Aldi are having a gluten free items special starting on Thursday, national offer to include:
Genius white and seeded bread £1.89
Genius crumpets and pancakes £1.49
Nestle Go Free Cornflakes £1.99
Has No... GF Porridge £1.89
Seabrook Lattice Crisps 99p
Tortilla chips (2 varieties) £1.29
Choc chip cookies 69p
Extra special cookies £1.29
Marie biscuits 89p
Choc cake mix £1.49
Mrs Crimbles Coconut choc macaroons 89p
Various trek and raw bars
Top comments
fishmaster
8 May 169#8
Sadly it appears to remove Gluten from your diet you have to replace it with junk food. Every single item in this deal is junk food. If you have a health complaint and have no option but to remove Gluten why eat a load of cr*p like this? Why not take it as an opportunity to revise your diet and eat as healthily as you can. Remove Gluten and replace it with obesity, diabetes and other metabolic disorders, sounds like a plan :/
Also for people on the Gluten free fad wagon, have a look at >
No one person in this world is entirely correct on diet as there's so much stuff we simply don't understand. Maybe some people will find value in those links.
Lastly some people want to eat junk food and that's their choice, so I'm not telling anyone what to do, just giving my take on healthy living.
NIgelK
8 May 167#10
Appreciate this deal isn't filled with the healthiest items but your comment about removing gluten means you have to replace it with junk food like this is wrong, no one is saying you have to eat these as gf replacements, some of these are 'treats' (for want of a better phrase) which I'm pretty sure gf or not you don't sit around stuffing your face with all day every day. If you did it wouldn't matter if they're gf or not, or are you saying people who are gf free shouldn't have treat type foods? Your general comment about junk food could be leveled at anyone, gf or not. I think we're all hopefully smart enough to look into what we're eating, a treat once in a while doesn't hurt.
benjaminiunharpit
8 May 165#29
all of this rubbish about whether a GF diet is faddish or not is missing the point.
It's great that Aldi are providing these products to those of us who, whilst not NEEDING them, like to have a sandwich or cake now and again. I hope they choose to restock regularly at my local.
What's even better is that they're doing it for roughly half the price of the other supermarkets.
Please keep your condescending know-it-all comments related to how good the DEAL is - rather than spouting homespun nutritional advice to people who know their conditions much better than you ever will.
e_munky
8 May 164#26
I have colitis and the only thing that makes the condition bearable is a low fodmap diet, not a fad and scientificly proven to reduce flares.
Low fodmap has a lot of crossover with gluten free. I appreciate that people with celiac cannot have gluten at all whereas low fodmap is avoiding certain foods of which many contain gluten, but I don't appreciate being labeled as someone on a fad diet.
I wouldn't wish colitis, crohns or ibs on anyone and until low fodmap gains greater awareness then we'll have to settle for gluten free and promotions like this one are always welcome
Latest comments (84)
MartynFX88
12 May 16#83
Ah but you're actually substituting for a reason, not to jump on a bandwagon. I know what it's like having to cut eggs out of a diet, my son developed an egg allergy when he was less than a year old and we had to make sure everything was egg free. It wasn't an issue, the food wasn't the same but my son was safe so that's obviously more important. Luckily he grew out of the allergy when he got a few years older.
ItsOkay to MartynFX88
12 Oct 16#84
Anyone wanting to buy gluten free bread, cakes and pre-mixes should go to http://wheat-freebakerydirect.co.uk/ it's amazing, tastes like normal bread! I don't work for them or anything, I just love everything they make! They even make doughnuts! :P
buzzard
10 May 162#82
In my family there is someone with a true - and anaphylactic - allergy, one with "IBS" cured by eliminating dairy and also someone who feels healthier not eating gluten but is not coeliac. We know the difference between allergy, coeliac and intolerance. We also know that so called "fad" diets can sometimes avoid a lot of digestive upset.
If you are lucky enough to be able to eat anything that's great - but stop insulting people who are trying to look after their health when medical science has been unable to help them.
benjaminiunharpit
9 May 16#81
Err, you do realise that coeliac and ncgs are not allergies? I'm sure you do but it's a common misconception.
Anyway. Great deal. Hot
dreamager
9 May 16#80
GF diets are very important for people that need it, but it has become a fad akin to many other 'health food' fads. Unlike most of those though, this one is very important for the people that need it. I at least (I can't speak for everyone else) were not deriding anybody with allergies. People who are allergic to things have a terrible time avoiding those usually common ingredients in many food items, and it's good better labelling and more specialist products helps make that easier. That doesn't change the fact that GF products have become a fad diet though, and it's working nicely as a marketing tool to increase profit margins. If the subject cannot be brought up in a GF context for those that are not in any way in need of avoiding such foods but still prescribe to the idea, then I don't know how they would be educated about it.
seaniboy
9 May 16#79
Wheat as a thickener lol hope her professional capacity is not as cornflour as her personal...
katestewart9279
9 May 16#78
My comment was directed at those saying a GF is faddy and thus showing prejudice,for want of a better word. Those people are fine with coeliacs, not others like myself who can eat small amount of wheat.
maddogb
9 May 16#77
don't bet your health on that, i've had many years of people being careless even my own sister in law of 20years interfering with my nieces cooking introduced wheat flour into a curry as a thickening agent leaving everyone else to enjoy the curry and me starving
maddogb
9 May 161#76
again talking nonsense on a subject you know nothing about, the "fad" of choosing a GF lifestyle has meant prices have plummeted.
