Well-being guru Madeleine Shaw gives us her tips to living a healthy and natural life… Nutritional health coach to the stars and best-selling author of Get The Glow!, Madeleine Shaw knows that life is a balancing act. Monday to Friday it’s hard to juggle the demands of work and family with eating healthily, while the weekends are […]
Karin Ridgers talks to poet, musician, writer and self-confessed trouble maker Benjamin Zephaniah about his many struggles growing up and his following success… Chatting with vegan legend Benjamin Zephaniah is like being on a roller coaster. At times I couldn’t catch my breath – I laughed, I cried and hung onto his every word not […]
Bob’s Red Mill is known worldwide for its amazing flours, and we are lucky enough to meet the man behind the brand… For more than three decades, Bob Moore has been a leading light in the worldwide production of flours and, with his three principles of trust, honest and integrity, it’s easy to see how […]
Samantha Jones is a low-FODMAP lifestyle writer who quit her 9-5 life in order to travel, blogging as she goes. She’s taking her current low-FODMAP, wellbeing lifestyle on the road… When you’re fighting an uphill battle with digestive issues, trips abroad or even just eating out can all start to become distant memories. Many […]
The ambassador for Coeliac UK, Phil Vickery talks to us about how he embarked on his gluten-free journey, and what you can expect from starting your own free-from diet… Why did you first become interested in the gluten-free diet and cooking? It started a few years ago when I could not buy organic flour at the right price for […]
Since appearing on Dragons’ Den, co-founders of Rule of Crumb Colum McLornan and Claire Hunter have seen their gluten-free food range shoot into the limelight, so we caught up with Colum to find out more… A gap in the market My brother is coeliac, so I’ve always had an interest in the sector. Three years […]
Free-From Heaven reader and indie writer Kelly Wilson shares her free-from story, and how she manages her IBS symptoms… By Kelly Wilson (www.kellywilson.moonfruit.com) My life train has scraped along the tracks of realisation. I did not have any idea that there was any remotely serious problem until I was seventeen. This was not a result […]
Take a moment to review what’s understood about coeliac disease and revisit the foundations of the gluten-free lifestyle, with Lyndel Costain’s checklist of safe foods and those to avoid… Gluten is a type of protein found in grains including wheat, barley and rye. Gluten becomes sticky and malleable when combined with water, making it ideal […]
A reader reveals how her dietary needs fit into her physically demanding free-from life… Although I have been dairy intolerant since I was a baby, my free-from journey really started when I was in my first year at dance college in 2009. I was so excited to be fulfilling my lifelong ambition but I felt […]
When she appeared on BBC’s Dragons’ Den, Kirsty Henshaw walked away with a healthy investment in her allergen-free frozen desserts, and since then her business has really taken off… Q What is your free-from story? When my son Jacob was nine months old, he suffered an allergic reaction to nuts, and after further testing it […]