It's now been nearly two years since I was diagnosed with coeliac disease. In that time I've mostly come to terms with the required changes in my diet. I've adapted to a life without pizza; I've either learned to cook, or found gluten-free varieties of, the Chinese meals I missed most; I've done the minimal necessary adaptation of my usual bulk self-catering habits; and generally, apart from it being nearly impossible to eat out and often severely inconvenient to have friends cook for me, I basically don't feel too annoyed most of the time by the whole business.

One thing I have had trouble finding, though, is good gluten-free bread. I have several options which are suitable for making into breadcrumbs for stuffing and bread sauce, and one or two which make passable toast if you lay on pâté with a trowel, but last week I would have told you I knew of no GF bread products which I'd be willing to eat in the form of actual bread.

Within the last few days I've been fed three startlingly good GF bread products, all of which were made by Dietary Specials, a company which I previously knew for making decent GF steak pies and utterly inedible GF ready-meal pizzas. I don't know if any of them would be good enough to adopt as a regular part of my diet, but for the occasional sausage butty or light snack they're definitely an improvement on anything I'd previously encountered. I will have to go and buy some more.