I’m Getting Paranoid About Waitrose
Coeliacs are very particular about what they eat.
My list of must-have foods apart from the usual things, like meat, fish, vegetables and fruit includes :-
- Waitrose seeded, thin-sliced loaf. It makes good toast and lovely sandwiches.
- Waitrose semi-skimmed goats milk. As good as any, and there is no smell.
- Eat Natural gluten-free toasted muesli with vine fruit.
- St.Helen’s Farm semi-skimmed goats milk yoghurt. I have this with my breakfast cereal.
- Rowse organic honey. Again, I have this with the breakfast cereal.
But my branch in Islington does its best to annoy me :-
- They haven’t had the thin-sliced loaf for weeks. But they always seem to have the thick-sliced, which has the texture of the stuff with which they make IKEA furniture. It is ideal for making sandwiches for masochists!
- Recently, there have been days, with the full-fat goats milk, but not the semi-skimmed.
- They haven’thad this for months, but they’ve always got lots of unsold packets of the buckwheat version. So it means, I have to go to Sainsbury’s next door.
- I make sure, I always have the yoghurt in the fridge, as sometimes this isn’t for sale.
- The same applies to the honey.
And then of course there’s the check-outs, which were designed by a man or woman with two perfect hands.
It is any wonder, that I’m getting paranoid?
I suppose this afternoon, I had better go all the way to Eastfield to get a loaf.
The Anonymous Widower 
Have you tried the Nairns GF Muesli? It is really nice, lots of fruit and nuts and I add extra fresh fruit, usually berries. It is unsweetened, but there is plenty of fruit so doesnt need sweetening. Their GF Porridge Oats and GF Oatcakes are nice too.
Right now, I am feeling paranoid about Starbucks, their new GF cheese and pickle sandwich has what they describe as “gluten free barley malt vinegar”. in the pickle – it is a cheese and pickle sandwich. It is in fact a very very nice cheese and pickle sandwich, and my local starbucks, who know me well, tell me that it is a very popular sandwich even with people who are not coeliac. But I am sat here waiting for a reaction. I hope I dont react,
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