[Barrie Yates]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

What is your stance on those who require PEG Feeds? That is also prescribed food......and what about the nourishment drinks provided(on prescription) to Cancer sufferers, who become malnourished because of a sore mouth due to chemo....or who just can't face solid food.......should they too be paying for their food.
What about hospital in patients too....should a fee be levied because thay are eating whilst in hospital(after all they would be buying this food at home....so aren't they getting something for nothing?).
Neil, I am not having a go at you, I'm not being facetious or nasty........I am just putting these points to you, to ask where do we draw the line?

I know life is not impossible without the staple foods that wheat provides, but it is a lot less pleasant and harder to manage.

Why don't you try a month of no wheat products and see how hard it is.....no pasta(pasta is healthy isn't it - yes unless you are coeliac) no bread, no cake, no biscuits, no food that contains wheat based thickeners...so any casseroles stews would be runny and thin(unless you used potato starch) and look unappetizing......and as for desserts well, your choice would be strictly limited.

I do not begrudge coeliacs getting whatever help they can, to improve their lives....their condition is lifelong, it is not self induced.
I do however, begrudge the money given to alcoholics and drug addicts.....they get help with their conditions despite the fact that contributed to their ill health.

Very nicely put Margaret - one does need to experience the results of a coeliac esating food containing gluten - even a breacrumb can trigger a serious reaction - I have never cleaned my teeth as often as I do now.