Product updates
Products
change constantly. These updates apply to the shopping lists in any of the Fed
Up books and the Failsafe Cookbook. We try to make sure the products below are
failsafe but there will always be butchers’ assistants who add natural
ingredients (onion salt, paprika for colour) trying to make the product
“better”. It is worth checking ingredients before you buy or if you see a
reaction.
**** WARNING**** Products can have different
ingredients depending on the wrapper, e.g. Pampas frozen puff pastry in sheets
is preservative-free but rolls contain preservatives, Schweppes lemonade in
bottles is preservative-free but cans contain preservatives.
Mention
here is not an endorsement of any particular food or company, nor, obviously,
is there any fee paid or collected. It’s here to help you.
You
are welcome to contribute to this page - please email me on suedengate@ozemail.com.au and let me
know if you want your name to appear as well. My mailing address is PO Box 718
WOOLGOOLGA NSW 2456
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Current updates as at September 2008 Note
that this information will be incorporated into the categories below on a
quarterly basis. Scroll down below this box for a table of bookmarks
organized by food category. NEW: at last, an RPA
recommended vitamin supplement for children: Orthoplex Children's Formula,
see http://www.b2bworld.com.au/hp/category77_1.htm
NEW: NEW: Banjo’s bread now has
a wide range of failsafe alternatives after consultation with FIN http://www.banjos.com.au/. NEW: Dominion Sweets
natural Marshmallows at ALDI - Ingredients: Sugar, Glucose Syrup (from
Wheat), Water, Maize Starch, Gelatine, Natural Vanilla Flavour, Natural
colour (beet red), Natural Raspberry Flavour. Obviously you eat the white
(vanilla) ones and avoid the red (raspberry and therefore salicylates)
ones. We have received numerous
reports of reactions – enough to ruin the diet – from people eating white
marshmallows from the Pascall’s artificially colour mixed pink and white
packets but these seem to be OK –
thanks to Kathleen NEW: You'll Love Coles
brand Potato chips are failsafe – there are no hidden antioxidants in the oil
– thanks to Sandra NEW: Altimate foods
mini-cones contain no hidden antioxidants and are therefore failsafe – thanks to Anne **Product warning: Oats for coeliacs –
international studies suggest that oats can be tolerated as part of a gluten
free diet by the majority of coeliacs as long as the oats are not
contaminated by wheat, barley or rye.
However, some coeliacs may be affected by contamination-free oats.
According to the Coeliac Society in **Product Warning: Tortillas ‘Beware,
most brands of Tortillas (in the Mexican food section of supermarket) have
282 in them’ – thanks to Vanessa **Product Warning: LCMs (Kelloggs Rice
Bubble treats formerly recommended by RPA) now contain antioxidant 320 – not
failsafe - thanks to Anne **Product Warning: ’You'll Love Coles’ Pears
Snack Pack now contains has concentrated Pear Juice instead of syrup so is no
longer failsafe. - thanks to Jen from
FinM **Product Warning: Fluoride tablets
recommended by your dentist may contain artificial colour sunset yellow
(110), unlisted on the label because pharmaceuticals do not have to list all
ingredients. If you ask the manufacturer they are likely to tell you the
colour is CI 15985. This is another name for colour 110. **Product Warning: ‘Natural vanilla
flavour’ may contain preservative 211 (sodium benzoate) under the five per
cent labelling loophole. Not all vanilla flavours contain this additive. You
can phone the manufacturer and ask. RPA recommends no more than two drops per
day of vanilla flavour due to salicylates. Chemically there's no difference
between vanilla and vanillin (artificial vanilla).The main problem the size
of the dose – because vanillin is cheaper it is often used in larger amounts.
