Blue Peter Badge!!!

Sometimes being gluten free is not all bad, well if you get a Blue Peter badge anyway!  Earlier this year I wrote to Blue Peter to tell them all about living with coeliac disease and cool - I got a Blue Peter badge for it!

Changing the world already

Waitrose have responded, and it's good news! They are going to get the label changed on the Bombay Mix...


Thank you for your query regarding the allergen labeling on our Bombay
Snack Mix and I am really sorry that this has caused concern for you and
your daughter.

Please find below the response from our nutritionist.

As your daughter has correctly pointed out, because wheat flour is listed
as an ingredient, gluten should be listed in the allergen box. From
speaking to our supplier, it appears that a small amount of wheat flour is
contained in the baking powder which is used as a raising agent to make
the noodles in the mix. As the flour is present at such a low level, the
error occurred as it was assumed that gluten did not need to be labelled.
This conflicts with the requirements for food labeling and we will be
correcting this as soon as possible.

Thank you for highlighting this to us and thank you to your daughter for
her blogging. The photos made it really easy for me to track down what the
problem was and has meant that we can focus our attention on correcting
this as quickly as we can.

Kind regards

Nutrition Department

Regards,

Cathryn Lindley

Waitrose Customer Sales and Support.


Nice one Waitrose.

Changing the world already.    Happy Christmas everyone!

Love

FreeFromBeth

xxx

Waitrose Bombay Mix

This Bombay Mix I got from Waitrose did not say in the allergy box that it had wheat in it! (oops!) 

Come on Waitrose - that is rubbish.  It was so lucky I hardly ate any before my Daddy noticed the wheat flour mentioned in the ingredients.  That would have been a very bad tummy ache.

Another day in the life of a Coeliac!

Happy Christmas Delia and Heston...

Chocolate Pretzels Yum

Yum these chocolate pretzels are my favourite (If I had a packet they would have vanished in 2 seconds!) :)

First post!

Hi

I'm a young girl living the UK.  I was diagnosed 5 years ago with Coeliac Disease.

This is a blog to give people some insight into my daily ordeal with living with the disease.

I will also be posting useful advice and regular diary entries.  If I find any new foods which are worth mentioning, I'll be sure to tell you about them, along with photos!
;) :)