GFCF Diet Lists and Contacts For The UK

Recipes

In General - Some Foods which are and aren't OK

Supermarket Lists and Contact Details

Malt Extract Dilemma

Autism Mail lists



N.B. This site is not currently being maintained  -but much of the information remains valid, and the contacts are still of use.    I am happy to hand over the running of this to anyone able to do so - please E-mail me at mheadbellsr@aol.com - thanks.

Thank you for visiting this website, which details Gluten and Casein Free foods available from UK supermarkets, as well as contacts for home research.  The lists are not comprehensive, and never will be as product lines vary all the time.   The best approach is DIY - contact the supermarkets directly using the addresses listed below, giving your name and postal address.   Most provide a good service.  Also - join an electronic mailing list.    You'll then instantly be able to discuss GFCF with others.

To obtain more information about the diet go to www.gfcfdiet.com 

Please note the footnote regarding cereal containing malt extract

Another good link: Don Wiss' Autistic spectrum and diet page http://www.PaleoDiet.com/autism/


Recipes

Barbara Powell write recipes for food intolerances including ones made by hand and for a bread machine.    She modifies each recipe to suit the intolerances of the requestor.

She can supply non-corn-derived Xanthan Gum powder (which replaces the gluten) and makes the bread soft and elastic together with USA measuring cups-fruit/pie tins  and white rice flour, tapioca starch flour(cassava) and potato starch flour (Farina) together with recipes for bread/pasta/pastry/pizza/muffins/scones/cakes etc. etc.

 
Website address: http://www.barbaraskitchen.co.uk  click onto dairy and yeast to see the GFCF loaf and GFCF yeast free rolls.

 

Do you have any GFCF recipes you would like to share?   

Please E-mail me them and I shall publish them on this site.   Not many on the web at the moment - try www.gfcfdiet.com/section_eight.htm  and http://www.enabling.org/ia/celiac/rec/rec99-2.html which has a GFCF "oatmeal cookie" recipe.   Not much - but it's early days yet for this site...


Some foods which are and aren't OK

OUT IN
Wheat, wheat flour, wheat products Egg
Barley Buckwheat
Oats Farina (potato flour)
Rye Gluten free flour
Milk Fruit
Malt Vegetables
Malt flour Fish
Malt powder Meat
Malted milk drinks Honey
Ale Jam
Beer Marmalade
Lager Nuts
Grain gin Plain rice
Stout Cornflour
Whisky Sago
Bran Tapioca
Breadcrumbs Cornflakes
Rusk (found in most sausages) Rice Krispies
White Bread Plain Hula Hoops
Wholemeal Bread Arrowroot

 


GFCF foods available from UK supermarkets:

Supermarket E-mail address Telephone Website Notes
Waitrose   customer_service@waitrose.co.uk 0800 188884 www.waitrose.co.uk  
Tesco customer.service@tesco.co.uk 01192 632222 www.tesco.co.uk   
Marks & Spencer E-mail via website 0171 9354422 www.marks-and-spencer.co.uk/default.asp  
Sainsbury's feedback@sainsburys.co.uk 0171 268 1234 www.sainsburys.co.uk  
Asda E-mail via website Amazingly, I couldn't find this on their website www.asda.co.uk  
Co-Op customer.relations@co-op.co.uk  0800 0686 727
www.co-op.co.uk Coop have provided me with an electronic list of wheat free and milk free foods - not quite GFCF, but if you wamnt a copy mail me (or them) and ask.
Iceland customer.care@iceland.co.uk 01244 842 842    www.iceland.co.uk  
Somerfield and KwikSave E-mail via website As Asda, doesn't appear to be advertised on their website www.somerfield.co.uk  
Other food suppliers of interest        
W Apperley & Sons rapperly@btconnect.com      Suppliers of Glutern Free Recipes in Stonehouse and Gloucester
Gluten Free Foods info@glutenfree-foods.co.uk 0181 952 0052 www.glutenfree-foods.co.uk  Note - this is Gluten Free, not necessarily Casein Free

Waitrose  - some foods in addition to those listed in the table

The list provided by Waitrose does not break foods down into categories, and it is not always obvious from a name what a food actually is.    This list therefore has more omissions than others.

