Summer Newsletter Tayside Local Voluntary Support Group newsletter – July 2014 Contact Lynsey: [email protected]or Audrey on 01250 873389 Facebook www.facebook.com/TaysideGlutenFree Coeliac UK Website https://www.coeliac.org.uk/local-groups/tayside/ Group News POST AGM Happy Summer holidays everyone! We’d like to start with aplogising to the newest members who might not have heard from us before. Coeliac UK changed the way they distribute the members list to us and there were a lot of teething problems with the new system which meant we didn’t have access to any new member details for quite a few months. I can only apologise and hope we can make up for it now! Next up, a little update following the Blairgowrie AGM in May. We had a cookery demonstration from the lovely Gill Marzak from Glutafin, who showed us how to make some of her favourite Glutafin recipes. We also had a small talk from Dietitian Fiona Headridge on the new website which has now been launched to make our prescription ordering easier, more info in her column below. It’s a great opportunity to try lots of different products and to make the most of your valuable prescription, so give it a try! The committee members were all happy to continue for another year so that will stay the same. Over the last few years we’ve done quite a bit of fundraising so it was suggested to donate some of these funds to Coeliac UK. We discussed it with the members at the AGM and it was decided this figure would be £1000. A big thank you to those of you who came along to the AGM, to the speakers, and lastly to all the manufacturers who donated samples for everyone to take home; Juvela, Perkier, Tesco, Orgran, Natural Foods, Newburn Bakehouse by Warburtons, ilumi, Genius, Venice Bakery, Angelic Gluten Free, Glamour Puds, Green’s gluten free beers and Celia Lager. We also had a lovely donation from the author of the book “Goodness Me it's Gluten Free PASTA: 24 Shapes - 18 Flavours - 100 Recipes – Gluten Free Pasta Making - Basics and Beyond ” by Vanessa Hudson. So please check that out if you’re keen to try making your own pasta! The summer newsletter recipe for you to try! TAYSIDE HOSPITALS MENU by Caroline McKenzie - Tayside Nutrition MCN Manager I thought it might be helpful to give you an update as to where we are with the development of the hopsital food menu that I am uncertain what to call! I am sure you will remember that a few of the members of the group put their names forward to help improve the eating and drinking experience for those coming into NHS Tayside hospitals with Coeliac Disease. This resulted in a few conversations and a visit to Ninewells Hospital and one of the most important improvements you wanted to see was the development of a menu for those with Coeliac Disease. As a result the NHS Tayside Menu Review Group has developed a menu and this has been sent out to some of the members in the last month for their comments. I just wanted to say a BIG thank you to all who commented, again your feedback is so important and as a result we have made some changes to the menu and are just finalising some of the finer detail before we implement it. One of the major changes to the menu included having to remove all pulse based soups from the menu. One of the members queried that some pulses even although they were gluten free could still be contaminated and when I investigated this the manufacturers could not guarantee they were gluten
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Summer Newsletter
Tayside Local Voluntary Support Group newsletter – July 2014
Coeliac UK Website https://www.coeliac.org.uk/local-groups/tayside/ Group NewsPOST AGM
Happy Summer holidays everyone! We’d like to start
with aplogising to the newest members who might not
have heard from us before. Coeliac UK changed the way
they distribute the members list to us and there were a
lot of teething problems with the new system which
meant we didn’t have access to any new member details
for quite a few months. I can only apologise and hope we
can make up for it now!
Next up, a little update following the Blairgowrie
AGM in May. We had a cookery demonstration from the
lovely Gill Marzak from Glutafin, who showed us how to
make some of her favourite Glutafin recipes.
We also had a small talk from Dietitian Fiona
Headridge on the new website which has now been
launched to make our prescription ordering easier, more
info in her column below. It’s a great opportunity to try
lots of different products and to make the most of your
valuable prescription, so give it a try!
The committee members were all happy to continue
for another year so that will stay the same. Over the last
few years we’ve done quite a bit of fundraising so it was
suggested to donate some of these funds to Coeliac UK.
We discussed it with the members at the AGM and it was
decided this figure would be £1000.
