The Coeliacs Association of Catalonia celebrates the International Coeliacs Day

The Coeliacs Association of Catalonia celebrates the International Coeliacs Day

Any plans for this Sunday? The Coeliacs Association of Catalonia organizes acts to commemorate the International Coeliacs Day. If you are coeliac and you are near Barcelona, feel free to join us in this special occasion. It will be a great day full of gluten free food and many activities for young people and families: show cooking, workshops, beer tasting, a zumba session and much more!

Place: Paseo Marítimo of Sant Adrià, Barcelona. We will be waiting for you on May 13th from 10am with lots of good vibes!

Here you can check the program. 😉

Birthday party, gluten free cake!

Whether you suffer from coeliac disease or you know someone suffering any other intolerance,  you would know how difficult it is to get over some common situations like the office party or your child’s birthday.

But being gluten-free doesn’t mean you have to miss out. There are more and more gluten free cakes now available at the supermarket or specific gluten free bakeries.

If you don’t find one, make it gluten free! you will find plenty of recipes on Internet. 

Don’t forget your coeliac colleague

Sometimes it’s hard being alone with dietary restrictions, and celiacs can feel cut off from their gluten-eating friends and coworkers. To connect with your colleagues at work we give you some tips:

  1. Try to explain to your colleagues what the celiac disease means.
  2. Don’t get mad if they often forget about you, keep calm and try to raise awareness about the situation.
  3. Cook gluten free sweets for everyone so you can prove how good it is.
  4. If it still hard to manage the situation, bring your own gluten-free food with you so you can avoid cross-contamination and eliminate the temptation to stray from the gluten-free diet.

With some planning and practice, while maintaining open communication with those around you about your condition, it will get easier.

Watch the video and tell us: Have you ever lived a similar situation? How’s it at work?

Which ways do you use to raise awareness about gluten free diet at work?

Christmas Events Situations by Coeliacs

Christmas is coming… which means that

Coeliac people has to face many

”interesting” situations during these days.

Check the following link and share with us how do you manage your Christmas’ events?

Do your friends concern about the food? Is everyone giving you priority to choose the place? Is your family preparing special gluten free meals?

Is your Easter chocolate egg gluten free?

Easter is coming and … now there are loads of gluten free chocolate eggs!

You could choose from a huge variety of Easter eggs and Easter chocolates lots are suitable for your gluten free diet.

Please remember check that “gluten free” is written on your chocolate egg or chocolate bunny, or look in your national association’s guide.

You can find all the European associations’ websites and contacts here in the AOECS’ website.

The CYE wishes you all a happy and gluten free Easter 🙂

New editorial team

Hello!

At the CYE conference in Slovenia this fall we elected a new editorial team for Beat the Wheat, consisting of Mirjam Eiswirth as Editor in Chief, Emilia Serlachius as Editor and Marvin Müller as graphic designer. We would like to thank the past Editorial Team for their work. As a thank you for their involvement, the CYE Youth Committee presented them with newly designed glutenfree-themed mugs – see the picture. We are very happy to continue the tradition of the CYE Bulletin and look forward to many interesting issues. Next up is a Christmas and winter themed issue. If any of you have an interesting personal story, recipe or travel guide related to the themes, please send it to editors.beat.the.wheat@gmail.com by the 20th of October. All contributions are appreciated! The text should be in English and include any some fitting pictures.

//Editorial team

Cup given to the past editorial team as a “thank you” for their work.