Wheat free diet
A ‘Free-From’ Life – New Beginnings

A ‘Free-From’ Life – New Beginnings

I've been busy making some changes to my blog. For sometime I've felt that Nikki Young Writes has become more of a writing-themed blog than a lifestyle one. The time had come to make a new home for my health-related articles and recipes. It means running two blogs,...

Baking with Spelt and Rye Flour

Baking with Spelt and Rye Flour

If you have been following some of my recent posts and indeed if you are interested in this sort of thing, you will have seen that I have been experimenting with alternatives to wheat flour. Our favourite so far has been spelt flour. The bread maker has been in...

A Word Or Two About Spelt

A Word Or Two About Spelt

Any ideas what the following list of ingredients is from? Water, tapioca starch, potato starch, vegetable oil, wholegrain maize flour, egg white powder, yeast, cellulose gum, concentrated fruit juice, dextrose, rice bran, cornflour, sugar beet fibre. Would you believe...

How To Manage Food Intolerances

I recognised, that from a very young age, my son had a problem with his digestive system. But when I took him to the doctor, I was told that there was nothing wrong with him. This assessment was based upon the one simple fact that he was gaining weight normally. I was...