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Recipe categories

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Bread

Gluten free bread dough is quick, easy to make and doesn't require kneading. Perfect for packed lunches or a teatime treat.

Sweet Bread

Bread.

Party Food

Eating out or going to a party can seem restricting with special diets, but it needn't be. Why not try making some of these party favourites and take the result to share with friends?

Party food.

Cakes

As a professional cake maker, I've spent years perfecting my gluten free flour blend. In taste tests most people can't tell the difference between these special diet cakes and those made with wheat flour - have a go yourself.

Cakes.

Biscuits and Sweets

There are many gluten free biscuits in the shops nowadays - but it doesn't getting any better than homemade!

Biscuits and Sweets.

Christmas

For a true taste of Christmas, you can't beat homemade mince pies. But don't stop there - all the family will love this collection of sumptuous seasonal treats.

Christmas.

Resources

About gluten and dairy intolerance

It is estimated that one in 100 people in the UK has coeliac disease, a condition caused by an intolerance to the protein gluten.

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The wheat, gluten and lactose free store cupboard

This list of long-life ingredients includes all the essentials for a special diet store cupboard and are used in many of my recipes.

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Useful contacts and suppliers

A list of organisations, ingredients and equipment suppliers which you may find useful.

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Where can I find maize flour?

Known as corn flour in America, this is yellow and milled as fine as flour.

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Which dairy free margarine is the best?

I decided to test different widely available dairy free margarines to see which, in my opinion, is the best.

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The Special Diet Blog visit > Find out what I've been up to in my quest for the best special diet foods