Back as a child coeliac i remember my mother being forced to pay £9 for a edible sanding block (tin of GF bread) whilst on holiday without access to my usual prescribed supplies, now i can nip to tescos or asda and spend £2 on a decent loaf, back then our local NHS didn't allow GF biscuits to be prescribed and to purchase through a chemist cost an average £5 per pack, now I can get GF jaffa cakes at asda for £1.20
The cost of maintaining a GF foodchain is horrendous, I suspect competition has kept profit on these items way down.
seaniboy
9 May 16#75
I dont know about that, some people are full of it... :wink:
People eat what they want v need too, either way, I tell people your eating alot of crap in that and most people are rude you are trying to educate them...taking wrong food types and then taking pills ontop to relieve symptoms lol
Most people have a minimum 1 food allergy and dont even know it until specific blood tests are done, we all eat mass produced foods but DNA is not mass produced and DNA has food and other allergies programmed into it.
Let the whingers carry on, one day a health issue will occur that leave them flat on their back. Like most things you can only learn from experience, before that you can be empathetic or just a nob.
Heartburn/indigestion is a reaction to food or a certain mix of festering foods it in the stomach acid - thats near your heart area not the large intestine people call their belly - but most treat the symptoms of such with drugs not the cause, the mass produced food and health industries feed off each other to keep profits up in most countries, the NHS is VERY poor at allergies compared to private healthcare.
:smiley:
katestewart9279
9 May 16#74
If you say you're coeliac your fine. What they get on their soapbox about is people like me who can only have a small amount otherwise symptoms flare up. So because we can have measured amounts,they think we are malingering. So don't worry its not you they're having a go at.rather people like me. Well sod them. They don't have the toilet dashes. Lol
seaniboy
9 May 16#73
My gf is not faddy...fatty lol
Unfortunately I find people are more racist about food allergies than anything these days "oh what a drama you are", "oh go on its delicious", "I could not be bothered with that"....
I cant be bothered listening to it anymore than I could be bedridden. I just politely tell them be prepared for a point where your health suffers even a month or two minimum and you cant work and then you wont take your health or others for granted anymore. Shuts them up everytime :smiley:
dreamager
9 May 16#72
I was just about to add to my previous comment.. "except by the hiked prices of the GF industry because of the fad that has been created, that could potentially be lessened if people don't keep statistics to themselves so that the industry doesn't get away with it" :wink:
katestewart9279
9 May 161#71
Anyway thanks for the deal. Nice to have a treat. This is meant to be a heads up for bargain not for someone to get on a soapbox and start a debate about his thoughts about gf being faddy.
seaniboy
9 May 16#70
Me, food allergies are a expensive business, NHS cover nothing to very little if your allergies are wide range. :wink:
dreamager
9 May 16#69
Where is there one being treated badly?
maddogb
9 May 16#68
no not confusing anything just sick of people with their own agenda shouting off about something that has nothing to do with them and confusing others maybe less educated into thinking all people on GF diets are simply fadist because hey there is a 1:3000% chance you are right.
if you are not coeliac or GI then it has absolutely nothing to do with you how others spend their money fadist or not.
choosing to keep your statistics to your self means there is 0% chance of someone who genuinely needs GF getting treated badly on a statistical basis.
dreamager
9 May 16#67
And no it's not clear what you were saying. Your analogy would only make sense if 1/30 of the people taking insulin actually needed it and the rest were taking it because they think they needed to
dreamager
9 May 16#66
Nobody is saying anything bad about people that have a genuine problem, only the fad that has been built up and been self diagnosed by (in america at least, I don't think there's useful figures for the uk) around 30% of the population, which is roughly 3000% over diagnnosis. That is not a trivial amount, and it is one that industry is taking advantage of to make money.
Gluten is not necessary in any way, but most components of food are not necessary, they are just part of the food and for most people don't cause any problem.
Whether a food is healthy or not is another issue and completely unrelated to gluten (for 99% of people). That is more of an educational matter to do with balanced diets and nutrition, and nothing to do with a gluten-free diet.
And yes, GF often tastes worse, but that doesn't effect how fad mentality works, especially if someone believes something is 'better' for them. People buy disgustingly tasting wheat grass juice because that's the 'in fad' and costs them lots. I hear the one to watch for next is going to be overpriced birch juice (which i tried in eastern europe for only 70p for 2litres, compare prices when it arrives here in Wholefoods stores).
You seem to be confusing your own agenda and peoples dislike for industry conning people out of their money
maddogb
9 May 16#65
what kind of double talk nonsense is that "up to 30% of people....."
you anti-fadists seem to be missing some very important concepts,
1. gluten is not necessary in the diet at all,
2. 99% of the foods containing gluten are not only unnecessary but also blatantly unhealthy foods if consumed on any more than a treat basis most of them exceed recommended levels of salt and sugar
3.. GF products are expensive and in most cases inferior tasting to "normal" products, anyone who would be so masochistic as to consume them on a fad basis clearly has serious mental issues and should not be abused or made fun of.
