Allergy members - how do you shop for food?

Posted by: looklively

4th Jun 2014 12:52pm

Can you talk me through how you go about food shopping for yourself or a member of your family that has a food allergy. Do you go to the local supermarket or specialist store? If a supermarket, do you buy from the health food aisle or regular aisles? Do you have to check every ingredient label or do products advertise themselves well enough? Do you have to buy specific foods? Is your food bill more expensive as a result?

Sjc

4th Aug 2015 08:28am

Everyone in my family has some type of allergy, at any given time we have to manage a nut allergy, the celiacs, a lactose intolerance, a crustacean allergy and that's only immediate family. When we all eat dinner together or lunch we have found its much easier to buy a bunch of different salad items, a few types of cold meat, make sure that everyone has at least for things to eat, grab some bread (both gluten free and normal) and everyone can pick and choose their food. It works brilliantly!

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