Gluten Free on the Go, Part 4: Marks & Spencers

Marks & Spencers won The British Sandwich Retailer of the Year 2006, but this doesn't mean that its a bad place for anyone on a GF diet.

For a start all the food there have a 'contains' box, that is very clear and will mention gluten and wheat. It's easy to find and means I don't have to read the teeny tiny ingredients list, brilliant. The website doesn't have much on about their food, so I will just have to tell you what sort of things I eat there.

There are loads of choices, and recipes that another supermarket would have snuck some gluten into, remain simple and untainted. Last week I had a lovely limited edition 'Paella' salad made up of rice salad (no gluten in the dressing!), peppers and nice big prawns, it was nearly £5 though. The salads change a bit, and most are pasta based, but there is a nice salmon and potato salad one, the paella one, a spicy rice one, and some others. All are fresh and tasty. By the vegetables are some small salads in square tubs, these are nice if you grab one of these and then some cold chicken fillets, the Edamame and the Mozzarella ones are both GF and yummy.

Good tubs of fruit, nice smoothies (avoid the 'breakfast ones' if you don't tolerate oats), humous, cold chicken, Spanish tortilla, carrot sticks, dried fruit and nuts, prawn salad, rice pudding, yogurts, gf desserts, and little packaged bits of cheese can all be found at a good M&S. You can put together a great GF picnic style lunch. You just need to stray away from the normal sandwich bit where all the men in suits will be picking their lunch.

As usual you can't eat the sushi because of the soy sauce.

Of course it is pricey, but very yummy and GF friendly.

M&S is my favorite place to stop just before I get on the train home after being in London all day, as I can treat myself to lots of nibbly dibby things to keep me occupied all the way home.

Now I need to make something for tea out of a fridge full of nothing. Thankfully the Sainsbury's order comes tomorrow, I love a fridge full of new food.