Anti-fadists also often treat people who have genuine medical concerns and serious life threatening diseases as nothing more than petulant children/fussy eaters
Why anyone would take this attitude towards fellow humans with no evidence than statistics is basically the same attitude as avoiding gay people because some of them "may carry the aids virus".
maddogb
9 May 16#64
is it not clear what i am saying?
the person i am responding to would rather see a seriously ill person denied treatment than allow fadists to gain any novelty value.
are you agreeing with that?
seaniboy
9 May 161#63
Correct, wheat is a no go zone for me, wheat as a binder in even sausages with no other allergens sets me off, why the M&S range is great, it cuts out common allergens...their sausages use cornflour over wheat flour.
seaniboy
9 May 16#62
I eat BFree sandwiches with veggies and/or salad several times a day, my meat intake is generally some kind of steak as cold meat is processed. I only eat the corn pasta a few times a week, its not that nutritional compared to veggie sandwiches :wink:
seaniboy
9 May 16#61
Can you do the same for my digestive system :wink:
seaniboy
9 May 161#60
Here I have to bake with coco oil instead of eggs!
Aloe ? lol vulgar, I did have a bottle in the fridge - with Jack Dans in it though :wink:
Oh I forgot Asda do a chocolate cake mixture for £1.60, if like me you cant do eggs replace it with 3 level tablespoons of gram (chickpea) flour (cheapest is KTC at Morrisons) but add icing sugar at the end with a little more milk alternative as gram flour is bitter, its not light or fluffy when you do its stoggy but make choc 'butter'cream with Vitalite and some vanilla (add a dessert spoon of peanut 'butter') etc and throw it in the micro then mix it up for a delightful choc hot dessert - I put some strawberries on top :wink:
PS) icing sugar - check the different kinds ingredients! it is just not sugar!!
seaniboy
9 May 16#59
I cant and dont eat processed food because it makes me sick, yes I need that testing but I have to discount CD via the 6 week period first before they entertain such checks. My NHS trust is hopeless generally. My GP rolls her eyes at the hospital...that tell you rock and hard place I'm at lol
dreamager
9 May 16#58
I know plenty about it, after listening to many scientists giving talks and having discussions on the subject of gluten, allergies, and specifically the fad. Not as much as those experts in their fields, but enough to know they know far more about it than me and anyone else in this thread, and that their leading research is where the information is at, and not scare stories perpetuated on the internet.
If your IBS is being triggered by eating bread, then that is some kind of wheat allergy or intolerance, not a gluten issue, as then you would have coeliac disease, so removing gluten would not fix the problem, you would need to avoid wheat.
I wish these know it alls would just disappear. Not comment using their false assumptions
Actually it might be true as people build up an intolerance. I became intolerant after a stimach bug. So stop judging on something you know nothing about.
The coliac society say 1 in 100 have gluteñ allergy ie coliac.
Many people have IBS and are only allowed 1 slice of bread a day on fodmaps diet.
I wish these know it alls would just disappear. Not comment using their false assumptions.
katestewart9279
9 May 161#56
A loaf of g f bread lasts me a week. I can get a loaf for £2. Asda on Monday you can get gf reduced. If you're eating a loaf of bread a day it will make you Ill. Its not good for you. Just have a sandwich and or toast in morning and then fill up on good stuff like veg. Im on fodmaps diet but you can still choose healthy foods. I paid £2.50 for whole food gf pasta. But can get many meals out of it.
dreamager
9 May 16#55
Are you trying to say you can get an allergy to gluten by eating too much of it in a similar way to diabetes from eating too much sugar? Or are you making a silly comparison
dreamager
9 May 16#54
With up to 1% of people having some kind of intolerance, and (in the US, I don't know about the UK) up to 30% of people buying gluten free products specifically to cut it out of their diet, that makes ~96% of the gluten free buying population not need it, which would make it a fad
oldsystem
9 May 16#53
Okay time to unsubscribe
maddogb
9 May 16#52
thought about giving up on all processed foods for a few weeks? just because its GF doesn't mean it's not as processed as hell, try living on a diet of boiled white rice for a week maybe a bit of goats milk see how that goes.
I have a friend who has been diagnosed with crones disease sounds pretty much like what you have, doesn't sound like coeliacs for sure.
maddogb
9 May 16#51
grow up fool, you will be telling us next there is no such thing as diabetes, its just a fad..
maddogb
9 May 16#50
god i tried the nestle cornflakes, thought they were awful, our asda sells some cornflakes in the cereal isle called "Whole Earth" GF and much tastier.
Lyssie
9 May 16#49
Hear hear.
MartynFX88
9 May 16#48
This is one for the complete idiots who jump on every bandwagon that rides near them. You can all store the gluten free fad foods next to the aloe drinks and the coconut oil.