When diet isn’t working, it is best to avoid commercial vanilla flavoured
products. Update: Dairy Reminder: Bakers Delight white
iced finger buns - these have to be ordered without the ‘spicewash’ which
contains salicylates. – thanks to
Debbie The Small Food Caterers in No longer available: Natural confectionery
company natural soft drinks - which were additive-free but not OK for
salicylate intolerant people - have been taken off the market. ‘They were
great for parties for my son, and the odd treat - but now there doesn’t seem
to be any other failsafe alternative (apart from home made lemonade). It’s a
shame that products like fanta can stay on the market with their chemical
cocktail but natural ones just don’t sell as much.- thank to Julie Butcher in Bushs Meats at Rouse Hill
Town Centre stock FAILSAFE sausages both beef and chicken and are
endeavouring to get rissoles and chicken schnitzels from Jo at A Cut Above at
Beecroft. He is also intending on
making marinades and stocks in the next month or so.- thanks to Nicolle Butcher in Miranda Butcher in Belconnen
Canberra: Eco meats, Shop 41 Belconnen Markets Lathlain St Belconnen ACT
2617 ph: (02) 6251 9018. All their sausages have only cornflour, no other
additives, and they can do varying flavours for you. Their sausage mince is
also preservative free just make sure you preorder it to ensure it doesn’t
have any herbed varieties in it. –
thanks to Sarah Butcher in Butcher in Brisbane
update
- Rode Meats, Chermside West (QLD) now make and sell failsafe sausages fresh
(not frozen), as they make them 4 times a week. The butcher told me that they
sell over 40kg per week! They are now $9.95/kg. The chicken sausages need to
be ordered specially and purchased in minimum lots of about 4kg. Thanks so
much for all of your work. – thanks to
Jane Butcher in Butcher in Tumut - Kevin, at Thermomix feedback. I bought my
Thermomix about 6 months ago and absolutely love it ... and it is certainly
making failsafe easier. So far today I have used it to make pear smoothie for
morning tea, process everything (all at once including eggs) for the veggie
hater frittata for lunch (which my veggie hating 3yr old loved), and for
afternoon tea have used it to make the pikelet mix. Tonight I will mince then
cook the meat in it. Fantastic. I leave it on the benchtop as it is used so
often and is so easy. I love your cookbook. Very easy to use and yummy
results. – thanks to Nichola Soapnuts – billed as
economical, allergy friendly and environmentally friendly, these nuts from an
Indian tree (sapindus mukorossi) contain saponin, a natural soap. Just pop
6-8 shells into a cotton bag (provided) and place in your washing machine.
They clean effectively however will not fragrance your laundry. www.soapinanutshell.com.au.
Recommended by a failsafer, thanks to
Sue H. Makeup hints from a
failsafe dancer with severe eczema: a mineral foundation, eye shadow and rouge
from www.labreni.com.au, mascara from www.ereperez.com, and a great red
lipstick that doesn't make lips go puffy from hemp organics
www.colorganics.net – thanks to Cathy Sunscreen: ’RPAH info says to
avoid PABA (p-amino benzoic acid) in sunscreen and lists the following:
Sunsense low irritant & Toddler milk (EGO), Hamiltons, No Frills, Soul Pattinson's
Ultrablock’ – thanks to Mandy Zinc supplement update: Twin Laboratories
failsafe zinc you recommended - found an alternative supplier iHerb who ship
to In the How to buy fresh meat in the USA: a reader
tells us that to buy fresh ‘carcass beef’ from Fiesta Mart stores in the
Houston, Austin and Dallas/Fort Worth
areas, you would need to contact the butcher at your store and ask
specifically to have your meat cut from fresh carcass beef. You can ask for
the ‘kill date’ to know how fresh the meat is, and you can also find out
which day the butcher receives carcass shipments. ‘Box meat’ can be considered fresh and
still be three months old. – thanks to a failsafer from In the Lemonade: Schweppes regular
lemonade here is not failsafe due to preservative 202 whereas 7Up in the Shallots (as shown on the DVD)
are called by different names in A2 Milk: A2 milk is not
available in the Cravendale milk - Report from a Note
that the information above will be incorporated into the categories below on
a quarterly basis. Scroll down below this box for a table of bookmarks
organized by food category. |
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A useful simple shopping
list
typed out from Fed Up by a grateful mother – thanks Sheree – see www.fedupwithfoodadditives.info/information/Failsafe_Shopping_List.pdf
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A useful weekly shopping
list blank with list of additives to avoid and cutaway section on the bottom
for meals this week - see www.fedupwithfoodadditives.info\extras\FoodAdditivesshoppinglist1.pdf - thanks to Matthew.
