tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78206341053886494302024-03-08T11:34:21.937+00:00Dairy Free Baby and MeBlogging to spread awareness and knowledge regarding Cow's Milk Protein Allergy and other allergy-related topics!Hullaballouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06731907326879042732noreply@blogger.comBlogger275125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820634105388649430.post-81399074565889993682020-06-27T14:26:00.002+01:002020-06-27T23:33:54.174+01:00Baking Without Baby - Coffee & Walnut Swiss Roll - dairy free, gluten free, soya free<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Sometimes you have an itch you've just GOT to scratch - that's me with this coffee and walnut swiss roll.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">The coffee swiss roll recipe originated from 'Lainey Bakes' recipe (<span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.laineybakes.co.uk/coffee-swiss-roll/">see here</a></span>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">All I added was some walnuts!! I also swapped espresso powder for coffee essence. I *may* have upped the amount of coffee, as I like my coffee!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Oh, and I upped the quantities, because I had a larger swiss roll tin!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">4 Eggs (as fresh as you can get them)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">100 g Caster Sugar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">100 g Doves Farm Gluten Free Self Raising Flour</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">4 tsp Coffee Essence (to make it caffeine free, for kids, you could sub with 2 tsp strong instant decaf coffee, mixed with a little boiled water and cooled)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">50g Walnut Pieces (for the cake)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Betty Crocker Ready Made Coffee Icing</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Betty Crocker Vanilla Buttercream Style Icing, with coffee essence to taste</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">6 Halved Walnuts (for the decoration)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">1. Line your swiss roll tin with parchment paper or grease proof paper and warm your oven to 200 degrees (fan) or Gas 6.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">2. Whisk eggs and sugar together, until light and frothy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">3. Mix in your coffee essence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">4. Sift in the flour and fold it in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">5. Break up the walnut pieces into small pieces and gently combine with the mixture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">6. Empty the mixture into your swiss roll tin, taking care to spread to the sides and corners. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">7. Put it in the oven to bake for 10-12 minutes, until it is golden brown and bounces back again when you press it firmly with your finger - by this time it should be coming away from the sides.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">8. Spread some grease proof paper over a clean surface (I weight mine either side with knives, to stop it rolling back again). Empty the swiss roll from the tin, and peel off the grease proof paper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">9. Trim about one and a half cm of each side of the swiss roll and cut a line about 2-3 cm from one end of the swiss roll. You don't want to cut all the way through, just about halfway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">10. Tightly roll up the swiss roll in the grease proof paper until is has mostly cooled, you can clip the ends if you like, to help it stay rolled together. (See <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://dairyfreebabyandme.blogspot.com/2016/05/black-forest-swiss-roll-baking-without.html">this post</a></span> for visuals.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">11. Unroll the swiss roll and spread the butter cream-style icing over the surface, then use the grease proof sheet to help roll the swiss roll tightly together again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">12. Pipe six generous blobs along the top of the swiss roll and top each with half a walnut. Dust with icing sugar, if so desired.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">I find that placing the Swiss roll in the fridge, in a plastic container, helps the cake to keep 4-5 days, and in hot weather, helps to firm up the icing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: red;">This post is not an advert. I have not been paid to write this post. I am not sponsored in any way, even by advertising. I do not receive products free to review, although I have often been offered them. </span></i></span><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">This is to try and maintain an unbiased approach. </span></i><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Any products listed in this post are here purely because they genuinely are the products we have used and enjoy consuming. They are included here merely to point people who are new to suitable products that they too may enjoy. All views expressed are my own (unless I've asked for The Hub's or Kiddo's). I try to tell is 'as-it-is'.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><br /></span>Hullaballouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06731907326879042732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820634105388649430.post-58495460113856187092018-11-06T13:00:00.001+00:002018-11-06T13:25:28.940+00:00#EasytoAsk? or is it??? Eating out with Food allergies...<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I've seen a fair few tweets recently with #easytoask. They're aimed particularly 16-24 year olds, with food allergies. It's encouraging them that it is OK to ask about their allergens when they're out somewhere and ordering food. Those tweeting, are recognised bodies, with whom I don't like to quibble, BUT...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Personally, I don't like to put a damper on it, but I'm not so sure that it <i><b>is</b></i> so easy to ask!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was at a birthday party on Saturday. It was held at a local pub. Everyone else but I was eating. I was not eating by choice. I quite frankly couldn't face the bother. It was a large party and the order had being placed in advance 'en masse' by the friend's husband, and I simply didn't want to risk anything going awry. I'm not normally so cautious, as to not eat altogether, but recent events shaped my reactions...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Not so long ago I went out to eat for another friend's birthday, where I was expecting to eat, quite safely, as the restaurant is quite expensive and I thought they would be cooking to order. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'No problem,' thought I, 'I've eaten here several times before. Whenever I've checked beforehand, it's all been fine.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, a little complacent, perhaps, I turned up on the day, without my usual checks. I simply scanned the menu for something that looked pretty safe and when the waiter came, I asked for advice about the dish I had spotted. It looked to be a fairly simple sea bass dish - they are often my best bet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He was a foreign waiter, but seemed to understand me. When I asked whether it would be free from gluten, dairy, soya etc. he wasn't all that </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">sure; he thought it would be fine, but would check. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All seemed to be fine, so the order was placed. Another friend ordered the same dish. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As both were brought out at the same time (and not by the chap who had taken my order), I asked if the one I had been given was gluten free (always my starting point, as that's the one to which I'm most sensitive). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Confusion flitted across their faces - this was obviously news to them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'I'll just check!' one said, and off she went. When she returned, it turned out, no, mine wasn't gluten free, but they'd take it away and do it again. 'OK fine,' I thought, 'better safe than sorry - better that they have noticed and put it right, than I eat it and suffer later.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I waited quite a while longer, before the dish returned, I started to peel away the wrapper (it was 'en papillote' - baked in a sealed package)... when suddenly a waitress rushed out to stop me!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oh!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Apparently this dish wasn't right either! They were going to do it again!! I was slightly peeved, and by now hungry! My friends were already pretty much finished with their main course, by then, and I was lagging behind. Other diners had come and gone in the meantime, but I thought, 'better safe than sorry'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Finally the dish arrived and as no-one returned to say it wasn't suitable, I cautiously tucked in. Only by this time, my side order of fries was cold and so was the side dish of greens (which had also had to be returned as it hadn't been done correctly first time either - I'd asked for it to be cooked in oil rather than butter). Oh, and my friends, who I had instructed not to wait for me, were just finishing their dessert!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One friend's comment really resonated with me. It was to the effect that she could now see why I don't eat out as often as she. (Only she used more colourful language, that I've edited out.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">See my point is, it <b>MAY</b> be 'easy to ask,' but it's not always easy to get the right answer!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>What are the potential problems?</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. <b>Langauge barrier</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If the waiter/waitress/server does not speak English as a first language, it's difficult to know if they completely understand the message that you are trying to convey. It's the reason why I tend to go self-catering when I'm abroad - if I read labels myself and prepare food myself, I feel much more confident of a safe outcome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However, in this country it is also quite common to come across staff who don't have English as a first language, and some of those are in positions of management too. It's all very well and good if they are proficient in English, but slightly concerning when you need to get an important message across and are not sure that it IS getting through.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. <b>Lack of knowledge</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Unless you live with food allergies yourself, or have been trained thoroughly there may be gaps in the person's knowledge. The number of times I've been told, 'Oh, but there IS egg in it!!' when I've tried to confirm whether something contains dairy!! Of course, you and I know, that when I say 'dairy', I mean milk and the products made from milk. Milk (usually, although not always) comes from cows. Eggs come from chicken - completely different animals!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By the way, I usually use the term 'dairy' as it is a much broader term than 'milk'. If I use the term 'milk' people do not always make the connection between milk itself, and other products made with milk, such as butter or cream, or yogurt, or cheese etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. <b>Chinese whispers</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You may communicate perfectly well with the waitress/waiter, but what is the communication like in the kitchen? The more times the information has to pass through other people, particularly in a busy pressurized environment, the more chances there are that something can go wrong. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was particularly impressed with the Disney restaurants in Florida (you won't get the same service in Disneyland, Paris - just so you know), because the moment the server heard the phrase 'milk allergy,'( in regards to my daughter, who was still allergic at the time), they summoned the chef to the table and the chef actually CAME to your table and talked everything through with you. There's not many other places where we've been treated with anything like that care and attention! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's also one of the reasons I love restaurants that will repeat back your allergy information as they serve the dish, or stick a label in that says 'dairy free' or 'gluten free' - a la Cote or Rockfish. It's not something that they are required to do by law, but that 'best practice' reiteration of the essential knowledge, gives you more confidence that hopefully the message has really got through!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4. <b>Societal pressure</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Eating out with friends and family, or standing in a queue with other people who are are hungry, you can be horribly aware that by asking all the questions you may feel you need to ask, in order to be 100% confident about the food, you are keeping others waiting. Sometimes you get that little shuffle behind you, a sigh, a glance at a watch... Even as an adult, I hate it and feel the need to get it over and done with as quickly as possible. How much more so must many a younger person, especially when peer pressure comes into play??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Going back to my recent experience, I have no idea what caused the mix-up in the restaurant, it may have been multiple factors, but sometimes these things happen. You just have to hope that they notice in time to stop you taking your first bite. And this is not the first time this sort of thing has happened - although this <b>was</b> the first time it took the best of three, to make it right!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One dish I used to love preparing, in the days pre-Baby, was stir fry - very quick, very easy and can be made in a multitude of ways, according to whatever ingredients you have available. It's made even easier, when you can whack in a ready made sauce! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was off the menu for a while in our house, because although we managed to find rice-based noodles, ready made stir fry sauces can be harder to obtain, if you are gluten and soya free!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However... thanks to a relative newcomer to our store cupboard - Coconut Aminos, stir fry is back on the menu - just so long as we use veggies that Kiddo will eat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So here's how we do it:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2 chicken breasts/pack of kind size Prawns </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2 carrots or 2 handfuls of mixed frozen veg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2 packets gluten free rice noodles (we use <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/268553228">Amoy</a></span> - specifically labelled 'gluten free') <b>OR</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2 packets pre-prepared rice (we use <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/tilda-steamed-basmati-plain-rice-250g?istCompanyId=1e096408-041f-4238-994e-a7cf46bf9413&istItemId=wxtialtrlx&istBid=t&gclid=Cj0KCQjwi8fdBRCVARIsAEkDvnKrpZjnLQpX0PHTj3FBZpQ9GrozBHPQ4cuDm9iCtFUk2jrkjwZYcJkaAlagEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CNLQ45yf5d0CFcjD3gods3IGjw">Tilda</a></span>, as it is labelled gluten free)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2 tbsp Coconut Aminos (I get mine from <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=coconut+amino&index=aps&tag=googhydr-21&ref=pd_sl_1ur6wgqnkc_e&adgrpid=52983575477&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=259037202698&hvpos=1t1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4140648691370097411&hvqmt=e&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1007237&hvtargid=kwd-300354166931">Amazon</a></span>, but you can find them in Holland and Barrett and <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Cocofina-Organic-Coconut-Amino-Soya-Teriyaki-Sauce-Alternative/415824011?&ULP_CAMPAIGN_ID=52&gclid=Cj0KCQjwi8fdBRCVARIsAEkDvnKxrTQ_flqd90zmn_PNKd4wtgD_9vsDkZxKUPCIike6SyIvDjdGz2MaAqyeEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds.ds&dclid=CIS1pf6d5d0CFZSeGwodxf8IYQ">Ocado</a></span>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You will need a large frying pan or wok, to cook this dish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>1.</b> Clean and chop veggies, fairly finely, so that they are easy to cook - carrot cooks easily when sliced into ribbons with a peeler - not so much when in big chunks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>2. </b>Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil and 1 of sesame oil in a pan. Add the raw chicken/prawns and cook on a medium heat, until they are cooked. Whilst cooking keep stirring and turning meat/prawns, to ensure that they are evenly cooked. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>3.</b> If you want to add egg, clear a space in the pan, break them into the pan, and stir them into a scramble. Then remove meat and eggs into a bowl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>4. </b>Replenish oil, before adding in your veggies. Cook for a further three-five minutes, or so before adding the noodles, and keep stirring for another three minutes or so!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>5.</b> Add the meat/prawns back in and a couple of tablespoons of Coconut Aminos. Make sure everything is mixed together well, before serving, into bowls. </span></div>
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Hullaballouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06731907326879042732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820634105388649430.post-31930587784223560882018-09-27T15:55:00.001+01:002019-01-24T14:07:20.690+00:00What shall we have for dinner?? Dairy Free, Gluten Free, Soya Free<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When I first went 'dairy free', I can remember the panic. What were we going to eat?? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It took me a while to realise that whilst some things had changed, not everything was going to be different. And after a while things became a whole lot easier, as we discovered things we could 'safely eat'. We then began to stick to a 'safe list'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Do you have one of those?? You know, a list of tried and trusted dishes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Don't know about you, but it can be so easy to get stuck in a familiar rut, when it comes to making dinner. Occasionally I'll come across a 'new' (to us) dish and make it ad infinitum, but sometimes Kiddo decides she doesn't wan it and suddenly it's off the menu again, and we're back to the same old, same old...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However, what's MY 'same old' may be different from yours, so if I share mine, and you share yours... hopefully we can all share a bit of inspiration!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">BUT, I'm NO Nigella... just so you know!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As in previous posts, this list is by no means exhaustive (especially as Kiddo is not fond of spice) but here's an idea of what we might eat:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Roast Chicken - with roasted potatoes and veg. (use Bisto Free From gravy if gluten free like me, otherwise make sure that your chicken gravy does not contain milk)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Roast rack of lamb - with roasted potatoes and veg. and Bisto Free from gravy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Barnyard Pie - Chicken, bacon and leek, sweetcorn, mushroom, or whatever veg you like to add. It's made with gravy and topped with mash - much the same as Shepherd's Pie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Lasagna - either making the sauce from scratch with dairy and gluten free alternatives, or using Dolmio smooth hidden veg and Tesco Free From lasagna sauce, with Violife or Daiya Shredded 'Cheese'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Fish Pie - using white sauce made with Doves gluten free flour, Pure sunflower Margarine, Almond milk and Violife grated 'cheese'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://dairyfreebabyandme.blogspot.com/2012/05/simple-sausage-casserole.html">Sausage Casserole</a> (suitable sausages - Tesco Finest Pork, Heck Pork, Rankin's Pork)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Paella (cooked with Kallo gluten free chicken stock) according to Jamie Oliver's <a href="https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/rice-recipes/chicken-chorizo-paella/">instructions</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Fish and Chips (a la Hub!) Using the deep fat fryer and gluten free batter for the fish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Chicken Fajitas (gluten free wraps/seasonings, Coyo coconut yogurt in place of creme fraiche, Violife grated 'cheese')</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Spaghetti Bolognese (Dolmio smooth hidden veg sauce and gluten free pasta)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Bacon-wrapped cod (oven-baked with vine tomatoes, served with veg/potatoes)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sauteed potatoes with pan fried fish (salmon/mackerel/bream/sea bass)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sweet and Sour Chicken with rice (Made with Sweet Mandarin Sweet and Sour Sauce)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sausages and Mash ('safe' sausages with mash made with usual dairy free substitutes)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Pasta and Seafood with tomato-based sauce (Gluten free pasta, tomato-based sauce and fresh sea food mix from Waitrose)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://dairyfreebabyandme.blogspot.com/2018/10/simple-stir-fry-with-coconut-aminos.html">Chicken/Prawn (or both) </a>Egg Fried Rice or Noodles</span>. The rice can be cooked in advance and cooled or you can use a packet of Tilda ready rice, or two! I stick to Tilda because I know it is specifically gluten free, but there are other brands out there. Amoy Straight to Wok Noodles are good too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: red;">This post is not an advert. I have not been paid to write this post. I am not sponsored in any way, even by advertising. I do not receive products free to review, although I have often been offered them. </span></i></span><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">This is to try and maintain an unbiased approach. </span></i><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Any products listed in this post are here purely because they genuinely are the products we have used and enjoy consuming. They are included here merely to point people who are new to suitable products that they too may enjoy. All views expressed are my own (unless I've asked for The Hub's or Kiddo's). I try to tell is 'as-it-is'.</span></i></div>
