Post your experience with and reviews of biscuits that feature allergy friendly (e.g. wheat free, dairy free) or diet friendly (FODMAP, vegan, keto, etc.) ingredients

  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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    2 days ago

    There’s a company called “Bakehouse”, I believe they’re Irish. I don’t know where their stuff is normally available in the UK, but they sometimes turn up at our local “discount frozen food shop”.

    Their chocolate chip cookies are amongst the finest biscuits I’ve ever eaten.

    Anyway, they also do a vegan range. I’m not vegan, but if you’re going to sell posh packets of biscuits at 39p or less, I’m going to try them. They did some sort of chocolate/nut ones. Delicious, I thought.

    Nairns also do (or did?) gluten free biscuits and oatcakes which were lovely. I think they sell these in one of the big supermarkets, but they’re expensive. I wouldn’t have identified them as gluten free of it didn’t say so.

    • Chris@feddit.ukM
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      1 day ago

      Oh, the bakehouse ones are lovely. I’ve not seen their vegan ones, but the standard cookies are in Morrisons. They may well do the vegan ones, but I don’t remember seeing them.

      Maryland do vegan cookies as well, I think I tried them and couldn’t tell the difference.

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          23 hours ago

          They sold them years ago and then stopped. They’ve only recently (well, maybe a year ago, I’m not in there very often these days) got them back in.

    • spicy pancake@lemmy.zipOP
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      2 days ago

      39p!? I can’t get a single serving packet of Lorna Doones for less than $2 (~£1.62) here 😭 so that already rules

      glad to hear about the GF options as my sister, who occasionally visits the UK, has severe NCGS

      • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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        2 days ago

        The “discount frozen food shops” tend to get things which are about to reach their expiry date, or things which have been overproduced (or undersold at other shops) - then they sell them off really cheap. Normally when you get something amazing like that, it’s there for a few weeks or months, then you never see it again.

        I know some of the things that were less than 50p in the frozen food shop are £2 - £4 in normal shops. It can be a problem if you find you really like “those 10p bars of ‘Hů’ chocolate”, only to find afterwards they’re £4 each normally - but in the other hand, you get to temporarily eat like a king for the price of a pauper :)

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          1 day ago

          Oooooh gotcha. We have something similar here, the most common being Grocery Outlet though the discount isn’t nearly as dramatic 😭