BASKETCASE

As an ex professional  chef, I love to keep up with food trends and experiment with different flavours, and good food and nutrition will always be my passion. You can imagine my devastation when, in 2010, I was diagnosed as being Coeliac.

I needed to make major changes to my diet, and fast. Not only were bread and pasta banned – and back then the gluten free options were pretty bad – but more misery followed when I discovered that soy sauce, and the vinegars used in my favourite BBQ sauces were also on the black list!

The world tilted on its axis … until I started experimenting,  and came up with some pretty good substitutes.  The result of all these endeavours was a surplus of lots of different condiments, of which I had do something with, so I started giving away as gifts. In 2014, a Christmas gift to a friend sparked a demand for my sauces, and the Basketcase story started.

Basketcase -  because only a crazy person would work full time, manage a family, start a part time business, and at Christmas of all times!