BungalowBill
8 May 161#47
Agreed - M&S you will find a lot of their normal foods are gluten free by default, not just as part of a GF range - best place to go by far.
mango carrot
8 May 161#46
Thank you :smiley: we don't have a Tesco locally, but having had to visit one when visiting family we found their GF products to be excellent, and very reasonably priced - especially the bread
seaniboy
8 May 161#45
Oh yeah M&S cheap pork sausages for £1 are gluten free....as is most their stuff allergen free :wink:
seaniboy
8 May 16#44
True. Wish more people bought the natural stuff for fad diets because its tasty as hell and brings down prices lol
seaniboy
8 May 16#43
Tesco dark chocolate for circa a quid is great.No soya either :smile:
Try Kellogs puffed corn or Eat Natural with Rice Dream Organic vanilla milk alternative, or Parma ham bacon on brown BFree bread, all damn tasty :wink:
mango carrot
8 May 162#42
We've recently had to become a GF household, and one thing we learnt quickly was to avoid the specifically labelled GF products and find ones that just naturally were. Obviously that doesn't apply to things like bread and pasta, but crisps, cereal, chocolate and similar things can all be found to be GF and much much cheaper.
As mentioned above, some stores very quickly stop selling the GF products if they're sat on the shelf, Asda for example stopped selling the Nestle Cornflakes, which are the best we've tried :disappointed:
fedex1401
8 May 16#41
They are more costly because of the additional manufacturing costs incurred by the manufacturers for what are very low sales volumes. :man:
seaniboy
8 May 16#40
My 1/3 of the size 6 times the price minimum BFree bread aint even 6 inches.
I know because all my food allergies cause stomach spasms, which I dont even need to feel and my asthma flares up badly, headaches, nausea, dizzy, legs giving way, cognitive function, fuzzy vision, migraines, constipation and the opposite, concentration..
Pork, dairy, eggs, wheat, gluten, preservatives, colourings...its a F nightmare trying to eat, on the go I have to default to ready salted crisps and Coke Life (coke causes stomach pain and asthma flare ups) as too much water causes spasms.
Corn pasta is £2 a bag.
Everyday is a nightmare, a bacon sandwich is grilled parma ham on BFree bread - about £4.50 for a bacon sandwich :disappointed:
I get really tired as I eat too much salad and my blood sugar drops due to a lack of carbs as £3-3.50 a day for a loaf! I'm £7-8 a day in bread and milk alternatives :confused:
They take blood and test after you eat 2-3 portions of bread for 6 weeks! They only do biopsy if they suspect stomach/intestine damage after the 6 weeks, the assumption is I have bad damage but I cant do the 6 week so no biopsy...
maddogb
8 May 16#39
lol yes it is :smiley:
seriously tho how can anyone prove GF is a fad diet or many do not need it, do they kidnap GF food purchasers and force stomach biopsy them?
seaniboy
8 May 16#38
6+ inches aint inferior :wink:
seaniboy
8 May 16#37
PPS) Soya flour is a major allergen now added to bread, check its not soya allergy if a blood test comes back clear for gluten.
After 6 weeks soya/soy free I had crispy aromatic duck, I ended up unable to even drink for pain over 5 days and ended up in A&E via the GP. Whole intestine was in a spasm, even water was F unbearable, I was in tears in A&E.
RedKenForever
8 May 162#9
Haven't studies shown that between 80 to 90% of people that think they're gluten intolerant aren't actually sensitive to it... So it's mostly just a trendy diet
maddogb to RedKenForever
8 May 161#36
they have also done a study showing 99% of people who post on forums about subjects they know nothing about also suffer from inferior genital formation :wink:
seaniboy
8 May 161#35
PS) Tesco, Asda and Morrisons own tortilla chips are under 50p and gluten/crap free..
£1.29 LOL :P
seaniboy
8 May 16#34
£2-£3.50 a day for me for BFree, 6 weeks trial and blood tests to get the bread script, I said a few days inpatient and you can feed me bread every meal...declined, 6 weeks lol, 3 days and I am bedbound.
seaniboy
8 May 16#33
BFree brown bread is great toasted, wheat, gluten, dairy, egg and soya free AND it tastes great compared to every alternative I have had the mis'fortune' of trying.
abaxas
8 May 16#31
Cardboard is cheaper, tastes better and is gluten free. Why eat anything else.
oldsystem to abaxas
8 May 161#32
Better than what?
katestewart9279
8 May 16#30
Not any more
benjaminiunharpit
8 May 165#29
all of this rubbish about whether a GF diet is faddish or not is missing the point.
It's great that Aldi are providing these products to those of us who, whilst not NEEDING them, like to have a sandwich or cake now and again. I hope they choose to restock regularly at my local.
What's even better is that they're doing it for roughly half the price of the other supermarkets.
Please keep your condescending know-it-all comments related to how good the DEAL is - rather than spouting homespun nutritional advice to people who know their conditions much better than you ever will.
mdetective
8 May 16#28
I hate how calling it gluten free is an excuse to charge ridiculous prices for items, when wheat flour is used as a filler on so many foods.