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<br />Hullaballouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06731907326879042732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820634105388649430.post-61073533336085711472018-09-27T15:17:00.002+01:002020-06-30T10:44:13.949+01:00Let's do Lunch! Dairy Free, Gluten Free, Soya Free<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>When I'm home:</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">If I'm at home, I might be tempted to be lazy, if there's no left overs to reheat, then some of the following might be an option:</span><br />
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<li>Prawn mayo (if lazy get a pot from Waitrose)</li>
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<li>Spaghetti Bolognese (leftovers or a 'Look what we've found!' sachet from Waitrose)</li>
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<li>Dairy Free Cheese - although that said, actual dairy cheese is far more nutritious than dairy free cheese, so I wouldn't normally choose this option, unless I was balancing it out with some other form of protein.</li></ul>
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<li>Cold chicken and Marmite (make mine Meridien gluten free alternative)</li>
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<li>Ham and salad with mayo and ketchup</li>
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<li>Prawn in rose marie sauce</li>
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<li>Scrambled egg</li>
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<li>Avocado and bacon with lettuce </li>
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<li>Left-over bolognese</li>
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<li>Dairy free cheese and pickled beetroot (but if gluten free you may need to be careful with the vinegar)</li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">I have to be careful with bread, even bread that appears to tick all my boxes doesn't agree with me, for some reason, but occasionally I still have:</span><br />
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<li>Ham and toasted dairy free cheese</li>
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<li>Scrambled/fried/poached/boiled egg</li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">My favourite 'at home' salad (if I can be faffed), is Chicken and Aocado with cherry tomatoes and a mix of salad leaves. Add in some boiled new potatoes to warm it up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">A great way to use up left over boiled potatoes! Mix up a couple of eggs, heat up some oil in a small frying pan, throw in the eggs, a handful of dairy free cheese and maybe some left over veg. Cook through and on both sides.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">You can make these from scratch, using a decent dairy free cheese alternative, or even these days buy them from the chiller in Sainsburys, Waitrose or Tesco. Dress them up or down by adding all your favourite toppings!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">If I'm really lazy, I'll heat up a Kirsties's ready meal, or an Amy's kitchen macaroni cheese, or perhaps one of Tesco's chilled Free From ready meals - I love the paella, and the lasagna.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">If in busy cities or in London there's s many options, but in smaller towns/cities I might choose from the following:</span><br />
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<li><b>Marks and Spencer</b> - sandwiches - depends on the season, but I've enjoyed their BLT, prawn mayonnaise. I have also enjoyed some of their 'Made without Wheat' products, such as pork pies and scotch eggs, but some of these options seem to have disappeared.</li>
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<li><b>Waitrose</b> - sandwiches - depends on the season again but I think it's currently and egg and cress</li>
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<li><b>Costa</b> - Chicken, Chorizo and Rice - can be heated.</li>
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<li><b>McDonalds</b> - Chicken and bacon salad with the option of fries on the side</li>
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<ul><li><b>Pret</b> - Pret make a range of gluten and dairy free soups. My fave is Chicken, Rice and Broccoli, but sometimes I'll go for one of their salads (always check ingredients).</li>
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<li><b>Leon</b> (mainly London, but branching out more) do a range of dairy and gluten free options. It's fast food, but not as you know it!</li>
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<li><b>Yo Sushi!</b> - not much of the menu is suitable, but there's enough to keep me going. I love the Salmon Selection, the Ebi Nigiri, the Salmon Maki, the Kimchi Squid (it's hot) or the Salmon Avocado Temaki (has to be ordered).</li>
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<li><b>Five Guys</b> - Naked burger (wrapped in lettuce) with fries</li>
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<li><b>Ask Italian</b> - can do pizza with dairy free cheese and gluten free pasta options.</li>
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<li><b>Zizzi</b> - Similar options to Ask Italian (they're owned by the same company.</li>
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<li><b>Pizza Express</b> - Can now do gluten free bases and dairy free, soya free cheese, so befriend your server, find a basic pizza you like on the menu and they can amend it for you!</li>
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<li><b>Cote</b> - Tuna Nicoise Salad - fries are safe too!</li>
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<li><b>Pub</b> - the Wadsworth chain, is worth looking at, or St Austell breweries (in Cornwall). You can usually be sure of a safe Ham, Egg and Chips (separate gluten free fryer).</li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">It's also worth checking out independent cafes, as they often include gluten free options, these days too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><b>HOWEVER</b>, if you eat out, you might not always get a great range of puds - mainly just fruit sorbets, just saying!! That said, Zizzi also do some kind of chocolate praline torte - no good for me because of some other ingredient - looks tasty, though! They serve it with coconut ice cream!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: red;">This post is not an advert. I have not been paid to write this post. I am not sponsored in any way, even by advertising. I do not receive products free to review, although I have often been offered them. </span></i></span><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">This is to try and maintain an unbiased approach. </span></i><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Any products listed in this post are here purely because they genuinely are the products we have used and enjoy consuming. They are included here merely to point people who are new to suitable products that they too may enjoy. All views expressed are my own (unless I've asked for The Hub's or Kiddo's). I try to tell is 'as-it-is'.</span></i></div>
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Hullaballouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06731907326879042732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820634105388649430.post-21278021210934598222018-09-27T14:22:00.001+01:002018-10-01T09:18:27.724+01:00Anyone for breakfast?? Dairy Free, Gluten Free, Soya Free<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Living dairy free has become such a way of life now, that it kind of catches me out, when people ask what they can eat that's dairy free. I'm not only dairy free, I'm gluten and soya free and the honest</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> truth is, there's lots you can eat. Sometimes it's case of adapting or using dairy free substitutes, but there's no way it has to be boring... unless routine is your thing and that's the way you like it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you need to find a dairy free substitute, there's plenty out there. Many like oat milk, others prefer coconut milk, my personal favourite is almond milk. My margarine of choice is usually Pure sunflower margarine (although they have undergone a recent recipe change, which I'm waiting to change back. Many supermarkets make their own branded dairy free margarines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For more ideas regarding milk substitutes, see this page <a href="https://dairyfreebabyandme.blogspot.com/p/dairy-substitutes.html"><b style="background-color: yellow;">here</b></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dairy free substitutes selected, we're good to go, starting with one of my faves:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">OK, so these require time and a waffle machine, so these are normally set aside for a lazy weekend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We make ours with almond milk and Doves gluten free flour, and have never experienced any problems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I love mine topped with fresh strawberries or raspberries and a good dollop of Coyo coconut yogurt, drizzled with golden syrup. Totally LUSH!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Kiddo prefers hers drizzled with chocolate sauce - Freedom is a good make, for those with multiple allergies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Panc</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">akes</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You can make these completely from scratch, with your dairy free milk of choice. Coconut milk is a good choice, but almond milk can also work, although you'll get a thinner, runnier batter with almond milk. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Being gluten free, I prefer using Mrs Crimbles pancake mix, as I like the blend of flours they use, but we've also used the Asda Free From Pancake Shaker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Chopped banana and golden syrup make a fab topping for these, or fresh berries and Coyo, as before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Poached, fried (olive oil), scrambled (Pure margarine and almond milk) or boiled and dippy, all work for me! usually with toast!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You really can't beat a slice of toast with a slice of bacon, topped with a fried egg.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you've a little bit of time, eggy bread is a sure winner! Simply whip up some egg with a little milk, soak up the mixture in some toast and fry the bread (in olive oil) on both sides, until golden brown.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For a more indulgent version, poached eggs with avocado slices and some plum tomatoes on the side, get the thumbs up from me! Add a slice of toast and you're good to go!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For the full nine yards, go full English! Although don't forget to ensure your sausages are free of nasties too. I love Tesco Finest Pork Sausages, Heck Pork Sausages and Rankin's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On a bit of a side note, if you're staying in a hotel, always get them to check what's in their sausages! Preferably, you want somewhere that will cook your food from scratch, so there's no chance of cross-contamination from the buffet. A good hotel will be happy to do this for you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, obviously eggs (as above) but also in a butty, with ketchup. Not everyday maybe, but certainly bound to give you a tasty start!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yep! Those Kiddie tea time favourites. OK, you might not want to eat them everyday, but Kiddo has been known to eat these accompanied by a fried egg, or maybe fish fingers (make mine gluten free), or even chicken nuggets. They are super easy to cook, especially if you have an air fryer (we've recently invested)!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On a similar note, Kiddo also loves those 'Smiley Face' potato things. Kiddo's favourite thing with potato waffles, though, has to be a slice of bacon topped with a slice of dairy free Violife cheese! Not to everyone's taste, but she loves it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I've always loved porridge!! I love it made with coconut, almond or hazelnut milk and a tablespoon of golden syrup, although you could use honey of you prefer and dress it up or down, with fruit, nuts, etc. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Cereal is great for those days when you just need to grab something quickly and go! It's just a case of choosing your dairy free milk sub and then finding a suitable cereal. Being gluten free, I love a good gluten free Granola, or Nutribix, but if you're 'just' dairy free, you'll have a much wider range of options, e.g. Shreddies, Cheerios, Rice Crispies, Cornflakes, Weetabix etc. (always check ingredients, just in case they change).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If all else fails, there's always the option of toast (again make mine gluten and soya free). Many of the options are covered above, but if it's jam or marmalade, make mine homemade - preferably my Dad's!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now this isn't the most exhaustive list, but you get my drift - life doesn't end, when you become dairy free, it doesn't even (necessarily) take you in a new direction - just a slight curve!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: red;">This post is not an advert. I have not been paid to write this post. I am not sponsored in any way, even by advertising. I do not receive products free to review, although I have often been offered them. </span></i></span><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">This is to try and maintain an unbiased approach. </span></i><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Any products listed in this post are here purely because they genuinely are the products we have used and enjoy consuming. They are included here merely to point people who are new to suitable products that they too may enjoy. All views expressed are my own (unless I've asked for The Hub's or Kiddo's). I try to tell is 'as-it-is'.</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><br /></span>Hullaballouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06731907326879042732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820634105388649430.post-13924810583911117612018-07-17T14:24:00.001+01:002018-07-17T14:24:38.266+01:00Simple Sausage Pasta Bake<div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Quick disclaimer: just so you know, if you're expecting Cordon Bleu food, you'll be sadly disappointed. This post is for those of us who need something more 'low maintenance'! </span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I've been meaning to add this recipe to the blog for a while. It's a simple recipe to make and I love simple! It basically involves one dish, and a saucepan in which to cook the pasta, so less washing up... and what's not to like about that?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I may have mentioned before that Kiddo can err on the fussy side. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, in actual fact she's getting a lot better about these things, but we still need to find ways to disguise the veg. in her life, which is where this little pasta bake comes in quite handy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">At the moment, Kiddo says this dish is her favourite!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Little does she know, that's she's eating far more veg. than she realises!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You see we make it with the Dolmio hidden veg sauce - any other extraneous veg I try to include gets left behind in her bowl (unless its her good old favourite - carrots). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just to give you an idea of quantities in terms of persons this dish could feed, now that Kiddo has a good appetite, this serves us three with very little left over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1 pack of 6 sausages </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. Put a pan of water on to boil (for the pasta) and preheat the oven according to the instructions on the sausage packet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. Cook sausages according to packet instructions (I usually use Heck Pork Sausages, or Rankin's or Tesco Finest)</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">. If you use the dish you want to eventually contain the whole bake, it saves on washing up!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3. Pour the dried pasta </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">(I usually use Tesco or Sainsbury's free from pasta - usually Fusili, but Penne also works well) into a pan of boiling water. Cook according to instructions, then drain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">4. Once sausages are cooked, drain off any excess oil, and chop them into bite-sized pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">5. Add the drained pasta, the jar of tomato-based pasta sauce </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(Dolmio hidden veg in our case) and a few handfuls of frozen or fresh chopped veg. of your choice. I often add sweetcorn, peas, chopped carrot or pepper. Use two forks to 'toss' the ingredients together, ensuring that you achieve an even mix of the ingredinets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">6. Top with grated cheese</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> (I use Daiya shredded mozzarella-style cheese - </span><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://dairyfreebabyandme.blogspot.com/2018/06/oh-my-daiya-new-to-uk-dairy-free-soya.html">see here</a></b></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: red;">This post is not an advert. I have not been paid to write this post. I am not sponsored in any way, even by advertising. I do not receive products free to review, although I have often been offered them. </span></i></span><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">This is to try and maintain an unbiased approach. </span></i><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Any products listed in this post are here purely because they genuinely are the products we have used and enjoy consuming. They are included here merely to point people who are new to suitable products that they too may enjoy. All views expressed are my own (unless I've asked for The Hub's or Kiddo's). I try to tell is 'as-it-is'.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'm excited, can you tell?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yep, because we can now buy Daiya cheese in the UK.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's been a big hit in the US for <i>years</i>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>What's it like??</i></b></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The cheddar looks like cheddar, similar texture to cheddar and actually, yes has similar flavour to cheddar - the mature stuff that I used to LOVE with a passion and have been missing ever since. The nearest I have got to that missing flavour has been Amy's gluten, dairy and soya free macaroni cheese ready meals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I mean usually, I would say that <i>ALL</i> vegan cheese tastes better toasted or cooked, but <b>NOT</b> this one! Yes, I actually enjoy this 'un on a plain cracker, just like regular cheese! Hence my excitement!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And there is no residual flavour of anything else, like coconut, for example!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It slices and grates well - a bit crumbly towards the end, but show me a cheese that doesn't!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The only flaw and for me this is a small one - it doesn't melt on top of dishes, like the dish I made for dinner last night. However, Daiya have that one covered with their shredded, mozzarella-style cheese. That one I wouldn't eat on plain crackers, BUT it melts beautifully, and tastes yummy and cheesy once it has done so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Note this: </b>It is free of the top 14 allergens! BUT! Word of caution for people with multiple allergies that are not in the top 14 (so there is not legal requirement to declare them) - wording such as 'Vegan Natural Flavours' is <i>not</i> exactly helpful. Have highlighted 'Calcium' as it's one of the main nutrients in dairy and soya free cheese that you could be missing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Otherwise, the ingredients are as follows:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Medium Cheddar Style Ingredients:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Water, Tapioca Starch, Coconut Oil, Natural Flavours, Pea Protein Isolate, Rapeseed Oil, Safflower Oil, Chicory Root Extract, Sea Salt, Thickener: Xanthum Gum, Preservative: Lactic Acid, Anti-Caking Agent: Tricalcium Phosphate, Preservative: Tricalium Citrate, Pea Starch, Potato Protein, Enzyme, Sugar, Colour: Annatto</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Calcium: 0.9g per 100g</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Mozzarella Style Shreds Ingredients:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Water, Tapioca Starch, Coconut Oil, Safflower Oil, Potato Protein, Vegan Natural Flavours, Sea Salt, Anti-Caking Agent: Tricalcium Phosphate, Emulsifier: Fructan Fibre, Preservative: Lactic Acid, Fava Bean Protein, Whole Algal Flour, Emulsifier: Konjac Gum, Thickener: Xanthum Gum, Yeast Extract</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Calcium 0.407g per 100g</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>How much is it??</i></b></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Please don't shout at the screen...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Cheddar 200g:</b> £4.50</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Shreds 200g</b>: £4.50</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is pricey, I know!! I thought it may be down to the fact that it is imported from the US, but a US contributor on Face Book has pointed out that it bears a similar cost in the US.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you're within reach of a Wholefoods market (e.g. London) you stand a better chance than most of us, however, Daiya is now stocked in some Sainsbury's supermarkets. One of my nearest Sainsbury's had it temporarily, but it seems to have disappeared. If it's not stocked locally to you and you are prepared to travel to find some, then Daiya have produced a handy store finder click <span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><a href="http://uk.daiyafoods.com/find-us/where-to-buy/">here</a></b></span></span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is pricier than normal cheese and than its nearest rivals on the dairy free cheese market, BUT if a dairy and soya free authentic cheddar is your thing, or a proper melty cheese, then this is your best bet!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For other posts about dairy free cheese, please check out our 'Related Posts' below. Please note that as these other posts were written a few years ago, some details/packaging may have changed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: red;">This post is not an advert. I have not been paid to write this post. I am not sponsored in any way, even by advertising. I do not receive products free to review, although I have often been offered them. This is to try and maintain an unbiased approach. All views expressed are my own (unless I've asked for The Hub's or Kiddo's). I try to tell is 'as-it-is'.</span></i></span></div>
