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.

Hope that's a gf

I hope that biscuit is gluten free silveroldie2.

hmmmmm. Well to be honest you should be grateful you get anything on prescription,and free at that.

My son and lots of others have a medical condition called eosinophilic GI disease and get no specialist foods on prescription. Costs a fortune.

I don't see how making a pizza base yourself trashes your kitchen. My 3 yo and I make pizza bases from scratch without a mess. I only have to wipe the counter afterwards which is less trouble than when I make the tomato sauce for the base, I always manage to splatter that everywhere.

Sorry but can't you eat potatoes and rice and buy gluten free pizza fro about £3.00 in all supermarkets?

You get the flour. You could bake your own base.

My boys don't get to eat pizza and get nothing on prescription to make up for the cheese they can't eat.

www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=274056105

Tesco gluten free pizza - £3.25

www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=283814284

Tesco finest pizza - £3.85

What is the issue? Why is your food paid for by the NHS and mine not??? And you are complaining!

Try living in a country doesn't have the NHS OP

DH and I have To just not eat pizza because it isn't available in GF form. We've only seen GF bread this year, it's a shiny new product for this market and only in the bigger supermarkets in or near the capital. So instead of pizza and pasta we eat rice, potatoes and when we fancy cheese and crackers it's crackers made from corn.

Básicaly there is a wealth of foods that are naturally GF, don't cost a fortuna and people can buy their own food. They don't have To ask a Dr for food.

If gluten is the only thing you can't eat then it's easy To eat Well without it once you know what To avoid. And there are lot's of things you can do To save time. Cook a batch of potatoes To reheat when you are home in the evening, ditto meat etc, buy frozen veg for week day meals and use fresh when you have time To do the prep.

Quite a number of the big chains that do takeaway/delivery pizza can supply the toppings on a gluten free base.

Maybe Op could dial in a few on prescription.

Seriously, make pizza bases from the FREE flour or buy them yourselves.

Did you know in England we don't get free prescriptions at all, we just pay for everyone else's!!!

Grrrrrrrrrrr............

My eyesight is so very poor that I get free eye tests. Without correction I wouldn't be able to cross the room, certainly not leave the house.
I get the sum total of £11 towards my glasses from the NHS.

I didn't even think about that Pipbin. Without glasses I wouldn't be able to go out. I can't even see facial expressions when someone is stood in front of me.

Yet my glasses cost an extortionate amount. Not only that but they're that bad I have to pay extra for the thinner lenses because otherwise they're like bottle caps.

And people are complaining about paying a couple of quid extra for the luxury of a pizza, ffs.

if you are getting flour then make your own pizza bases

This! No brainer, surely?!

Food chemistry isn't my strongest point, but I think it's a bit unfair to call the OP a crap cook or stupid because she can't bake with the GF flour.

AFAIA you need gluten to make proper dough. I think the protein makes the dough more elastic or summat. Commercially produced GF food is filled with all kinds of stuff to replace the action of the gluten.

However, that's no excuse why you can't buy your own at Tesco. 3 quid is a fair price for a pizza in these troubled times.

Yes of course the NHS should pay for you to eat pizza, but why stop there? Why don't we get them to send round a maid to cook it for you and wash up after you've finished. Anything else you need? A driver for your commute maybe?

I'm sorry but it makes you sound like a 3 year old child
"Mummy, let me eat pizzaaaaaaa"
wah wah wah

this is not my pizza it's too trashing-the-kitchen-y
this is not my pizza it's too taking-ages-to-make-y
this is not my pizza it's too not-as-yummy-tasting-y

you do have a medical condition and I'm sorry you are struggling.
but that doesn't justify you stomping your feet demanding free pizza bases on da NHS

God some of you are fucking idiots. OP doesn't deserve to have pizza unless she can make the dough?! Do YOU do that? Oh I doubt it, bc that is professional chef level cooking.
OP is quite reasonably asking that she, like most of the population, be able to grab convenient food at a reasonable price.
It IS greed on the part of the supermarkets. A value loaf of bread is 50p. GF bread starts at £2. Much the same for GF pasta.
Sometimes people don't have time, money, facilities or energy to fucking grow their own quinoa.
It may not be ideal but in the real world people grab cheap, convenient food sometimes. People with medical conditions deserve to be able to do so too, currently we can't as said options are scarce and very overpriced. That is discrimination.

A couple of quid a week adds up to more than your glasses, GraysAnatomy.

Are you taking this piss Butterfly? Making pizza is not professional chef level cooking. It's not far up from beans on toast.

my 8 year old made pizza at school on Monday

let me fetch his Michelin stars

Not being a fucking idiot myself, I understand that gluten free foods are manufactured and certified differently to 'regular' foods and that has to be reflected in the cost.
And despite not being a professional chef I can knock up a pizza base.

Shit, knock up? Ooo-er missus etc etc. You know what I meant...

I genuinely don't get the hate towards coeliacs and gluten-intolerant people on here
In case you think it's a middle-class fad. I have been on benefits and had a food budget of pence per day.
GF food is available only in larger supermarkets - I couldn't walk there as health problems including then undiagnosed coeliac made me so ill and didn't have the bus fare.
I convinced myself that being GF was a 'luxury', easy to do when you are ill, hungry, poor and faced with grabbing the reduced price sandwich, value lasagne, etc in my local shop versus travelling and then spending twice as much for food I would be too ill to face cooking anyway.
I made myself really ill. Stomach pains that had me in tears, woke me up at night. Vomiting. Diarrhoea that was so bad it affected my ability to do anything as I had to be within dash of a toilet. Bloating. Exhaustion. Joint pains. My hair began to fall out. Unsurprisingly all this added to my depression.
It is all but impossible to eat GF even vaguely cheaply, slightly healthily and as for convenience (yes I know but some people actually don't have time and energy to make everything from scratch, sowwy).
I am finding a balance I can live with, now. I am healing. I am now employed. I can't grab a pastry on the commute, get a £1 sandwich from the canteen or shops for lunch, share biscuits and cake. I have given in on occasion and spent the rest of the day in the toilets. And felt not right for days. I constantly have to plan my meals carefully to balance my still small budget, time and being vaguely healthy.
Oh and I still don't have a coeliac diagnosis because I couldn't deal with being so ill - you have to eat gluten for 6 weeks before getting tested. I would rather have died.
I WILL punch anyone who pulls the 'GF is a middle-class fad and luxury' 'everyone is GF now, it's fashionable' shit.

Discrimination?????? Right okay then, heard it all now!