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.

link here www.wheat-freebakerydirect.com/

they also have a fb page where they advertise the offeres/free delivery/new products etc

Sirzy, I did think it was odd if asthma was the only one and did mean to put that. Thank you for correcting me.

Get a grip, OP. Learn to cook with what you have, and stop being so ridiculously dramatic.

I can't get over the fact that making dough is a professional chef skill
So ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as being too busy to make it. It takes me twice as long to walk to the corner shop to buy bread than to throw some flour and water in the breadmaker and come home in the evening to fresh bread without additives. Come on, even David Cameron manages it, apparently , it can't be that difficult

breadmakers are certainly easy but not everyone can afford one in the first place. Last time I looked the ones with special GF programmes were the more expensive brands.

But back to pizza bases - a cup of flour and a cup of plain yogurt, mixed together - how is this hard or messy????? You can make the dough in the time it takes to boil the kettle when you get in from work!

I think OP is one of those sad "poor old meeeeee, life is so unfaaair" types. Just get on with it and apprecaite what you do have and can do. HAving to be GF is not the end of the world and does not entitle one to behave like a spoilt whingey brat.

You're right op, it would be nice to get gf pizza bases for free.

Just as it would be nice for people with poor eyesight to get glasses for free, people with bad backs to see the osteopath for free, people with frizzy hair to get free conditioner... I could go on and on and probably include the vast majority of the population with something that they have to pay for that the next person has no problems with.

Unfortunately the nhs is a finite amount of money, I would far rather they spent their money elsewhere.

Yabu.

I am actually amazed that you get some foods for free. That's incredibly generous in times of austerity. Can you not use some of the money you save from getting free stuff to spend in pizza?

DH and I both work fulltime and do a 140km round trip every day.

I still make my own pizza bases. It takes 5 minutes to throw it together, it rises without any intervention from me, and the only mess in the kitchen is a single bowl. From that, I get one base to cook and eat that night and 3 to throw in the freezer.

I'm diabetic. Should I get diabetic chocolate for free?

The NHS will be in a deficit of £60 billion by 2025. There really isn't the money.

I never heard of cauliflower crust pizza before today
Thank you very much
Just made one and ate it
GORGEOUS

YABVU. If you get flour then there's no way they should be paying for pizza bases too anyway. It's actually quite ridiculous you were ever given them.

I have to travel first class because I break out in hives at the thought of being surrounded by plebs and hoi polloi. but will the NHS pay for my tickets to spare me the agony?

No. It will not. They'd rather see me suffer. sob

First biscuits, now pizza! Lions, tigers and bears! YABU.

Yabvu

I suffer with chronic asthma and silent attacks where my lungs literally become paralysed. I have stopped breathing daily for years including having to be resuscitated whilst under a general anaesthetic and yet I have to pay a small fortune for the drugs I needs to take to keep me alive - it's gluten intolerance bot cancer so stop being so self absorbed. it won't kill you. it won't hurt you to make a pizza base yourself. I suggest you get a grip

Buy gluten free tortilla wraps - make amazing pizza bases and healthy too. Keep in freezer and take out when you need them then return unused ones to freezer.
Loraine Pascal has a recipe if you need it but basically use like normal base then cook for 9 mins

I'm utterly shocked that pizza bases are ever given on prescription, what a bloody waste of money!!! I can't eat dairy and it's never even occurred to me to do anything other than buy (more expensive) alternatives, or do without!

Is this an 'AIBU?' with a unanimous response?!

How can you trash your kitchen with a pizza base?

Love the utter shock from some that medical foods are available on prescription!

For coeliac and non-coeliac gluten sensitivity the argument is that there is now such a huge range of products easily available in supermarkets that it's not efficient to get them on prescription. Indeed, it's more expensive on prescription. As posters have pointed out you can easily buy gluten free pizza bases in sainsbury's or online (if necessary).

Some people with various inborn errors of metabolism require special medical foods, which they can get on prescription. They can also get a range of foods that some would consider luxuries, but that are required to ensure compliance with incredibly restricted diets. And no, going off diet wouldn't be life threatening for some of these people (for some it is), but it would result in brain damage and a much bigger cost to the NHS.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think genuine coeliac disease can cause extreme health problems if left untreated.

Pizza base is not a medical necessity, nobody ever died from not being able to eat pizza

To ensure compliance with a strictly controlled diet it is important to have a range of foods available. Diet must be as "normal" as possible.

Remember coeliac disease is vastly different to the hoards who think they might have a gluten sensitivity. (Although we thank those hoards for creating the demand for the various free-from supermarket foods!)

Indomitable yes it can. Very severe problems if not found and an appropriate diet followed. It doesn't however follow that pizza should be available on prescription.

Madness. I can't digest wheat. So I eat other stuff. Expecting a government body to sort that out for me is incomprehensible.

I think the solution is not to provide items of food (and thereby encourage dependence) but to give coeliacs and their families the tools to make their own gluten free alternatives. Rather than giving out free food, the NHS could fund coeliacs/their families to access specialist gluten free cooking/food preparation classes or tutorials.

Where is the personal responsibility here? If you can't digest gluten - find out for yourself how to obtain/cook alternatives. Don't expect the NHS to sort it out for you! (I say this as someone with metabolic problems of my own meaning I cannot digest certain foods easily, I have never expected anyone to sort it all out for me)

Fascicle - the nhs is not a bottomless pot of money.
You can find out how to make a pizza base on you tube.
'Sorry we can't send an ambulance for your child, we've spent all our money running basic cooking classes' for example.