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Hullaballouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06731907326879042732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820634105388649430.post-33682403109432573492018-05-16T09:16:00.004+01:002018-05-16T09:41:48.889+01:00Is the 'Dairy Free Baby' dairy free no more?? or Reintroducing Cow's Milk via the 'Milk Ladder'<h2>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, <b>BIG</b> news - the dairy free baby is NO MORE!!</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No, it's all right, she's not expired, it's just that 'Baby' - no longer a baby to be fair - is also no longer allergic to milk!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's taken eight years for this momentous event to arrive, but I'm <i><b>SO</b></i> glad it is finally here!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>In the beginning...</i></b></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Initially we were told she would be likely to grow out of her allergy by the age of two (you can follow the high/lowlights of our journey in the posts linked below this one). When that didn't occur, we were told maybe by the age of four, and then, well... maybe never!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, <b>THAT</b> made me panic!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The refrain of '<i>When you hopefully grow out of it...</i>' had often been heard often in our home, and 'Baby' was counting on it!! She blissfully ignored the caveat </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'hopefully', that </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I carefully added each time. She was looking forward to ice cream, desserts and so much more - the kind of things she saw others happily scoffing - usually right in front of her!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Along the way, we were encouraged by our dieititan, to try and reintroduce milk via first of all biscuits. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The number of times we tried 'Baby' with just a malted milk biscuit, only for her to react to the milk in it!! </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I think that if I hadn't heard Dr Adam Fox, sharing his expertise at The Allergy and Free From Show in London, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I would have been tempted to give up! From what I remember, he said </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">that most (around 80%) children grew out of their milk allergy by the second decade. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So we kept hoping, and retrying every three or four months - clinging onto our copy of the MAP Milk Ladder, in the hope that one day, 'Baby' might progress further. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>The 'Milk Ladder'</i></b></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The 'Milk Ladder,' for those of you who don't know, is a framework, produced by top allergy healthcare professionals, by which parents (working under the guidance of professionals), can attempt to safely reintroduce cow's milk to children with non-Ige mediated cow's milk allergy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You start gradually, with baked milk products (in which the baking process will have broken down the milk proteins - making them easier to tolerate), and then work up through various forms of processed products, which break down the milk protein a little bit less at each stage, until you reach the point where cow's milk itself can be tolerated. The version we were using was the first version, with twelves stages/steps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Eventually, around about the age of 3 or 4, 'Baby' seemed to be able to tolerate a biscuit for Day One of her trial, then Day Two, until around the age of 5 or 6, 'Baby' finally seemed OK with malted milk biscuits, and we had a glimmer of hope! We had achieved the first rung of the (then) twelve step milk ladder... but the twelfth rung seemed an awfully long way off!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then we hit a bit of a wall!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Stalled!</i></b></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Illness followed, lots of it, 'cos 'Baby' had started school, and seemed to come down with EVERYTHING that came her way. With her immune system down so much during that first year of school, a</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">nd a number of unexpected 'milk challenges' (where she ended up eating things at school that had milk in, by mistake), </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">we couldn't seem to find a suitable window to challenge 'Baby' any further. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was especially tricky as I wanted to be able to keep an eye on 'Baby', in case she reacted badly - if she was at school and had a bad tummy it would be tricky for her to deal with and might be mistaken for a tummy bug. And then, once we did find a window, sometime during Year One, it was a tricky job finding something suitable for the next step - the baked muffin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It should have been simple, but I couldn't find plain muffins. 'Baby' didn't like Blueberry muffins (she took exception to the blueberries), or lemon muffins, and I thought chocolate chip muffins would be several steps too far, as chocolate is much higher up the ladder. Stuck, I decided to try 'Baby' with mini Battenburg slices, which worked for a while, until she got bored of eating those. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Even the inducement of completing the ladder was not enough to persuade 'Baby' to continue eating Battenburg. She was also bored of eating malted milks (shock/horror/groan), so we had to drop those too (and she hasn't eaten another since, to the best of my knowledge). I just couldn't understand it - at her age, I'd have loved the chance to gobble down malted milks and Battenburg slices galore!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I did consider baking some plain muffins, but 'Baby' is notoriously fussy and if she did like them, or failed the challenge they would all go to waste, as we didn't have much room in the freezer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Making progress!!</i></b></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If it wasn't for another trip to our dietitian, I'm not sure we would have made much progress. We saw someone new, who confidently asserted that if 'Baby' was OK with one item of baked milk, then she would be OK with all forms of baked milk. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was a bit doubtful, to be quite honest, as I'd heard of others slowly incrementally creeping their way up the ladder (having broken the steps just even further, by starting with a quarter of this and a half of that). But as it happened the new iMAP milk ladder works by the same principle as the advice the dietitian had given us - the former twelve steps, have now been amalgamated into six (<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b><a href="https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1186%2Fs13601-017-0162-y/MediaObjects/13601_2017_162_MOESM3_ESM.pdf">see here</a></b></span>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Not quite daring to take the dietitian at her word, we tested 'Baby' thoroughly with croissants and all sorts of other baked goods (although not those containing dairy substances from higher up the ladder), just to make sure, and sure enough, she was absolutely fine with them!! So, our confidence boosted, it was onwards and upwards!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And, to our surprise, each step of the way, 'Baby' aced it. Our surprise being mainly down to the fact that progress had been so long drawn out in the early stages, and here she was flying through!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Having lived with a dairy free child for so long, watched so carefully over her, and having longed so much for a resolution to her allergy, I could hardly believe what was happening. As she aced each step, I was torn between pleasure and pain - pleasure for her progress and pain because she was able to eat things that I still can't. There was, I must admit, the odd twinge of jealousy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But how can you begrudge the lifting of barriers, the freedom of choosing at will and being able to try out so many different new foods?? </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The delight and amazement in her voice the first time 'Baby' went into a garage, with me (to pay for petrol), and suddenly clocked the rows and rows of chocolate and realised she could eat them!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'<i>Mummy!</i>' she said, '<i>look at all this chocolate!</i>'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I suddenly realised, that she, like me, had been studiously avoiding the aisles that contained food that had been 'out of bounds' due to her allergy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Of course, I had to let her try something, but that was tricky in itself. In fact, she was so spoiled for choice, that she couldn't decide what she would like and I had to choose something for her! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oddly enough, 'Baby' was quite hesitant about the whole process, of climbing the milk ladder, especially as we neared the end, and she realised she would no longer be the 'Dairy Free Baby'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'<i>I like being dairy free</i>,' she announced, '<i>it makes me special</i>.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'<i>But you are special</i>,' I told her, '<i>just by being you</i>.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'<i>And anyway</i>,' I added, '<i>you'll be able to eat all kinds of things, like ice cream...</i>'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And then she asked...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'<i>What if I don't like milk?</i>' </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'<i>Well that's OK</i>,' I said, '<i>you don't have to drink cow's milk, you can still have your soya milk.</i>'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'm not sure she was that convinced!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So what for us now? Infinity and beyond??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well 'Baby' still wants to hold on to her title of 'Baby' - she's rather attached to it, and I'm still holding on to the blog title - for now, anyway. I'd like to keep it available as a resource, for others. I'm hoping to continue to add posts - as and when I have the time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And funnily enough, now she's no longer dairy free, and loving the ice cream, cream buns and so on, for 'Baby', soya milk is still her milk of choice... unless it comes to hot chocolate, or milkshake, in which case she doesn't seem to mind, quite so much. AND she still prefers her dairy free cheese!! Good news for Violife then, as she probably keeps them in business!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And The Hub, is quite happy to have a partner in crime with whom to share delicious treats - things which he'd avoided eating in front of her, in case she became upset. It was chocolate eclairs the other day! *sigh* At least I can get a free from version of those in the Tesco freezer department!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And then there's my mother, who couldn't get her head around the whole milk exclusion thing in the first place, and who now can't get her head around the fact that 'Baby' can eat ANYTHING she wants!! And there's my mother-in-law who keeps slipping 'Baby' choccy treats - oh well - can't have it all my own way!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And then there's me, still being dairy free who can't seem to tolerate milk (perhaps because I excluded milk for five years, so I could breastfeed) who will be continuing to look out for relevant products and information - to share with anyone who needs it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oh, and by the way 'Baby' would like you to know that she's still very keen on baking, and now helping me write blog posts, as well!! She's been reading this post, and making little suggestions of her own, which she wants me to include. Ho Hum!! I suppose she's entitled to - she was the reason it all got started, in the first place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">BIG THANKS to all the lovely online dietitians and other medical professionals who have contributed, pointed me in the right direction and generously shared their knowledge on Twitter. Particular mentions go to Carina Venter, Julia Marriott and Lisa Waddell. You ladies are all stars - big, bright, shiny and glittery. I hope your patients and colleagues truly appreciate your work. I know I do!</span><br />
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Hullaballouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06731907326879042732noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820634105388649430.post-71650231716358559102018-05-14T19:30:00.000+01:002018-09-27T22:06:49.470+01:00Once they're scone... they're gone! Baking without 'Baby' - Gluten, dairy and soya free scones.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I love scones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I <i>used</i> to love cream teas. But of course these usually involve copious amounts of both gluten and cream - two things I no longer seem to tolerate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since cutting out these two major ingredients in a traditional cream tea, I've tried and failed at making scones several times - finding them OK to eat at first, but quickly turning into hard, dry bullet-like objects. So I put scone-making (and eating) on the back burner until a recent search turned up this recipe from <b><i>Isle of Flora</i></b> see <a href="http://www.isleofflora.com/recipe/simple-gluten-free-scones-dairy-free-vegan/" style="background-color: yellow; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: underline;">here</a><span style="background-color: white;">. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I really liked the addition of almond flour to the recipe - gluten free flour is often lower in protein, which I find less filling, but the almonds counteract this. Flora's recipe was also very moist. However, I don't know if it's down to the flour I used, but there seemed to be quite a bit more liquid than I required, which made my mixture a bit too claggy to work. You need your scone mixture to be pretty moist, but you have to be able to lift up to pput them on a baking tray! Rather than chucking out the baby with the bathwater, I decided to experiment a bit more, adding flour, decreasing liquid, until I achieved my desired balance. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Then I found my scones too crumbly, and began to peruse other scone recipes. </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">It was at this point, I discovered that my baking heroine </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Mary Berry</b></i> added egg to her Devonshire scones see </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.maryberry.co.uk/recipes/baking/devonshire-scones" style="background-color: yellow; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: underline;">here</a><span style="background-color: white;">. Of course you can do without the egg, but I found that it helped bind the mixture - gluten free mixtures can be a bit crumbly. (You can add Xanthum Gum to counteract this, but this I tend to avoid, as I'm not convinced it agrees with me.) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Combining bits from both recipes, and making some alterations of my own, I came up with my own preferred formula, as outlined below. Please note, I used cups in the recipe, rather than grams/ounces, as I suspect my scales are a bit on the temperamental side, and using cups, levelled off with a knife, tends to work better!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Makes approx. 10 scones</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Ingredients:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">2 and a half cups <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Gluten Free
Self-Raising Flour (I used Doves)</span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Half a cup Almond
Flour/ground almonds</span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">1 pinch <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Salt<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">110g Dairy Free Margarine (I used Pure Sunflower)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Quarter of a cup of Caster Sugar</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Two thirds of a cup Dairy Free Almond Milk (I used Almond Breeze)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">1<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Egg<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>NB</b> Most scone recipes seem to use plain flour and copious amounts of baking powder. I just use self-raising flour (which has some baking powder added already), as I can't stand the taste of baking powder. However, if you don't mind the taste, feel free to add a couple more teaspoons of baking powder to yours!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Preheat Oven to 220 F.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Line oven tray with baking parchment and sprinkle with
flour.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Weigh out and mix together self-raising flour, almond flour/ground almonds and salt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Rub margarine into the dry ingredients to form fine breadcrumbs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Stir in caster sugar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Mix together egg and milk. Reserve about 1 tablespoon of this mixture for brushing on top of the scones, before you put them in the oven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Make a ‘well’ in your dry ingredients. Pour in the liquid
ingredients and bring the mixture together. Try to avoid ‘over-working’ the
dough, as this could make your scones go a bit hard. The scone dough needs to
be fairly wet, but not so much you can’t pat it out and cut it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Scatter flour over a clean surface before placing scone dough down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Pat/roll out the scone mixture a little, until it’s about 3 cm
thick. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Cut out round shapes and place on baking tray.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Brush with the remaining egg/milk mixture.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Cook for 12 mins, then bring them out of the oven, and allow to cool.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">These scones will keep well for one day, after which they begin to dry a bit (although they're not quite as hard as the bullets I used to make), or you can freeze them the same
