to think I should be able to eat pizza

[letmeeatpizza]

Nc. Basically my gp has got very stingy with prescriptions, for years I've been getting pizza bases and crackers for my celiac. But now apparently I can only be given pasta, bread and flour mixes. I know the NHS in Wales has some funding problems but I can't eat normal foods and they are more expensive and I could die if I doNt stick to the diet. I'd be perfectly happy to pay a nominal price of a pound or so a packet so they end up no more expensive than normal stuff but the system isn't in place. So I'm at the mercy of profit driven supermarkets who charge loads because they can.

My mums a coeliac, I've lived with it my whole life.

She prefers my pizza base I make her to the prescription ones. Tastes better. Takes roughly 4 mins as well.

I get that it is frustrating to have your prescribed foods reduced, and yes GF foods are expensive but you have no right to these non essential food items, Don't be so lazy and entitled.

Oh not this again.

No, your pizza shouldn't be paid for by the NHS.

You aren't going to die if you refrain from eating pizza. If you want it that much, you are perfectly capable of buying your own.

Oh and it isn't stingy to stop providing things you don't need, when there's people going without drugs that could potentially save their lives.

You're being stingy for not buying it yourself!

Yabu. You are provided with the ingredients so it's up to you to make them into the food, or pay for your own 'ready' version. I have no problem with basics being given but not luxuries

Another thing about the cauliflower pizza, double over the cloth when squeezing out the water from the cauliflower. I used muslin and it split, firing cauli at my face.

Hmmm I'm not really selling this one am I?

Yabu, be grateful that you are getting prescriptions for something in the first place. Typical example of entitlement.

There are plenty of cauliflower/quinoa pizza recipes on pinterest etc all taste good and quicker/easier/better results than gluten free flours.

I agree it is ridiculous that g/f is so much more expensive.

Yes, YABU.

Pizza is hardly an essential life food.

And I suspect you know that ...

YABU I think the wider range of prescription items were necessary in the past but I don't agree that they need to be provided today.

You are bloody lucky to get food on prescription at all. How ungrateful!

'Firing cauli at my face'

Do you not believe in preventative medicine Chipdip?

She will get terribly ill if she eats gluten. This is not some silly "intolerance". G/f foods are very expensive, but not as expensive as treating someone for the outcomes of being coeliac and continuing to eat gluten.

Easiest I know - just cover some quinoa and soak overnight. Add salt and pepper. Whizz up till sloppy pancake mix. Bake in an oiled tin before adding tomato sauce etc.

Since when has food been preventative medicine? And since when has it been impossible to avoid pizza?

The way I feel at the moment, gin should be available free on prescription.

Yabu. Pizza bases are not vital to maintaining your health. It isn't as though there aren't alternatives.

You don't need to eat pizza or any other "special" gluten free manufactured crap, you could just eat something different that's naturally gluten free and made of real food.

I only rarely eat manufactured gluten free items because gluten free they might be but they contain additives and other grain proteins that I also react to. About 2/3 of coeliacs will cross-react to other proteins in non gluten grains and pseudo-grains, or to the additives used to make these things look and taste like wheat- so these foods may not be as safe as the manufacturers want us to think!

Nobody ever died of a pizza deficiency :)

You sound like an idiot. I'm not celiac, but make pizza dough in the breadmaker (as shop bought bases don't taste good!) and it takes very little time and doesn't trash the kitchen. Surely the principle for gluten free is the same, just with gluten free flour?

Buy a breadmaker - I make pizza dough in mine and there is a delay function so you can time it to finish when you get home. Better than any shop bought

"Turn I made a cauli one tonight. I am now experiencing some digestive distress. Just a warning to others!"

This made me snort. I'm sorry, I know it's cruel but honey, I've been there and my 'experienced' nearly killed my sex life. To this day, DP goes a paler shade of white if I include cauliflower on the online shop.

I've tried to make pizza bases, takes ages, trashes the kitchen and don't taste as good.

So should all crap cooks be given free convenience foods?

Don't Sainsburys do GF pizza bases and GF frozen pizza?

I had a horrendous dairy allergy for ten years. I wasnt so much ill on it, just bright red from head to foot, wanting to scratch my skin off with a wire brush 24/7. No prescriptions for me, i just had to fund my own non dairy diet. Like alot of people i suspect.

You have the GF flour, we make gluten free dough for pizazabases regularly, at our community garden and no kitchens were trashed. I know it is frustrating but taking things too far for comedic effect is not really helping.

You get flour,bread and pasta on prescription ?

m.groceries.asda.com/#item/910001038388

£1.80 for two gf pizza bases.

I've read some ridiculous threads on here but this one takes the .