All these are own-label foodstuffs:

Beverages Cola / White Rum / Diet tonic - lemon / Diet Cola / Strong Dry Traditional Cider / Sugar Free Cherryade /  Medium Dry Traditional Cider / Fruit Juice / Wine / Most (if not all) soft drinks

Crisps and Sancks Ready Salted Potato Crisp / Ready Salted Potato Sticks / Ready Salted Potato Rings / Ready Salted Crisps / Low Fat Crinkle Crisps / Loose Marzipan Fruits / Roasted Salted Peanuts / Salted Large Peanuts / 

Coffee and Tea Organic Cafeteire Coffee / Organic Peppermint Tea / Cont Gold Dried Coffee / Cont Gold Free Instant Coffee / Kenya AA Med Grind Coffee / Monsooned Malabar Coffee / Colombian Supremo Coffee / Java Medium Grind Coffee etc! (Waitrose do lots of coffees or teas, they are nearly all OK)

Oils Basil Oil

Vinegars White Wine Vinegar / Red Wine Vinegar / Cider Vinegar / Mixed Herb Wine Vinegar / Tarragon Wine Vinegar / Garlic Wine Vinegar / Raspberry Wine Vinegar / Malt Vinegar / Strawberry Wine Vinegar / Rose Wine Vinegar / Specality Gift Vinegar

Dressings French Mustard / Dijon Mustard / Wholegrain Mustard / English Mustard / Far Free Vinaigrette / Salad Cream / Mayonnaise / Lemon Mayonaise / Garlic Mayonnaise / Reduced Calorie Mayonnaise / French Dressing / Italian Dressing / Cranberry Sauce / Tartare Sauce / Chilli Sauce / Hot Horseradish sauce / Redcurrant jelly / Cider and Sage Jelly / Mint Sauce / Apple Sauce / Salsa Relish / Tomato, Apple and Tarragon Relish / Tomato, Onion and Garlic Relish 

Pickles and Chutneys Spiced Cucumber Pickle  / Sweet Pickle / Mango Chutney / Hot Mango Chutney / Curried Fruit Chutney / Spiced Peach Chutney / Apricot, Ginger and Garlic Chutney / Apple and Walnut Chutney / Dips Sundried tomato dip / Chive & Onion Dip

Desserts Most if not all tinned fruit / Apple & Raspberry Fruit Filling / Apple & Blackbery Fruit Filling / Blackcurrant Fruit Filling / Red Cherry Fruit Filling / Apricot Fruit Filling / Black Cherry Fruit Filling / Apple Slices / Red Plums in Syrup / CPrunes in Juice /

Jams, Honeys and Marmalades: Most if not all

Fish Mackerel fillets in oil, tomato, brine or soya oil / sardines in olive oil, soya oil, tomato or brine / tuna in brine, oil or sunflower

Other Spreads Smooth and Crunhcy Peanut Butter / Wholenut peanut butter

Prepared Foods Ratatouille

Confectionary and Chocolates Real Fruit Pastilles / American Hard Gums / Wine Gums / Fruit Jellies / Chocolate Orange Creams / Mini Jelly Beans / Mini Wine Gums / Mini Teddies / Jelly Beans / Dew Drops / Dollyu Mixture / Chocolate Peppermint Cream / Mint Crisps / Chocolate Stem Ginger / Plain Choc Brazil Nuts / Rpse & Vilet Cremes / Plain Choc Neopolitans / Sugared Almonds / Liquer Chocolates / Marzipan Characters

Oils Most if not all

Milk Unsweetened soya milk / Calcium Sweetneed soya milk

Rice Thai Fragrant Rice / Easy Cook Rice / Basmati Rice / Italian Brown Rice / Pudding Rice / Arborio Risotto Rice / Mexican Rice / Lemon Rice

Sauces Italian Napoletana Sauce / Italian Funghi Pasta Sauce / Italian Vongole Sauce / Ialian Arrabbiata Sauce

Chips American Style Oven Fries / Oven Crinkle Cut Chips / Straight Cut Frychips / Straight Cut Oven Chips / Frying Chips Thin Cut / Straight Cut Oven Chips / Oven Chips in Sunflower Oil / Reduced Fat Oven Chips / Mashed Potatoes

Spreads and Margerines Soya Spread / Sunflower Margerine

Traditional Mincemeat

Beef Stock Cubes / Vegetable Stock Cubes

Cambridge Sausage / Coarse Cut Sausages / Mild Garlic Sausage  / Hungarian Salami / German Salami / Royal Salami



Tesco - some foods in addition to those listed in the table

All these are own-label foodstuffs:

Frosted Flakes / Corn Flakes

Pure Corn Oil / Pure Sunflower Oil / Sunflower Oil / PureVegetable Oil / Blended Sunflower/Olive Oil / Versatile Oil / Extra Virgin Oil  / Groundnut Oil / Grapeseed Oil / Sesame Oil / Walnut Oil / Olive Oil etc!...