day.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I like to eat mine with homemade raspberry jam, topped with a generous teaspoon of Vanilla flavoured Coyo coconut yogurt, in place of the cream.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Works for me!!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><b>Please note:</b> </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><i style="background-color: white;">This post is not an advert. I have not been paid to write this post. I am not sponsored in any way, even by advertising. I do not receive products free to review, although I have often been offered them. This is to try and maintain an unbiased approach. All views expressed are my own (unless I've asked for The Hub's or Kiddo's). The products listed here are those I genuinely use day-to-day. Changing products may lead to differing outcomes, so you may need to tweak your quantities, if you do so.</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b></b></span></span>Hullaballouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06731907326879042732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820634105388649430.post-78236348587384144102018-02-05T17:50:00.003+00:002018-04-07T22:06:48.531+01:00Yes you can!! Skiing with food allergies - Gluten Free, Dairy Free<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Oo! Look! You can get a ski-through Mc Donald's in Sweden... <i>and</i> they do gluten free!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was something that I saw on a friend's Facebook news feed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Little did I know it, but that was all the encouragement The Hub needed! Before I knew it, he'd done some research and booked the entire trip!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I know! Close my jaw for me, why don't you??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We flew in via Oslo, Norway (because that was the nearest airport), and hired a car. A two to three hour drive and we were there!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Ski Lodge lit up for Christmas</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Ski Lodge in which we stayed, is run by <a href="https://www.skistar.com/en/"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>Ski Star</b></span>,</a> who run the entire resort. We stayed in Salen (pronounced Sollen), but they have other resorts elsewhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now, normally I don't blog about places we have stayed - usually I just head straight to Trip Advisor and post them there, but for this trip, I have made an exception. This is partly because travelling abroad can be fraught with difficulties, and worry, but this place was so great, I'd really recommend it. However, also, I think that this post illustrates how you can still do things that you loved doing before life with allergies took over.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Comfy apartment.</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We stayed in an apartment that was in a large complex. However, on the inside, it's all very cosy and tasteful.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The kitchen is bijoux</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The kitchen is small, but contains enough for a week, including a dishwasher. You might decide against using the cast iron frying pan as you can't guarantee who's used it and what is therefore in the patina. There's no oven, in these particular apartments, but there is a hob and a combi microwave. Although there isn't a freezer space in the apartment itself, there is a freezer in the ski and boot room.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Loads of space for dairy free ice cream!</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />We made sure we wrapped our freezer food in an extra bag to avoid any cross contamination and placed it in the top drawer to avoid anything else that might potentially drip down. In actual fact, not many people seemed to use it.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Padlock obtainable from Reception for the boot locker</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Food was very easy to come by! The supermarket was just across the car park from the Ski Lodge. Although 'out in the sticks' it contained a good range of dairy free and gluten free food, including Oatly ice cream (unavailable in the UK). For further detail on this, read <b><u style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://dairyfreebabyandme.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/super-little-swedish-supermarket.html">this post</a></u></b>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Free From aisle was bigger than some UK supermarkets! There was also a Free From section in the freezer, and the chiller!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One of the things I loved about the ski lodge, was the fact that The Hub and I could have a cheeky Apres ski refreshment in the Ski Lodge bar, as just across from the bar was a small children's play area. Staying in the lodge, meant that once we had set up an ipad baby monitor, we could also sneak down once Kiddo was asleep!</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a pool complete complete with slides, jacuzzi, heated outdoor pool, toddler pool & wave machine</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">sauna</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a shopping arcade</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a bowling alley</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a coffee shop</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">restaurants (not that we tried them out)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a spa</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a laundrette</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ski hire</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ski parks </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a cinema... </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I could go on, but if you've ever been to Centre Parcs, just imagine THAT with snow and mountains... right outside your back door, because that's where the green runs started!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In terms of skiing, for me and Kiddo it was perfect. The Hub, who is a much more adventurous skier, might have preferred more challenging runs, but as we went early season, they weren't all open. However, that said, there was certainly enough there to keep us occupied for a week. This was helped along as more slopes became available as the week progressed - due to</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> the piste keepers continually working on opening more slopes, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">whilst snow cannons constantly produced more snow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There was an extra special bonus element to skiing in Sweden, in the early part of the season. As it gets darker much earlier in the day, there's a whole series of lights to keep you skiing until around 6pm, which was great fun. In fact, the green slope at the back of the lodge is covered with kids right up to the end of the day and beyond! Once the ski lift stops, out come the sledges (you can borrow one from Reception)!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Swedes are very friendly and great with kids. There's no snobbery - everyone hangs out with their kids on the slopes (they encourage them to ski/snowboard from a VERY young age - think toddlers), and there are warm rooms (Varmestuga) with picnic facilities, microwaves and clean toilets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I've tried skiing a few times since food allergies hit and for me, this was the best place I've been, so far, in terms of time on snow and catering. Okay, the scenery wasn't Matterhorn-esque, but we were there for the snow and the skiing, and we did far more of that than we had in other places, because it was all so convenient and close, so it was all good! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Just by way of comparison, the first time we tried skiing with food allergies, we stayed in a catered chalet, in France. In those days, we were 'just' dealing with dairy. The chalet staff were young and inexperienced and although they had a folder to give them ideas, it was all a bit hit and miss, and I really relied on the bank of food supplies that I had I taken 'just in case'. So w</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e left it for a few years, until Kiddo was a bit older, before trying again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our second attempt involved self-catering with family in Switzerland. We did find some good food options, however, the resort was spread out over a wide area, so we spent most afternoons wondering around trying to find the best places to source food. Whereas, in Salen, because everything was so close together, we were able to self-cater really easily, which maximised our time on the snow (as did the close proximity to the runs). In fact, we loved it so much, we can't wait to go back!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oh yes, and in case you're wondering, ski-through Mc Donald's, complete with gluten free burger, was ace!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>This post is not an advert. I have not been paid to write this post. I am not sponsored in any way, even by advertising. I do not receive products free to review, although I have often been offered them. This is to try and maintain an unbiased approach. All views expressed are my own (unless I've asked for The Hub's or Kiddo's).</i></span><br />
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Hullaballouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06731907326879042732noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820634105388649430.post-16500967083108403862017-08-04T22:38:00.004+01:002017-08-05T01:04:08.208+01:00The Proof is in the Pudding!! Plum Upside-down Pudding - dairy free, gluten free, soya free, free from <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Anyone who knows me and my Kiddo will know how often I've groaned about her inability to enjoy the simple things in life - such as fruit and veg. It really does not come naturally to her to eat the stuff, so often I've had to resort to various methods to get her to eat it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Carrot cake works (<b style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://dairyfreebabyandme.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/baking-with-baby-5-carrot-cake.html">see here</a></b>), as does chocolate beetroot cake (<b style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://dairyfreebabyandme.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/baking-with-baby-chocolate-beetroot.html">see here</a></b>). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Cake in fact, seems to be the way to go. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Take for instance The Hub's recent bumper crop of plums...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Would Kiddo eat them raw, fresh from the tree?? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Would she eat them in a crumble??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Upside-down cake??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yup!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's a bit maddening, but anything to get her to eat fruit!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now upside-down pudding isn't something that normally inspires me - it conjures up too many images of school dinner puddings made with tinned pineapple slices... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">BUT!! Trust me - the plums give this dessert a much needed lift</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. AND I could see myself taking this dessert along to a family get-together, as I think it would travel a lot better than something like Banoffee Pie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The pudding recipe I used was one I found online from Morrisons (l</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ink to original recipe </span><a href="https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/recipe/upside-down-plum-pudding/35946" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: yellow;">here</b></a>)<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. It's super easy. The hardest bit was probably extracting the stones from the plums! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We made a few modifications (Who doesn't?), in that we used a large over proof Pyrex dish rather than a baking tin, we used more plums than the recipe said (our plums were probably smaller than theirs), I left out the flaked almonds (we didn't have any in the cupboard), exchanged almond essence for vanilla (for the same reason) and exchanged normal flour for gluten free flour (Dove's Farm). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Kiddo took one look at it, and fell in love straightaway. But, of course, the proof of a pudding (as we all know) is in the eating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'All it needs,' thought I, 'is some of that Nature's Charm whipped coconut cream and we're good to go...' </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">....except that the pudding didn't last that long!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Proof, if needed, that this recipe is a good 'un!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Look! Kiddo even came back for more!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>What!!! You've put bananas in it?!?!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Kiddo was truly outraged! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Like why on earth (in her humble opinion) would anyone ruin something so tasty sounding, by adding something as healthy as <i><b>FRUIT</b></i>??!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But <i>she</i>, of course had never had Banoffee Pie, and the last time I ate one, was... well before she ever came along, for sure. If only I had known <i>then</i>, what I know <i>now... </i>well, I think I would have made sure I ate a whole lot more... whilst I still could!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's taken me a while, but finally, I have got 'round to making my own - dairy, gluten and soya free - thanks to a few key ingredients, which up until now, were not available to me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Et voila!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A while back, I noted, in a Free From magazine, that a Chinese Supermarket which also sells its products online, was now stocking dairy free condensed milk made from coconut. I was chuffed at the time, because I had been researching recipes online, so I could make dairy free condensed milk, so I could make my own caramel. BUT... anything that you can buy ready made... well why wouldn't you??</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I took a while to get 'round to actually purchasing some, but by the time I did, I noticed their range had extended - to include some vital Banoffee ingredients: caramel sauce and whipping cream. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Job's a good 'un!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thought I, and I promptly ordered some (from <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://www.wingyipstore.co.uk/ingredients-seasonings/coconut"><b>here</b></a></span>, in case you're wondering<b>*</b>)!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I then ordered my fave (and only suitable) digestives - Barkat's gluten free digestives (see <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.glutenfree-foods.co.uk/product/gluten-free-digestive-biscuits/"><b>here</b></a></span>), which are also dairy free and soya free, then set to work!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I pack Barkat digestive biscuits (150g)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. Use a wooden rolling pin to take out your aggression on the packet of digestives, until you're left with fine crumbs. You can use a food processor, of course, but I find bashing biscuits rather therapeutic! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>*</b> Oh and just to add, other places, besides the Chinese supermarket are also beginning to stock Nature's Charm. <b style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://www.ocado.com/webshop/category/Natures-Charm/20000-176016">Ocado</a></b> have had the evaporated milk and condensed milk on their system for a few weeks, but up until now, they didn't appear to be in stock. They now seem to be available and are on special offer, so what are you waiting for? Hopefully, these will prove so popular, that they'll soon add the caramel sauce and whipping cream to their range. Another place to look for these ingredients is <b style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://www.ethicaveganstore.co.uk/collections/dairy-substitutes">Ethica</a></b> - an online Vegan store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have a conundrum - to rejoice, or... not to rejoice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Which shall it be I wonder?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Technically, perhaps I should be rejoicing - not so long ago, there wasn't a great deal of choice when it came to dairy free ice cream - mostly it was made with soya, or cashews, which was fine for the Kiddo, but not so great for me, as I'm intolerant to both!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then there was Dairy free Dream's Almond Ice Cream and more recently Alpro's new Coconut Ice Cream, that really met my dairy </span><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> soya free</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> ice cream needs, and now here is a new ice cream that aims to do the same:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'So where's the conundrum?' you might ask.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For some, the announcement that Wall's (who now own Swedish Glace), has produced a new dairy free ice cream made with almonds, is not so good. For them, the question arises as to whether the soya ice cream that Swedish Glace <i>still</i> make as well, will be cross-contaminated with nuts - by virtue of being produced on the same machinery. If it is - I think the information regarding this has yet to be gathered. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Whilst this doesn't directly affect me, as such, it could affect Kiddo She is not nut free, but her school is. They sometimes buy this ice cream for her and other dairy free individuals at her school. Should it prove not to be nut free, her nut-free school will be unable to provide it any longer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Anyway, in the interests of research, I have of course, ho hum... sampled it. And here's what I found out:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, it ticks a lot of the boxes for me: no dairy, no soya, no cashews <i>and</i> it's </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">specifically labelled as gluten free.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Water, sugar, glucose syrup, <b>almond</b> paste (5,5%), coconut oil, fat reduced cocoa powder (0,8%), pea protein, stabilisers (locust bean gum, guar gum, carageenan), emulsifier (mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids), flavouring, acidity regulator (citric acid), salt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Allergens in <b>bold</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's also Vegan approved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hmm! Again I have a quandary. It's creamy at first taste, a bit like the old Wall's ice cream, and the texture is great - really smooth. However, the cocoa doesn't really feature very strongly on my taste buds - where did it go? And there is the small matter of an after taste. Not unpleasant but not particularly pleasant either. Am not sure where it comes from. However, it doesn't last for long, so this I <i>could</i> perhaps overlook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From Ocado, where we bought it, it is £3.99. A tad more pricey than the soya version, which is £2.20 at Ocado. I've not noticed the almond version anywhere else just yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I wouldn't refuse it if it was served to me, but if I had a choice, I would opt for the Almond Dream dairy free and soya free ice cream, which I reviewed </span><a href="http://dairyfreebabyandme.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/dream-little-dream-of-mint-choc-chip.html" style="background-color: yellow;">here</a>, or the new Alpro ice cream which I reviewed <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://dairyfreebabyandme.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/eat-your-daairyfree-heart-out-with.html">here</a></span><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Walls (who make Swedish Glace) have confirmed it's made on the same equipment but say that it is cleaned between batches (info via Clare Hussein @allergy_mumof1 on Twitter). They say the tub does not carry a 'may contain nuts' warning, as they believe it is safe. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">A friend who spoke with someone in the food industry told me about the extent a completely nut free factory went to, in order to prevent traces would end up in their finished product. They even used a vacumn-type corridor to hoover any potential dust traces off clothing, on the approach to their manufacturing equipment, to try to make sure nothing was left to chance. Walls clearly wouldn't meet those standards.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: red;">This post is not an advert. I have not been paid to write this post. I am not sponsored in any way, even by advertising. I do not receive products free to review, although I have often been offered them. This is to try and maintain an unbiased approach. All views expressed are my own (unless I've asked for The Hub's or Kiddo's). I try to tell is 'as-it-is'.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I don't know, if, like me, you have been scouring the shops for signs of dairy free Easter eggs, but here is my annual round-up. As before, it's not exhaustive, but should give you an idea of the main movers and shakers, where they can be found and how much they might cost - but always be on the look-out for multi-buy offers!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">First of all, it may help to know what's in the different brands of chocolate - especially if you are battling more than one allergy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Okay this is the luxury end of the market. This post lists brands in alphabetical order, so if these are not for you, scroll on by! Their gorgeous papier mache handcrafted eggs contain their delicious truffles. Currently found in Holland and Barrett, often found in health food shops and can be obtained via Ocado.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">£9.99<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Tesco's finest? Actually Choices, otherwise known as 'Celtic Chocolates'</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Often disguised as the supermarkets 'own brand'. Widely available, they come in an increasing variety of shapes/sizes and even flavours! Dairy free, gluten free, egg free, nut free.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Small Choc Egg &
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Milk Egg & Choc.