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Nasty additives cards can be purchased
(laminated, fluorescent green, or celloglazed) in business card shapes, handy
to fit into the wallet or business card holder from The Discount Vitamin
Centre, 02 8850 6066, Shop 407, Level 4, Castle Towers, Castle Hill NSW
2154, and In Harmony Health Foods, Phone Number 02 968 8679, Shop 59
Stockland Mall, Baulkham Hills NSW 2153.
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Eatingsafe website with food labels you can read at home makes
shopping easier: www.eatingsafe.com - thanks to
General comments
Please do
not use this information as a means of
starting failsafe eating until you have read any one of Sue Dengate's books or
seen a dietitian.
For the NZ
shopping list, contact "Robin Fisher" robinfisher@xtra.co.nz. See short UK list. For USA readers, see a short list of foods recommended by
Antioxidant
warning: any product containing any form of vegetable oil may
contain unlisted antioxidants. While antioxidants 304-306 (tocopherols) are
failsafe, 310-312 (gallates) or 319-321 (TBHQ, BHA, BHT) are not! Often the
only way to find out which antioxidants are used in fats and oils is to phone
the supplier, and even then, they can give you the wrong answer. I know this is
outrageous! We are lobbying FSANZ to have the 5% labelling loophole closed with
respect to antioxidants. The more consumers who phone hotlines on this issue,
the more awareness there will be of this issue.
Antidote (1)
Soda bicarb hint: “Some of us have been making our own capsules using clear
gelatine and filling them with bicarb - good for kids who refuse the bath or
the cordial !! “
Antidote (2)
Eno sparkling antacid powder, regular (ingredients: sodium bicarbonate, sodium
carbonate, citric acid – read the label carefully, ingredients can vary) is
failsafe and pleasant tasting. Because of the combination of acid and base, it
would not be as effective as soda bicarb alone, so you would need to take more
to achieve the same effect, according to our food technologist. The only catch
with this is a higher sodium intake.
(Nov 07)
Antidote (3) Sodibic capsules each containing sodium bicarbonate 840mg are
marketed as a convenient purse size urinary alkaliser/antacid. Failsafers say
they are a portable way to take soda bicarb as a food intolerance antidote -
thanks to Anne.
Biscuits (crackers and cookies)
Vegetables
Parsley has
been upgraded to moderate in salicylates. Use only for colour, not for flavour.
Green peas
have been upgraded to moderate in glutamates.
Potato
products such as oven fry frozen chips, fries, hash browns and wedges will
almost certainly contain unlisted antioxidants (see antioxidant warning above).
The entire McCains range including Healthy Choice now contains unlisted BHA
(320), likewise
*** WARNING*** Arnott’s
French Fries - a
failsafer reports: I allowed my son to have the Arnott's French Fries which
claim to be additive free. Well, he was very hyper the next day. Other
failsafers have had similar problems and the Hotline gives conflicting reports
so they must contain antioxidants.- Karen H
Frozen chips Woolworths
Homebrand straight-cut chips and Woolworth Select French Fries are failsafe
(potatoes, sunflower oil, citric acid as antioxidant, processing aids are
sodium pyrophosphate (E450i) and antifoam). Unlike the McCains range, there are
no unlisted synthetic antioxidants.
Heinz and
Gerber baby pear puree are not failsafe because they contain pear peel. BabyNat
organic baby pear is failsafe but hard to obtain (more details from the
failsafebaby group, "Jenny De Carli" jdecarli@optusnet.com.au). Avoid
Nashi pears.
