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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty

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🌟 Coeliac Life | Gluten-Free Living 🌟 Misdiagnosed for 30 years, finally diagnosed in 2016—sharing my journey to inspire and guide others. 🍞🚫 linktr.ee/thegftable Follow my other account on @benhaggerty.bsky.social

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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 13/09/2026
Free From Festival Birmingham 2026 www.instagram.com/reel/DdPFM6H...
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Being gluten free or coeliac/celiac is hard enough without the hassle of having to move home. Thought I would write a little about it and see if anyone else had the same experiences as me. Have a read and let me know what you think. thegftable.substack.com/p/moving-hou...
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Moving house when you're a coeliac
What I learned about moving house, snacks and finding somewhere to eat when you're gluten free and everything is in boxes.
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 03/09/2026
Pepperoni Pizza Fries. I think that just says it all. I loved this and ate it all up. Not only was it amazingly good it was also gluten free. Yippee. 🥳 #glutenfreeloadedfries
A photo of a bowl of crispy fries with pepperoni and cheese. With the words Pepperoni Pizza Fries and Gluten Free displayed in large text on the photo.
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 27/08/2026
Ordered steak and chips at the Ship Inn in Mevagissey. When I said no onion rings as I’m gluten free, was told that they were gluten free and that made me a very happy man. It seems so silly that just a little thing like having gluten free onions rings can make a grown man smile. 😊 😂 #glutenfree
Steak, chip and onion rings with tomato and salad. On a black plate.
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 24/08/2026
Had the opportunity to visit Par Beach Cafe last week when down in Cornwall and as I always do when I visit I had one of their gluten free pizzas. Absolutely love them as the base is so good and the toppings were just amazing. A lovely meat feast pizza all for me. 😂 🍕 #glutenfree
A gluten free pizza on a wooden dish. Topped with meatballs, pepperoni and ham.
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 03/08/2026
How long was everyone’s coeliac diagnosis?
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 02/08/2026
Best thing I ever did in a shared kitchen was get my own butter and label it in enormous letters. #glutenfree
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 01/08/2026
What was the first gluten free food that genuinely surprised you? Mine was a decent pizza base. 🍕
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 31/07/2026
The pause after you say coeliac is the most information you’ll get all evening.
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 30/07/2026
Do you think gluten free bread is priced on ingredients or in the fact that we have nowhere else to go. 😂 #glutenfree
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 27/07/2026
Moving house and realised how hard it still is to just have a quick snack when you are gluten free. Very frustrating. Doesn’t help that I ache in places I didn’t know could ache. 😂 #glutenfree
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 13/07/2026
If you could go back to the day you were diagnosed with coeliac disease and tell yourself one thing, what would it be?
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 13/07/2026
Soy Free and Gluten Free Egg Fried Rice A fuss free soy free and gluten free dinner built from leftover rice. This gluten free egg fried rice started, as a lot of my better dinners do, with a tub of leftover rice staring at me from the fridge and the grim prospect of eating it plain. What came out…
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Soy Free and Gluten Free Egg Fried Rice
A fuss free soy free and gluten free dinner built from leftover rice. This gluten free egg fried rice started, as a lot of my better dinners do, with a tub of leftover rice staring at me from the fridge and the grim prospect of eating it plain. What came out of that mild desperation turned out well enough to write down, so here we are.
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 12/07/2026
What’s a major 'green flag' when you walk into a restaurant that instantly makes you feel safe as a coeliac? #GlutenFree
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 11/07/2026
The joy of finding a product that’s accidentally gluten free. No special label, no premium price. #GlutenFree
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 10/07/2026
What is the best tool at your disposal to avoid cross contamination in your house? 🏠 #GlutenFree
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 10/07/2026
Everyone in our house has their own butter now. Mine’s labelled like a school lunchbox 😂. #Coeliac #GlutenFree
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 10/07/2026
I have coeliac disease and I’ve decided the correct response is to apologise to waiters about it. In advance. Every time. open.substack.com/pub/thegftab...
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Ordering food like an adult, and other things I cannot do
A short piece about apologising to waiters who have never once asked me to.
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 09/07/2026
🥞 Blend a banana, two eggs and a handful of gluten free oats 🔥 Spoon into a hot pan, keep it low and slow 🍯 Stack it, drown it in maple syrup, pretend it’s healthy. 😂 Just three ingredients. Brilliant. 🤩 #GlutenFree
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 08/07/2026
Does anyone else have a hidden instinct of when something might have gluten in it. It’s not perfect but it has saved me a couple of times. 😂 #GlutenFree
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 08/07/2026
Lunch today was again Mac and cheese. Getting a little boring taking this into work now. Anyone got any ideas for a simple and easy to make meal to take to work? 😊 #GlutenFree
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 07/07/2026
I’m not a fussy eater. I’m a well informed one. #Coeliac #GlutenFree
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 06/07/2026
I’ve read the back of more packets than most people have read books. #GlutenFree
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 05/07/2026
Can you anyone else sense gluten nearby with the force? 😂 #GlutenFree
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 04/07/2026
Do baked beans and pasta go together. Any recipes would be more than welcome? #GlutenFree
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 04/07/2026
I’ve read more ingredient labels than books this year. Make of that what you will. #GlutenFree
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 03/07/2026
“It’s basically the same” is the most dangerous sentence in gluten free cooking.
