One of the Only Gluten-Free Snacks At Eastfield
As I’ve said before Eastfield, or Westfield Stratford City as the developers prefer, is a place where gluten-free food for lunch or dinner is difficult to find.
This is all I could find, other than loaves in Waitrose and Marks and Spencer.
One of the Only Gluten-Free Snacks At Eastfield
Even Starbucks only had the usual excellent brownie and a cheese and coleslaw sandwich. And I just think coleslaw is food for German rabbits.
Returning to the Marks sandwich, what do you do if you’re Jewish or Muslim and fancy something substantial?
I suppose we could always live on Starbucks brownies for a few hours, but the lack of choice does really put me off going to Eastfield.
The Anonymous Widower 
In the U.S., even that would be difficult to come by. I am a gluten-intolerant vegetarian and I find that I have to pack my own food pretty much wherever I go. I’m not sure if I would want our Starbucks to carry GF brownies, though. They may be too hard to resist:)
Comment by stilllearning2b | July 18, 2012 |
They’re not too bad at all and as I have a weight problem, they do help it. I could do with the odd extra pound, but not too many, as I’m still the same weight, as when I left University in 1968. Eating GF in the UK is greatly helped by Indian restaurants, where food should be cooked in chick-pea flour and if you want to be vegetarian a lot of te dishes are that way. Some national chains of restaurants like Carluccios also have a GF menu with proper and excellent GF pasta. Pizzas are difficult, although you can find them in places.
What puzzles UK coeliacs is how MacDonalds make a cappucino coffee that is not gluten-free. Any ideas?
Comment by AnonW | July 18, 2012 |
Weird. Never heard of that. Barley malt extract perhaps? That’s been my downfall more than once with herbal teas.
Comment by stilllearning2b | July 18, 2012
Could be? Remember though in the UK, malt extract is generally from yeast and is called Marmite. I hate it, but my late wife loved it.
Comment by AnonW | July 18, 2012 |
Starbucks also do an excellent GF chocolate hazelnut slice. I like the cheese and coleslaw sandwich, but not the cheese and pickle, which has something in which I react to, in the pickle, I forget what. Caffe Nero also do an excellent GF brownie. Both Starbucks and Caffe Nero will let you bring your own GF oats and will make it into porridge rather then using their own oats. I will be testing this either tomorrow or Tuesday. Their syrups, honeys, compote etc to go in it are also GF but look to be far too sweet for my taste and I will take my own fruit, probably raspberries.
Comment by liz | July 18, 2012 |
I’m not into porridge. I was never able to toss a caber either!
Comment by AnonW | July 18, 2012 |
I am part Scottish, and love porridge, made with fully skim milk and sweetened with fruit of some kind.
Comment by liz | July 18, 2012 |