Great Lakes
tinned Pear Halves in Light Syrup from
Pears in syrup: Coles have
just introduced their own brand of pears in syrup. Thanks to Jennifer Berthold
Cheap
canned pears, tinned halves or quarters in syrup, are available from the SPC
Ardmona Factory Sales in Mooroopna, near
Dried whole
preservative-free bananas are ideal for lunchboxes and snacks, but only if you
have passed your amine challenge. Available from Carobana along with
additive-free honeycomb, carob coated honeycomb, honeycomb chips (suitable for
mixing with icecream), carob coated whole dried bananas, carob coated banana
pieces and raw cashew nut brittle, on the highway north of Coffs Harbour or by mail order from www.carobana.com.au.
Dried pears
from Bega Dried Foods,
Dried
pears:
Dried
mangoes (moderate in salicylates): www.kakadudriedfruits.com.au
has a range of dried fruits – none of which contain any preservatives or
additives of any kind.
Dried fruit from Woolworths: Lion of
Sahara Crispy Fruit is freeze dried mango (contains salicylates) and banana
(contains amines) free from sulphites and other preservatives in the dried fruit
section of Woolworths, BUT make sure that you get the freeze-dried product, as
their ordinary product contains sulphites!
The dried bananas are good for amine challenge or people who have passed
their amine challenge. If you would like to see this company doing dried pears
with no added flavour, email sara@fmpmarketing.com.au
Totally
Pure Fruits freeze-dried pears from health food stores or phone Bio-Dynamic
Marketing 03 5966 7370
Kiwifruit:
NZ failsafers report that the new yellow kiwifruit ‘kiwifruit gold’ seem to be
milder and lower (but not low) in salicylates than the familiar green variety -
thanks to Robin Fisher.
Peaches:
the low chill peaches grown around
Fresh pasta may contain sulphites.
Fantastic Long Life Noodles (Wide or Thin)
and Fantastic Dried Noodles - Thin, are only made from Wheat Flour and Salt but
the Instant Fantastic Noodles (just like 2 minute noodles) are not failsafe
because of an unlisted non-failsafe antioxidant (319). Fantastic rice noodles
are failsafe. Rice – avoid flavoured rice such as jasmine and basmati
(salicylates). Rice flour – see gluten free flours.
Doongara rice cooks in 12 minutes and has
a considerably lower Glycemic Index than other brands, meaning it is filling
for longer and assists with weight loss. An unflavoured, unperfumed white rice,
it also appears to be low in salicylates.
Avoid propionate preservatives (280-283),
vinegar, whey powder in bread, antioxidants in oil (see warning at top of
page), honey, fruit, most seeds and other nonfailsafe ingredients
The removal of 282 from Tip Top and Mighty
Soft breads is a step in the right direction because large numbers of children
will no longer be forced to eat calcium propionate every day. However, vinegar
will be used instead which means that
these brands are still not failsafe (although in an emergency they will be more
acceptable) and we still recommend Brumbys and Bakers Delight failsafe breads.
Brumbys
and Bakers Delight plain breads are failsafe.
Franchisees are supposed to use failsafe oils and most are OK but if you are
having problems it is worth checking for antioxidants in the oil. Poppy-seeds
are failsafe, other seeds such as sesame, nigella and sunflower are not. There
are numerous small bakeries which pride themselves on being preservative-free –
look locally and ask to see their oil containers. Preservative-free breads such
as Helgas and Noble Rise which are preserved with vinegar are not failsafe.
Mountain Bread wraps (wheat flour, salt, water) are failsafe and available in many
supermarkets. Country Life Bakery, Demeter products and Jakk’s Bagels are
failsafe. Bread in large supermarkets can be mislabeled. If in doubt, avoid it.
Iced
finger buns – at Brumby’s, order white fondant
icing with no coconut or topping. Bakers Delight Finger Buns are free from
Additives 320, 310 & 160b – ingredients are Wheat Flour, Water, Sugar,
Vegetable Oil: (Soya Bean), Yeast, Salt, Flavour, Emulsifiers (481), Flour
Treatment Agents (516, 300), Soy Flour, Enzyme (Amylase), Vitamins: [Thiamine, Folic
Acid], Antioxidant (E307), Antifoam (900).
***WARNING
Pizza bases – McCains Healthy Choice contains
unlisted BHA(320) as probably others do, see antioxidant warning above.
