Help - 'everythingfree' festive recipes

[Mo]

This year my daughter has become vegetarian, 2 yr old granddaughter and SIL have gone gluten free and she can't eat eggs & is a bit dodgy with dairy too (appointment with a specialist coming up).
Anyone know if glutenfree flour and veg suet work in Christmas pudds.

Any festive ideas for a family feast?

Add the fact that OH hates onions, cheese and messed up food, so my usual is -
roast (free range) chicken with plenty of veg, sausages etc. followed by Christmas pudd (family recipe - King Georges CP)
or
Christmas Tea of cold meats and salad + cakes, fruit sald.

I am out of my depth.

[Jenny]

Hope this link works

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle ... es-without

If not it is in the Guardian news paper in the food section - recipes without.....

[Mo]

Thanks.
I'm a bit set in my ways after 45 yrs of doing Christmas dinners.

[p.penn]

Oh dear, what a nightmare

I'm afraid I would fall at the first hurdle at that challenge as I would even find alcohol free hard with festive food!

Hope you find some good recipes.

[Jenny]

There also is a recipe for gluten free, egg free, dairy free Christmas pudding.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle ... as-pudding" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Daily telegraph also has a recipe for this but some of the ingredients may be difficult to find - the Guardian one has ingredients which should be in most supermarkets.

[wendy]

Yes it is difficult, when one of the family has a restricted diet.
My sister is diabetic and I have had to do some trawling around. But did get some good suggestions.
Good luck

[tosca100]

Did you mean you want to do 'everything free' for everybody? If so, you have your work cut out. The thing about vegetarians is that they are happy to make compromises to get the diet they want. But if your family enjoy their roat chicken and sausage....

On the other hand, I have been veggie for 30 years and things are a lot easier now. Most of your meal can be meat and gluten free, so all you would need to do is find something dairy, gluten and everything else free to do as 'extras' rather than instead of. The internet is your friend. I have a MIL who is Celiac and FIL who is diabetic so I know it can be tricky. If you put in something like vegetarian gluten and dairy free (vegan) Christmas dinner you will find something. But don't try to do too much all at once, do as much as you can ahead of time otherwise you will spoil your day.

[davina112]

My BIL is celiac, as Christmas pudding only has a small amount of flour then the texture won't be affected by gluten free flour. I would think veg suet will be fine. Sorry can't help with the dairy free stuff

[Mo]

Interesting thing on that Guardian recipe - who would have guessed that veggie suet contains flour. I think I'll use my ordinary recipe with Trex & gluten free flour for the adults, Emily probably wouldn't want it anyway.

My daughter has offered to bring a microwaveable veggie main course, which seems a bit of a cheat - inviting someone but not feeding them.

[Mo]

Just looked on the packet - ordinary suet contains flour too. Only 85% suet.

[Mo]

Of course local shops don't stock Trex! So I'm cheating as they did have 'free from' Christmas pudds on 2fer. They look very small. I'm making my usual mix for the rest of us, and a gluten free, dairy free plum crumble as an and/or.