiosity. It's awful, awful stuff..

goat2

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

I've never tasted Quorn. After I checked it up on Wikipedia, I never will.

Like you I did look up how quorn is made, it put me right off,

jim salter

goat2 wrote: »

Like you I did look up how quorn is made, it put me right off,

Sure, it's just like mushrooms

0lddog

goat2 wrote: »

Like you I did look up how quorn is made, it put me right off,

Isnt the name alone enough to do that ?

There was an alert in the other day for some batchs of Whitworths granulated sugar being recalled due to possible shreds of metal.

And another one about some Tropicana product that was fermenting way before BB date

Anyone interested in this sort of stuff can sign up for email alerts from the UK FSA ( Sorry, I'm to lazy to find the link just now. )

rubadub

0lddog wrote: »

Anyone interested in this sort of stuff can sign up for email alerts from the UK FSA ( Sorry, I'm to lazy to find the link just now. )

here is the Irish one https://www.fsai.ie/news_centre/food_alerts.html

thumbs up for these with a bit of honey

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/297673670

Lidl have gf stuff now in the corner. Falafels and desserts and stuff. The desserts are actually 20g protein as well. Not sure about sugar content

Jellybaby1

If you crave GF biscuits then Lidl is the place to go, or Aldi. I've had the Lidl choc chip ones and they are delicious mainly because I think there must be a lot of butter in them so I don't buy them often because when I do I eat the whole darn packet in one day and as I've been trying to lose weight that's bad, really bad. Christmas is over and so I now stop buying GF biscuits. I've never tried making the oat bread as I'm afraid it will turn out as bad as a lot of homemade GF bread. Personally I just keep to fresh fruit, veg, meat and fish and don't worry too much about bread and biscuits. Being Coeliac is a way of life and we just have to adjust to it. When I really have to have bread I keep a store of M & S GF bread rolls in the freezer for emergencies. It tastes lovely and has a light fluffy texture, but is expensive.

Jellybaby1

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

If you crave GF biscuits then Lidl is the place to go, or Aldi. I've had the Lidl choc chip ones and they are delicious mainly because I think there must be a lot of butter in them so I don't buy them often because when I do I eat the whole darn packet in one day

ye i don't buy biscuits anymore.
the hobnobs are amazing also

Personally I just keep to fresh fruit, veg, meat and fish and don't worry too much about bread and biscuits. Being Coeliac is a way of life and we just have to adjust to it. When I really have to have bread I keep a store of M & S GF bread rolls in the freezer for emergencies. It tastes lovely and has a light fluffy texture, but is expensive.

I mostly do the meat and veg but i do like kelkin bread

Jellybaby1

bluewolf wrote: »

ye i don't buy biscuits anymore.
the hobnobs are amazing also

I mostly do the meat and veg but i do like kelkin bread

Then Kelkin must have improved its recipe because when I started eating GF a couple of decades ago it was vile. I'm not sure I want to try it even now.

tossy

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Then Kelkin must have improved its recipe because when I started eating GF a couple of decades ago it was vile. I'm not sure I want to try it even now.

Agree on the Lidl/Aldi biscuits - very tasty.

I can't work up the courage to buy Kelkin bread lol Im still buying M&S bread it's dearer but makes a lovely sandwich.

Found a good Beer over christmas also Wicklow wolf Arcadia, very tasty.

Was in Germany before christmas and found it very hard to find a good GF beer, found one in a supermarket eventually that wasn't great - got some great eating out tips from the gluten free Germany website though.