Spacemaking a coeliac-friendly kitchen - Tip 3

In Ireland and the UK, it is believed 1 in 100 people have coeliac disease. When you have a person with coeliac disease in your household, designing the layout of a kitchen requires some extra thought. My son, who is nearly 16, was diagnosed with coeliac when he was 18 months old. I’ve moved house 6 times since then so I’ve made all the mistakes and learned the lessons on the best ways to layout a kitchen and combat the stress of preventing cross-contamination and ensuring healthy family members!

So here are my TOP TIPS

for organising a

coeliac-friendly kitchen!

Tip 3

Reserve your bottom freezer drawer for gluten, not meat

Traditional advice says to keep raw meat in the bottom drawer of your freezer for obvious reasons. However, the risk of leakage is relatively small. It is usually well sealed in packaging and the bottom of the next drawer up will often be a solid drawer anyway so would hold most small leakages.

Breadcrumbs however are another beast entirely! The bottom of my freezer is covered in breadcrumbs. So let gravity do its work. Breadcrumbs can harmlessly fall to the bottom of the freezer, without contaminating any products below it. Simple but effective.

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