In
Breadcrumbs: All commercial breadcrumbs and crumbed
products contain preservative 282. Orgran All purpose Wheat free gluten-free
Crumbs are made from 100% toasted rice and are preservative 282-free.
Bakery in Strathalbyn, SA: Pestkas use the Laucke flour mix, so the plain
breads are failsafe. Thanks to Helen Sweet
(Sep 07) GOOD
NEWS Laucke’s Easy Bakers Gluten Free mixes: as soon as Laucke’s discovered
their gluten-free bread mixes contained a non-failsafe oil, they sourced an
alternative oil containing natural antioxidant (306). This will be in products
with a Best Before date from June 2008. Note that the oil containing 320 was
never used in Laucke’s wheat-based products (they don’t contain any vegetable
oil). Readers say the Laucke’s gf bread is excellent. Thanks to Tanya and Lodzia
(Sep 07) ***WARNING Some Country Life rye breads now list
vinegar and are no longer failsafe. Read all labels. Thanks to D’anah and
Michael
(Nov 07) Gluten-free
bakery in
(Nov 2007) ***Warning*** possible unlisted BHA in Gluten-Free Bread:
a failsafer has written that Country Life Rice Bread contains antioxidant
(320), unlisted under the 5% labelling loophole. This is not yet confirmed.
Bellamy’s organic baby rice cereal and
Bellamy’s organic baby oatmeal are failsafe. Avoid avoid other brands of baby
rice cereal (or at least read the ingredients list first).
(Jun 07) Low gluten oats: Freedom Foods
Contamination-free Quick Oats Porridge - “produced on farms where contamination-free
oats is the only cereal produced”, seeds are tested for contamination;
machinery and silos are not used for other cereals; manufacturing is carried
out at facilities that only handle oats; machinery and storage areas are
cleaned down before use from previous oat manufacturing; tested with a test
that will detect gluten contamination down to 5 parts per million. Available in
Coles supermarkets - thanks to Lone. These oats are likely to be OK for all but
for the most sensitive. Coeliacs might want to consult their doctor, see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17327936&query_hl=7&itool=pubmed_docsum.
See next item too.
Gluten-free oats in the
Avoid brown sugar which contains molasses.
Light brown sugar is failsafe.
Maple syrup must be pure maple syrup.
Golden syrup should be CSR not Lyle’s.
Brown sugar and golden syrup – a number of failsafers have
reported that brown sugar and golden syrup can cause problems. Unless the diet
is working well for you, we recommend sticking to white sugar and pure maple
syrup except for special occasions. Thanks to Olivia
Fluff is a mostly failsafe marshmallow
spread in the Spreads section of Coles supermarkets, ingredients: glucose
syrup, sugar, dried egg white and artificial flavour (vanillin) – limited for
people who react to sulphites (glucose syrup) and salicylates (vanillin).
Xylitol - A failsafer reports: ‘Just to
let you know my son is tolerating the Xylitol fine. I use it instead of sugar
to make the magic cordial. It's expensive though...’ PP
Birgit's
Pear Jam – is no longer available, thanks to
Birgit in Darwin for making it for over 10 years.
Birgit's
Pear Ketchup – is no longer available, thanks to
Birgit in Darwin for making it for over 10 years.
Pear
jam and chutney Ozzyfrank does Pear Jam (50% pear
with White Sugar) and Pear Fruit Leather through an ebay store address: http://stores.ebay.com.au/OzzyFranks-Emporium-of-Delights.
Pears are ripe and peeled. At the time of writing, other products are not
suitable for your strict elimination diet and they are not what we would call
failsafe. We recommend caution. The pear chutney contains coriander. In jams or
fruit leathers that contain golden delicious apples, salicylates are
concentrated by the jam-making or drying process, so these products are not
moderate they will be high or very high in salicylates. Remember that salicylate-containing
products can seem OK when you first eat them, but the effect of salicylates can
build up slowly over months until you realise the diet isn’t working as well as
it did originally.
Freedom
Foods soy butter: No longer available.
