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Easter Dinner with an Occasional Vegan
By: BeagleMommy Date: March 18, 2021, 8:54 am
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Help. My cousin and his girlfriend will be coming to my house
for Easter dinner and she occasionally decides to become a
vegan. She does this to try to lose weight not because she is
against eating meat. Well, she's vegan again. I'm trying to
figure out how to accommodate one vegan in a group of 15
omnivores. Here is my menu:
Ham - obvious she won't eat this
Green beans - problem since they are made with bacon
Sweet potatoes - I use butter and cream to make these
Mom's homemade bread - bread is made with eggs and butter
Potatoes - sautéed in butter
Pierogi - made with potato and cheese and sautéed in
butter/onion
Cookies - again, butter
This year I am making a tres leches cake so lots of milk and
eggs
Beagleboy is planning to make ratatouille since it is all
vegetables and uses olive oil instead of butter.
Is this sufficient to make sure she has something she can eat
despite my heavily buttered, meat laden meal? She's a very
sweet person and I like her a lot so I want her to feel welcome
in my home.
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Re: Easter Dinner with an Occasional Vegan
By: STiG Date: March 18, 2021, 9:03 am
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Add a green salad and a bean salad, with vegan dressings.
Otherwise, the only thing she can eat is BeagleBoy's dish.
Add a fruit salad for dessert.
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Re: Easter Dinner with an Occasional Vegan
By: Hmmm Date: March 18, 2021, 9:28 am
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I'd buy some bread that is vegan friendly. I'd bake an
additional sweet potato that she can eat from the jacket. But
with the ratatouille and green salad, she'll have a pretty
complete menu.
Since her goal is weight loss... she may not eat the bread so
buy something you'll enjoy later. French bread is usually vegan
friendly.
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Re: Easter Dinner with an Occasional Vegan
By: Jem Date: March 18, 2021, 10:03 am
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I would ask her directly what she would like you to do.
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Re: Easter Dinner with an Occasional Vegan
By: lakey Date: March 18, 2021, 10:27 am
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[quote]I would ask her directly what she would like you to do.
[/quote]
This could result in requests that just make things tougher for
the host. I think that the previous suggestions of ratatouille,
plain sweet potato, salad, fruit salad, and French bread are
fine. Cooking a meal for 15 people is difficult enough without
adding to it. By the way, I often do fruit salad with Easter
dinner anyway. It just seems to fit in so well with spring.
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Re: Easter Dinner with an Occasional Vegan
By: Lilipons Date: March 18, 2021, 10:53 am
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The ratatouille and plain baked sweet potato idea is excellent.
It’s also super easy to find a Mediterranean bread recipe on
line that uses only flour, water, yeast and salt. It’s
satisfyingly crusty and would go very well with the Ratatouille.
For dessert it shouldn’t be difficult to offer a sorbet.
I’m an omnivore and that would be an Easter dinner I’d happily
eat.
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Re: Easter Dinner with an Occasional Vegan
By: Jem Date: March 18, 2021, 10:55 am
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[quote author=lakey link=topic=2010.msg64579#msg64579
date=1616081246]
[quote]I would ask her directly what she would like you to do.
[/quote]
This could result in requests that just make things tougher for
the host. I think that the previous suggestions of ratatouille,
plain sweet potato, salad, fruit salad, and French bread are
fine. Cooking a meal for 15 people is difficult enough without
adding to it. By the way, I often do fruit salad with Easter
dinner anyway. It just seems to fit in so well with spring.
[/quote]
If the point is to please the person who claims to be vegan for
weight loss, I think asking the person directly makes the most
sense. If the host makes the suggested items it is entirely
possible the vegan person wouldn't want that either.
I don't think the host needs to make anything special for the
vegan - I think the vegan can and should bring her own food (or
eat before or after) if she has restrictions - but since the
host says she wants to make the vegan feel welcome I would just
ask the vegan what she would actually want to eat. The host
doesn't have to provide it.
I think the host would be borrowing trouble to attempt to guess
at what a person who is sometimes vegan for weight loss would or
would not eat for a holiday meal. As other posters noted, if she
is truly looking for weight loss she would likely not eat
potatoes or bread, for example.
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Re: Easter Dinner with an Occasional Vegan
By: Hmmm Date: March 18, 2021, 12:01 pm
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[quote author=Jem link=topic=2010.msg64581#msg64581
date=1616082903]
[quote author=lakey link=topic=2010.msg64579#msg64579
date=1616081246]
[quote]I would ask her directly what she would like you to do.
[/quote]
This could result in requests that just make things tougher for
the host. I think that the previous suggestions of ratatouille,
plain sweet potato, salad, fruit salad, and French bread are
fine. Cooking a meal for 15 people is difficult enough without
adding to it. By the way, I often do fruit salad with Easter
dinner anyway. It just seems to fit in so well with spring.
[/quote]
If the point is to please the person who claims to be vegan for
weight loss, I think asking the person directly makes the most
sense. If the host makes the suggested items it is entirely
possible the vegan person wouldn't want that either.
I don't think the host needs to make anything special for the
vegan - I think the vegan can and should bring her own food (or
eat before or after) if she has restrictions - but since the
host says she wants to make the vegan feel welcome I would just
ask the vegan what she would actually want to eat. The host
doesn't have to provide it.
I think the host would be borrowing trouble to attempt to guess
at what a person who is sometimes vegan for weight loss would or
would not eat for a holiday meal. As other posters noted, if she
is truly looking for weight loss she would likely not eat
potatoes or bread, for example.
[/quote]
I disagree. Asking what they want implies I am willing to
provide it and responding with "oh, sorry no, I don't want to do
that" is very unwelcoming. And if it doesn't end up with an over
the top request, it will usually end up with a "oh, I'm sure
I'll find something... don't go to any special trouble for me."
so would be in the same situation guessing what they will eat.
Everytime a make a meal for a holiday or dinner party, I'm
guessing about what people will want. I don't think it's any
different to try and guess what the vegan would want.
I think it's fine for the host to run past a menu suggestion by
the guest but is not required. The cost and effort of adding a
green salad and fruit salad that will be enjoyed by all and a
baked potato is minimal. And if the guest doesn't want it,
you've at least tried to accommodate their needs.
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Re: Easter Dinner with an Occasional Vegan
By: Kimberami Date: March 18, 2021, 12:27 pm
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Your dinner plans made me drool. I agree with other posters.
You can hold back a little of nearly everything you are making
to have a vegan substitute. Either a baked regular potato or
sweet potato. You could hold back some green beans to make a
non-bacon batch. A little olive oil and garlic is really good on
them. You could roast them in the over the day before if you
wanted. If she is dieting, she's not likely to eat desserts or
breads. I think anything that you could provide for her is nice.
That should make her feel special.
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Re: Easter Dinner with an Occasional Vegan
By: BeagleMommy Date: March 18, 2021, 2:31 pm
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Just heard from my cousin that she is also not eating carbs or
sugar of any kind. He was very apologetic and told me not to
worry if she didn't eat much.
Sigh.
I think I will go with the ratatouille and add a green salad
with oil and vinegar as the dressing.
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