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Dreaming of doughnuts! 🍩 Throwback to this amazing find in Canada last year. 🇨🇦 Who knew a stop into a little local store in Banff would uncover a whole freezer full of gluten free goodies! 😮 I picked up these chocolate and raspberry doughnuts by @mountain_rhino as a dreamy treat for the evenings back at our hotel (while watching the @bluejays ⚾️💙) after a day of exploring. 🏔 Mountain Rhino are a local company based in Alberta who make a variety of gluten free sweet treats. 👌 These were undoubtedly the best iced doughnuts I’ve ever had. Super soft and squishy and an incredible, indulgent taste. 😀 I really did fall in love with Banff, absolutely beautiful place, and with great gluten free options too, I honestly think it could be heaven on Earth 😍
Homemade tapas night! 🇪🇸💃🏼 Seeing as the weather has been a bit of a farce recently we’ve been reminiscing about sunnier times and our awesome holiday to Spain last year. ☀️ As a Friday treat we tried to recreate some of the dishes we had at the excellent @famatapasbar overlooking Benalmádena beach 🏖 Pleased to report it turned out well! 👌 We made honey glazed chicken skewers with dip, tomato, mozzarella and aubergine stacks, roasted sweet peppers and nachos with salsa and guac 🙌 Happy Friday everyone 😄
Enchilada night! 🇲🇽🌮 Been wanting to make this for ages as I’ve never had enchiladas before, so worth the wait! 🙌 We used mince beef, tinned tomatoes, peppers, courgette, tomato and chilli purée, chilli flakes and mixed herbs for the sauce, @sainsburys free from tortillas, and a bucket load of cheese 🧀 Dead easy, and dead delicious 😋
Flowers and a Victoria sponge for my love! ❤️🍰💐 Yes I am an amazing boyfriend. 👍 Although the cake is kinda for me too seeing as it’s gluten free obvs, hoping Rach might share it anyway.. 😆 Happy Valentine’s Day for tomorrow y’all 🙌 . . . #glutenfree #glutenfreediet #glutenfreelife #glutenfreeliving #glutenfreelifestyle #glutenfreelove #glutenfreeeats #glutenfreemeals #glutenfreefood #glutenfreeoptions #glutenfreeuk #singluten #senzagluten #sansgluten #wheatfree #coeliac #coeliacman #coeliacmadeeasy #coeliacuk #coeliacsofinstagram #coeliacdisease #coeliaclife #celiac #freefrom #freefromgluten #glutenfreebaking #valentinesday
#gifted | 🚨 Attention coeliacs of planet earth! This is your Coeliac Man speaking with an important announcement. 🚨 A brand new postal service has launched today from @thefreefrombaker! 🙌 Here’s the deal: each week the Free From Baker aka Stephen will bake a batch of delicious gluten free tray bake, it’ll be a different bake each week, which will be released on his website. You can order over the weekend (first come first served) to be delivered right through your letterbox during the week after. 🍰 Stephen kindly sent me a sample box of the first bake on offer which is this totally divine raspberry blondie. A whopping 8 mahoosive blondies were tightly packed in the box, ensuring they survived the letterbox drop intact! They’re lovely and squishy and taste absolutely superb with that raspberry swirl of dreams. 👌 I’d say they’re up there with the best brownies/blondies I’ve ever eaten! 👏 I first met Stephen years ago when he was just starting out as the baker for the gluten free cafe in Newark (which has sadly now closed down 😫) stocking their counter up with a huge range of tasty treats. He’s a diagnosed coeliac himself and it’s great to see him now branching out on his own so everyone has the chance to enjoy his amazing bakes! 😄 Follow @thefreefrombaker for more info or head to www.thefreefrombaker.com to order your box of blondies now 👍
As it’s #NationalStorytellingWeek I thought I’d share my coeliac story once again. And, you know, any excuse to bust out a photo from Canada 🇨🇦👌 Enjoy! Coeliac Man: Origins Coeliac Man’s Peter Parker style alter ego is a bloke called David. In many ways I’m just your normal, regular, every day, normal, run of the mill, average, normal bloke. I work in marketing. I like football. I want to Hulk-smash the living bejesus out of my phone every morning when the alarm goes off. So far, so normal, right? But roughly 27 and a bit years ago a potentially catastrophic fate befell our hero. That’s right, Coeliac Man was diagnosed with coeliac disease (hence the name). Although that doesn’t really do justice to what actually happened so let’s rewind.. When I was just a wee small baby there was a slight problem in that I was vomiting my guts out every day and my stomach had ballooned out to the size of a bowling ball. The sort of stomach where if my parents had filmed me and stuck me on a tv advert people would’ve been texting in to donate £5 a month. The doctors had no clue what was wrong with me and advised that I should be fed plain foods like breadsticks. Now breadsticks, as I’m sure many of you will have figured out, are loaded up with my own personal kryptonite: gluten. So the vomiting continued until I was referred to see a specialist who had the foresight to insert a small camera down my throat and into my stomach to figure out what was kicking off in there. It was only then that I was diagnosed as being coeliac and told that I needed to follow a strict gluten free diet. Since diagnosis our mighty Coeliac Man grew awesome superpowers such as the ability to eat food without throwing it straight back up, and generally developing into the normal (well, sort of) delight of a human being that I am today. I’ve been living with coeliac disease for over a quarter of a century now so have lots of experience of people asking me what the hell gluten is and assuming that I can’t drink beer due to some sort of hilarious bad experience on a night out. I’ve also seen the drastic improvements in awareness and product availability. It’s been quite the journey!

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