Work morning teas can be an opportunity for work
colleagues to catch up over a cuppa and a piece of
cake. This can, however, be a time someone with
celiac disease 'dreads'. Everyone else is enjoying
the goodies and you are left to watch. Well, that is
not how it has to be anymore.
Gluten free products are becoming more and more
available. Major supermarkets or wholefood
supermarkets have a large range of
packet cookies and cakes. Health food shops and
local delicatessens have many locally made gluten
free products. These goodies are very tasty and a
lot of time your office colleagues would not be able to
taste the difference.
If the office is
putting on the morning tea, may be you could let
them know where they can buy gluten free biscuits,
cookies,
cakes etc, or offer to do the shopping.
If everyone is bringing a plate, maybe you could
bake a packet gluten free cake. You can then sit
back and wait for the compliments to come in as they
will think you are a “master chef”. They will not
realise how easy it really is to bake a gluten free
cake.
To make people aware that some items are gluten free
on your table, you could put a label next to it, or place all the
gluten free food together.
You will be surprising at how much awareness you will
be creating towards gluten free food. The next morning tea, more people will
also start to bring in gluten free cakes, biscuits
etc. That way, everyone can join in and nobody has
to miss out.
Remember – fresh fruit cut up and arranged on a
plate is also a healthy and easy option for all
attendees at an office function.
For the recipe of an easy tasty slice to take to the
next work morning tea go to
Cookies and Slices
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Work morning teas can be an opportunity for work
colleagues to catch up over a cuppa and a piece of
cake. This can, however, be a time someone with
celiac disease 'dreads'. Everyone else is enjoying
the goodies and you are left to watch. Well, that is
not how it has to be anymore.