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Milk Egg &
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Belgian choc egg<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">&Truffles<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Milk Egg &
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dark Choc. Egg<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Choc. Bunny<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Asda<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">*£4.00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">*£3.00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">£0.99<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 57.3pt;" valign="top" width="96"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">*£4.00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">£1.00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Morrison’s<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 57.5pt;" valign="top" width="96"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 45.65pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 57.3pt;" valign="top" width="96"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.6pt;" valign="top" width="101"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.75pt;" valign="top" width="91"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.55pt;" valign="top" width="93"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.7pt;" valign="top" width="106"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Sainsbury’s<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 57.5pt;" valign="top" width="96"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">*£2.50<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.75pt;" valign="top" width="93"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">*£3.50<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 45.65pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 57.3pt;" valign="top" width="96"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.6pt;" valign="top" width="101"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">£3.50<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.75pt;" valign="top" width="91"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">£3.50<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.55pt;" valign="top" width="93"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">£1.00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">(also in white)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.7pt;" valign="top" width="106"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Waitrose<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 57.5pt;" valign="top" width="96"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.75pt;" valign="top" width="93"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 45.65pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 57.3pt;" valign="top" width="96"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.6pt;" valign="top" width="101"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.75pt;" valign="top" width="91"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.55pt;" valign="top" width="93"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.7pt;" valign="top" width="106"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Ocado<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 57.5pt;" valign="top" width="96"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.75pt;" valign="top" width="93"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 45.65pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 57.3pt;" valign="top" width="96"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.6pt;" valign="top" width="101"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.75pt;" valign="top" width="91"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.55pt;" valign="top" width="93"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.7pt;" valign="top" width="106"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Holland & Barrett<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 57.5pt;" valign="top" width="96"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">£2.89<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">(also in white)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.75pt;" valign="top" width="93"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">£4.99<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 45.65pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 57.3pt;" valign="top" width="96"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.6pt;" valign="top" width="101"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.75pt;" valign="top" width="91"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.55pt;" valign="top" width="93"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">£1.29<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">(white)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.7pt;" valign="top" width="106"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">TKMaxx<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 57.5pt;" valign="top" width="96"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.75pt;" valign="top" width="93"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 45.65pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 57.3pt;" valign="top" width="96"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.6pt;" valign="top" width="101"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.75pt;" valign="top" width="91"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.55pt;" valign="top" width="93"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Slightly different packaging to last year, surprising variety of pricing. They also make Marks and Spencer's Free From Easter Egg. Sadly no sign of their Easter Bunny this year. Dairy free, gluten free, egg free, nut free.</span></div>
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<td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 67.7pt;" valign="top" width="113"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 64.25pt;" valign="top" width="107"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Kinnerton Dark
Chocolate Egg<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 67.7pt;" valign="top" width="113"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Asda<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 64.25pt;" valign="top" width="107"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">£5.00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
</td>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 67.7pt;" valign="top" width="113"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Tesco<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 64.25pt;" valign="top" width="107"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 67.7pt;" valign="top" width="113"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Morrison’s<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 64.25pt;" valign="top" width="107"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">£4.00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 67.7pt;" valign="top" width="113"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Sainsbury’s<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 64.25pt;" valign="top" width="107"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">£6.00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 67.7pt;" valign="top" width="113"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Waitrose<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 64.25pt;" valign="top" width="107"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 67.7pt;" valign="top" width="113"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Ocado<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 64.25pt;" valign="top" width="107"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 67.7pt;" valign="top" width="113"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Holland & Barrett<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 64.25pt;" valign="top" width="107"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A popular free from brand, found in many stores. They have a range of three eggs all the same size. Prices vary from store to store, but watch out for multi-buy deals. Dairy free, soya free, gluten free, egg free, may contain nuts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">£3.99<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">£3.99<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Plamil has upped the anti this year, by introducing this cute Easter bunny packaging.I think Kiddo will love this one. Plamil also make Holland and Barrett 'own brand' Easter eggs <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.hollandandbarrett.com/search?query=easter+eggs&isSearch=true#">see here</a></span>. Dairy free, gluten free, egg free, nut free. made without soya, but may contain soya. They supply D & D chocolate, <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.danddchocolates.com/dairy-free-easter-chocolate">see here</a></span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you can't find these in your nearest Holland and Barrett, you can order from their website, or directly from Plamil <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://www.plamilfoods.co.uk/seasonal-chocolate/">online</a></span>.</span></div>
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<br />Hullaballouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06731907326879042732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820634105388649430.post-47941667038114987542017-02-21T05:22:00.001+00:002017-03-01T03:03:42.811+00:00Government response to the petition regarding baby milk<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You may have been following the recent story over Croydon CCG's decision to drop prescriptions for specialised baby formula, including milk for babies with cow's milk protein allergy. If not, you can read about it <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://dairyfreebabyandme.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/should-parents-of-dairy-free-babies-be.html">here</a></span> and <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://dairyfreebabyandme.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/the-devils-in-detail-response-from.html">here</a></span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A petition was launched (<span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/178087">see here</a></span>) and the number of signatures reached 10,000 - the limit at which the Government is obliged to look at the petition and decide on an appropriate course of action. The Government response to the petition regarding prescribed baby milk formula has finally arrived. See below:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is for Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), through their local prescribing policies, to decide what to limit on prescription</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has confirmed that its decision to approve recommendations to stop the prescribing of gluten-free products and baby milk were made in the context of the financial pressures the local NHS is facing and the need to make savings in the next financial year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The CCG undertook public engagement on the proposals prior to making its decision, engaging face to face with over 300 individual local residents, patients and professionals at more than 30 sessions. A total of 346 written responses were received through the online and paper survey. The CCG advises that the response to the prescribing proposals was predominantly positive, with over 70% of respondents agreeing that the CCG should stop providing self-care medications.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Croydon CCG recognises the concerns of those people who currently receive these products on prescription and has advised it will work closely with local communities, Croydon pharmacists and GPs to support people to find affordable alternatives.</span></div>
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<a href="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/178087?reveal_response=yes" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/178087?reveal_response=yes</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Petitions Committee will take a look at this petition and its response. They can press the government for action and gather evidence. If this petition reaches 100,000 signatures, the Committee will consider it for a debate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Committee is made up of 11 MPs, from political parties in government and in opposition. It is entirely independent of the Government. Find out more about the Committee: <a href="https://petition.parliament.uk/help#petitions-committee" target="_blank">https://petition.parliament.uk/help#petitions-committee</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thanks,<br />The Petitions team<br />UK Government and Parliament</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From the way the response has been worded, it does seem as though the committee of eleven MPs who have considered the merits of the petition, has actually looked into what has been happening, but unfortunately, the response is as I feared. Basically, they have reached the conclusion that it is up to Croydon CCG to do as it thinks best.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am disappointed that in their response to the petition the MPs did not consider the limited response to Croydon's consultation (merely 346 - less than one in a thousand, of the local population), or that the wording of the consultation was inaccurate - in stating that specialized baby formulas were the same price as specialized formulas and could be found freely available in local supermarkets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Also, I disagree with the response of the Government that around 70% were in favour of the prescription changes. Indeed 70% were in favour of changes to self-medication, but that was a different issue, in regards to changes to baby milk prescriptions, the figures are very different. If you read the consultation report, see below for a direct quote (<span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.croydonccg.nhs.uk/about-us/Governing%20body/Governing%20Boday%20Papers/GB%2017%20Jan%202017.pdf">see here</a> for the full report</span>), the breakdown shows a very different figure in regards to the specialized formula - which indicates that if the consultation had been worded accurately, it may well have resulted in a decidedly different outcome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Although the outcome, so far, is not what one would have wished, there are still things that can be done. The petition can still be signed and shared as widely as possible. If, in the next four months or so, the petition could reach the 100, 000 response point, then Government would be obliged to consider debating the issue in Parliament. If the petition reaches this stage, we would ask everyone to write to their own MP, as obviously every positive voice in Parliament would count.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Meanwhile, a Campaign group has been set up to try and counter the proposals. It is seeking to raise awareness of the issues and looking at ways in which the decision can yet be challenged. Various professional bodies, Allergy UK and The Anaphylaxis Campaign are also seeking to try and persuade Croydon CCG to reconsider their options.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Campaign group is also working on ways of helping people in the Croydon area, who could potentially be affected. For the time being, Croydon CCG has said specialist baby milks can still be prescribed where 'clinically necessary', although they have by no means made it sound permanent. The words 'At this moment in time...' have been used, in the communications that I have seen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you live in the Croydon area and would like to contact your MP, or complain to the CCG, please contact the Campaign, who would like to work with you. They have also set up a website <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.cmpa.org.uk/">see here</a></span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Campaign group is also advising people to keep an eye on their local CCG, in case similar proposals are made in other areas of the UK.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Please follow the Campaign on Face Book and Twitter and share their posts to create awareness. The worry is that where one CCG leads, others may follow. We really are all in this together.</span><br />
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<br />Hullaballouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06731907326879042732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820634105388649430.post-14956913123126524132017-02-10T10:40:00.002+00:002017-02-11T20:05:14.724+00:00Government respond to tongue-tie petiton.<div style="color: #212121; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.55em; margin-bottom: 18px;">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="background-color: white;">So you may have read a previous </span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://dairyfreebabyandme.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/tongue-tie.html">post</a></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"> concerning tongue-tie and how it affected 'Baby' and me in the early stages. At the bottom of the post I added a link to a </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><a href="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/177416">petition</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">. The petition reached the 10,000 signature stage, and has consequently been responded to by the Government.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">See how the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Government responded here:</span></div>
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It is for the NHS locally to ensure appropriate services are available to diagnose and treat tongue-tie. If there are problems with feeding, professionals should discuss options with parents.</div>
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It is important that babies with tongue-tie receive appropriate treatment and that appropriate support is given to their parents.</div>
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It is for the NHS locally to ensure appropriate services are available for the diagnosis and treatment of tongue-tie. Some babies with tongue-tie can still feed properly and do not need any treatment. If the condition is causing problems with feeding, health professionals should discuss the options with parents and agree the most appropriate form of treatment. For some babies, extra help and support with breastfeeding is all that is needed. If this does not help, the tongue-tie needs to be divided by a registered practitioner.</div>
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The focus of the Government’s infant feeding policy is to improve health outcomes for women and their babies; our policy is in line with the World Health Organisation’s recommendations to encourage exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life. Access to supportive services in the crucial early weeks can help women establish and maintain breast feeding successfully. Midwives and Health Visitors have an important role to play in providing information, support and advice to mothers and parents on infant feeding.</div>
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To assist the NHS, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) considered the division of tongue-tie in depth in July 2004. Current NICE guidelines recommend that, when considering division of tongue-tie, healthcare professionals should be sure that the parents or carers understand what is involved and consent to the treatment, and the results of the procedure are monitored. In line with NICE guidelines, NHS England expects healthcare professionals to discuss the benefits and risks with the parents or carers of any child.</div>
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The Department of Health does not set the content and standard of training for healthcare professionals. Health Education England (HEE) has responsibility for promoting high quality education and training that is responsive to the changing needs of patients and local communities and will work with stakeholders to influence training curricula as appropriate.</div>
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The content and standard of healthcare training is the responsibility of the independent regulatory bodies, in this instance the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). Through their role as the custodians of quality standards in education and practice, these organisations are committed to ensuring high quality patient care delivered by high quality healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals will be equipped with the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to deal with the problems and conditions they will encounter in practice. However, HEE will work with the NMC to influence training curricular as appropriate.</div>
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The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) advises Ministers and the NHS in all four countries about all aspects of screening policy and supports implementation. Using research evidence, pilot programmes and economic evaluation, it assesses the evidence for programmes against a set of internationally recognised criteria.<br />
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The UK NSC has not reviewed the evidence for screening newborns for tongue-tie. The UK NSC’s evidence review process outlines how to submit a proposal at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-nsc-evidence-review-process/appendix-d-how-to-submit-a-proposal-to-the-uk-nsc" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-nsc-evidence-review-process/appendix-d-how-to-submit-a-proposal-to-the-uk-nsc</a></div>
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Information on tongue-tie (ankyloglossia) is available on the NHS Choices website at <a href="http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/tongue-tie" target="_blank">http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/tongue-tie</a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">Well it's not really the news I was hoping to hear. Sadly it appears nothing is going to be improved at this stage. The Government has passed the buck to HEE, as well as local Healthcare Professionals and the training they receive. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">It's ironic that just the other day I saw an article about proposals to cut Health Visitor numbers in Humberside (<span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.cypnow.co.uk/cyp/news/2003104/nhs-trust-plans-to-cut-health-visitor-numbers-by-a-quarter">see here</a></span>).</span></div>
