chips

Cerocer13 - I didn't just stop using Frylight, I bought some when I couldn't find my usual olive oil spray, used it a couple of times to cook meat for my partner, but soon threw it away in disgust. The stuff looks like spittle. Yuk!

And, sadly, triple-cooked chips are made with beef dripping, so a no-no for vegetarians for me.

Re going for chips as a kid, we had a fish and chip shop opposite our flats and if my mum wasn't going to be home in time to cook, I'd be given a threepenny bit to go over the road for a bag of chips. I calculate that these days the same would cost about 160 times more!

That was of course meant to say vegetarians "like me".

Cerocert13 im sure they will be just as good with a modern tech crinkle cutter lol mine must be at least 35 yrs old

wants! homemade chips now.

Tried oven chips, yuck. The original way can't be beaten and just use a regular pot these days with oil in.

I grew up in a fish shop so nothing compares to my dad's chips cooked in beef dripping Sadly these days we rely on oven baked products for healthy reasons. I do them in the halogen oven - my husband likes the thin French fries but I prefer the thick cut ones. It's a fine line between mine being undercooked or his being like bits of wood!!

I personally don't believe in depriving yourself. If you like chips done in the normal way then go for it. A bit of fat never hurt anyone. If you only cook fatty foods then its obviously going to be a disaster. It's common sense.

I'm with you on that stillaliveand kicking a varied diet ,no deprivation ,we eat the same way my parents and grandparents ate..minus fowl for me and my other half doesn't like butter/spreads ,he puts Primula cheese on his sandwiches instead

Aunt Bessie oven chips and roast potatoes are gluten free

Proper chips in dripping!!??

Whats the big deal with gluten free? Unless you have an allergy to gluten which is very rare, no need to worry about it. It's just another fad.

It's not that rare in fact saak - about 1 in 100 people have been diagnosed with it in the UK and they estimate that is still an under-diagnosis.

I think part of the problem could be the over-load of gluten in lots of processed foods - why on earth should a potato chip have gluten on it?

Some people do have a sensitivity to gluten whilst not having coeliac disease.

Sorry - diagnosed with coeliac disease which, if undiagnosed, can cause serious health problems, not a fad for those people.
And, as I said, some people have a sensitivity or intolerance to gluten.

Could be? It's rare to have a gluten problem, a wheat one yes, gluten no.

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Coeliac disease is not an allergy, it is an auto-immune disease, although many more people have this intolerance to wheat, rye and barley.

www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Coeliac-disease/Pages/Introduction.aspx#Whos-affected
But I am not going to enter into an argument about it; you can read it or not as you wish.

It is easier to live with now and diagnosed better now thank goodness.

I wouldn't say that 1 in 100 people is particularly rare

Its still something that your body doesn't tolerate so having an allergy to it is an acceptable way to put in my book. I have "diverticular disease".

Gluten intolerance is very rare as Ive already stated.

Have it your own way

Its not having it my own way at all. But thank you.

The incidence of diverticulitis increases with age whereas people are born with coeliac disease.

Have you ever been tested for coeliac disease? It is often misdiagnosed as diverticulitis.

I know all about it Jalima, how could I not No I don't have coeliac. I'm just saying that gluten isn't the big problem, it's a faddy way to make money in the supermarkets. Wheat based products however are.

To try to ease her horrific digestive problems my daughter has been told to follow a gluten -free not wheat-free diet.
Should she tell her specialist he's got it wrong?

I have gluten intolerance so it is a big deal.

If I ingest gluten I spend the best part of a week rushing to the loo, bloated, feeling sick, aching and itchy.

When did is say that. I said it was far rarer than wheat intolerance. Most people do not have this, Im sorry you do.

I have gluten intolerance and DGS has coeliac's disease.

It's a big deal if you don't follow a gluten free diet.