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 02/07/2026
One of the best things about the GF community is that nobody has to explain the wooden spoon thing. Everyone just knows. #GlutenFree #Coeliac
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 01/07/2026
The gluten free tax is real. You didn’t choose the condition. You still pay for it every week. #GlutenFreeUK #Coeliac
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 30/06/2026
Gluten free pasta: some of it is genuinely great. Some of it is grey mush in two minutes flat. The gap between the two is still wild. #GlutenFree
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 29/06/2026
How much extra do you think eating gluten free costs you a month? Just the basics like pasta and bread, no treats. #glutenfree
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 28/06/2026
There is a very specific sadness in finding something amazing in the free from aisle and then never seeing it again. The first food that comes to mind is the Schar Milk Cake. I miss it so much. 😂 #GlutenFree
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 27/06/2026
I do love when people say, “There should be something you can eat.” That sentence has betrayed me more times than I care to admit.
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 26/06/2026
Living gluten free definitely teaches you to notice the people who make an effort. #glutenfree
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 25/06/2026
Being gluten free and finding something for breakfast has never been easy. This scorching hot weather helps as I seem to have lost my appetite. 😂
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 25/06/2026
Does anyone else feel like the little gluten free food wins feel much bigger than they probably should?
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 24/06/2026
Welcome to The GF Table. I’m Ben, a UK coeliac talking gluten free food without pretending it is always easy, healthy or photogenic. I’ll try weird flavours, combos and questionable supermarket finds. Nothing scares me off. Except gluten, obviously. May contain humour. Definitely no gluten.
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 24/06/2026
There is real joy in finding food you can trust.
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 23/06/2026
“Don’t worry, I checked. I think it’s gluten free.” Think? 😱 THINK? 🚨 #GlutenFree
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 22/06/2026
I do not fear complicated ingredient lists. I fear the words “may contain wheat” hiding at the bottom of a packet. 😂 #GlutenFree
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 22/06/2026
When they eat the cake you can’t have directly in front of you, I think my face says everything. 😂 #CoeliacLife #GlutenFreeLife #GlutenFreeHumour #TheGFTable
Ben, dressed smartly in a shirt and waistcoat, looks suspiciously across a table while Ollie sits beside him eating chocolate cake. A messy plate with cake crumbs and chocolate sauce is in the foreground. Text on the image reads: “When they eat the cake you can’t have directly in front of you.”
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 21/06/2026
Gluten free does not automatically mean healthy. I still eat chocolate. I still love snacks. I still get excited by an indulgent cake. 🍰 Someone once saw me eating a chocolate bar and said, “I thought you were eating healthier?” Because they knew I was on a gluten free diet. 🤦🏻‍♂️ #GlutenFree
Gluten free does not automatically mean healthy.
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 19/06/2026
Campbell’s have a gluten free pasta and chicken soup. Bloody lovely. Tiny teeny issue. It seems to be US only at the moment which is absolutely gutting. Would you try it if it came here? #GlutenFreeUK #glutenfreesoup #TheGFTable #GlutenFreeFinds #glutenfreeusa
Screenshot of a Campbell’s website product page showing a can of Campbell’s condensed gluten free Banza chickpea pasta and chicken soup, with the red and cream Campbell’s branding visible on the tin.
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 13/06/2026
Freshly fried cinnamon sugar doughnuts that were genuinely amazing. Soft, warm, sugary and absolutely not something I was going to miss out on at the Northants Gluten Free Festival today. This is exactly why gluten free festivals are dangerous places. 😂 #glutenfree
A Hopstop Donuts stall at the Northants Gluten Free Festival, with a bright yellow banner, staff preparing food behind the counter, and freshly fried cinnamon sugar doughnuts visible on display.Two freshly fried cinnamon sugar doughnuts sitting in a cardboard box on greaseproof paper, with a golden coating and visible sugar crystals on the surface.
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 13/06/2026
This was fish and chips, and scampi and chips from Howe and Co at the Northants Gluten Free Festival and honestly, there are few happier sights than a coeliac being able to order proper chippy. Golden, crispy, sunny and very much demolished. Did anyone else try this at the festival? #glutenfree
Two trays of gluten free fish and chips and scampi and chips on a wooden picnic table at the Northants Gluten Free Festival, with wooden forks held above the food.
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 07/06/2026
Gluten Free Bolognese Stuffed Conchiglioni Large Gluten Free Conchiglioni filled with rich homemade bolognese, topped with bubbling cheese and baked until comforting and golden. Some pasta dishes feel practical. This one feels like effort… without actually needing that much effort (which is always…
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Gluten Free Bolognese Stuffed Conchiglioni
Large Gluten Free Conchiglioni filled with rich homemade bolognese, topped with bubbling cheese and baked until comforting and golden. Some pasta dishes feel practical. This one feels like effort… without actually needing that much effort (which is always a plus). Bolognese Stuffed Conchiglioni takes everything good about a proper homemade bolognese and turns it into something that feels a little more generous, a little more comforting, and a lot more satisfying to put on the table.
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 03/06/2026
One thing I didn’t expect about the Free From Festival… The thing I remember most isn’t the food. It’s the conversations. Did anyone else go? What was your favourite bit? open.substack.com/pub/thegftab...
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Free From Festival London 2026 Was About More Than Gluten Free Food. It Was About Community
What Men Vs Gluten, festival conversations and a room full of coeliacs reminded me about connection
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 29/05/2026
If a product contains no gluten ingredients and has no “may contain” warning, would you be happy eating it even if it doesn’t specifically say “gluten free”?
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 29/05/2026
Just seen Jon Bernthal talking about having coeliac disease. He has that proper hard man screen presence, so him casually talking about being gluten free is kind of perfect. The idea of The Punisher reading allergen menus is the representation I didn’t know I needed. 😂
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The GF Table by Ben Haggerty @thegftable.co.uk · 16/05/2026
Happy Coeliac Awaeness Month! open.substack.com/pub/thegftab...
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It’s Coeliac Awareness Month 2026!
A personal reflection on gluten free dining, better choices, and why awareness still matters
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