Also they call it gluten free because it's maize/rice/corn flour, it's not like an expensive process of removing the gluten from the wheat so why is everything x3 more costly in the big supermarkets.
e_munky
8 May 164#26
I have colitis and the only thing that makes the condition bearable is a low fodmap diet, not a fad and scientificly proven to reduce flares.
Low fodmap has a lot of crossover with gluten free. I appreciate that people with celiac cannot have gluten at all whereas low fodmap is avoiding certain foods of which many contain gluten, but I don't appreciate being labeled as someone on a fad diet.
I wouldn't wish colitis, crohns or ibs on anyone and until low fodmap gains greater awareness then we'll have to settle for gluten free and promotions like this one are always welcome
fishmaster to e_munky
8 May 161#27
Yes I completely forgot to mention low fodmap, for some reason I mentioned salicylates instead when I was thinking of fodmap
As I said there's so much we don't know, for example Bimuno powder is advised to be used to encourage healthy bacterial growth in the intestine and doesn't appear to cause gas, well here's an excerpt to explain it better >
"There is even evidence, for example, that the artificial transgalactans in Bimuno, are fermentable oligosaccharides that do not produce gas during fermentation and reduce bloating and abdominal pain (Silk et al, 2009). Instead they act as prebiotics encouraging the growth of bifidobacteria. The low FODMAP diet, by contrast, reduces bifidobacteria (Staudacher et al, 2012). Clearly, the implications of this run counter to the therapeutic principles of pre- and probiotics and will need further investigation and clinical experience."Source: http://www.foodsmatter.com/allergy_intolerance/fodmaps/articles/fodmaps-read-01-14.html
So a low FODMAP diet discourages bifobacterial growth, yet bifobacteria are known to be healthy gut bacteria, clearly it depends on the person. This is where medicine fails totally at the moment, it's a case of one size fits all and doesn't take in to account the differing genetics of a person, their overall biochemistry and even the genetic diversity of their microbiome. Whilst I get somewhat overwhelmed by the technology of today, I think I'd rather have been born a 100 or even 200 years in the future as it's more likely we'll have medicine that is prescribed based on the above factors and maybe new factors that are unknown now. Of course the world could be a more sorry place in the future, I'll never know of course.
So we have gluten free diet of which we know it's beneficial for some people and low FODMAP diet, there's also low salicylate diet as well. Isn't this evidence enough that if you value your health you need to experiment, but base it on current science, what we know, so if you have a health problem that you think is related to diet, you could start with FODMAP or Gluten free or even low salicylate if you're feeling more experimental.
When I look at low FODMAP I see definite crossover with Paleo, seeds, grains, beans, legumes are not allowed on true Paleo, but their reasoning is the anti nutrients in those foods, most foods have anti nutrients, even the good old beverage tea has tanins which limit Iron absorption, but has antioxidant compounds ECGG and L-Theanine which are beneficial.
Another marketing BS is antioxidants, the body produces antioxidants itself, if you over supplement with anti oxidants, the resulting anti oxidant level eventually drops below baseline. So I don't look to actively supplement with anti oxidants, I choose food which has them in abundance but food is a package, with many synergistic compounds, nutrients and anti nutrients. Nature knows best because it's had billions of years to evolve synergy and symbiosis, way beyond currently what humans can create. We still have very primitive medicine currently.
Anyway I love all this stuff, I don't propose to be anywhere near an expert, it's just something I've studied and you really have to be prepared to change your stance as the evidence changes.
themadgoose
8 May 16#25
Evolution.
sarahjrobinson
8 May 16#24
Great find thanks
treadingit
8 May 16#23
Deek43
8 May 161#22
I found it on the app this morning and forwarded to my cousin, she was pleased with prices
rainbowed
8 May 161#21
Very good find! I will try and hopefully might find some nice things for my sister.
Bird68
8 May 16#20
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss a gluten free diet as a fad. According to Coeliac UK, 1 in 100 have coeliac disease, so there are a lot of people who are unaware and maybe just feel a lack of energy. Cutting out gluten would allow their bodies to start absorbing nutrients properly and they would start to feel better.
Danaerys
8 May 161#19
No, they don't, you're wrong. In some areas you can get staples on prescription like bread, pasta, flour and oats. You pay for the prescriptions like everyone does unless you have a medical exemption certificate for another condition or are pregnant, on benefits etc.
NIgelK
8 May 16#18
Your first sentence says otherwise in your first post tbh. Out of interest, what would you use these foods as replacements for? Other 'junk' food? Your not going to replace fruit with gf macaroons are you? Which kind of moots your point.
fishmaster
8 May 16#17
No you're misquoting me. I want to make this absolutely clear I didn't say that removing Gluten from your diet means you eat unhealthily. I'm stating the Gluten free products in this deal are junk food! and therefore if you use them as replacements you're not eating healthily. It's entirely possible to be Gluten free and eat in a healthy manner. Yes many people eat junk food and enjoy it, we all know it's not bad for you in moderation.
andy321a
8 May 16#16
Not any more... Most health areas have stopped or stopping the doctors prescription of gluten free products (limited to bread pasta etc )
NIgelK
8 May 16#15
Get what free?
themadgoose
8 May 161#12
Fad or not, cutting or reducing gluten in your diet makes you feel better.
