Waitrose's two dine for £10 is back and if you read the back of the packs many things are gluten free too! James and I were really stumped on what to have for dinner so when we saw the deal was on we thought why not!

So what do you get in the meal deal? Firstly you get a main and a side, then you get a choice either between a dessert or starter, today we chose a starter. Then you get a choice of wine, sparkling drinks or chocolates, all of which are worth about £6. Although not gluten free we picked up some chocolates James could enjoy as none of the drinks were something we would choose, the shelves were pretty bare!

We chose to have a baked camembert to start, I cut up chunks of Udis tiger loaf to have to dip into it (see my review here). Self contained in its own ramekin, this camembert is very easy as all you do is pop it in the oven for half an hour!

This was followed by duck with an orange sauce and some diced herbed potatoes, we bought some extra veg to have with the dish as although it is still fantastic value, unless you are buying something like a pie where all you would need is veg, the choice of side is either potato or veg, and there is no tray with a mix, which I think would be a great idea! The duck needs the skin crisped in a pan for a few minutes until golden brown and then popped back into the tray and in the oven for twenty minutes. The potatoes do take an hour so we put these in the same time as the cheese. The duck turned out so well, with a crispy skin and lovely moist meat. I didn't add the sauce but there was a seasoning rub on the duck which added something extra! The herbs on the potatoes were also well balanced and not overpowering and overall was a very enjoyable dish

We had our Tesco Profiteroles for dessert (see review here).

Overall we saved a huge £7.70 by buying this as a deal and is comparable in price to a fast food meal for two but is a lot higher quality and quantity of food is outrageous, the value is outstanding.

I would love to know if you have tried the two dine for £10 at waitrose. I have had a M&S one in the past but Waitrose has really impressed us so I think we will try it again!

Hannah x

As summer is coming around (hopefully!) it's time to put down the custard and find some more summery desserts! Tesco released some gluten free profiteroles and as these are one of James' favourite desserts, I thought we must give them a go!

Retailing at £1.50 and containing 15 profiteroles, this too is also very good value for money, very much like all the new Tesco free from range. It also comes with two sauce packets so is perfect to split over a few days. Stating that a portion is 4 profiteroles with sauce (not saying how much) is around 250 calories, these are something that will also be a rare treat in our house, particularly as we managed to eat a whole box in one evening!

From the frozen section, all you need to do is leave these out on a plate to defrost for 1 hour or so and squeeze the sauce on top, another simple out the box product from Tesco. The pastry looks a little papery on first impression, with a little circular hole on the top where the cream had been piped in. Although once bitten into they taste gorgeously creamy with just the right texture to the pastry to make it very difficult to distinguish between mainstream and regular versions. If there is a slight difference I would say that this pastry was a little thinner than regular gluten ones I have seen and remember eating. I feel that this is a positive as it makes the much more fresh and less stodgy.

Deeply filled, I was impressed with the amount of cream and how rich it was within the pastry. I have seen ones that have almost no filling or seem quite watery, but these are thick, smooth and very fresh tasting. It really was a pleasant surprise and they are quite morish. The chocolate sauce provided it perfectly runny and allows you to get a good drizzle of it all around the profiteroles. It honestly tastes just like Belgium chocolate, freshly melted and oozing through a chocolate fountain!

Unfortunately, for them to be able to achieve the perfect profiteroles they do have to contain dairy, so these are just for the gluten free market. As disappointing as it may be to those with dairy allergies, these profiteroles would not get the same taste or texture lacking dairy. I feel it would seem to restrict too many elements.

I have been super impressed with Tesco lately and for own brand products, they are by far the best in the free from market. Have you tried anything at Tesco that I need to try?

Hannah x

As it is Coeliac Awareness Week I thought that I would show you what I ate today. To be completely honest, this is not a normal day! I have some naughty treats as I just thought why not? Believe it or not, I don't eat all that much 'bad' food and most of the treats I do eat are posted here!

Breakfast:
Today I ate a Genius pain au chocolat with some orange juice. I tend to oven bake these to warm them through, but on weekdays 40 seconds in the microwave does just fine!

Lunch:
Lunch is one of my favourite meals. Mainly because I love to snack and snacky style lunches are more than acceptable! So I have some Schar crisp breads with pesto humous, cucumber and grapes.

