The Anonymous Widower

My Gluten-Free Diet

I  think it is true to say that as time has gone on, I’ve cut out more and more manufactured gluten-free foods.

Take tonight after a trip to London to look over my new house, I needed a quick supper, so I warmed through a Moroccan chicken casserole and cooked some rice. None of the ingredients are specifically processed to be gluten-free and most of the basic ingredients can be obtained in most good food stores.  So I did use rice. chicken and apricots that were organic from Waitrose, but that has nothing to do with being a coeliac.

I got to thinking today, about obtaining my gluten-free supplies, when I move.  The nearest shops to where I will be living are in Kingsland Road in Dalston.

So what specific gluten-free food do I buy?

1. Genius bread
2. Greens gluten-free beer.
3. Doves farm pasta and flour.
4. Waitrose gluten-free cakes and biscuits.
5. Life free-from Worcester sauce.

I suppose you can include St. Helen’s Farm goats milk and yoghurt, Wilkins jams, marmalades and tomato sauce, and Aspall cyder, but these are a matter of personal taste rather than a strict diet.

In a  quick recce of Sainsburys in the Kingsland Road, I found that they had a free-from section, that was even selling the Greens beer, which is something my local one in Haverhill doesn’t.  So for some products, I may need to go on an expedition to Waitrose in the Holloway Road or at the Angel, but it will be nice to have some basic products within ten minutes walk. I haven’t lived close to a supermarket, since we lived in St. John’s Wood in the early 1970s. Although we were close to Whitecross Street Market when we lived in the Barbican.

November 26, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | Food | Beer, Coeliac/Gluten-Free, Shopping