Fresh fruit and veg, pulses, meat and fish = the winner.
tapi to themadgoose
8 May 161#14
Source?
andy321a
8 May 162#11
Do remember some people have a medical condition coeliac disease, they have no choice and have to buy gluten free food. Our processed options are not as healthy as they could be. https://www.coeliac.org.uk/coeliac-disease/
themadgoose to andy321a
8 May 161#13
People with coeliac get it free anyway!
NIgelK
8 May 167#10
Appreciate this deal isn't filled with the healthiest items but your comment about removing gluten means you have to replace it with junk food like this is wrong, no one is saying you have to eat these as gf replacements, some of these are 'treats' (for want of a better phrase) which I'm pretty sure gf or not you don't sit around stuffing your face with all day every day. If you did it wouldn't matter if they're gf or not, or are you saying people who are gf free shouldn't have treat type foods? Your general comment about junk food could be leveled at anyone, gf or not. I think we're all hopefully smart enough to look into what we're eating, a treat once in a while doesn't hurt.
fishmaster
8 May 169#8
Sadly it appears to remove Gluten from your diet you have to replace it with junk food. Every single item in this deal is junk food. If you have a health complaint and have no option but to remove Gluten why eat a load of cr*p like this? Why not take it as an opportunity to revise your diet and eat as healthily as you can. Remove Gluten and replace it with obesity, diabetes and other metabolic disorders, sounds like a plan :/
Also for people on the Gluten free fad wagon, have a look at >
No one person in this world is entirely correct on diet as there's so much stuff we simply don't understand. Maybe some people will find value in those links.
Lastly some people want to eat junk food and that's their choice, so I'm not telling anyone what to do, just giving my take on healthy living.
NIgelK
8 May 163#4
Just a pity Genius bread is more holes than bread in their sliced bread. Good prices though
fanpages to NIgelK
8 May 163#7
To cut gluten from your diet, they have removed the bread.
Genius!
ALYMAC76
8 May 16#6
Just reading their latest flyer with this mentioned in it.
I eat gluten free and it's nice to see new products to try out and add to what I can eat.
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Genius white and seeded bread £1.89
Genius crumpets and pancakes £1.49
Nestle Go Free Cornflakes £1.99
Has No... GF Porridge £1.89
Seabrook Lattice Crisps 99p
Tortilla chips (2 varieties) £1.29
Choc chip cookies 69p
Extra special cookies £1.29
Marie biscuits 89p
Choc cake mix £1.49
Mrs Crimbles Coconut choc macaroons 89p
Various trek and raw bars
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Also for people on the Gluten free fad wagon, have a look at >
Blogger Science >
http://www.freetheanimal.com
Real science (still possibly pseudo science)
http://drbganimalpharm.blogspot.co.uk/
Also this one which indicates how much people will try and make money out of your dieting choices >
https://www.bulletproofexec.com/
Real science food guidelines on what to eat from some one with credentials >
http://coolinginflammation.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/anti-inflammatory-diet.html
No one person in this world is entirely correct on diet as there's so much stuff we simply don't understand. Maybe some people will find value in those links.
Lastly some people want to eat junk food and that's their choice, so I'm not telling anyone what to do, just giving my take on healthy living.
It's great that Aldi are providing these products to those of us who, whilst not NEEDING them, like to have a sandwich or cake now and again. I hope they choose to restock regularly at my local.
What's even better is that they're doing it for roughly half the price of the other supermarkets.
Please keep your condescending know-it-all comments related to how good the DEAL is - rather than spouting homespun nutritional advice to people who know their conditions much better than you ever will.
Low fodmap has a lot of crossover with gluten free. I appreciate that people with celiac cannot have gluten at all whereas low fodmap is avoiding certain foods of which many contain gluten, but I don't appreciate being labeled as someone on a fad diet.
I wouldn't wish colitis, crohns or ibs on anyone and until low fodmap gains greater awareness then we'll have to settle for gluten free and promotions like this one are always welcome
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If you are lucky enough to be able to eat anything that's great - but stop insulting people who are trying to look after their health when medical science has been unable to help them.
Anyway. Great deal. Hot
Back as a child coeliac i remember my mother being forced to pay £9 for a edible sanding block (tin of GF bread) whilst on holiday without access to my usual prescribed supplies, now i can nip to tescos or asda and spend £2 on a decent loaf, back then our local NHS didn't allow GF biscuits to be prescribed and to purchase through a chemist cost an average £5 per pack, now I can get GF jaffa cakes at asda for £1.20
The cost of maintaining a GF foodchain is horrendous, I suspect competition has kept profit on these items way down.
People eat what they want v need too, either way, I tell people your eating alot of crap in that and most people are rude you are trying to educate them...taking wrong food types and then taking pills ontop to relieve symptoms lol
Most people have a minimum 1 food allergy and dont even know it until specific blood tests are done, we all eat mass produced foods but DNA is not mass produced and DNA has food and other allergies programmed into it.