Snack:
I had some pineapple for a snack, but I was also bought a M&S gluten free Victoria sponge, so it would have been rude to not join in!

Dinner:
Pizza hut was our port of call for dinner tonight. With this margarita I had some chips, Tesco garlic baguette (see my review here) and Chippa's ketchup. I know most ketchups are gluten free but I love this ketchup as it isn't as thick as other brands.

What did you eat today?

Hannah x

It's been 3 years since I last had a shop bought garlic bread and it must have been the hardest thing to give up when having to move onto a gluten free diet. I have tired over and over again to make the perfect garlic bread that I remember with butter and garlic and a variety of free from breads, but I have never quite achieved it and nothing has compared! When I finally found this stocked in Tesco I ran to the till with high hopes!

Retailing at £1.50, this slightly smaller than a mainstream garlic baguette isn't too bad value for the free from market, I actually found it quite reasonable. More than suitable for four people as a side if you have a couple pieces each, or for two people as the main carb of a meal. All you do is pop this baguette in the oven from frozen for 15 minutes and its done! As simple as that, no need to make the bread or add the butter, just like your typical mainstream version. Nothing frustrates me more than when you buy what you believe to be a fully assembled product, but you end up having to add extras.

This exceptional baguette is so close to the real thing it is scary! James and I had it for dinner and he said he would happily eat it as opposed to a regular one, as there is less waste and we can both enjoy it! With and crispy crunchy crust, this golden brown bread bakes to perfection. Fluffy inside, this bread is texturally very pleasing with the mix of crisp coating with the soft middle and the butteriness from the flavouring. With lashings of butter and garlic,  this is definitely not for the faint hearted... Or for a first date! I always purchased the extra garlic variety in my gluten eating days, and I think this is more garlicy than that, which is amazing. The butter itself oozes from the pieces when squeezed to break apart and are truly scrumptious. The aspect that shocked me the most is that their is no milk or eggs in this product, the butter seems so creamy and as it if was genuine butter, Tesco have really upped their game recently!

We had a bit of a carb feast with ours and had Pizza hut gluten free pizza and I cooked some chips and of course I added some Chippa ketchup. Half of this baguette is 275 calories so I feel that this is a perfect side to either a meal you would like to keep low calorie, such as a salad, or you can have a treat night with a pasta or pizza, just like we did! Either way I don't feel that this is a super unhealthy option as you can really adapt it to the meal you would like to create and there is also a lot of butter and flavour in this product. Typically I would pair this with a fresh salad and some grilled chicken, but who can resist a treat cheat meal!

Hannah x

Coconut is the quintessential summer flavour, don't you agree? So when I received these Mrs Crimbles Macaroons in a birthday hamper they sent me, I knew I wanted to hold onto them as long as the best before date would allow so they could get me into the summery mood!

I have been a lover of the Mrs Crimbles Macaroons for years, and in fact they were the first cake I purchased when transitioning to my gluten free diet. I then moved onto the chocolate coated ones, as what's better than throwing chocolate into the coconut mix! Then when I found these in my box,

I thought I had died and gone to heaven! Ginger is a flavour I particularly love in sweet food, as you may be able to tell from the amount of ginger based biscuits I have reviewed over the years.  

Texturally these macaroons are very soft with a crisper shell, but as you would expect from coconut they are rather corse where they are essentially desiccated coconut formed with sugar. The stem ginger seems to be candied too and adds a nice chew and spice to what typically is a very sweet flavour and soft texture. Being dipped in dark chocolate adds a slight bitterness to the treat, evening out all the flavours beautifully, creating something truly wonderful!

Retailing very reasonably at Waitrose for £1.35, these are most definitely at the most affordable end of the free from market. Making each macaroon 23p. Containing egg and soya, these macaroons are only suitable for those on a gluten free diet, there is no milk in the ingredient list that I can see, but if dairy is something you have issues with, I would suggest using your own judgement. 

Each macaroon contains 174 calories and the first two ingredients are sugar and coconut, being quite high in sugar at 16g and with 11g of fat per macaroon, they are a sweet treat you don't want to enjoy too often.. as hard as it may be! 

