Ali Walsh goes on a mission to find out if our memories of gluten really are as wonderful as we may imagine… There’s only one time we coeliacs are meant to eat gluten. Steady, now! Don’t get too excited. It’s pre-diagnosis – when the doctor requests you eat gluten for 6 weeks prior to an […]
Ali Walsh, from The Local Bakehouse, shows how having coeliac disease need not define you… Do you ever wish you could be your old self? The one you were before you had to eat gluten-free? I don’t mean you’d want to suffer those old symptoms again – who would? I mean having a happy-go-lucky lifestyle […]
Planning a wedding can be a stressful experience – Ali Walsh does the hard yards for you… When I got married we had an entirely gluten-free wedding and I had endless compliments on the food. Why? We took everyone for a curry and then had a cocktail bar in the evening. The wedding cake was gluten-free (natch – I made […]
Ali Walsh uncovers some statistics about coeliacs who are prepared to take a gluten hit. But are ‘cheat’ days okay? Amy raises a doughnut to the camera and winks as she takes a bite. Her video post on Facebook gets hundreds of likes. Why is everyone cheering her on? She’s coeliac and she’s having a […]
Ali Walsh looks at how to combat those all-too-common misperceptions about those of us with coeliac disease… Prior to being diagnosed coeliac, I ate everything on my plate, whether I liked it or not. I was the easiest person to cater for and didn’t really think too much about it. Then coeliac disease descended and […]
Ali Walsh has the problem of a toddler’s birthday to settle… My son is about to turn two and I’ve been completely overthinking his birthday. I want to make a showstopper cake (what everyone will expect); I’ll settle for a normal cake (but miss a great opportunity to show off); but I’ll probably get an alternative […]
Ali Walsh, from The Local Bakehouse shows why going gluten-free will be the most romantic thing you ever do… Love. A deep affection that takes time to form. Or only 3 seconds when you realise your new boyfriend has recreated a Chinese restaurant menu without gluten (because you’re coeliac). This actually happened to a friend of […]
A common misconception, often with influence from ‘celebrity’ is that gluten-free means healthy. Ali Walsh looks at why this is not necessarily the case and instead how to make it work for you… In my early twenties I was chubby. Not desperately so, but I certainly didn’t have a midriff to be proud of. Then […]
Ali Walsh discovers that gluten-free may not mean gluten-free… For nearly 20 years my life has revolved around gluten. In the beginning, I quickly learned from my own mistakes. I ate a battered prawn ball at a Chinese restaurant and hours later had to rush to the loo. It wasn’t a mistake I was willing […]
Ali Walsh turns the sink hole anti-clockwise and finds that Australia has gluten-free covered… It’s not often I take a holiday. Either time or money seems to get in the way (i.e. lack of) and I wonder what happened to the traveller in me. Somehow the years roll by and I realise all I’ve managed […]