A big thank you to those of you who came along to
the AGM, to the speakers, and lastly to all the
manufacturers who donated samples for everyone to
take home; Juvela, Perkier, Tesco, Orgran, Natural Foods,
Newburn Bakehouse by Warburtons, ilumi, Genius,
Venice Bakery, Angelic Gluten Free, Glamour Puds,
Green’s gluten free beers and Celia Lager. We also had a
lovely donation from the author of the book “Goodness
Me it's Gluten Free PASTA: 24 Shapes - 18 Flavours
- 100 Recipes – Gluten Free Pasta Making - Basics
and Beyond ” by Vanessa Hudson. So please check that
out if you’re keen to try making your own pasta!
The summer newsletter recipe for you to try!
TAYSIDE HOSPITALS MENU
by Caroline McKenzie - Tayside Nutrition MCN
Manager
I thought it might be helpful to give you an update as to where we are with the development of the hopsital food menu that I am uncertain what to call!
I am sure you will remember that a few of the members of the group put their names forward to help improve the eating and drinking experience for those coming into NHS Tayside hospitals with Coeliac Disease. This resulted in a few conversations and a visit to Ninewells Hospital and one of the most important improvements you wanted to see was the development of a menu for those with Coeliac Disease. As a result the NHS Tayside Menu Review Group has developed a menu and this has been sent out to some of the members in the last month for their comments. I just wanted to say a BIG thank you to all who commented, again your feedback is so important and as a result we have made some changes to the menu and are just finalising some of the finer detail before we implement it.
One of the major changes to the menu included having to remove all pulse based soups from the menu. One of the members queried that some pulses even although they were gluten free could still be contaminated and when I investigated this the manufacturers could not guarantee they were gluten
free. As a result we have developed an array of soups which are suitable and which sound delicious such as tomato & courgette and carrot & orange.
The name of the menu is causing a little issue though and I would welcome your thoughts on this plus I will speak to other colleagues in other hospitals for advice too. To call the menu ‘gluten free’ the food would legally have to have less than 20 parts per million of gluten and to be ‘very low gluten’ the food would legally have to contain between 21 and 100 parts per million of gluten. I chose to name the menu ‘no gluten containing ingredients’ as it isn’t covered by law, none of the ingredients contain gluten and processes have been put in place to avoid cross contamination.
What do you think? I would really like to hear from as you to what you think we should call the menu plus maybe information we should provide to assure those with Coeliac Disease that the food is safe to eat.
by Fiona Headridge - Specialist Dietetic Practitioner
for Coeliac Disease
Tayside Gluten Free Food Scheme It is hard to believe that the summer holidays are
upon us again. If you need information regarding suitable gluten free foods when abroad Coeliac UK have information on 35 countries in their “Holidays & Travel” section on their website. If you can’t access the internet they can also give advice via their helpline on 0845 305 2060. Gluten-free-onthego.com is also a source of information for several countries including the UK.
Finally our mailing is ready to be sent out. So your updated food list should be dropping through your door within the next few weeks. It will also include a flyer on the app as detailed above.
Tayside Gluten Free Food Microsite NHS Tayside has developed an on-line system for
you to order your gluten free food prescriptions and it finally went live in the spring. It can be accessed through any electronic device where you can get onto the internet. For example, a computer, smart phone or tablet. Many libraries also have computers and printers available to use. The system is designed to make ordering simpler and easier:
1. It calculates your units 2. Searching for items can be done visually, by food
group or by manufacturer 3. It creates your order form which you can then
print out or, in selected community pharmacies,
can be emailed directly to them (please speak directly to your pharmacist to see if this facility is available)
You can still use paper based ordering if you prefer. Scottish Gluten Free Food Service
It has taken us a good bit longer than we had hoped to get our database updated. The new registration forms as mentioned in the last newsletter are now being sent out to pharmacies. Hopefully the last will be sent out by the end of June. Look out for your pharmacist asking you to sign these forms.
Please keep me updated with any views on products (Prescribable and available to buy), places to eat out and any hints and tips you feel are worth sharing. [email protected] 01307 475228
(Perth), The Old Parish Church, PH2 6LP. Join us for our annual
Christmas Fair where we all get together and chat gluten-free,
fun kids activities and crafty stalls, with the usual freebies from
the manufacturers. And lots of gluten-free food of course!
