Best vegetarian and vegan menus in Edinburgh

Heading to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this month? Then why not take a look at Edinburgh Blogger, The Hannarchist Cookbook’s, handy guide to the city’s best vegetarian and vegan eateries… The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is in full swing, and hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected to flock to the capital city over the course of the month to […]

Supplements: Are they really worth it?

Supplements: Are they really worth it?

Michelle Kickham examines the hype behind supplements; which ones are useful and which we should ignore… If you’ve ever stood dazed and confused in front of the supplements shelf at your local health food store thinking ‘What are all of these for’, then you’re not alone. There are literally hundreds of different supplements out there […]

Eating free-from on holiday

free-from on holiday

It’s hard enough being on a restricted diet in an environment you know, but what about in one you are unfamiliar with? Rebecca Field provides her top tips when travelling abroad to help you continue eating free-from on holiday… Summer is Here and that means it is time to start thinking about holidays. Whether you are […]

Keeping children with allergies safe around food

children with allergies

Allergy Adventure’s Hailey Phillips gives her tips for keeping children with allergies safe around food… Food allergies in children are not to be taken lightly. Even a mild reaction causes discomfort and distress, but a full-blown anaphylactic episode? It’s the stuff of nightmares. And although daily life might be manageable, when it comes to special […]

10 tasty new products from The Allergy & Free-From Show

allergy & free-from show

At the beginning of July, we headed down to The Allergy & Free-From Show to spend the weekend checking out all of the exciting new free-from products on offer, and were overwhelmed by the amount of delicious new edible products on offer. So here’s our pick of the tastiest treats that tickled our tastebuds from the […]

8 signs and symptoms you have coeliac disease

For those with coeliac disease, eating gluten can have life-long damaging effects on the bowel, so it’s important to be aware of the symptoms in order to diagnose and treat the disease as early as possible. Here’s some of the most common symptoms people with coeliac disease experience… The most common symptom is diarrhoea, which is caused by […]

Eat your way to radiant and healthy skin

healthy skin

Georgina Young from Greens of the Stoneage shows us how to keep our largest organ in the best possible shape for beautifully healthy skin… Beauty on the outside begins on the inside. Yes, you too can have a head-turning, model worthy glow, by feeding your skin and starving your wrinkles. Contrary to popular belief, not […]

Travelling gluten-free: What you need to know

Love to travel but feel restricted by a gluten-free diet? Jenna Sinclair gives us some handy advice for travelling gluten-free on our holidays… Here in the UK, day to day eating gluten-free is fairly easy. We’re a first-world country, blessed with a forward-thinking food industry which has come on leaps and bounds in the last […]

Eating gluten-free in Italy

You might imagine that finding food that’s gluten-free in Italy is almost impossible, as many of their dishes traditionally feature gluten-rich foods. But times are changing, as resident Italian chef Ambra Torelli  found when she discovered just how far her country’s acceptance of coeliac disease has come in recent years… In the homeland of pizza, pasta, biscotti […]