Dom's FreeFrom Guide

Free From in Ibiza

2014-09-08T22:53:00.000+01:00

On a recent trip to Ibiza we stumbled upon this gem of a restaurant serving exceptional free from food...

Wild Beets Restaurant

Raw, vegan and plant-based cuisine

Phone: +34 971 19 78 70 Email: info@wildbeets.com

https://www.facebook.com/wildbeets
07814 Santa Gertrudis de Fruitera, Balearic Islands, Spain

If you are ever in Ibiza give it at try - you will be amazed by the fantastic food and drink available.

Could you be intolerant to the food you eat?

2014-04-25T00:11:00.000+01:00

Low on energy? Not feeling well? Could you be intolerant to the food you eat? On the show today we find out what food intolerance is, how to spot them and what you can do to make yourself feel better.
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Food of the month - grapefruit

2013-11-13T15:07:00.001+00:00

Food of the month - grapefruit

Live Gluten Free August Newsletter

2013-08-30T12:47:00.000+01:00

Gluten Free friendly places to eat & stay, as well as recipes & products

Recipes, some great giveaways and "Recommend" is now live!

Summer holidays are over and we're fully re-charged for the Autumn. We've discovered more great places to eat and have some super new recipes.

The new recommend feature is now live on the site, making it super easy for you to share the best of gluten free food.

Don't forget your FREE tickets to the Allergy and Free From Show North, in Liverpool, which is just 8 weeks away.

As usual, we've got some other opportunities for you to get hold of gluten free food.

Please feel free to forward this email to anyone you know, who might find it useful and help spread the word

Gluten Free Fish & Chips

Sean's tour of the South West unearthed some great gluten free friendly places to eat.

This includes a fish and chip shop which sells gluten free fish and chips every day (not just every 1st Thursday of the month!).

We've had other recommendations from across the country, you can share your favourites too.

Lime and Chili Guacamole

This lightly spiced guacamole makes a perfect creamy topping for Nairn’s gluten free oatcakes.

Avocados are rich in healthy monounsaturated fats and energising B vitamins including folate.

Suitable for vegetarians, Suitable for vegans, Dairy Free, Nut Free, Seed Free, Egg Free.

Giveaway: Recommend to Win

You can now easily recommend your favourite gluten free friendly places to eat out.

We've a great new feature on LiveGlutenFree.co.uk.

To help to celebrate this we've partnered with our friends at Swedish gluten free bakery Fria Gluten Free to offer a prize of a delicious gluten free hamper of their bakery products.

The prize is a selection of Fria Gluten Free products, including the Free From Food Award Winning loaf Grova, cinnamon rolls and one of our all-time favourites, Kladdkaka, sticky chocolate brownie cake.

To enter, you just have to recommend somewhere to eat.

Recommend Now

In the blog...

We've a couple of super recipes and a great opportunity to help those who are, as yet, undiagnosed become aware of coeliac disease.

Our Summer Search for new places to eat has come up trumps and, with your help we're discovering more, which can only be good for us all.

Here are this months blog posts:

Giveaway: Help speed up diagnosis

GPs say testing could help speed up diagnosis of coeliac disease.

We know that we're probably preaching to the converted, as likely most folk reading this will be only too aware of the effects of coeliac disease.

You can help those who are, as yet, undiagnosed get a faster diagnosis.

Gluten Free Cream Tea

We all need a treat now-and-then and we think a gluten free cream tea might hit the mark.

The response from our hunt for gluten free fish and chips was amazing - thanks everyone!

This led us to embrace what was left of the summer and focus on searching for another very British speciality, gluten free cream tea.

Tibits Tomato Soup

Tomato Soup with Lemongrass and Coconut Milk.

For those of you who aren't close enough to Tibits Restaurant, here's one of their delicious summer recipes, for you to enjoy at home.

We can vouch for the Tibits recipes having visited and reviewed their restaurant in London earlier this year.

News from Producers

News from gluten free producers. Here are some of the goodies that they've been cooking up for you.

If you're a producer with good news to share with the gluten free community, get in touch.

Nairn’s new gluten-free biscuit breaks

Nairn’s new gluten-free biscuit breaks taste so good you wouldn’t know they were gluten-free - or 47 calories per biscuit!

Available in handy pouch packs they are easy to carry in your bag for a mid-morning or afternoon snack on the go.

Like the rest of the Nairn’s range, the biscuits are made with pure, wholegrain gluten free oats, so they are high in fibre and safely gluten free.

The biscuits come in two flavours, oats & syrup and oats & fruit, and can be found in the Free From section at Tesco, Waitrose and Asda.

Nairn Gluten-free biscuit break

Gluten Free Beer and Lager Giveaway

2013-07-19T23:29:00.000+01:00

Gluten Free Beer and Lager Giveaway

As the sun is still beating down on the UK, we thought we would partner with our friends at the Gluten Free Shop. We’re running a gluten free beer and lager giveaway to help cool you down. You have the opportunity to win a gluten free beer and lager starter pack. Click here to see the details and how to enter.

Good luck

Team LiveGlutenFree

Managing a dietary restriction

2013-07-12T23:33:00.001+01:00

Danuta's helping hands : Managing a dietary restriction: Have you recently been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes or heart disease? Have you been told to loose weight for health reasons or have ...

Review - Great North Gluten Free Fair 2013

2013-04-27T16:23:00.001+01:00

Danuta's helping hands pages: Review - Gluten Free Fair 2013: What a gem of an event this was. So good to see that there is whole new world out there catering for those with specific dietary needs. Such...