- Coffee and cake - 1st day of every month, 11am,
Blairgowrie, The Royal Hotel. A few locals meet up for coffee
and cake on the first of every month at the Royal Hotel. No
need to book, just turn up on the day and enjoy a nice informal
gathering with some fellow coeliacs whilst enjoying all the
gluten-free goodies that The Royal Hotel have to offer.
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Orange & Sultana Traybake By Gwen McGill
225g room temp butter
225g golden caster sugar
275g gluten-free self-raising flour
2 tsp gluten-free baking powder
4 large eggs (room temperature)
2 tbsp whole/semi-skimmed milk
275g sultanas
Grated rind of 2 oranges
Demerara sugar for sprinkling top (optional)
Method
1. Preheat the oven to Gas 4/180 C
2. Grease and line a 12x9inch traybake tin
3. Add all the ingredients to a large mixing
bowl and mix well
4. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and
level the top. Bake for 25 mins, sprinkle over
the demerara sugar and return to the oven
for a further 10-15 mins
5. Enjoy!
~ MEMBER’S FAVOURITE’S
We always try to list a few places that our members have
recommended for other Coeliacs, so here are the latest
ones. It seems like most of the recommendations are
coming from Dundee now, we would appreciate hearing
from some of the more remote towns so if you have a
local place providing gluten-free that you’d like to tell
everyone about please let us know!
- Wendy J, Dundee: Iced Gems, Broughty Ferry. They
have a range of gluten-free things to choose from,
including some lovely cakes!
- Wendy C, Dundee: Parlour Café, Dundee. Good home-
cooked food, always do a gluten-free soup as well as a
couple of other options, sweet and savoury!
- Lorna, Dundee: Scott’s Butchers, Dundee. As well as a
few other gluten-free products they have lorne sausage
which is quite rare!
COELIAC UK/OTHER NEWS - Freed From Campaign – Coeliac UK has just launched a
new campaign aimed at completing 7 goals in 7 years. Some of these are very ambitious, it’s a great reminder of the hard-work they are doing on our behalf. These aims are:
Earlier diagnosis Support after diagnosis that meets the needs of
all More affordable gluten-free food Food for a gluten-free diet that is easy to identify Gluten-free food in all stores More choice on menus Funding future research You can find more information about the new
campaign in the crossed-grain magazine or online.
- We’ve had news of a new food festival which some of our gluten-free manufacturers are attending. The ‘Eat, Drink, Discover Scotland 2014’ festival is on at the Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh on 12-14th September. Buy tickets online at a discounted rate of £10 with code EXHIB10 (courtesy of The Cookroom).
- We’ve recently been made aware of the need for gluten-free foods at the now infamous food-banks. If you like to support things like this, then please remember that there are also coeliacs that use these facilities and if you could spare a loaf of bread, or packet of biscuits then please pass them on to your local foodbank. Tesco Riverside in Dundee has a local collection box which is quite convenient, I’m sure some of the other branches might do it too.
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This brings us to the end of the summer newsletter,
I hope it’s been informative for you. I always enjoy
your feedback so please do email with any
comments, eating out tips, event suggestions etc.
Have a great summer everyone!
Lynsey Gardiner
Group Organiser
We always have a wide variety of
gluten-free food, including soup
with bread, lasagne, quiche,
strawberry tarts, pancakes, apple
and raisin sponge, and lots
more… Pop in and visit us at 14
Airlie Street, Alyth (by
Blairgowrie).
01828 632426
Blairgowrie
The Home of Gluten-free Baking
All catering services provided
Call 01250 873194
Or
07818 277636
‘’Really enjoyed my gluten free food from
here. Plenty of food provided and very
good quality fish. Will definitely be back’’
‘’Absolutely fantastic gluten free chicken
and chips - was demolished by Charlotte
( with a little help from dad) ! Well done
guys they were awesome!’’
75 Macalpine road, Dundee, DD3 8RE 01382 816191
Gluten-free menu available on the last Monday of each month from 4-7pm, including
fish & chips, fritters, chicken goujons and much more. Pop in or call the number
above for a local delivery!
Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/De-Niros-Fish-Chip-