Sharabelle bakes

WHAT IT REALLY MEANS Food Standards Agency You're out shopping and see a label with no artificial colours or preservatives on it.  Normally that would seem a good thing, however it's not really especially if you are vegetarian or vegan.   I don't like labelling myself, but you could call me a lactose and gluten intolerant pescatarian.  As someone with IBS, I believe its really important to know what's in your food.  You can never be sure what can cause a flare up. A food that is a trigger might not be obvious because it's listed under a E number.      No artificial - means they only use ingredients present or from nature and that they are not produced by chemicals.  All products found in nature includes animals, insects, mineral, as well as plants.  Some are named on the label, others only appear as an  E numbers .  E numbers are not all chemical based.  The E number system is just a method of classification...

Gelatin Jelly Babies Just when I thought I'd finally got a handle on my IBS trigger foods, another one pops up!!!   Mum and I had dropped into our local supermarket to buy some goodies for my nieces and nephew.  My youngest niece is lactose intolerant like myself, so I always double check the ingredients to make sure there are no hidden surprises.   Picked up a bag of jelly babies and discovered one of the ingredients is bovine gelatin. Bovine is just another word for cow/beef.  They were perfectly Ok for my niece, just not for me. Last July I cut out all meat and dairy products, due to my IBS.  I don't really fit in the vegetarian or vegan category as I can still eat fish.   Lets say am a  dairy free  pescetarian.   Jelly babies are or was one of my favourite sweets. After I became lactose intolerant my friends would buy them as gifts instead of chocolate.  It's only recently that dairy free chocolate has be...