Eating in, Eating out - Feedback from GFG participants

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Here's some ideas from the first Gluten-free Glutton workshop in Reading - what participants say is good to eat:
Sainsburies 'Free From' Cheese and Onion Quiche
Sainsburies Toulouse sausages
Asda Jaffa Cakes
Asda chocolate filled croissants
Tesco's GF hot cross buns,
GF picnic bars
Juvela Part Baked loaf
Savacentre croissants
Lifestyle Stuffing - (mix with Musks sausage meat)
Waitrose Cambridge sausages
Waitrose polenta sausages
Mrs Cringle macaroons
Doves Farm Flour (for general use)
Marks and Spenser Christmas pudding
Lifestyle Healthcare Bread Rolls
Lifestyle Healthcare sausage rolls.

From cook books: Jamie Oliver's 3 nut tort Delia Smiths Chocolate Log

Good places to eat out:
John Lewis, Reading - usually has gluten-free cakes
Eden Project and Lost gardens of Heligan, Cornwall
Marks and Spensers Cafe Revive Fruit Cake and Chocolate and orange cake

The Gluten-free Glutton Awards 2004
The overall winner was:- NG Palace in Tadley (0118 981 0393), where there is a special gluten-free version of the menu, for example prawn toasts made with gluten-free bread, and tamari used in place of soya sauce.

Colleys Supper Rooms, Reading - 'Who else in Reading can cope with 40 coeliacs and their guests in one sitting and provide 7 courses of gluten-free food?'

The Cafe at Tesco Extra, Sandhurst who were very helpful when there were no gluten-free options left

Farriers Restaurant, Cox Green, Maidenhead (01628 777428) 'The owner is the chef, who is very welcoming of coeliacs. Keeps stocks of rice and potato flour and adjusts sauces accordingly. Friendly atmosphere and fresh food'

Blubeckers, Hare Hatch (0118 9403136) - 'The food is lovely and always freshly cooked. I am always made to feel comfortable, it's never any trouble to ask what's OK to eat, and someone on the staff is coeliac.'

The Crown at Playhatch (01189 472872) - happy to meet the needs of coeliacs Holme Grange

Tea Shop, Wokingham (01189 795125)- 'It's great to look at the chalk board and see gluten-free options up there - this tea shop makes its own gluten-free cakes'.

Kathmandu Kitchen, Whitley, Reading (0118 9864000). 'Curries are good for coeliacs because so little wheat flour is used, for example this restaurant always uses gram flour for onion bhajis. Lovely place to go with a great atmosphere'.

The Fox and Hounds, Christmas Common (01491 612599) 'The chef was really happy to make sure that everything was fine for me, and the food is delicious!'