Gelatine: Sulphite-free substitute for gelatine: agar agar – thanks to Llewellyn Wall
Maple
butter and maple sugar http://www.usafoods.com.au/
, available from supermarkets in
Pampas Butter Puff Pastry is failsafe. The
latest advice is that Pampas Pastry with Canola is now failsafe (no 281 and 202
but always read the label). Pampas Spring Roll pastry is failsafe. Pampas
Puff Pastry currently contains citric acid 330, Vitamin E 306 and
betacarotene 160a which are all failsafe. The Filo pastry is not OK because is contains 223 sodium
metabisulphite.
Avoid commercial crumpets, pancakes and
pikelets with colours and preservatives.
Woolworths Bakery Croissant Mini 10pk (bought
at Mirrabooka Square Shopping Centre WA) are failsafe: Wheat Flour, Water,
Butter (milk fat, water, milk solids, colour (160A), Yeast Wheat, Gluten,
Sugar, Soy Flour, Emulsifiers (472E, 481), Mineral Salt (170), Food Acid
(270,260,300), Firming Agent (616), Enzyme, Vitamin (Thiamine) “I’m so used to
baked goods not being failsafe that I thought it was amazing to see this one” –
thanks to Larissa
(Sep 07) Nemar
Natural 100's & 1000's, all natural colours, tastes like sugar; thanks
to Kathleen from Additive Education
(Nov 07) Designer Physique have an excellent but
somewhat expensive range of gluten-free
cookie and muffin mixes based on de-bittered chickpea flour. They say that
they make the only GF/DF/Egg free/ LOW GI products made with primarily chickpea
flour vs white starches and 'empty' non nutritious flours. Chickpeas are high
fibre and a great way to get kids to eat a legume in a 'cookie' or muffin. 07
5520 5547 www.designerphysique.com.au
(Nov 07) Fiona Carter now has her own product range
including many failsafe at www.biomedcafe.com.au
including a Xmas special on some of their muffin/cookie
mixes which make them very cheap.
Biscuits (crackers and cookies)
Arnott's customer information service tells
us that the oil used in their biscuits is palm oil with 50 ppm tocopherols
(306-309 tocopherols - failsafe). This is good news. When I checked several
years ago, all Arnott's biscuits contained unlabelled BHA and some children
were reacting to it. This means that Saltines, Saladas, Saos and plain sweet
biscuits such as Milk Arrowroot and Milk Coffee are failsafe. Biscuits with
flavours, such as Nice or Morning Coffee are not failsafe (my mistake).
For other brands, you will have to phone the
manufacturer (see antioxidant warning at top of page)
Sakata Plain Rice Crackers are failsafe,
others are usually not because of unlisted antioxidants (see antioxidant
warning at top of page).
***WARNING***
Nabsico mini Ritz contain BHA (320) as
well as good antioxidants 304 and 406 – not failsafe. Thanks to Tania St
Cannon.
***Warning***
Ritz Original biscuits and Ritz Sticks now contain
319 as the antioxidant due to a change of manufacturing plant. You can contact
the manufacturers to complain http://www.kraft.com.au/nabisco/
thanks to Jenny Ravlic (Jenny runs failsafe shopping tours with Kathleen
Daalmeyer in
**WARNING**
Plain Sakata rice crackers are technically failsafe,
but many of the failsafe groups reported that a few sakatas are OK on rare
occasions, but any more and reactions occur, no-one knows why because the
ingredients all look safe.
Pure Harvest rice cakes - Pure Harvest
assure us that the vegetable oil used in these rice cakes is refined sunflower
oil with no antioxidants. – Louise R. Contact cassandra.rouget@pureharvest.com.au for further enquiries.
Meat should be eaten the day it is bought
or frozen for no longer than 4 weeks. Leftover cooked meat should be frozen,
not refrigerated. Avoid or minimize your intake of meat which has been
cryovacced (vacuum packed or gas filled) as this allows a build up of amines –
you can’t tell by the label so will have to ask your supermarket or butcher.