I find that these are a great treat to pop on a cake stand with finger sandwiches and some cupcakes and biscuits as a gluten free style afternoon tea. If you see these when doing your weekly shop I would recommend giving them a go as they can be loved by gluten and gluten free eaters alike!

Hannah x

*These products were sent to me to try, all opinions are my own

I was caught in the Tesco vortex again! You all know what I mean, you head in for a few items (in my case with coupons in hand) and leave with a million more items (which I didn't have coupons for!) It gets me every time, which is why I tend to buy online if I have no coupons, or I don't dare browse. Considering all this I only came away spending £10 out of pocket after coupons, which isn't too bad for me!

Almost all of the items are actually from the free from section of the store. I don't normally buy this much processed food, nor do I actually shop in the free from section all that often as I like to try and find items in the mainstream sections of the store to try, but sometimes you just need some treats!

Sorry about the awful picture! It was dark and I was too tired to get lighting out!

Here's what I bought!

Lurpak butter - £1.74 - Boring but essential.

Pringles (for James) - 79p - I had a coupon for 81p making these a 2p money maker! These are not gluten free , but I did by them for my fiancé for when we have a film night!

Green and Black Organic Milk Chocolate - £2 - This was also free after my rebate from my shopping app.

Popchips Barbecue - 75p - These are also free after rebate.

Genius Pancakes - £2 - I had no coupon for these but they looked so good and I've yet to get my hands on the Genius brand of pancakes, so I am excited to try them!

Udis Tiger Loaf - £2.50 - I had a 50p coupon for this. I love this bread a lot and it is a huge loaf for the price, even without a coupon, I would 100% recommend trying this!

Genius Sausage Rolls - £2.50 - I had a £1 coupon for this product, I have had these before as my Gran cooked me some up when I went round her's so I thought I'd have some more as they were delicious, it also means I can take a picture and review them for you!

Tesco Free From Profiteroles - £1.50 -  Unplanned purchase number two, but I couldn't believe the price, James loves profiteroles so we will give them a go one night to see if he can be converted to the gluten free ones!

Tesco Free From Garlic Baguette - £1.50 - Another unplanned purchase, I had been trying to get my hands on one of these for ages, so when I saw it, I grabbed it! This is also a fair price as its not too much smaller than a mainstream garlic baguette!

Before coupons my shop came to £15.29 and I paid £10.23 so not my best savvy shop, but not too bad considering the bits I didn't intend to buy! I would love to know if you have picked up anything tasty recently or if I am missing out on something I really need to try!

Hannah x

Desperately trying to bring out the sun, I am eating more summery foods recently. The breakfast porridge is stashed away for now and replaced with youghurts and granola with berries. Granola is something that you can seem to find a million different varieties of in the mainstream section of the supermarket but not so much in the free from isle. So I'm always on the hunt for something different to mix with milk or yoghurts. I purchased this Udis granola online from Holland and Barrett a while ago, it took FOREVER to deliver, but it was worth the wait!

Being a much looser granola this jumps out at me that it'll potentially be lower in sugar, as sugar is the binding agent in most granola, the rule of thumb is typically the more clusters, the more sugar there is, although this is not a fool proof method. As it is, this granola contains no refined sugar at all so is fantastic. Simply made from certified gluten free oats, honey, rapeseed oil, almonds and natural vanilla flavouring, I consider this to be quite a clean choice, as I can read and understand all the ingredients. This also means that those with egg, soya and dairy allergies are safe to eat this with no issues too!

These sweetly coated oats are the perfect morning pick me up, with the sharper dryness from the almonds, it strikes a good balance to have with some natural yoghurt and berries. Sometimes I even squeeze a little syrup in for good measure! Naturally flavoured it allows so much room to experiment with this granola, the vanilla is noticeable enough to stand against other flavours so adding some cacao powder to the mix would not overpower it.

Per 100g this granola contains 482 calories, 17.4g fat, 65.8g carbs 20.3g of which are sugars, 7.5g fibre and 11.7g protein. I tend to have 20g as a portion with 125g natural yoghurt, once you've added berries and any toppings you like, this tends to make a 200 calorie breakfast which keeps me satisfied until lunch.

