Here is a delicious gluten free christmas pudding recipe that is simple to make and is also dairy and nut free. A great festive desert for the eczema sufferer in your life
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Dec 11, 5 Tips To Giving Eczema Friendly Christmas Gifts
Buying presents is pretty stressful. What if your loved one has eczema, what can you get them? Here are 5 tips to giving eczema friendly Christmas gifts
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Nov 22, Allergy Free Christmas Pudding Recipe
If you’re looking for a delicious christmas pudding that doesn’t contain any wheat or dairy, look no further. The link will take you to the December 2014 edition of the Eczema Bulletin. Just scroll down to Tip of the Month to find the recipe and a couple of photos I took of my attempt 
You’ll notice that there is potato in the list of ingredients…don’t let that put you off. Enjoy
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Dec 2, The Run Up To Christmas
Everyday in the run up to Christmas a post will be added to the What Is Eczema? Facebook page. There will be recipes, present ideas, tips and just some little bits of fun. If you’d like to join in just pop over to the Facebook page by clicking on the link. See you over there
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Top Secret Solution to Get Your Cheating Ex Back By Christmas
Your ex cheated and you left in a moment of pain and total relationship devastation. Now that cooler heads, hearts, and minds have had a chance to prevail, all you can think about is how to get your cheating ex back. The thing is you don’t want to waste any a single minute this time around. You want your ex back by Christmas. Keep reading, all the way to the very end, to find out what kind of help Santa needs from you to help check this wish off your Christmas list.
It’s a tall order but Santa has been known to pull a few miracles out of his goody bag. It is the season of miracles after all and this one might take the cake for the average mere mortal. But you’re going to have a little help on your side this time around and you’re going to help yourself a little bit too.
What’s the one critical thing you must do in order to get your cheating ex back by Christmas?
Don’t Panic About How to Get Your Cheating Ex Back by Christmas
Yes, it’s getting close BUT panicking will only lead you to make mistakes that could set your efforts back. Attitude is contagious. When you have an attitude of panic, your ex is sure to pick up on it. You want your ex calm, cool, and having positive happy thoughts not panicky thoughts of flight.
When you start sweating the details you run the risk of turning your ex off before you’ve had a chance to really turn your ex on. Having a positive attitude is crucial if you want to be successful in your attempt to get your ex back. You cannot possibly be thinking positively when you are in full blown panic mode.
How do You Stop Panicking?
Try these neat little tips to help keep you cool, calm, and collected during your campaign to get your Christmas romance heated up.
1) Do something nice for others. This does two things. First, it’s a nice gesture this time of year and good deeds, while their own reward, are often repaid on a Karmic scale. Second, it gives your mind something else to focus on for a while.
2) Visualize what yourself having what you want. When you can actually see the outcome you want clearly in your mind, you’ll feel much more confident that this is the outcome you’ll get. It helps relieve the panic and allows you to see the path you need to take to get that outcome more clearly.
Christmas is the season of miracles. There’s no reason to believe you will not be able to get your ex back by Christmas if you avoid the temptation to panic and maintain a positive attitude about the outcome.
But, you should not do one single thing to try to make this happen until you’ve gotten a little extra help on the side (not that Santa won’t do a good job but sometimes that little extra help can make it even better) from this free video: http://www.getyourexbacknow.com/just_break_up3.html.
Is back to school shopping looking to challenge Christmas?
We had a record breaking year last year for back to school sales; with over 800 billion[1] spent in the US, the back-to-school shopping season accounted for 17% of retail sales for the year. That was both plugged and un-plugged[2]. The experts say we are going to spend even more this year. It breaks down like this; we will spend what we did last year plus about 4% more. That is a whole lot of preparation for education. Continue reading
Lee Westwood scores Christmas No. 1
Lee Westwood scores Christmas No. 1
Lee Westwood will end the year atop the world rankings after storming to victory in the elite 12-man Nedbank Golf Challenge.
And the 37-year-old ended his final round in style, chipping in for a birdie on the 18th to card a 68 and finish 17-under par, eight shots clear of home favourite Tim Clark.
Westwood sank five birdies on his way to the £792,000 (taylormade r7 cgb max driver) first prize and will join the winner of The X-Factor as Christmas number one, despite Tiger Woods’ best efforts in California.
Retief Goosen shot an impressive 68 to tie for third with Miguel Angel Jimenez at eight-under, while Ernie Els’ was three shots back to ensure there were three South Africans in the top five.
“I think that’s the first time I’ve chipped in all year,” he said. “It’s what you call a grandstand finish. It was a good time to do it.”
Els was joined on five-under by Ross Fisher, whose final-round 75 dropped him out of contention. Defending champion Robert Allenby and Padraig Harrington finished at three-under.
But this was the Lee Westwood show, and the Englishman’s stunning chip from (taylormade cgb max driver) well off the 18th green at the Gary Player Country Club provided a fitting finale to a week in which he showed exactly why he is now rated the best golfer on the planet.
The Nottinghamshire man went into the Sun City even knowing if he finished outside the top two, Woods could retain the world number one spot with victory at Thousand Oaks.
But Westwood did not give Woods a look-in, shooting three rounds in the sixties to make sure he was always in contention.
“I’ve been playing here for 15 years and it’s something I’ve always wanted to win,” he added. “The finish was tough and I was just pleased to get it done in the end (taylormade burner superlaunch irons).”
Final Leaderboard
-17 L Westwood (68, 64, 71, 68)
-9 T Clark (73, 67, 68, 71)
-8 R Goosen (72, 70, 70, 68); MA Jimenez (69, 69, 71, 71)
-5 R Fisher (67, 68, 73, 75); E Els (71, 68, 71, 73)
-3 R Allenby (70, 70, 73, 72); P Harrington (66, 72, 72, 75)
-2 A Hansen (72, 70, 68, 76); J Rose (70, 72, 72, 72)
-1 E Molinari (71, 67, 73, 76)
+2 L Oosthuizen (71, 73, 72, 74)
Managing Eczema and Allergies at Christmas.