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Hullaballouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06731907326879042732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820634105388649430.post-345694233747048842017-02-09T18:05:00.003+00:002017-02-11T15:28:37.340+00:00Lamb Casserole - dairy free, soya free, gluten free, egg free<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's that time of year - cold, chilly, grey, damp and we all suddenly crave something warming, don't we? This dish is a perfect winter warmer. The Hub first started making it a few years ago and then I picked up the ropes and it's now become a firm family favourite.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Me being me, of course, I like things simple, so I've even found a few shortcuts to make it even easier - like buying lardons, and ready diced lamb instead of chopping up the bacon and lamb myself - lazy I know, but when you want to save time... ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">large cast iron casserole dish <i>or </i>a casserole dish and a large pan to brown the meat in</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">half litre jug</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I pack diced lamb (250g)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I pack bacon lardons (100g)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1 pack charlotte potatoes (500g)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2-3 medium/large carrots</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2 medium leeks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1 Knorr lamb stock cube</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2 tablespoons plain flour (mine is gluten free)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3 Tablespoons olive oil</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. Scrub the potatoes to make sure they're clean. Some of the bigger ones may benefit from chopping up a bit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. Remove outer leaves of leek, chop and rinse in fresh water, then drain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. Peel and chop carrots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4. Empty the diced lamb into a small bowl and coat in the flour. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5. Put your olive oil in a pan (or if you have a cast iron casserole, in the casserole dish). Turn up heat and then add the coated lamb to brown. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Covering the meat in flour and browning off is a bit of a faff, but is worth it!</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">6. Add lardons to crisp slightly. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Meanwhile heat oven to 180 degrees C.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">7. Turn off the heat under saucepan or casserole.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">8. Make your stock, in the jug - you will need about 400ml.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">8. Place all ingredients in the casserole dish. Pour over the stock over all the ingredients. And place your casserole in the oven. Don't forget to add a lid!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">9. If you don't like your leeks to be too well cooked, you can put your casserole in the oven for about 1 and a half hours, then add in the leeks (stir them in)and cook for another half an hour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I like to lift the lid for the last hour-ish - I like my potatoes to brown a bit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">10. Serve and enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We never have much left over!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Having recently bought a slow cooker, I've now started making it in there - nothing better than getting organised in advance and coming home to a ready made meal of your own devising! Having tried this a couple of times, I think I prefer the quicker method, but you could sweeten this one up by ditching the leek and adding some onion instead. Don't forget to brown them first, if you do!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. Once your vegetables are prepped (as above). Brown off the meat and make your stock, only make up 300 mls, rather than 400 mls, with your stock cube.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. Place potatoes and carrots at the bottom of the pot, then layer the meat over top. You can add the leeks at this stage, but they might suffer. Better to add them later on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4. Cook on low for eight hours, or on high for two and then low for four.</span><br />
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Hullaballouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06731907326879042732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820634105388649430.post-48724557456433145702017-02-08T12:18:00.006+00:002017-02-15T11:36:27.360+00:00Emma's Story <span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I originally shared this story a week or so ago, unadulterated and 'in the raw', at the bottom of another post, about Croydon CCG's decision to charge for specialised infant formulas, which you can find here. I am re-sharing this story (only slightly edited) because the fight is by no means over and in the hope that people who read it will realise:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">1. Food allergies are real.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">3. Correct diagnosis of food allergy can be hard to come by.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">4. Undiagnosed babies with food allergies can become very poorly and can develop long-standing feeding problems, which can affect their growth and development.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Emma has two children a boy and a girl. Her eldest did not have his milk allergy picked up for the best part of a year. Despite being very sickly; having blood and mucus in his stools; and being very unsettled, Emma, seeking help for her son, got nowhere. He also cried for hours on end, had raw eczema and wheezed. Then, at the age of eight months, Emma's son had some</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> egg, to which he reacted very badly and they had to call the paramedics. At the follow-up hospital appointment (which didn't take place until he was 10 months old), Emma described how he had been as a baby, and he was finally diagnosed with a milk allergy. She</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> was told, "We're not saying you were fobbed off by the GP/Health Visitor/Midwife etc.. But you were!' He is now also soya free. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Quite understandably, when Emma was pregnant with baby number two, she was worried her new baby would also have food allergies, but again, everyone said she was fine. Again she was told that the symptoms that began to appear were probably just colic. Emma thought different, however, but i</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">t was only when her (by now, very unhappy) daughter was 10 weeks old; suffering with blood in her stools, constipation and diarrhea, did Emma manage to get a second opinion from a Doctor. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">As a result of this second opinion, Emma and her daughter were referred to hospital, where Emma's suspicion's of a milk allergy was confirmed and her daughter was prescribed Nutramigen. By this stage, Emma's daughter had pretty much stopped feeding, as she now associated milk with pain. She had lost a lot of weight and it took a long time to get her feeding better and her growth up to the second centile. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Once her daughter reached 6 months Emma was advised to switch formula to Nutramigen 2, and, whether it was coincidence or not, her daughter started feeding much more. To her shock, by the eighth day, Emma realised that they were starting their fourth tin and she only had four more. Knowing that it took her Doctor up to 48 hours to issue a prescription and that the pharmacy would have to order it in, which could mean a few days wait, Emma got straight on the case - and asked her Doctor for more milk. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">When Emma rang the surgery the next day to see if her daughter's prescription was ready, the staff at reception told her that the Doctor had left a note to say she was only allowed eight tins a month, and she would have to get an appointment to discuss it further. The next day all the appointments were gone, so Emma arranged an appointment the day after. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">In the meantime, Emma's and her husband and calculated how many tins a month my baby would need if she drank 35 oz a day (which is the amount the consultant said she should be drinking at 4 months). The amount she came up with wasn't allowing for any wastage (you can only keep formula for an hour or so, once it has been made, so any left-overs need to be disposed of and fresh milk made up). </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Once she was at the appointment, Emma's problems were not over. The Doctor listened to Emma, but said she should be weaning her daughter. He said he was only going by government guidelines, and did she realise it was cost £11 per tin? He also emphasised that she was spending public money, which made Emma feel awful. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Emma tried to remain calm and explained she was only trying to feed her baby and that she actually started trying to wean her daughter at 5 months, because she thought maybe she would be a better eater than drinker, but that so far she was not interested. Reluctantly, the Doctor issued her a 'one-off prescription' for eight tins, but would not issue any more without a letter from the consultant.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The next day, Emma rang the consultant, but he wasn't available and she was told he would have to call her back. Then Emma had an asthma attack, and was so poorly that she was admitted to hospital. At this point, she felt no more strength to keep pursuing the consultant, as she felt the stress was contributing to her being so ill. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Fortunately, the consultant soon called back, and said it was not a problem. He worked out how many tins Emma's baby would need the same way that she had. He did say to keep trying to wean her daughter, as it's quite common for babies with allergies to develop food aversions, but said that she could have thirteen tins in month and that he would write to the Doctor. So finally it was all sorted and the panic was over. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">'I just found it so hard last week, when I felt just like when I knew she was allergic, but couldn't get anyone to listen to me. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I think we have enough to deal with, and enough worries with our allergy babies, without extra stress like this. I would love to have a baby that is not allergic, but that's not the case. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I hope other people manage to get the help they need.'</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And those of us with 'allergy babies,' who have struggled to get help, know just how she feels. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If this story has affected you in anyway, please join the <b><i>Campaign for Milk Prescription Access</i></b>, which aims to try and prevent prescription changes in the UK, that could make it harder for mum's of babies with allergies to get access to the formula they need. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The formula is both incredibly</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> expensive and incredibly necessary. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At the moment not all areas are expecting mums to pay for their formula, but in some areas this is already starting to happen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And you can sign a petition (not started by us, but related to our campaign) by following <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/178087">this link</a></span>.</span><br />
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Hullaballouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06731907326879042732noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820634105388649430.post-9141634109242181842017-02-05T00:01:00.002+00:002017-03-01T03:22:44.838+00:00The true cost of my breastfeeding journey... dairy free...<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Something I read the other day really riled me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was when I was reading through some of the documents by Croydon CCG - to do with my <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://dairyfreebabyandme.blogspot.co.uk/">previous post</a></span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Basically, the Governing Body had decided that in order to cut down on the cost of prescribing specialised baby milk formulas for children with CMPA, it would be a good idea to encourage them to breastfeed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'Huh?!'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I thought.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'What's that?'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Two things occurred to me at the time:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. Yup! Having had major struggles when I was breastfeeding and had to find my own way through, there's no doubt... breast feeders need more support - bring it on!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. Double standards. Breastfeeding 'aint cheap! NOT if you're gonna do it properly!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yes you heard me!! I know they <i>said</i> that it was free, at breastfeeding school, but I beg to differ!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Actually, there's three things that occurred to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. Why can't allergy mums have the same opportunities as other mums who have no allergies to deal with? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I mean, it <i><b>IS</b></i> the 21st century after all - most mums can decide whether to bottle or breast feed. It's up to them. Why single out allergy mums, just 'cos it's not expedient for the CCG??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However, back to the breastfeeding. It 'AINT cheap!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">How so??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, quite apart from the fact that I've spent I dunno <i>HOW</i> much on breastfeeding related stuff: </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">nipple shields </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">nipple cream</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">bras </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">pads to go in them </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">breastfeeding tops </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">aprons </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">breast shells </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">gel pads to help me express </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jelonet to plaster over the cracks that appeared</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">breastfeeding tea, when my supply ran low</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a machine to express, when the pain got too much (plus bottles and spares)... </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(yes, yes, yes, I may not have </span><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">needed</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> all of that stuff, but I wasn't to know that </span><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">then</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, and I </span><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">did</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> use most of it - particularly</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> through my struggles at the beginning) there's also: </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the breastfeeding assistant who helped me in hospital</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the <i>TEN</i> midwives who came to visit me in the early stages, but who didn't really know how to help me (I had the feeling they may never have experienced breastfeeding themselves)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the extra breast feeding groups I attended </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the emergency visit I made to a clinic on a Saturday morning </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the La Leche League breastfeeding counsellor who referred me to </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the Maxillofacial surgeon, who cut my baby's tongue-tie, so I could feed more easily </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the GP who discovered my nipples were infected and prescribed me antibiotics... </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I mean all of these people cost <i>money</i> - in wages... and <i>still</i> I felt I was left floundering!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When you have cracks appearing in your nipples, that become craters, that start to disintegrate your nipple until you have nearly half missing (yes I'm not exaggerating); when you look at yourself horrified and wonder whether you will lose the rest of your nipple and be disfigured for life (thankfully it did grow back, after the drugs kicked in); when you know your baby still needs feeding because she's milk allergic and at that point you have no formula, and the advice is to continue feeding... what then?? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There's the emotional cost, when things aren't working and you don't know which way to turn; the lack of sleep (breastfed babies seem to wake up more); the housework not done because your baby wants to feed... <i>AGAIN</i>??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And then there's my wages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yup! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">NO wages!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And, here's the thing - if you breastfeed your baby you have to be available to your baby 24/7.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(Yes, yes, yes, I know about expressing. I tried. I failed. I tried everything - massaging, heat pads, endless pumping with the best pump on the market. My boobs just wouldn't cooperate - I used to get out about an ounce or so after about 45 minutes of pumping. Once time I hit the heady heights of three ounces, but that was a one-off, never to be repeated.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So I didn't go back to work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The WHO (not the band, the World Health Organisation) recommend breastfeeding for the first two years of a baby's life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Two years wages (I actually fed longer, but that's beside the point)!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">How many families can afford that?? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Especially if, like my sister, the mum is the major wage earner in the family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yes, yes, yes, the first months of maternity pay aren't so bad... but then it begins to drop away... and you start to feel uneasy. And if you worry about your career, or your finances... well the pressure to return to work is strong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now, don't get me wrong - I'm a huge, <i>HUGE</i>, fan of breastfeeding and I don't regret the choice to breastfeed my baby at all... well, after we got over the obstacles... but</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> I do think women should have the choice - allergies or no.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oh! And... did I mention cutting out dairy and the cost of all the dairy free food?? And if, like me, you find yourself intolerant to dairy afterwards??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Breastfeeding cheap??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Don't make me laugh!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And if you're affected by the changes being proposed by Croydon and Richmond or are struggling to get hold of prescription formula, you may be interested to know that a campaign group has been set up. Called <i><b>The Campaign for Milk Prescription Access</b></i>, they can be found on Twitter and Face Book and have set up a website, see <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.cmpa.org.uk/">here</a></span>.</span><br />
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<br />Hullaballouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06731907326879042732noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820634105388649430.post-2989562732756623532017-01-27T03:08:00.002+00:002017-02-15T11:32:42.312+00:00The Devils in the detail - a response from Croydon CCG... <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>The Statement...</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Following the recent publicity regarding Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group's Consultation (which was featured in a <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://dairyfreebabyandme.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/should-parents-of-dairy-free-babies-be.html">previous post</a>)</span> the CCCG were approached and asked for more clarity. They responded with the following statement, by Dr Tony Brzezicki, Clinical Chair of NHS Croydon Trust:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Please note: The inclusion of a specific term - 'cow's milk allergy'. The specific line that interests me is...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><b>'in particular, the high cost for products for parents and carers of babies with a cow's milk allergy who may need Neocate or Nutramigen.'</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is important as various of their documents relating to the proposed prescription changes seemed to use 'lactose free' and or cmpa, without really being clear what these terms mean and until now have not identified any formulas in particular. Let's unpick this line a bit:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Lactose Free...</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you are Lactose Intolerant that means you can't tolerate the sugars in milk. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Lactose free formulas <i>are</i> readily available in supermarkets and <i>are</i> similarly priced to normal milk formulas. That seems reasonable enough. I think few people would quibble with the proposal put out by CCCG that people probably should pay for these themselves, without getting them on prescription.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Cow's Milk Allergy...</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'CMPA,' or 'cow's milk protein allergy,' to give it its full name, is completely different. CMPA is an allergy to the proteins in milk, which is recognised by NICE, as a medical condition, and about which NICE have provided Healthcare Professionals a great deal of detailed information (<span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/CG116/chapter/1-Guidance">see here</a></span>). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">NICE make it clear that infants with this condition should strictly avoid all forms of milk protein, except in extensively hydrolysed formulas - such as Nutramigen, Similac Alimentum and Althea. However, some babies cannot tolerate even these hydrolysed formulas, so for these babies, NICE recommend an Amino Acid Formula or AAF, such as Neocate - as mentioned by name in the above statement. These are the ones about which many allergy mums are worried that the CCCG mean, when they say that parents should pay for their own. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Currently 'Nutramigen' and 'Neocate, ' the two formulas mentioned in Para 5.1. of the CCCG's statement), are often prescribed for children with CMPA. As accepted in the statement above, they are very expensive. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />So we can see that the assertions by the original proposals that there were suitable formulas available</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> in the supermarket for cmpa, at a similiar price to normal formulas, are erroneous. In fact there are no suitable formulas suitable for cow's milk allergy that are available in the supermarket at all, only those that are suitable for the lactose free. The soya formula that can be found in supermarkets is not recommended by NICE for the treatment cow's milk allergy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Allergy mums are not freeloaders. Many mums have expressed a willingness to contribute towards the cost, but with at a price tag of £45 or so (for a tin that is much smaller than normal formulas), it is prohibitive for most, to bear the full financial load. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is, however, a line in their Consultation report which refers to GPs being able to prescribe unspecified 'specialised formulas', once a recommendation has come through from a Specialist, see here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">but only for those who meet certain 'medical conditions'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Interestingly enough, if you read the Report regarding the consultation, in full, there seem to be hints that GP's are suspected of having over-prescribed EHF's and AAF's in the past, which is why they are keen for specialists to identify the specific conditions that require the formula.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">CMPA is not listed as one of those conditions, although 'faltering growth' which often accompanies untreated CMPA, is. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However, 'faltering growth' does not always become immediately apparent in CMPA, which can manifest itself in various ways anyway. So here lies a problem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And, what's more, anyone who has ever had to wait for an appointment with a specialist, will know just how hard that wait can be. If everyone has to wait for an appointment with a specialist, in order to get an initial prescription, I suspect those waiting times will only increase. If you have a poorly baby who desperately needs a prescribed formula, what are you supposed to do? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I really worry that desperate parents will end up looking for alternatives in all the wrong places - funnily enough, something that has actually already been identified in the CCCG's report!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Another problem...</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Moreover, originally, in their proposals, the CCCG appeared to suggest, that mums affected by their proposed cuts could use Healthy Start vouchers towards the cost of the milks they would need to purchase, but it now appears in their report (but not in the statement above) that this is not the case and there would be a shortfall, which they had not foreseen. This suggests that those in the local area who responded to the consultation did not have full access to the facts - perhaps because those putting together the proposals and the report for the CCCG did not fully understand the implications themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since this statement was released, it seems that Croydon CCG have gone remarkably quiet, despite the desperate attempts of many to obtain clarification of what all this means. It may be that Croydon CCG are only now beginning to get to grips with the implications themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As these proposals have yet to be framed into an 'implementation plan', it is hoped that there will be some room for re-working, and, as I understand it, from various Healthcare Professionals I have approached, various professional bodies intend to attempt to liaise with CCG with this in mind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As there have been no further statements from the CCCG since the one shown above, I sincerely hope they are now currently working on a way to resolve the situation, before commenting further. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We shall just have to wait and see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">... and wish to respond to the CCCG's Statement, as well as those points listed above, you may like to consider the following points:</span><br />