Beefy Stock Extract (this is the only milk-free gravy browning on the Tesco label)

Bolognese Sauce / Healthy-Eating sauce for pasta / Italian sun-dried tomato paste / Italian premium pasta sauce (basilico/vegetale/piccante/olive)

Jelly (Strawberry / Raspberry / Orange / Lemon / Black Cherry / Lime / Blackcurrant / tangerine / pineapple)

Chips: American Style Tin Oven / Steakhouse fry / Steakhouse oven / American Style thin fries / Straight Cut Fry / Straight Cut Oven / Healthy-Eating Low fat oven / Value Oven / Value fry / Crinklecut Oven / Hash browns 

Freedom food sausages / 100% Beef Quarter pound burgers / Quarter pound burgers

Princes Finest Corned Beef

Savoury Rice Beef (but not other varieties)

Soya Spread / Baking Margarine / Value Soft Spread

Tesco Select Ready Salted Crisps / Tesco Select Variety Crisps (not Assorted Crisps)

Fruit Pastilles / Marshmallows / Sparkling Fruits / Mint Imperials / American Hard Gums / Pear Drops / Fruit Splits / Fruit Salad / Jelly Beans / Gummy Mix / Fizzy Jelly Mix / Fizzy Mix / Fizzy Cola Bottles / Spearmints / Acid Drops / Fruit Drops


Marks & Spencer - some foods in addition to those listed in the table

All these are own-label foodstuffs:

8 Pack Meringues, Mini Meringue Bag, Amarettini Biscuits

Summerfruit terrine

Dolly mixtures / Wine Gums / Superbears fruit gums / Jelly Babies / Assorted Fruit Sherberts

Orange Tiger Jelly / Blackcurrant pig jelly

Summerfruit Compote / Blackberry and Apple Compote

Thai Rice / Indian Rice Can 

Beef Stock / Tomato Puree 

Sorbets: F/F Rasp/Black / F/F Passion / F/F Orange / R/F Layered Dessert / R/Fruity Strawberry Summerfruit / R/Fruity Orange/Grapefruit 

Seasoned potatos wedges 

Ready Salted Crisps / Apple Slices / Salted Tort / Potato Rings  / Thomas Tank Tomato / Tomato Sports Snack

After Dinner Mints / Chocolate Crisp Pieces / Peppermint Creams / Marzipan Fruits / Tingling Fruit Tress

Aberdeen Angus Burgers


Sainsbury's - some foods in addition to those listed in the table

All these are own-label foodstuffs:

Beverages: All Chilled Fruit Juices and Fruit Drinks;  All Cider; All Fortified Wine;  All Instant Coffee; All Soft Drinks; Drinking Chocolate; Cocoa

Biscuits: None None

Burgers & Sausages: Grillsteaks / QuarterPounder Beefburger / Sausage of Distinction Cajun Smoky Sausage / Sausage of Distinction Toulouse Sausage / Sausage of Distinction Venison and Redcurrant Sausage / Cajun Smoky Sausage / Lamb and Mint Sausage / Toulouse Sausage / Venison & Redcurrant Sausage

Cakes: None

Cooking Ingredients: Arrowroot / Baking powder / Bicarbonate of soda / Cream of Tartar / Desiccated Coconut / Luxury Mincemeat / Plain Chocolate Drops for Cooking / Stem Ginger / White Marzipan 

Cereals: Cornflakes / Frosted Flakes / Honey Nut Cornflakes / Rice pops / Delicately Flavoured Rice Coriander and Herbs / Delicately Flavoured Saffron Rice / Ground Rice / Thai Fragrant Rice / Vegetable Biryani Rice

Cheese: Tofu - Soya Bean Curd (Cheese Substitute)

Confectionary: Chocolate Peppermint Creams / Mint Sticks / Continental Plain Chocolate / Chocolate Limes / Clear Fruits / Dolly Mixtures / Extra Strong Mints / Fruit Cocktails / Fruit Jellies / Jelly Beans / Lollipops / Marshmallows / Midget Gems / Mini Jelly Babies / Mint Imperials  / Sherbert Cocktails / Sparkling Mints

Crisps & Snacks: Gourmet Chips - Lightly Salted / Gourmet Chips - Sundried Tomato and Herb / Economy Ready Salted Crisps / Prawn Crackers / Ready Salted Crisps / Dry Roasted Peanuts - Barbeque Flavour / Honey Roast Peanuts & Cashew / Luxury Tropical Mix