Most of us are absolutely used to the everyday differences that eczema or allergies can bring to family life. But it’s very tricky at Christmas time to manage it all, for lots of reasons. We might be away from our own home, and creature comforts. There may be new environmental hazards that we can’t control. We don’t have every treatment or potion right at hand.
We have also had to manage parties and events where children (and adults) are affected by other allergies than those that we are familiar with. So, I thought it would be useful to put together a Christmas checklist of all the things we should check before hosting a family Christmas. Useful for visitors and hosts alike I hope.
Get Togethers
- If there are severe food allergies, it’s worth warning everyone in advance – for instance a short note to everyone explaining the allergy and its severity along with any absolute MUSTS, such as please don’t eat peanuts before our event
- If you are hosting someone with food allergies, find out what is and what’s not okay – people are usually very happy to bring their own food if there’s something that wont suit them, but hang back from doing so as it can be embarrassing.
- It may be that although someone can’t eat something, it’s okay for them to be in a room with it. But this needs checking as it will depend on the severity of the allergy.
- Is there a pet allergy? Will family/friends mind shutting the pet in a separate part of the house for the duration of the visit?
Gifts
I appreciate that this is a hard one, as no-one wants to appear grabby, but I know that our family not only want to give gifts to the girls, they want them to be good ones that they will enjoy, so they do appreciate a little guidance.
- Avoid anything but natural fibres if you are buying clothes or textiles for people affected by eczema or skin allergies.
- Don’t buy perfumes, soaps, cosmetics, bubble baths, face paints or lip-balms for people with eczema.
- Clays and crafts can also be allergens – these are probably worth just checking with the parent.
- Foods, especially high sugar or very processed food are often not good for children with eczema and very difficult for a parent to take away.
- Avoid selection boxes, chocolate boxes or chocolate ornaments for people with food allergies – any sniff of a nut in there for someone with a nut allergy, and their Christmas is all over.
Decorations
We all love to make our house ‘Christmassy’ but this can be a minefield for someone with severe allergies. Be careful with:
- Natural table decorations which may include nuts seeds and other allergens. I know some us are even allergic to pine…
- Check before using plug in perfumes or diffusers
- Check before using any sprayable decoration, such as window ‘snow’.
Just in case
- Make sure your medical kit is well stocked and includes an antihistamine
- Double check that you’ve packed 2 epipens.
Lemon drizzle spiced bundt Christmas cakes – low fodmap
When baking with gluten free flour the recipes are improved by a ‘drizzle’- to add moisture to the cake. Plus, for this special time of year, I have used best butter! Yes – B…U…T…T…E…R you heard that right . Consumed once a year in the Thompson household but it is really worth it for Christmas as butter does make a difference to the flavour of these cakes. These are special cakes for Christmas eve supper.
Ingredients
130g caster sugar
45g brown sugar
2 heaped teaspoons powdered ginger
1/2 teaspoon mixed spice
175g of best butter
220g gluten free self raising flour
3 eggs
3 tablespoons table sugar
2 tablespoons of lemon juice and 2 tablespoons of water
Cream together the butter and sugar till the mix is pale. Add each egg and beat the mixture well in between adding the eggs. If the mix appears to separate add a tablespoon of flour. When all the ‘wet’ ingredients have been added slowly fold in the flour and spices. Using a greased bundt tin add the mixture and cook in a moderate oven for approximately 30 minutes.
Add the lemon juice, water and sugar to a pan and dissolve. Remove the cakes and whilst still warm drizzle the cake well. Serve.
Serves 6 depending on the size of baking tin. You can make a ring of the houses like a traditional bundt and fill the centre with treats, if you wish.
Finally it’s snowing heavily at the bundt village – but not too much to spoil the fun!
Chicken liver and rosemary stuffing – low fodmap Christmas recipes
Sage and onion stuffing is a classic accompaniment to Christmas dinner, however for people following a low fodmap diet this is not an option because it does contain lots of onion. Perhaps this recipe might be a good alternative and uses up some of the parts of meat that often go to waste, such as liver. I do save gluten free bread to freeze when I have the odd slice, or perhaps the bread crumbles because it is a little stale. Although freezing and reheating can increase the resistant starch content. Most people who get improvements on the low fodmap diet don’t seem to have problems with resistant starches – but if resistant starch does affect you, it might be better to use fresh breadcrumbs and only have a small piece, perhaps.
Serves 8
Ingredients
1 pack of chicken livers
1 tablespoon of garlic infused oil
1 teaspoon of asafoetida
100g of celeriac (gives a flavour of celery)
100g of chopped white cabbage
200g of gluten free breadcrumbs
4 sprigs of fresh rosemary.
Salt to flavour
Method
Trim the chicken livers (remove the tougher membrane that runs between the livers lobes). Add oil to the pan and fry the asafoetida and livers till cooked. Process the cabbage, rosemary and celeriac till a fine texture is achieved and then add the cooked liver and gluten free breadcrumbs. Process till smooth. Add to a loaf tin and cook for 1 hour at gas mark 5 or you could make stuffing balls or sausages depending on your preference but his will affect the cooking time. This stuffing tastes between a stuffing and pate and goes particularly well with Turkey.
I do not put my stuffing mix in the turkey body as this will not reach the temperature needed to cook either the stuffing or the turkey. Do take care when cooking Christmas lunch – do not wash the turkey and ensure any juices from the turkey run clear. Prevention of food poisoning during the festive season is really important!