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1 1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>That, if, until recently, you were unaware that the consultation was taking place (in fact around 346 people responded
to their consultation – out of an area the size of Croydon -pop. around 398,000) in your opinion, this would suggest
that either it escaped peoples' notice due to a lack of publicity, or that
people failed to realise the impact of some of the decisions potentially being
made. Let's make that clear - this consultation elicited responses from less than 0.1% of the area (less than 1 in 1,000), therefore hardly representative of the local population!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>2. The original consultation statements were unclear - there was some confusion as to the terms used, which conditions were exempt and which milks were being considered for withdrawal. Also, there was a distinct lack of supporting evidence to back their claims
about the easy availability of alternative milks in supermarkets (although the report did go to the trouble of providing data re. other proposed cuts e.g. gluten free
food on prescription and vitamin D prescription). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Rather the consultation
engagement document and public meeting slides confidently asserted that alternative cows
milk and lactose free infant formulas were widely available at similar cost. However, according to the CCCG's own statement, it is now evident that higher cost specialised
formula with no readily available alternative <i>are</i> within scope of the proposals, and were not presented as such. This is particularly evident if you read their 'easy-reading' copy of the proposal documents (<span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.croydonccg.nhs.uk/news-publications/news/Documents/Croydon_prescriptions_%20easy%20read_2a.pdf">see here</a> P.6</span>). This may well have materially affected the
consultation outcome for this question as it was posed as</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, to the uninitiated, it would look perfectly reasonable,</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">to agree to the proposals. The 49% agreement level could have been significantly
lower given this. </span></div>
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specialised formula - which could make them very poorly. In desperation, some people may well attempt to seek alternatives from unsafe sources. Therefore, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">the impact on people’s health and well-being as a result of their proposals being implemented could well out-weigh the proposed savings.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If Croydon CCG refuse your complaint, you can contact the
Parliamentary & Health Services Ombudsman (<span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.ombudsman.org.uk/make-a-complaint/how-to-complain">see here</a></span>).</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sign the petition circulating (<a href="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/178087" style="background-color: yellow;">see here</a>).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A campaign group has been set up to help families affected by potential changes. Called <i><b>The Campaign for Milk Prescription Access</b></i>, they hope to help counter the proposed changes and help all who are being expected to pay for their own milk. The campaign group are active on Twitter and Face Book and also have a website, see <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.cmpa.org.uk/">here</a></span>.</span><br />
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<br />Hullaballouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06731907326879042732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820634105388649430.post-85637255087418353352017-01-24T15:07:00.001+00:002017-02-15T11:27:57.868+00:00Should parents of dairy free babies be forced to pay for their prescription formula??<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is the debate that has been raging on our Face Book page, since I posted a link to <a href="https://insidecroydon.com/2017/01/20/taking-the-milk-from-babies-is-an-nhs-cut-too-far/" style="background-color: yellow;"><b>this</b></a> article the other day. It's clearly an emotive subject. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For those of you who haven't read the article, it appears that Croydon Comissioning Clinical Group - who make decisions regarding what services are/not provided by the NHS in the Croydon area - have made the decision to stop providing baby milk </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(along with other previously prescribed products like gluten free foods)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. See the CCG press release </span><b style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.croydonccg.nhs.uk/news-publications/news/prescribing/prescribing%20press%20release.pdf" style="background-color: yellow;">here</a></b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">). This is a power point slide used by the CCG at their public consultation meetings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Please note: It states that this includes milk for children who have an allergy to cow's milk, unless there are 'certain medical conditions'. It's difficult to ascertain what they mean by that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In case you think I am the only one who finds this wording confusing, read a response to very similar proposals put to Cambridgeshire and Peterborough's CCG (but which I actually think read slightly more clearly than Croydon's), which was made by the BSNA, just last year:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In fact, Looking at the results of this previous consultation, it was only once all the results were in, and the ruling had been made, that Cambridgeshire and Peterborough's CCG (possibly as result of the responses, they recieved) clearly defined what they thought should be covered. See here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Looking at Croydon's CCG press release, including detail of this kind in the proposal might have been more helpful, especially as all this information is open access online. Funnily enough, however, Croydon do go to the trouble, in the previous section, to compare prices of gluten free bread, available on prescription and in the supermarket. So why not break down what they mean regarding infant formula?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Whilst I take comfort from knowing that in Cambridgshire and Peterborough the ultimate decision looked sensible enough, each area is conducting it's consultation independently, so outcomes may vary, according to the responses returned by the local population.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Looking at Croydon's CCG press release. It is also interesting to note that their proposals had been up for discussion, but that period has now closed. As this period ran over the busy Christmas period, many people who might have responded, may have missed it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Also, although to most families £278,000 that they are planning to save is a lot of money - until you look at the size of the budgets they're managing across the board.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The worry for many mums is, that where one NHS trust leads, others may follow and this may soon become widespread across the country - another 'postcode lottery'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">£25 for a tin of Nutramigen AA, a number of years back, when Kiddo was a newborn. I can well remember the shock I felt when the Doctor asked me how many tins I would require, as... didn't I know how expensive it was?? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, we did, as it happened, because we had to pay for the first two tins - which we obtained via private prescription. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For those of us who, for whatever reason, have had to resort to using dairy free formula, and know </span><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">exactly</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> how expensive it can be, paying for prescription baby milk seems a shocking suggestion, but clearly there are those who disagree! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As much as I, personally, am against charging for prescription formula, I can quite understand some of the opposing views, and think it is only fair that all sides be heard. Outlined below are some of the major arguments:</span><br />
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> 1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Not
everyone physically <i>can</i> breastfeed
- for a variety of reasons, which I won’t address here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mothers are advised to give up breastfeeding their allergic child, because
the severity of the reaction is too great to allow them to continue whilst
the allergens are still working their way out of the mother’s body – we’re
talking hospitalisation here!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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children are dealing with multiple allergies, this can be incredibly hard for
a mother to achieve, especially when they can’t identify what those allergens
are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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medication/serious illness/death – rare but still requires consideration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> 5. Mothers who have to go back to work and therefore have to give up breastfeeding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> 6. Prescription formula is not just required to replace breastfeeding, but is often required to replace cow's milk when preparing food, during weaning - particularly for children with multiple allergies, for whom various so-called 'plant-based milks' are unsuitable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Everyone else pays for their formula, why should the parents of
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tin of normal formula for around £10. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">In addition, the tins of prescribed formula are smaller, so more are required. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">For families on, low incomes, it would
be unachievable - it works out at hundreds of pounds a month! Even those of us who are supposedly better off might
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also, what about milk allergic children in families where they are at risk of
neglect (again rare, but it ought to be considered). In such cases paying for
expensive formula might come last on the list of priorities, especially where
addiction is present.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> 3. Parents of milk allergic children might then be tempted to source milk via the Internet from unknown, potentially unscrupulous persons, which could potentially put their health at risk. Pharmacies will not accept unused tins of prescription milk, even if unopened, for this very reason.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The NHS is struggling as it is and cuts need to be made.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is true, however, it could be argued that we can all think of
things that we consider ‘unnecessary’ that are currently available on the
NHS, e.g. medicines which are actually cheaper to buy over the counter than
to obtain via prescription, like paracetamol – children’s formula seems to be
the wrong place to start making those cuts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Go out and get a job/better job to pay for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We are potentially talking about a huge amount of money, so this is easier
said than done (again for various reasons).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Use a different formula, which is cheaper and can be bought off the
shelf at a supermarket e.g. soya or goat’s milk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>1. A large percentage of children who are allergic to milk are also allergic to
soya. This is because the proteins are very similar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>2. A study has shown that 92 % of people allergic to cow’s milk are also allergic
to goat’s milk - which should therefore be avoided.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A third way - popular with many - is that people should pay the 'normal' price for formula and the NHS top up the rest. I do think that even if this suggestion has merits, prescription milk should not be stopped, until alternative routes have been considered. Once it's gone, its gone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Moreover, it is also argued that having 'free' formula on prescription is only fair, when parents of milk allergic children have to pay so much extra for additional 'free from' products such as dairy free margarine, cheese, etc. And, what's more, if those children have multiple allergies (many do), and have to pay extra for gluten free, egg free, nut free products as well... well the costs of having an allergic child just go up and up and up!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What do you thin</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">k?</span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Not sure what to think? Please visit our Face Book page and read some of the stories that our mums have posted. Please continue to add your comments, either to this post, or to our Face book page. However, I would ask that people remain respectful to other posters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If this is an issue which chimes strongly with you, there are a few things you can do:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. As this tweet says you need to contact CCG today at getinvolved@croydonccg.nhs.uk by email TODAY (not much time to get this done). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Croydon Clinical Commission Group's consultation process has now closed, but...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. Keep an eye on YOUR local CCG - Clinical Commisionsing Group (<span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/resources/ccg-maps/">see here</a></span>, to find yours), as they may well be considering the same. Richmond already appear to be on the same path. See <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.richmondccg.nhs.uk/Pages/Have%20your%20say/Consultations/Choosing-wisely.aspx">here</a></span> for further details. You have until February 3rd 2017, to respond to Richmond.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. Write to your M.P and/or Jeremy Hunt - the Secretary of State for Health, who is currently responsible for the NHS.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4. Create awareness and support, by sharing this information as widely as you can.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5. Sign the petition, <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/178087">here</a></span>. And then share it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">6. Follow the Campaign for Milk Prescription Access on Twitter and Face Book for updates. They also have a website <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.cmpa.org.uk/">here</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This really, really matters, to many mums and their young babies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Read Emma's story below - it's in the raw because I literally haven't had time to edit it yet, but actually, it's probably better, more real, that way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Hiya, </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Sorry if it's a bit rambling... Feel free to edit as required! </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">OK, this is baby number 2 with milk allergy. My son did not have his milk allergy recognised until he reacted badly to egg at 8months and paramedics had to come. We got a hospital appointment when he was 10 months and after talking about how he had been as a baby (V sicky, blood and mucus in poo, v unsettled, crying for hours on end, raw Excema, wheezing) they said "not saying you were fobbed off by gp/hv/midwife etc.. But you were! He is also soya free now. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Understandably I was worried my new baby would have allergy but everyone said she was fine (again) and it was probably just colic (again) only at 10wks after blood in poo, constipation, diahorria, V unhappy baby and mummy did I get 2nd doc opionion who referred us to hospital and they confirmed milk allergy and put her on nutramigen. As she had pretty much stopped feeding as she associated milk with pain she did loose weight and it took a long time to get her feeding a bit better and up to second centile. At 6 months we were told to switch to nutramigen 2,and whether it was coincidence or she just started feeding more, I realised we were starting our 4th tin by only day 8. I realised I only had 4 more tins and as it takes doctor up to 48hrs to issue prescription and pharmacy have to order it I got on the case to ask doctor for more milk. When I rang next day to see if it was ready reception told me Dr had left note to say she was only allowed 8 tins a month and I would have to get appointment to discuss. The next day all the appointments were gone so went the say after. My husband and I calculated how many tins a month my baby would need if she drank 35oz a day, (which is the amount the consultant said she should b drinking at 4 months) with no wastage (u can only keep it for hr once she starts it) The doctor listened to me, but said I should be weaning her, he was going by government guidelines, did I realise it was £11per tin, and I was spending public money. He made me feel awful. I stayed calm and explained I am only trying. . to feed my baby and I actually started trying to wean and her at 5 months cos I thought maybe she would be better eater than drinker, but so far she was not interested. He reluctantly issued me a "one off prescription" for 8 tins but would not issue any more without letter from consultant.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I rang the consultant that day but he wasn't available and they said he would call back. I was then admitted to hospital due to my asthma and couldn't handle chasing it as think the stress poss contributed to me being poorly. I have actually had a phone call from consultant today and he said it was not a problem. He worked out how many tins she would need the same way I did. He did say to keep trying the weaning as he said it's common for babies with allergies to develop food aversions but said she could have 13 tins in a month and he would write to doctor. So finally it's sorted and panic over. I just found it so hard last wk when I felt just like when I knew she was allergic but couldn't get anyone to listen to me. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I think we have enough to deal with and enough worries with our allergy babies without extra stress like this. I would love to have a baby that is not allergic, but that's not the case. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I hope other people manage to get the help they need. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Kind regards, </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Emma </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Hullaballouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06731907326879042732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820634105388649430.post-45305441237085942592017-01-24T12:11:00.003+00:002018-09-27T21:45:05.361+01:00FAQ's: Where can I find a dairy free (free from) birthday cake?<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Okay, so hands up - when it comes to birthdays, not all of us are born a Mary Berry, so who loves the idea of a ready made birthday cake??</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, maybe not everyone, but I find I do a bit of both - I need one for the party and one for home and oh yes, another for school! No wonder I get very little blogging done when birthday season comes 'round! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But sometimes, my fave Marry Berry Swiss Roll recipe (</span><a href="http://dairyfreebabyandme.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/black-forest-swiss-roll-baking-without.html" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: yellow;">see here</b></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">) just has to suffice - very quick, very easy and can be dressed a number of different ways! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Birthdays being the normal manic thing that they are, for at least one of these I love to cheat - to take the pressure off. Fortunately, as <i>my</i> kiddo is only dairy free it's a bit easier than I thought to find a dairy free cake... and from the supermarket too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Asda, Tesco, Morrsion's and Sainsbury's all sell a fairly big range of celebration cakes and the good news is that quite a number of them are dairy free. Even Waitrose is now getting in on the act! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, I say 'dairy free' - they are by no means marketed as 'Free From', but no milk or dairy products are listed in the ingredients of those that we've tried, and no 'may contains' either. And, maybe we've been lucky, but Kiddo has been quite sensitive to traces of milk and no unpleasant reactions have followed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We've been 'lucky' so far - in that our Kiddo has been able to get the cake of her choice for each of her birthdays! </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She has already had this Lightening Mc Queen (Disney Cars) which we bought from Asda:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Available for £10.00. For ingredients <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://groceries.asda.com/product/character-cakes/disney-cars-2-birthday-cake/81193070">see here</a></span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This Disney Frozen cake (bought from Tesco, but also at Sainsbury's):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Which costs £10. Ingredients list <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/frozen-celebration-cake">here</a></span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And also this Despicable Me Minion cake:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Serves 20 - just! But cost just £10.00. Ingredients <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/celebration-cakes-44/despicable-me-celebration-cake">here</a></span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However, I've not been able to eat a single one of these cakes, as none of them are gluten free. Unless it's soya lecithin, I'm also soya free - which causes The Hub a fair bit of trouble when it comes to my birthday! