*hugs* s'ok. It's not exactly your fault - to some extent it's unreasonable to expect you to vet each and every ingredient before cooking for a coeliac, not least because it's not even conveniently possible due to the Coeliac Society's tight restrictions on their GF foods database. One of these days I'm going to get round to complaining about that to them.

The only thing I can sensibly do about it is vet the ingredient list myself before people start cooking for me - and that's a pretty hostile and ungrateful way to treat a host...

I don't think it's something that anyone would object to, or even feel put out by... the last thing people want is to harm their guests!


(insert ObKinkDisclaimer about guests who specifically want to be harmed)

What exactly do you want to complain to them about?

The computerised food database in which I look up any product I'm not already sure about is distributed under a very restrictive copyright licence which wouldn't look out of place in the MPAA but seems decidedly odd coming from a charitable organisation. The effect of this is that I can't legally give my friends access to a copy of the database, which means that the Coeliac Society is deliberately making it difficult for my friends to know in advance what I can and can't eat and thus making it inconvenient to cook for me. Since I'd have thought the CS's entire purpose ought to be to make the lives of coeliacs easier rather than harder, this seems like a very strange decision.

(Of course it's entirely possible that the licence agreement wouldn't stand up in court, or that they wouldn't in practice find out or bother doing anything about it if I flagrantly violated it. But I'm not sure I wouldn't rather have a good shout at them for behaving, well, uncharitably than quietly ignore them.)