Let the whingers carry on, one day a health issue will occur that leave them flat on their back. Like most things you can only learn from experience, before that you can be empathetic or just a nob.
Heartburn/indigestion is a reaction to food or a certain mix of festering foods it in the stomach acid - thats near your heart area not the large intestine people call their belly - but most treat the symptoms of such with drugs not the cause, the mass produced food and health industries feed off each other to keep profits up in most countries, the NHS is VERY poor at allergies compared to private healthcare.
:smiley:
Unfortunately I find people are more racist about food allergies than anything these days "oh what a drama you are", "oh go on its delicious", "I could not be bothered with that"....
I cant be bothered listening to it anymore than I could be bedridden. I just politely tell them be prepared for a point where your health suffers even a month or two minimum and you cant work and then you wont take your health or others for granted anymore. Shuts them up everytime :smiley:
if you are not coeliac or GI then it has absolutely nothing to do with you how others spend their money fadist or not.
choosing to keep your statistics to your self means there is 0% chance of someone who genuinely needs GF getting treated badly on a statistical basis.
Gluten is not necessary in any way, but most components of food are not necessary, they are just part of the food and for most people don't cause any problem.
Whether a food is healthy or not is another issue and completely unrelated to gluten (for 99% of people). That is more of an educational matter to do with balanced diets and nutrition, and nothing to do with a gluten-free diet.
And yes, GF often tastes worse, but that doesn't effect how fad mentality works, especially if someone believes something is 'better' for them. People buy disgustingly tasting wheat grass juice because that's the 'in fad' and costs them lots. I hear the one to watch for next is going to be overpriced birch juice (which i tried in eastern europe for only 70p for 2litres, compare prices when it arrives here in Wholefoods stores).
You seem to be confusing your own agenda and peoples dislike for industry conning people out of their money
you anti-fadists seem to be missing some very important concepts,
1. gluten is not necessary in the diet at all,
2. 99% of the foods containing gluten are not only unnecessary but also blatantly unhealthy foods if consumed on any more than a treat basis most of them exceed recommended levels of salt and sugar
3.. GF products are expensive and in most cases inferior tasting to "normal" products, anyone who would be so masochistic as to consume them on a fad basis clearly has serious mental issues and should not be abused or made fun of.
Anti-fadists also often treat people who have genuine medical concerns and serious life threatening diseases as nothing more than petulant children/fussy eaters
Why anyone would take this attitude towards fellow humans with no evidence than statistics is basically the same attitude as avoiding gay people because some of them "may carry the aids virus".
the person i am responding to would rather see a seriously ill person denied treatment than allow fadists to gain any novelty value.
are you agreeing with that?
Aloe ? lol vulgar, I did have a bottle in the fridge - with Jack Dans in it though :wink:
Oh I forgot Asda do a chocolate cake mixture for £1.60, if like me you cant do eggs replace it with 3 level tablespoons of gram (chickpea) flour (cheapest is KTC at Morrisons) but add icing sugar at the end with a little more milk alternative as gram flour is bitter, its not light or fluffy when you do its stoggy but make choc 'butter'cream with Vitalite and some vanilla (add a dessert spoon of peanut 'butter') etc and throw it in the micro then mix it up for a delightful choc hot dessert - I put some strawberries on top :wink:
PS) icing sugar - check the different kinds ingredients! it is just not sugar!!
If your IBS is being triggered by eating bread, then that is some kind of wheat allergy or intolerance, not a gluten issue, as then you would have coeliac disease, so removing gluten would not fix the problem, you would need to avoid wheat.
I wish these know it alls would just disappear. Not comment using their false assumptions
P.S. A good read here for more on gluten sensitivity
The coliac society say 1 in 100 have gluteñ allergy ie coliac.
Many people have IBS and are only allowed 1 slice of bread a day on fodmaps diet.
I wish these know it alls would just disappear. Not comment using their false assumptions.
I have a friend who has been diagnosed with crones disease sounds pretty much like what you have, doesn't sound like coeliacs for sure.
Try Kellogs puffed corn or Eat Natural with Rice Dream Organic vanilla milk alternative, or Parma ham bacon on brown BFree bread, all damn tasty :wink:
As mentioned above, some stores very quickly stop selling the GF products if they're sat on the shelf, Asda for example stopped selling the Nestle Cornflakes, which are the best we've tried :disappointed:
I know because all my food allergies cause stomach spasms, which I dont even need to feel and my asthma flares up badly, headaches, nausea, dizzy, legs giving way, cognitive function, fuzzy vision, migraines, constipation and the opposite, concentration..
Pork, dairy, eggs, wheat, gluten, preservatives, colourings...its a F nightmare trying to eat, on the go I have to default to ready salted crisps and Coke Life (coke causes stomach pain and asthma flare ups) as too much water causes spasms.
Corn pasta is £2 a bag.