If I had one complaint about this product, it would be that I would enjoy a few more almond slices in the mix, granted I could add more myself, but with the weekday rush it would be one less thing I have to do!

Unfortunately this product seems to be out of stock on Holland and Barrett currently as well as Tesco and Amazon, so hopefully it should be around soon!

Hannah x

This post has been sitting in my drafts for a while, which is a shame as this product doesn't deserve to sit in the corner, in all honesty like all No.G products, it's phenomenal!

Perfect for lunch, dinner or a picnic, this open top pie is more or less a very deep quiche. I feel the pastry is slightly different to the No.G quiches as it seemed more crisp and thinner, but it may have just been the way I cooked it! Filled with plenty of ingredients, this highly flavoured pie retails averagely for £2.50 in Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Ocado and now Waitrose!

At 405 calories per pie, these are a very filling meal either on their own or with a side salad. As expected there is 26.3g of fat per pie, but if you are choosing to eat pastry, you will be aware of this and know what to expect anyway! Perfect for a midweek dinner as you can just throw it in the oven, there is very little effort involved. But being packed with butternut squash, red pepper, extra mature cheese and spinach, it is so flavoursome and all the hard work has been done for you! Something I know would take me a good couple of hours to prepare from scratch and wouldn't taste half as good! The balance is perfect and makes the product taste fresh, healthy and slightly more nutritious but has a creamy decadence creeping in too. Making it a perfect treat without feeling like the second ingredient on the packet should be regret, haha!

Like all No.G products, the pastry is perfect. This is the pastry I now use as my benchmark to judge others, as all the pastry I have sampled from No.G has been exceptional. Golden, crisp and perfectly crumbly/flakey makes their pastry in my opinion the very best in the free from market. Not once have I had issues with them going soggy, feeling stale even though well within date or having a horrendous after taste. I feel that although No.G is on the higher price point of the market it has never let me down and this justifies the price.

Unfortunately this product does contain milk and egg, so is only suitable for gluten free diets, this is very obvious without reading the ingredients due to the inside resembling the fluffiness of an omelet, which can only be achieved using dairy. Synthetic or natural replacers for dairy products are not quite the same and don't achieve the same effect, or at least when I have tried, but I am always open to advice!

Another amazing product from No.G in my eyes and I can't wait to get my hands on some more bits to try!

Hannah x

Malted milk biscuits are quite nostalgic for me as these were what I was fed as a snack at my pre-school back in the mid 90's with a glass of milk! So almost a month ago, James bought me these malted milk biscuits when I saw them in Tesco and screamed with delight.

This almost normal sized pack retails at £1.20 so the value for money is great. Being free from wheat and gluten only, these are not suitable for egg or dairy allergy sufferers. There are no nuts in the recipe but they are not able to guarantee the ingredients are from nut free sources. A single biscuit is around 35 calories, perfect to have in the cupboard for both adults and children alike.  

Texturally these biscuits are slightly more powdery than I recall, but I could be wrong as it has been 18 years and I know I used to dunk them in milk! They were the right shape and colour and look the part. I found that the taste is exactly how I recall, quite subtle and a bit milky/creamy but other than that quite plain. For nostalgia sake, I decided to dunk them in a glass of milk and it was like hopping in a time machine and I was back in that wood polish scented room with all my class friends!

Ingredients:

Vegetable Margarine, Maize Flour, Sugar, Oat Flour, Glucose Syrup, Cornflour, Tapioca Starch, Rice Flour, Reconstituted Egg Powder, Dried Whole Milk, Flavouring, Raising Agent (Sodium Bicarbonate), Salt, Vegetable Margarine contains: Palm, Rapeseed Oil, Water, Salt, Emulsifier (Mono- and Di-Glycerides of Fatty Acids), Reconstituted Egg Powder contains: Water, Dried Egg

I really enjoyed these biscuits and they would be perfect to dunk in a latte or a tea, I think I'm going to look out for some rich tea next!

Hannah x

After biting the bullet and ordering The Foods of Athenry cookie shots from Holland and Barrett (like I need more sweet treats!) I am starting to think they are one of the most convenient snacks I have purchased in a while!

Being small domes of cookie, around the same diameter as a pound coin, these 18 calorie mini cookies are the perfect portion control or craving curber if you need something rich and chocolatey, just without the calories.



