Guides

Practical guides to allergy-aware meal planning in the UK.

• The 14 allergens UK food labels must declare

  What UK law requires on the label, where each of the 14 hides, and how to plan meals around them.

• Allergy-friendly family dinners for the school term

  Making term-time dinners boringly reliable, with lunches that come from the leftovers.

• Meal planning when more than one person has a food allergy

  How to cook one dinner the whole household can safely eat when restrictions stack up.

• How to read UK food labels for allergens

  What "may contain" really means, why a vegan label is not a dairy-free label, and the ingredient names that hide an allergen.

• Dairy-free meal planning for UK families

  Where milk hides in a UK shop, which swaps work for which job, and how to feed the whole family from one dairy-free dinner.

• Gluten-free meal planning for coeliac households

  What the 20ppm rule means, where gluten hides in a normal shop, and how to stop cross-contamination in a shared kitchen.