(See Amines factsheet). Preservative
free sausages from your butcher are not failsafe – they will almost certainly
contain spices or flavour enhancers. You need to order special failsafe
sausages, see Sausage - A Recipe for Your Butcher in the Failsafe Cookbook and
Failsafe booklet, and below organised by Australian state.
Note that all meat in supermarkets like Coles and Woolworths is now
cryovacced and you have to ask your local butcher about fresh meat. The safest
meat for amine responders is often chemical free or organic chickens.
Sausage casings are permitted to contain
sulphite preservatives at the same level as sausages. Since sausage casings are
such a small component of a sausage, and being on the outside of the sausage
are subjected to the highest heat which will drive off sulphites, it is likely
that, these pose little risk to failsafers. However, some of the most sensitive
failsafers may react to them.
Lenard's
stores have been asked not to make preservative-free sausages for customers on
food safety grounds but they have been encouraged to suggest that the customer
use plain minced breast meat that can be made into patties or skinless
sausages. – thanks to Sue A. Note that preservative-free sausages must be
eaten fresh or frozen immediately.
Honestbeef (Beef direct from the producer
at a fair price) will ship to the eastern
seaboard of Australia (Mornington to Sunshine Coast), 10 and 20kg packs of
freshly killed cuts of beef with direct payment to the producer. The meat is
hung for 6 days, as is all beef, and reaches you within 9 days which is very
fresh. It is cryovacced (vacuum packed) but only for transport. Failsafe
sausages are now available and failsafers tell us they are the best sausages
ever (minimum order 5kg). A great concept, not just from the failsafe point of
view but also from the point of view of getting a fair price for producers. http://www.honestbeef.com.au/
Preservative-free ham and
bacon – salt is
used as the preservative - obviously these are not OK for the strict
elimination diet or for people who react to amines: Eumundi Smokehouse Sydney,
***
WARNING*** Birdseye L’il Fishies - due to consumer
demand, Birdseye introduced an additive-free range of six products in
Mercury in fish: pregnant women, women
planning pregnancy and young children to limit their intake of shark (flake),
broadbill, marlin and swordfish to no more than one serve per fortnight with no
other fish to be consumed during that fortnight. For orange roughy (also sold
as sea perch) and catfish, the advice is to consume no more than one serve per
week, with no other fish being consumed during that week. If amines are OK for
you: canned tuna generally has lower levels of mercury than other tuna because
the tuna used for canning are smaller species that are generally caught when
less than 1 year old. It is considered safe for all population groups to
consume a snack can of tuna (95 grams) everyday, assuming no other fish is
eaten. More at www.foodstandards.gov.au
NSW
Failsafe sausages
from Sam
the Butcher's 3 outlets in
Butcher in Hornsby NSW: Tender Value
Meats,12 Florence St Hornsby N.S.W Ph 9987 4028 sells organic chicken whole or
in pieces and has a few failsafe customers so will make up sausages for you
using whatever ingredients you can have. “My son’s favourite is the chicken,
pear and golden syrup. It has been fantastic to have someone so supportive and
willing to go out of their way to help and my son doesn’t feel as though he is
missing out on everything”. – thanks to Mia Park
Butchers at Beecroft and Thornleigh (A Cut Above Fine
Foods) are making delicious failsafe beef and chicken sausages which I can
highly recommend. Thanks
to Jennifer Berthold (Jennifer has her own failsafe blogsite http://www.scrapratdesigns.netfirms.com/blog/failsafe_blog.htm
The butcher at The Pavilion,
Quants
Butcher at Lindfield NSW makes sausages on Tuesday and will
do failsafe ones first so they aren't contaminated (beef and leek, and chicken
and garlic) – thanks to
Lombardo's
Butchers,
Failsafe sausages
in
Tweed Heads NSW Panarama meats, Panarama Plaza,
Scienic Drive, Tweed Heads West, 2485,
(07)55999392
Butchers in Wagga Wagga NSW Knights Meats on the corner of Kincaid
and Fitzmaurice St, Wagga will make failsafe sausages. Thanks to Alison
ACT
QLD
Rode Meats, Bi-Lo
Shopping Centre,
Failsafe sausages
Nimmo’s Meats,