Retailing at £2.99 for a 120g bag, these are fantastic value. I have been having 5 as a snack, reaching 90 calories, and they are by far better than chocolate itself in terms of satisfying a chocolate need. Being free from gluten, milk, egg and nuts, these are the perfect lunch box snack or even buffet table at a kids party.

The ingredients are as followed:
Gluten & Wheat free flour (Maize, Rice, Potato, Tapioca, Buckwheat) 100% Vegetable non-hydrogenated Margarine, Sugar, Coca, Concentrated Fruit Juice, Natural Vanilla, Raising Agents (Mono Calcium Phosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate), Stabiliser (Xanthan Gum).
Margarine contains ( Vegetable Oil, Water, Salt, Emulsifier: E475, Natural Colours: Circumin, Annato, Natural Flavouring).

The cookie itself is very crunchy and reminds me of the texture of a Oreo style cookie biscuit. This dry crisp consistency seems to translate well into gluten free food and tastes great with no aftertaste, powdering or like you're eating cement when you start to chew, so when I see a product like this, I do get high hopes!

Flavour wise, this is a very rich intense Cocoa chocolate taste, they do remind me a lot of all these Oreo style sandwich cookies, but with a more fulfilling chocolate hit! They are bitter in flavour rather than your typical super sweet cookies, which makes a welcome change. It also makes them much more versatile, as the filling sweetens the sandwich cookies, these are completely plain to use as you wish.

I think not only as a snack but these would be great as an ingredient, I think making a cheesecake base with these cookies would work really well, or even just throwing them together with some ice-cream, cream and sauce to make a sundae!

I have just seen that there are blondies! I will have to try them next time I am ordering from Holland and Barrett. I haven't tried much from The Foods of Athenry as they are not always a brand that come to mind as I don't see them available much, but I'd love to know what you love so I can try some more!

Hannah x

Earlier in the month I treated myself to a Honeybuns order. Within this order I chose a triple tinker cookie as I have never tried one before and thought it was about time I gave one a go!

Retailing at under £2 per cookie, these are quite large and fantastic value. The thing I love about Honeybuns is the variety of sizes they do their products in, allowing them to be much more affordable. Being sold singularly you can also buy a good selection of cakes to try what you want to without paying extortionate amounts of money or having enough food to feed a whole school!

At 250 calories a cookie this is quite calorific so it is just as well they are sold singularly! It also makes them feel like much more of a treat. Unlike many free from cookies I have tried, this cookie is very soft and chewy and has quite a rich flavour. Don't be mistaken into thinking that this cookie would be suitable for children, this bitter cookie, with a coffee twang is much more of a big kids treat! ;)

Filled with large chocolate chunks, texturally this cookie is very different. Quite flexible and chewy, it really gets your jaw working! With creamy hits of decadent milk chocolate, it's simply sensational!

I would love to see bitesize versions of this product. I recently bought The Foods of Athenry cookie shots and I love how I can space these over the day and feel I am having lots of treats for little calories, as I am a snacker having them spaced makes me less likely to binge on a lot of calories in one day!

Another hit from Honeybuns for me! Not that I have found any misses yet! The only drawback I have ever found to Honeybuns is their availability, although available online with fantastic delivery options and the ability to freeze most products, it's only really an issue when I have a sudden craving!

I would love to know if you have tried this cookie and what you thought of it!

Hannah x

Last week my last Handmade Treat Company box arrived, I am saying my last as I have unsubscribed  for a little while. I have a lot of food to eat and my friends and family are always picking me bits and pieces up to try, which I obviously appreciate, but it does mean I am inundated with food! So I have stopped buying bits for a while in order to eat it all!

But I still enjoy surprise boxes, so lets see what's in this one!

Munchy Seeds - Pumpkin Power
I have received chocolate coated seeds from Munchy Seeds before, but not naked ones! This toasted seed medley shot looks perfect to add to salads. With a mix of sunflower, pumpkin and sesame seeds this mix sounds beautiful. It also states that it is high in Iron and as I have recently been told I am anaemic and lacking in iron and B12, this will be perfect to accompany my tablets, so I will give it a go and let you know how I like them!