Everyday is a nightmare, a bacon sandwich is grilled parma ham on BFree bread - about £4.50 for a bacon sandwich :disappointed:
I get really tired as I eat too much salad and my blood sugar drops due to a lack of carbs as £3-3.50 a day for a loaf! I'm £7-8 a day in bread and milk alternatives :confused:
They take blood and test after you eat 2-3 portions of bread for 6 weeks! They only do biopsy if they suspect stomach/intestine damage after the 6 weeks, the assumption is I have bad damage but I cant do the 6 week so no biopsy...
seriously tho how can anyone prove GF is a fad diet or many do not need it, do they kidnap GF food purchasers and force stomach biopsy them?
After 6 weeks soya/soy free I had crispy aromatic duck, I ended up unable to even drink for pain over 5 days and ended up in A&E via the GP. Whole intestine was in a spasm, even water was F unbearable, I was in tears in A&E.
£1.29 LOL :P
It's great that Aldi are providing these products to those of us who, whilst not NEEDING them, like to have a sandwich or cake now and again. I hope they choose to restock regularly at my local.
What's even better is that they're doing it for roughly half the price of the other supermarkets.
Please keep your condescending know-it-all comments related to how good the DEAL is - rather than spouting homespun nutritional advice to people who know their conditions much better than you ever will.
Also they call it gluten free because it's maize/rice/corn flour, it's not like an expensive process of removing the gluten from the wheat so why is everything x3 more costly in the big supermarkets.
Low fodmap has a lot of crossover with gluten free. I appreciate that people with celiac cannot have gluten at all whereas low fodmap is avoiding certain foods of which many contain gluten, but I don't appreciate being labeled as someone on a fad diet.
I wouldn't wish colitis, crohns or ibs on anyone and until low fodmap gains greater awareness then we'll have to settle for gluten free and promotions like this one are always welcome
As I said there's so much we don't know, for example Bimuno powder is advised to be used to encourage healthy bacterial growth in the intestine and doesn't appear to cause gas, well here's an excerpt to explain it better >
"There is even evidence, for example, that the artificial transgalactans in Bimuno, are fermentable oligosaccharides that do not produce gas during fermentation and reduce bloating and abdominal pain (Silk et al, 2009). Instead they act as prebiotics encouraging the growth of bifidobacteria. The low FODMAP diet, by contrast, reduces bifidobacteria (Staudacher et al, 2012). Clearly, the implications of this run counter to the therapeutic principles of pre- and probiotics and will need further investigation and clinical experience."Source: http://www.foodsmatter.com/allergy_intolerance/fodmaps/articles/fodmaps-read-01-14.html
So a low FODMAP diet discourages bifobacterial growth, yet bifobacteria are known to be healthy gut bacteria, clearly it depends on the person. This is where medicine fails totally at the moment, it's a case of one size fits all and doesn't take in to account the differing genetics of a person, their overall biochemistry and even the genetic diversity of their microbiome. Whilst I get somewhat overwhelmed by the technology of today, I think I'd rather have been born a 100 or even 200 years in the future as it's more likely we'll have medicine that is prescribed based on the above factors and maybe new factors that are unknown now. Of course the world could be a more sorry place in the future, I'll never know of course.
So we have gluten free diet of which we know it's beneficial for some people and low FODMAP diet, there's also low salicylate diet as well. Isn't this evidence enough that if you value your health you need to experiment, but base it on current science, what we know, so if you have a health problem that you think is related to diet, you could start with FODMAP or Gluten free or even low salicylate if you're feeling more experimental.
When I look at low FODMAP I see definite crossover with Paleo, seeds, grains, beans, legumes are not allowed on true Paleo, but their reasoning is the anti nutrients in those foods, most foods have anti nutrients, even the good old beverage tea has tanins which limit Iron absorption, but has antioxidant compounds ECGG and L-Theanine which are beneficial.
Another marketing BS is antioxidants, the body produces antioxidants itself, if you over supplement with anti oxidants, the resulting anti oxidant level eventually drops below baseline. So I don't look to actively supplement with anti oxidants, I choose food which has them in abundance but food is a package, with many synergistic compounds, nutrients and anti nutrients. Nature knows best because it's had billions of years to evolve synergy and symbiosis, way beyond currently what humans can create. We still have very primitive medicine currently.
Anyway I love all this stuff, I don't propose to be anywhere near an expert, it's just something I've studied and you really have to be prepared to change your stance as the evidence changes.
Fresh fruit and veg, pulses, meat and fish = the winner.
https://www.coeliac.org.uk/coeliac-disease/
Also for people on the Gluten free fad wagon, have a look at >
Blogger Science >
http://www.freetheanimal.com
Real science (still possibly pseudo science)
http://drbganimalpharm.blogspot.co.uk/
Also this one which indicates how much people will try and make money out of your dieting choices >
https://www.bulletproofexec.com/
Real science food guidelines on what to eat from some one with credentials >
http://coolinginflammation.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/anti-inflammatory-diet.html
No one person in this world is entirely correct on diet as there's so much stuff we simply don't understand. Maybe some people will find value in those links.
Lastly some people want to eat junk food and that's their choice, so I'm not telling anyone what to do, just giving my take on healthy living.
Genius!
I eat gluten free and it's nice to see new products to try out and add to what I can eat.
Sadly though Genius bread is hit or miss!
Hopefully my nearest store will have some stock.