Kelkin Jaffa Cakes

2013-04-10T09:47:00.000+01:00

Good taste. The sponge is soft and not grainy while the orange gel has a subtle flavour.
The chocolate is dark and tastes fine however the chocolate from the bottom of the one before seems to stick to the one after which all gets a tad messy.
Apart from that they are a good treat and almost as good as there gluten full alternatives.
Each jaffa cake is 44cal with 6.8g of sugar, 1g of fat and 0.1g of salt so it's a healthier option if you want a "naughty treat".
The only major let down is the crumbliness of the sponge and the flakiness of the chocolate.

Free from gluten and wheat. They do contain egg and soya plus they could contain traces of milk and nuts.

Price: around £1.69

6.5 out of 10 - Dom O'Neill

Sainsbury's freefrom chocolate brownies

2013-04-08T18:52:00.003+01:00

They taste good, hard and yummy top with a moist inside.
They taste the same as a non-free from product.
Pack contains 2x 2x vacuum packs of brownies.
The vacuum pack makes them perfect for a packed lunch snack.
Watch out though, as you would expect they are high in fat 7.8g per and sugar 11.8g per slice.
They are not cheap but they are good quality and perfect for an occasional snack.

7 out of 10 - Dom O'Neill

Gluten, wheat and dairy free. However they do contain nuts and eggs.

Price £1.99 (or 2 for £3.00)

Free from Pizza

2013-04-04T10:31:00.001+01:00

I love pizza but my body can't deal with gluten (bread) or lactose (cheese). For many years my option was to have a plate of tomato paste but not any more! There are a number of ready made frozen free from pizzas out there. DS probably make the best however many of the supermarkets do ones that are often OK.

DS do great pizza bases
but they are not ready made lactose free

However I have a major beef with all of them. They are not free from... Well not really as they all contain real cheese full of lactose! Why can't someone make a free from frozen pizza with either lactose free cheese or soya cheese.

They make and sell both soya and lactose free cheese in the supermarkets so I don't understand why they can't put it on a pizza. What is they point in a free from Pizza if people who live the free from life can't eat it?

If you know of any free from frozen pizza with no lactose in then let me know so we can spread the word.

Genius Pie!!

2013-04-03T09:42:00.000+01:00

Genius Gluten Free Steak and Ale Pie

This pie is free from Gluten and wheat but contains milk, soya and egg.
Price: Around £3 for a pack of 2.

I have always found gluten free pies expensive and disappointing! This has put me off pies for many years, because of this I was reluctant to try them again after my last few tries. However I am glad I did.

Genius has lived up to its name! They have managed to great a tasty pie pastry which is not chalky and won't instantly crumble.

The pastry is hard where it needs to be and soft and light in the right parts too. Sounds simple but many in the past have failed in that.

They source is very tasty too, it is runny but not too much and flavourful. Plus you get a good amount of steak too.

Fat and sugar are comparatively low considering they are pies, each pie is 380 cal with 20.3g of fat and 9.6g of sugar. However you may need to watch out for the 0.97g of salt. Always enjoy these as part of a healthy diet.

These pies are great as a quick after work meal as they need no preparation and cook in 35 min in the oven.

They are not cheap compared to non free from foods but within the freefrom market they are reasonably priced compared to the quality of the product.

8.5 out of 10

Value soya milk... What is it good for?...

2013-01-14T18:51:00.002+00:00

Absolutely nothing... Say it again!!

Sadly the title says it all. I try to see the positive in most things but when it comes to value Soya milk positivity is no where to be seen.


From ASDA or Morrison's to TESCO's the universal truth is their value soya milk sucks!

Admittedly sweetened Soya is usually better than unsweetened (which is close to undrinkable) however that's not saying much.

In tea or coffee you need to pack a cuppa with sugar to disguise the taste. Which is not very healthy. Plus many cheap Soya milks will curdle in hot drinks, which is not much use. If you have strong tasting cereal you may get away with using value sweetened Soya for breakfast. You can use value Soya in porridge if you are stuck without any water, however I would recommend you use honey to aid with flavouring.

I would not recommend using any value Soya as a drink on its own.

The fact is, value Soya is not worth it, as its mid priced Soya rivals are only 10p - 20p more expensive and taste so much better!

A tea break is to be enjoyed not endured... But the choice is yours.

Take care,

Dom O'Neill

I Was Sick of Feeling Sick

2012-05-21T17:43:00.000+01:00


Freefrom means bye bye battered fish, cheap chips and vinegar.

Like many Freefromers I started off as a normal guy eating sandwiches, pasta and pizza almost everyday (I was at university and all that stuff was easy to cook).

However, I was noticing that I was ill a lot and I mean a lot.

I would wake up with no energy, feeling sick, splitting headaches (at the back of my head), spots in my vision plus my stomach was never right (bloated, tight and uncomfortable).

I went to the doctors a couple of times for advice. Sadly, I may as well have asked the cat, as they were useless!!

Don’t get me wrong, if you are bleeding profusely or a part of you has fallen off, docs are great. When it comes to diagnosis eating disorders docs are as useful as a chocolate tea pot (some lactose based irony for you there).

However, my girlfriend at the time was gluten and lactose intolerant and as we were eating together I started experimenting with free from foods. I started slowly, dumping cheap pasta, refined white breads and cows milk from my diet.

The difference in my life was amazing. The sickness, headaches and spots in my vision stopped almost over night and for the first time in about seven years I had energy again! Good times!!

However, that was just the start...

Are you a fellow Freefromer? How did you find out? Let me know your story.