Chika's Plantain Chips
I have received this product a few times before, being a lover of bananas and dried fruit, this type of product is completely for me!

Keep Well Snacks - Organic Flakees Spiced
This dried fruit and veggie mix contains apple, carrot, pear and chia. Made from 100% natural ingredients, this rather 'clean' snack is perfect for on the go. Being gluten and dairy free with no added sugar, this snack is suitable for vegans and is one of your 5 a day! That's fantastic!

Zoot Zero - Creamy Milk Chocolate
Free from added sugar, this twin pack of chocolate contains 43% cocoa and is suitable for vegetarians as well as us gluten free lot! In all honesty I am not sure that I am excited to try this bar as it doesn't seem to have anything that stands out from a regular chocolate bar to me, but I may be mistaken and it could be remarkable!

Twinings - Cranberry Green Tea
I love this tea, the cranberry one is lovely in particular so I know I will enjoy this snuggled up in bed!

The cosmetic item this month was an aloe lip balm, but someone has seemed to have borrowed mine so I am not sure what it was called and what it'll be like!

I'd love to know what you got in your box!

Hannah x

I received my Holland and Barrett order today! I had to order some supplements, but as free delivery is applied to any order over £20, I thought I would make the most of it. There have been a couple of items I have been desperate to try, so I thought why not!

The first is the Meridian Yeast extract. I have previously seen this in store, but I thought it was quite large and I wanted to try a smaller jar before buying the larger sized ones. Unfortunately when I tweeted Meridian they told me that this is the only size that they do, so I thought I would just take the plunge and if I don't like it, I will try and gift it to someone who does! This 340g jar retailed at £3.99.

The next item I purchased is the Foods of Athenry cookie shots,  I have been wanting to try these for such a long time, but they never seem to be in my local stores. Being gluten, wheat and dairy free these cookies are vegan. At only 18 calories per cookie, these are a perfect little treat. This 120g bag retails at £2.99

I then received a free 1kg bag of peanuts because I ordered more than £10. I am not sure if the code is still valid but incase it is, all you need to pop in the code section is FREENUTS.

Have you placed an order with Holland and Barrett recently? I'd love to know what you got!

Hannah x

I'm slowly working through the lovely birthday hamper Mrs Crimbles sent to me, I thought I would review one of my favourite items, it's taken so long as I just had to try every one in the pack to make sure I definitely loved them before reviewing... Honest!

From what I believe this item can only be ordered online from Mrs Crimbles, but they have redesigned their website in the last couple of weeks and I cannot see where you would order them from, so I'm just hoping the face lift has meant that they have had to take the store down temporarily and that it's not gone forever!

I feel these retailed at around £2.50-£3 for a pack of 6, but as I cannot access the online store, don't quote me on that one! Each Madeleine is around 130 calories, so a perfect portioned sweet treat!

If vanilla is your thing, you'd love these! I absolutely love vanilla, it's my flavour shot of choice in coffee, my favourite yoghurt flavour and even my favourite shower gel scent (don't worry I don't eat shower gel!) I don't know how they have done it without affecting the integrity of the texture, but these are unmistakably vanilla flavoured, incredibly strong and stands out, without being over powering.

Super soft and squishy, this is an unusual texture to achieve in gluten free baking. Representative of mainstream versions, this light, foamy, fluffy textured clam shell shaped sponge has the little central rise and a light thin buttery film coating, adding to it's authenticity to the mainstream counterpart.

Perfect for children I think this smaller portioned, light and soft cake would be great for toddlers and those just starting out with food as well as us adults, as they are buttery and melt in the mouth, making them easy to chew as they fall apart beautifully.

I find these are the perfect lunch box treat as they are not too calorific but at the same time really hit the spot when trying to satisfy your sweet tooth.

I would love to know if you have tried these and what you think!

Hannah x

*This product was sent to me to try, all opinions are my own.

Who doesn't like Oreos? I have yet to meet somebody who doesn't like these rich chocolatey biscuits with the white creamy filling. So I 100% know your pain when you are told, or discover you have to transition to a gluten free diet and you see your beloved Oreos walk out of your life! Luckily, more and more people have been trying to produce replica sandwich cookies for us, Udis and Schar have jumped on this in the UK market. When I was looking for the white Oreo style biscuits that I had seen in Yorica! I found Kinnikinnick did both versions, so I thought I'd give them both a go!

