This is coeliac awareness week and I do not do anything special this week that I do not do any other week. I am always asking about gluten-free food whichever restaurant or establishment that it visit. The coeliac UK page can be found here. If you require specific information about awareness week click here.
On Monday of this week I visited Marks and Spencer in Cambridge and discovered that they had brought back onto their shelves the chocolate and cherry cake, which appeared two years ago and vanished almost immediately. I along with many others complained and it seems that they listened; see their website for further information.
Yesterday I visited Scotsdales Garden Centre and also visited their Sunflower café, details can be found here. I looked at their menu and decided that it would be the inevitable jacket potato again. However, the server asked if it was gluten-free food I was looking for, the cottage pie and vegetables and chicken balti with rice and a poppadom were both gluten-free, so again someone has been listening to my complaints; see here.
John Lewis, at least the brassiere staff in Cambridge, are also knowledgeable about gluten-free foods and as well as items on their main menu they now offer two types of sandwiches. These are egg and salad and prawn and salad; they are made from Genius bread. They can be purchased in the self-service café or in their brassiere; see here for more information.
Although I have not yet got around to purchasing anything from the Glu-10-3 Cake Company, I have it on good authority that their cakes are wonderful.
I think I have covered awareness week very well, especially as I do it all year round.