Delicatessan: All Meats without additives (check labelling) / Pastrami / Chorizos / German Bierwurst / German Salami (though not German pepper salami) / Kabanos / Continental Honey Roast Ham / Corned Beef / Lonza Di Stagionata / Pease Pudding / Polony / Sopocka / Weijeska

Prepared Foods: Chicken Satay Stick / Italian Satay Stick / Pilau Rice / 

Pasta: None

Pate: None

Pies: None

Salad and Dips: Beetroot Salad / Coleslaw / Houmous / Kalamata Olives / Premium Coleslaw / Economy Coleslaw / Salsa /Waldorf Salad 

Desserts: Assorted Fruit Lollies / Blackcurrant Sorbet / Lemon Sorbet / Mango Sorbet / Ecoomy Orange Lollies / Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice Lollies / Orange Lollies / Rocket Lollies / Blackcurrant Jelly / Lemon Jelly / Mandarin Jelly / Raspberry Jelly / Strawberry Jelly / Freeze Pops / Pure Maple Syrup / Lemon Pie Filling / Meringue Nests / Meringue Pavlova / 

Dried Fruit: None 

Fats and Oils: All Oils / Dairy Free Soya Margerine / Margerine / All Lard and Dripping

Fish: All Canned Fish in Oil or Brine / Flavoured Tuna: Ginger and Smokey Barbecue / Lunch Snack Mexican Style Tuna Salas / Mackerel Fillets in Tomato Sauce / Mackerel Fillets in Spicy Tomato Sauce

Fruit: All Canned Fruit / Apricot Fruit Filling / Black Cherry Fruit Filling / Blackcurrant Fruit Filling / Blueberry Fruit Filling / Red Cherry Fruit Filling

Meat: Checken Breast in Jelly / Chopped Pork and Ham / Lean Cooked Ham / Premium Corned Beef 

Milk: Calcium Enriched Soya Drink / SOya Drink

Stock and Gravy: Beef Stock Pot  / Chicken Stock Tablets / Fish Stock Tablets / Yeast Extract / Vegetable Stock Cubes

Vinegar: All

Seasonings: All

Beef Stock Pot / Chicken Stock Tablets / Fish Stock Tablets / Yeast Extract

Pickles Chutneys & Relishes: Apple & Date Chutney / BarbeueRelish / Beetroot Pickle / Chargrilled Aubergine Chutney / Cocktail Cherries with Maraschino Flavouring / Cornichons / Curried Fruit Chutney / Diced Beetroot in Sweet Vinegar / German Sauerkraut / Green Olives Stuffed with tomato / Green Olives with lemon & mint / Green olives with provincial herbs / hot pickle / kalamata olives / mango chutney - hot and spicy / mango chutney - mild / manzanilla green olives stuffed with almonds / mixed olives / onion relish / peach chutney / pickled gherins / pickled gherkins in sour vinegar / pickled gherkins in sweet vinegar / pickled midget gherkins / pickled onions / pickled onions in sweet vinegar / pickled midget gherkins / pickled onions / pickled onions in sweet vinegar / pickled red cabbage / pickled red cabbage in sweet vinegar / pickled red cabbage / pickled red cabbage in sweet vinegar / pickled silverskin onions / pickled whole baby beets / pickled whole baby beets in sweet vinegar / pitted black olives / pitted green olives / queen green olives with stones in brine / redcurrant & red onion chutney / sandwich picke / shredded beetroot in sweet vinegar / sliced beetroot in sweet vinegar / sliced black olives / sliced pickled beetroot / spiced tangerine chutney / sweet piccalilli / sweet pickle / sweet pickled onions / sweet sliced beetroot / sweet whole baby beetroot / sweetcorn relish / tomato and chilli relish / tomato relish / traditional style mixed pickles

Prepared foods (chilled): Bombay potato / Chicken Madras / Crispy Seaweed / Egg Fried Rice / Lemon Chicken /

Prepared foods (frozen): Ratatouille / Vegetable Hotpot

Pulses: Beans in tomato sauce / Aduki beans / Black beans / black eye beans / butter beans / cannellini beans / chick peas / country bean mixture / dried peas / flageolet beans / green lentils / green split peas / haricot beans / pinto beans / puy lentils / red kidney beans / red lentils

Salad Dressing: Economy Salad Cream / French Coarse Ground Mustard Mayonnaise / French coarse ground mustard mayonnaise  / French mayonnaise with garlic  /Reduced Calorie Dressing /Reduced calorie French mayonnaise / Salad Cream / Thick and Creamy Mayonnaise / Thick and Creamy Mayonnaise Light

