Food

Gluten free foods...
Not sure if i'm in the right place to ask, but..I have a friend who cant eat gluten containing products/foods. Can anyone recommend any suppliers, producers of yummy gluten free things. Seems like all the 'gluten free' things they have found so far are not that nice to eat,,pastas, breads, cakes, biscuits..all that scrummy stuff that us normos seem to find in abundance. Any restaurant, bakery etc recommendations would be fab

Thanks

Mus

I've coeliac disease and was diagnosed in 2005 so have been on a gf diet for the past 7.5 years and have tried a lot of different gf products but, as your friend is discovering, most of them are poor substitutes.

For bread then the best of a bad bunch is Genius, especially the brown and seeded versions. It is, like all gluten free breads, prone to breaking apart, but is at least edible.

Mrs Chrimbles do an excellent range of gf biscuits and cakes, especially their macaroons.

I gave up on pizza as most gf pizza bases seem to contain as much cardboard as the packaging they come in, but recently discovered that if you take a gf pizza base into Pizza Express, they'll do any of their toppings for you with it. The best pizza base I've found is the frozen ones in Tescos but mainly because of their size.

Konditor & Cook do an excellent gluten free cake to order, but it's pricey (but worth it).

I would say though, that it's probably best just to give up on substitutes and change your whole approach to what you eat but that's a whole other topic.