Kini-Toos come in very large packs with around 18 biscuits in each. Retailing on Amazon for £5.60, they are no cheaper than the Udis ones gram for gram, but they do come in larger pack so if you are baking, they may be a better option for some recipes. Being free of gluten, egg, dairy and nuts, these biscuits are suitable for vegetarians and vegans alike and so would be perfect for parties and buffets where allergens are an issue as there is none of the major ones in this product!

A recommended portion size is 3 biscuits which works out to be around 150 calories. I have tended to have two as a portion as this way it's a 100 calorie sweet treat, ideal for lunch boxes or throw a in your handbag snack!

Flavour wise and texturally I am not sure how to describe these as they are the same as the Oreos I remember. James eats regular Oreos all the time and agrees that there is barely any difference! Result for us free fromers! The biscuit itself is that hard dry consistency with the rich cocoa flavour and good snap, iconic to the mainstream equivalent. The vivid white thick cream filling is also slightly vanilla flavoured and perfectly portioned to what you would expect.

I think this is a fantastic product and I will certainly buy more if I can find them on Amazon still!

Hannah x

Wow! Who would have thought I'd see the day where I would be a pie person! Before being gluten free I 'disliked' many products that contained gluten from a young age, which ultimately we have found that's because they make me unwell, but at the time I just seemed very fussy! Pies were one thing I would never ever touch, let alone eat. The soggy pastry and thick gravy was something that used to turn my stomach. Until I tried gluten free that is! No.G in particular have mastered the art in pie making in a big way!

Available in Morrisons, Ocado and Sainsbury's, No.G is becoming more widely accessible day by day. Retailing at an average £2.50 with these particular retailers, I agree that it does seem the pricier end of the market but I would so recommend taking the plunge and giving them a go as the quality is outstanding! 

Each pie is 562 calories and 38.8g of fat, 20.1g of them being saturated fat, so certainly not on the diet plan. If you are looking to have a delicious treat, you won't be disappointed as this pie is super packed full of quality ingredients and is very filling.

Comparing this No.G pie to the Genius pies, as they are the only other ones I have tried, they are worlds apart. Most noticeably is the filling, Genius use a lot of gravy in their pies and meat dispersed within this, whereas the meat is packed in the No.G  pie with much less sauce, it also has more than one flavour element, which I haven't seen in any free from pie, more like a traditional pie with combining flavours. No.G reaches that market that just want to be able to find 'normal' food options, just gluten free, rather than plain chicken or steak. It's completely down to personal preference but I find I tend to like pies with more meat, less gravy and with more complex flavour choices as I can always add a sauce or gravy on myself unlike ingredients, which are baked into the pie itself and cannot be added to. The pieces of chicken and bacon are quite large and incredibly flavoursome and tender. Who honestly wants to be searching for the chicken in their pie? Not me!

Texturally the pastry is much harder and crisper than the Genius ones I have tried which tend to be quite soft. I feel that this is down to the drier filling. When taking the pie out of the foil, it was golden and crisp with no soggy bottoms (Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood would be pleased!). Flavour wise this pastry was perfection, No.G have truly mastered the gluten free pastry so well. I have tried some horrendous gluten free pastries in the past but not only are NO.G fantastic for a gluten free pastry, but a fantastic pastry full stop. I would happily feed No.G to my gluten eating Fiancé with no fear he will turn his nose up! (He is quite fussy when it comes to good food!) Slightly crumbly but crisp with a light crunch, this lighter pastry does not feel stodgy or overly dry, like many other free from pastries I have tried. 

Simple to heat up, this pie only needs 15 minutes at gas mark 6 or 35 minutes from frozen. It states it's best eaten hot, but I cooked mine last night whilst cooking dinner and ate it cold for lunch today and the texture and flavours were still beautiful. I cooked mine first though as nowhere on the packing does it say ready to eat, also cooking will alter the texture, so I wanted to try it as recommended. 

I would love to know if I need to try any other of the flavours of this pie or if I have convinced you to give this pie a go! 

Hannah x