Sauces: Classic Italian: Antipasto Marinated Artichokes; Antipasto mixed mushrooms; antipasto peppers & tomato ;  premium pasta sauce courgette, aubergine and olive oil, premium pasta sauce sundried tomatoes and balsamic vinegar; premium pasta sauce sweetcorn leak & pepper /
Tomato Puree 
Flavours of the Orient Chilli Sauce ; Szechuan Sweet & Sour / 
Tex 'n' Mex : Burrito sauce ; Hot chilli con carne sauce; refried beans - mild; taco sauce; taco shells /
Bramley ap;lle sauce / Cranberry Sauce / Dark rench Mustard / Dijon Mustard / Economy Tomato Ketchup / English Horseradish Mustard / German mustard / Horseradish sauce / Hot and Cold Freen Peppercorn Sauce / Hot and Cold Mustard Sauce / Italian tomato ketchup / Mint Jelly / Mint Sauce / Mustard Coarse GRound / Redcurrant Jelly / Reduced Sugar and Salt Tomato Ketchup / Smooth  Bramley Apple Sauce 

Soup (canned): Special Recipe Beef Consomme

Soup (packet): none

Spreads: Beef Pate / Chicken & Ham Pate / Chicken Spread /  Crab Pate / Salmon & Shrimp Pate / Salmon Spread / Sardine & Tomato pate / Tuna & Mayonnaise Pate

Jams, Conserves, Honey, Fruit Spreads: All

Sugars & Sweetners:All

Vegetables: All plain frozen vegetables ; Authentic Indian Chick Pea Dhal / Authentic Indian Lentil Dhal / Authentic Oriental Sweet and Sour Vegetables / Authentic Thai  Vegetable Red Curry / Mixed Bean Salad / Mixed Beans in a Spicy Pepper Sauce / Mixed Beans in a Sweet and Sour Sauce / Ratatouille provencale Continental Premium Selection / Red Kidney Beans in Chilli Sauce / All Canned Tomatoes

 


 

Malt Extract Dilemma

Some people on the GFCF diet avoid foods containing malt extract and malt flavouring

This is a transcript of the Coeliac Society handbook on the matter:
 
"Almost all brands of gluten-free breakfast cereals contain malt extract and malt extract flavouring. This includes own-brands. New analytical techniques have shown that malt derivatives do contain small amounts of hordein, the protein in barley. Medical advice is that for the great majority of Coeliacs, gluten free breakfast cereals may be safely included in their diets. However, a few people are super sensitive and do not respond to even a strict gluten free diet. They may benefit from additionally omitting malt extracts."

The foods in these lists contains malt extract, and if you wish to avoid it then check ingredients.

 


Autism Mailing Lists

Some of the many autism mailing lists are detailed.   To check for more, go to a search engine (e.g. www.altavista.com) - search on +autism +"mailing list" or +autism +"discussion group"

More lists are detailed on the National Autistic Society website at www.oneworld.org/autism_uk/pubs/links.html#disany

Mailing List   

How to subscribe

Notes
Autism-UK    E-mail majordomo@lists.ed.ac.uk Leave the subject blank and include the text: subscribe autism-uk Open discussion and debate for autism in the UK
UK Autism Chatters List Details of how to subscribe are on www.egroups.com/list/ukacl/info.html Light Chat for people affexted by autism in the UK
The Autism Mailing List Send the text "subscribe autism Firstname Lastname" (i.e., with your first name and last name) as the first line of an e-mail message to LISTSERV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU. (Further details on: http://www.links2go.com/more/web.syr.edu/~jmwobus/autism/mailinglist.html  
Autism Community Mailing List Details on http://cgi1.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/2869/mailinglist.html  The sole purpose of the list is to discuss housing issues as they apply to people with autism
Independent Living on the Autistic Spectrum Details on http://www.inlv.demon.nl/  This e-mail-based group consists of several "forums" (each of which has its own e-mail address) dedicated to a particular topic related to living independently with our condition. Hence the name: InLv, an abbreviation for Independent Living on the autistic spectrum.
Christian Autism Resource Internet Group Send a Blank to E-mail caring-uk-subscribe@egroups.com  Group for Christians with an interest in autism
autism_downs_mr Details on http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/autism_downs_mr This list is for people who are teachers or caregivers (group home workers, etc.) and are intrested in learning more about disabilites. This list will allow you to explore all of these disorders (autism, downs syndrome, mental retardation, ADD, ADHD and many more). This list is for any person who would like to share theory's, opinions, thoughts, and stories about the unique and intresting people they have encountered

 

 

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