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This year, as so much was going on, there was NO cake for my birthday - cue sad face (that said we were about to go on holiday and The Hub was stressed to the eyeballs with stuff going on at work)! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And THIS despite the fact that it's now become relatively easy to find a Free From cake - in fact all the major players now sell something gluten free (apart from Waitrose, of course) although Tesco's... well they</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> now sell a nice looking little selection in their Free From department, but none of these are dairy free - cue another sad face! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As of yet, d</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">espite the big Free From battle that is going on between the supermarkets, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">none of the cakes in any of the supermarkets are egg free. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am somewhat bewildered why it has not yet occurred to them that this section of the market remains untapped - especially as it would also appeal to Vegans.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> So if you are egg free, I'm afraid you will either need to contact a free from or Vegan baker like <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.hannahbananabakery.co.uk/Hannahbananabakery/Home.html">Hannah Banana</a></span> (her cakes DO look amazing), or make your own, in which case, check out <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://lucysfriendlyfoods.com/">Lucy's Friendly Foods</a></span> - she has some amazing dairy, egg and soya free recipes, including meringues!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This cute little Madeira cake, priced £8.00, is just that - 'little' (678g). However it was enough just for us. Kiddo and I enjoyed it. The Hub not so much. It's free from all of the top allergens as far as I can see from the <a href="https://groceries.asda.com/product/party-cakes/asda-free-from-madeira-party-cake/910002746692"><span style="background-color: yellow;">ingredients list</span></a>, except for egg. However it is only described as 'Gluten Free' and 'Dairy free'. You can also get it in chocolate. However, the chocolate version (<span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://groceries.asda.com/product/party-cakes/asda-free-from-chocolate-party-cake/910002746564">ingredients here</a></span>) is made with soya beans, so is a 'no-go' for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Morrisons have a nice looking <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Morrisons-Free-From-Happy-Birthday-Cake/369971011">Madeira Cake</a>, which costs £8.00.</span> It is free from the top fourteen allergens except egg, although it may also contain soya.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They also have a Vanilla tray bake, which is free of all the top fourteen allergens, except egg, although it may contain soya. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It costs £3.60 and says it can serve 9 people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is also a chocolate traybake, which is made with egg and soya protein but is otherwise fourteen allergen free. As before, costing £3.60, it says it can serve 9 people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But, by far and away the winners in the ready made birthday cake stakes, are, for me at the moment are...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Purely because although not all are suitable for us, they now have a range of <b><i>FOUR</i></b> cakes that are ALL dairy, gluten, and <i><b>nut</b></i> free! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We only have tried out the <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/bread---cakes/sainsburys-freefrom-madeira-celebration-cake-663g">Madeira one</a></span> (which was as pictured at the top of this post, but the design has now changed), because it is also soya free. It's priced £8.00 for 663g of cakiness, and would appeal to the more girly types among us - Kiddo loved it for sure - both the look and the flavour! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The only one of the top allergens listed is again... you've guessed it, I'm sure... egg! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/bread---cakes/sainsburys-freefrom-safari-celebration-cake-755g">This one</a>,</span> priced at £9.00, is perhaps more suitable for little ones (755g). It is also a madeira cake and really quite attractively decorated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is quite a nice size more adult-looking <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/bread---cakes/sainsburys-freefrom-seriously-chocolate-cake-743g">chocolate cake</a></span> (743g), but it is made with soya protein, as well as the dreaded-for-some egg. It is priced at £8.00.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is also a <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/bread---cakes/sainsburys-freefrom-chocolate-tray-bake-726g">tray bake</a></span> (726g) priced £7.00, which is a nice idea, for sharing -maybe with a class or toddler group, but </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">which sadly contains the dreaded soya again (boo hiss). So I'm afraid those too are off my list!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sainsbury's, like Asda, now have some Free From <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://groceries.asda.com/product/cakes-sweet-treats/asda-free-from-9-its-party-time-cupcakes/910002322545">cupcakes</a></span> (6 for £3.50). They are plain and ready to decorate, but are <i>not</i> dairy free (sigh).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Most of Tesco's ready made Free From cakes are only wheat/gluten free, but they recently produced this <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/300016886">vanilla tray bake</a></span> priced £4.00, it says it serves eight people. There is also this<span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/291548490?sc_cmp=ppc*GHS+-+Grocery+-+New*PX+%7C+Shopping+GSC+%7C+Health+Foods*Bakery+-+Health+Foods*PRODUCT+GROUP291548490*&gclid=Cj0KCQjw_7HdBRDPARIsAN_ltcJd69C4GRpoJNcstTH06gy3hWvgIkKcReNtMCpSpDvpI6EiltgfAgYaApZiEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CNjUqffC290CFUKgUQodpIMO4Q"> 'Carl the Caterpillar</a></span>' cake priced £6.00.</span><br />
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Hullaballouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06731907326879042732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820634105388649430.post-5005394224916396852017-01-21T04:27:00.002+00:002017-02-10T10:41:41.837+00:00Our Battle with Tongue-tie<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'm taking the rare step of writing about something not allergy-related, but which was a big part of our story in the early days - tongue-tie. Oh the things I so <i>wish</i> they had told us in ante-natal class!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Tongue-tie - just in case you don't know - is where the tongue is anchored down in the baby's mouth by some extra skin, or just membrane really, in the early stages. In our case it was like a line of skin, under the tongue. It stretched down the middle, from the back to the front, which tightened the tongue, forcing the tip of 'Baby's' tongue into the classic heart-shape. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Once upon a time (so I have heard), all babies were checked at birth and it was common-place for midwives to snip a tongue-tie there and then. However, these days, some professionals believe it will just grow out by itself, and should be left alone, whilst others believe that it hinders a baby from feeding (whether by breast or bottle) and should be snipped. It's so confusing when medical professionals cannot agree on a given subject, following our experience... well I'll let you decide for yourself...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On the first morning after our beautiful baby was born, she was checked over by a pediatrician, who soon spotted her tongue-tie. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'<i>But it's nothing to worry about he assured us, she's got such a strong suck.</i>' </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This he demonstrated by sticking the tip of his finger in her mouth. Instantly her sucking reflexes kicked in. We took his word for it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At that time, and in that area of the country, tongue-ties were just not seen as a problem... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'<i>Oh don't worry, she'll grow out of it</i>.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">...we were told by the private pediatrician we saw four weeks later. But we were worried!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By this time, my boobs were already looking battle-scarred and feeding was getting even more tricky than I had found it in the first place! </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was so desperate to breastfeed, but was dreading each and every feed. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The pain was so excruciating, I quite often cried aloud, as she latched on. Meanwhile, 'Baby', oblivious to my agony, was feeding quite frequently...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'<i>Feed through the pain</i>,'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">...was the frankly quite unhelpful mantra, I came across. But, feeling unable to cope, and on the verge of giving up altogether, I soon began to express off my worst side, and deliver the expressed milk through a bottle - hoping it would enable my (by now disintegrating) nipple to heal, as I just <i>couldn't </i>bear it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>I nearly gave up...</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Not being able to express more than an ounce or so at a time, I reluctantly began to top up 'Baby's' feeds with a specially prescribed dairy free formula, but this was <i>not</i> what I had expected and was <i>not</i> at all what I had wanted for my little one. All my naive little first-time dreams of motherhood lay fragmented on the ground - <i>HELLP</i> syndrome leading to an induced early birth, forcep delivery, jaundice that had us readmitted to hospital, milk allergy and now <i>THIS</i>! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At my wits end, and aware that The Hub was beginning to wonder who on earth this deranged woman that he'd married was. I'm pretty sure he hoped I'd give up and just switch to formula, but didn't dare say, for fear of upsetting me even more. I felt there really MUST be a solution to this thing and I was Googling left, right and center!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Tongue-tie came up every time - 'Baby' ticked all the boxes - including the 'clicking' sound as she tried to feed. But how to get help, when all the experts said it wasn't a problem??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>The solution...</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Fortunately, the Health Visitor, came to my rescue - she told us that in the next county there was a La Leche League breastfeeding counsellor who could assess us, for potential surgery. Desperate for help, we checked her out. Her room was packed with other unhappy mothers (and fathers) with their babies, all desperate for help </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and she was <i>amazing</i>! It didn't take her long to decide we were suitable and we were put down for the 'snip' by a maxillofacial surgeon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have to admit, I had my reservations - about my little one being strapped down and... what if the surgeon got it wrong? This was a daft thought, but I was pretty sleep-deprived by this stage - pumping and sterilising was going on day and night, so it was fair to say I was missing a quite a lot of sleep! Bizarrely driven on by my teaching instincts - I didn't want <i>my</i> child to be potentially mocked at school for having a speech impediment - we went ahead.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As it turned out, my doubts were assuaged, the moment we fed following the op (I say 'op', but because she was so young, it was actually over, quite literally, in seconds). We were taken to a side room to try her out, and straight away I could tell her gape was wider and she fed properly latched on - for the first time ever - without being forced on (as one nursing assistant had tried to do). </span><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hallelujah!</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The other thing I noted, was that her cry had changed - no longer did she wail 'Laa, laa,' she seamlessly changed to the 'Waaa, waa' sound, which you normally hear from babies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately, having got into bad habits, 'Baby's' latch slowly slipped back to her normal position and try as I might, I couldn't get her to feed the way I was 'supposed' to (I can't help feeling that if it had happened at birth, her latch would have been fine). BUT as my boobs healed (with, by now, the help of antibiotics, as I had developed an infection), the pain began to go, I was able to step up feeding, get her back off the bottle and properly breastfeed - the way it should have been all along!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Following on...</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since then, I have met soooo many other mums in the same boat, including, more recently, my younger sis', who has just been through the exactly same thing. For her, unfortunately it has taken multiple appointments to get properly diagnosed, and the operation, taking place at a later date, was far more traumatic than 'Baby's' had been.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yesterday, I came across this petition online. If, like me, you would like to prevent others from having to go through the same problems, please sign <a href="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/177416" style="background-color: yellow;"><b>this</b></a> petition*, and then share it as widely as you can. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Thank you!</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And if you're struggling with breastfeeding too, for whatever reason, I would heartily recommend the following:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.laleche.org.uk/"><b>La Leche League</b></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://kellymom.com/">Kelly Mom</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/tongue-tie/Pages/Introduction.aspx">NHS Choices - Tongue-tie</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://www.laleche.org.uk/tongue-tie/"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">La Leche League - Tongue-ti</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">* The petition reached the 10,000 signature stage and has been responded to by the Government. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">See how the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Government responded:</span><br />
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It is for the NHS locally to ensure appropriate services are available to diagnose and treat tongue-tie. If there are problems with feeding, professionals should discuss options with parents.</div>
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It is important that babies with tongue-tie receive appropriate treatment and that appropriate support is given to their parents.</div>
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It is for the NHS locally to ensure appropriate services are available for the diagnosis and treatment of tongue-tie. Some babies with tongue-tie can still feed properly and do not need any treatment. If the condition is causing problems with feeding, health professionals should discuss the options with parents and agree the most appropriate form of treatment. For some babies, extra help and support with breastfeeding is all that is needed. If this does not help, the tongue-tie needs to be divided by a registered practitioner.</div>
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The focus of the Government’s infant feeding policy is to improve health outcomes for women and their babies; our policy is in line with the World Health Organisation’s recommendations to encourage exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life. Access to supportive services in the crucial early weeks can help women establish and maintain breast feeding successfully. Midwives and Health Visitors have an important role to play in providing information, support and advice to mothers and parents on infant feeding.</div>
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To assist the NHS, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) considered the division of tongue-tie in depth in July 2004. Current NICE guidelines recommend that, when considering division of tongue-tie, healthcare professionals should be sure that the parents or carers understand what is involved and consent to the treatment, and the results of the procedure are monitored. In line with NICE guidelines, NHS England expects healthcare professionals to discuss the benefits and risks with the parents or carers of any child.</div>
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The Department of Health does not set the content and standard of training for healthcare professionals. Health Education England (HEE) has responsibility for promoting high quality education and training that is responsive to the changing needs of patients and local communities and will work with stakeholders to influence training curricula as appropriate.</div>
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The content and standard of healthcare training is the responsibility of the independent regulatory bodies, in this instance the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). Through their role as the custodians of quality standards in education and practice, these organisations are committed to ensuring high quality patient care delivered by high quality healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals will be equipped with the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to deal with the problems and conditions they will encounter in practice. However, HEE will work with the NMC to influence training curricular as appropriate.</div>
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The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) advises Ministers and the NHS in all four countries about all aspects of screening policy and supports implementation. Using research evidence, pilot programmes and economic evaluation, it assesses the evidence for programmes against a set of internationally recognised criteria.<br />
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The UK NSC has not reviewed the evidence for screening newborns for tongue-tie. The UK NSC’s evidence review process outlines how to submit a proposal at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-nsc-evidence-review-process/appendix-d-how-to-submit-a-proposal-to-the-uk-nsc" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-nsc-evidence-review-process/appendix-d-how-to-submit-a-proposal-to-the-uk-nsc</a></div>
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Information on tongue-tie (ankyloglossia) is available on the NHS Choices website at <a href="http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/tongue-tie" target="_blank">http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/tongue-tie</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well it's not really the news I was hoping to hear. Sadly it appears nothing is going to be improved at this stage. The Government has passed the buck to local Healthcare Professionals and the training they receive. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's terribly ironic that just the other day I saw an article about Health Visitor numbers potentially being cut in Humberside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However, I think it may well be worth submitting a proposal to the UK NSC (see second-to-last paragraph). The fight is not yet over!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Okay, okay, I'm a bit late I know, but Christmas was sooo busy and I needed to get the Kiddo back to school, myself back into routine, and my house back into some kind of order, before getting back to blogging again! First two achieved, ho hum on the second!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You may have noticed an absence of blog post recently, well the last three months really, and it's not because I didn't WANT to, it was simply a case of not-enough-time-in-the-day. Face Book and Twitter might have got a cheeky little look in from time to time, but certainly not to keep up with longer messages and blog posting - hence lots of posts from the archives on FB, which although perhaps helpful for newbies, not so great for those who have read them before! I've heard it said that young people only get done 1/3 of what they actually plan to do. Well I'm not so young as I was, but it's certainly true of me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>So where have I been? </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well apart from going on holiday (post to follow), it's been loads of mundane stuff shopping, washing etc. etc. (especially following the holiday), plus birthdays, plus Christmas, plus visiting family, plus seeing friends, plus running a toddler group, plus caring for our pets, plus, plus, plus...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our house has really suffered - not helped by a lively Kiddo, who is apparently brilliant at tidying and being helpful at school, as well as being incredibly well-organised, but at home?? Not so much!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This, despite countless boxes, drawers, cupboards etc. being provided for her storage:</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Last year was not a great year for many people - certainly, personally, there were some spots where I was quite poorly, which didn't help the smooth operation of our home, or anything else for that matter. It has felt like fighting an uphill battle to get my health and life back on track. So my plans/resolutions for the New Year are these:</span></div>
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All these are so that I can stay healthy enough to get everything else done <i>and</i> be the wife/mother that I want to be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hmm! Not setting myself too high an expectation I hope! I don't like setting myself up to fail (note - no diets mentioned here)!</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">So, apologies</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> to those who have expected replies and had to wait for them - hopefully I'll catch up with you soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Meanwhile, on the plus side, 2016 brought new breakthroughs in understanding of how allergies develop and how they might, in some cases be prevented (particularly regarding the prevention of nut allergies*), as well as bringing lots of great new products our way. Some of my personal favourites, this year, were: Koko's new dairy free yogurts (see <a href="http://dairyfreebabyandme.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/koko-dairy-free-soya-free-coconut-yogurt.html" style="background-color: yellow;"><b>here</b></a>), <b style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://dairyfreebabyandme.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/eat-your-daairyfree-heart-out-with.html">this</a> </b>great new dairy free ice cream by Alpro and <a href="http://dairyfreebabyandme.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/oo-ah-christmas-chocolat-2016.html" style="background-color: yellow;"><b>these</b></a> new dairy free choccies by Kinnerton - yum! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Now, I'm really looking forward to all that this new year will bring, how about you?? What are you looking forward to this year??</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Whatever your hopes/dreams/aspirations, I sincerely hope you will have a happy and healthy New Year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>* NB: For more information about the prevention of nut allergies, please see Dr Carina Venter RD's excellent <a href="https://carinaventeronline.wordpress.com/2017/01/07/feeding-your-baby-peanuts-qa/" style="background-color: yellow;">blog</a></i></span></span><br />
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