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Re: Easter Dinner with an Occasional Vegan
By: Jem Date: March 18, 2021, 2:59 pm
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[quote author=BeagleMommy link=topic=2010.msg64588#msg64588
date=1616095890]
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.
[/quote]
I am glad you learned this information so you didn't go to a lot
of trouble when she wouldn't eat it anyway!
Enjoy the time with your friends/family for the celebration!
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Re: Easter Dinner with an Occasional Vegan
By: Aleko Date: March 18, 2021, 4:04 pm
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Wow. Right up till this moment I would have called myself a
champion butter-eater - you can give it me on bread, on steamed
vegetables, in sauce, in (British) biscuits, in cake, you name
it; but that menu would make even me quail. I'd enjoy every item
on it, but I'd be afraid that by the time I walked out of your
house I'd be oblong and wrapped in silver paper.
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Re: Easter Dinner with an Occasional Vegan
By: Rose Red Date: March 18, 2021, 5:14 pm
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[quote author=BeagleMommy link=topic=2010.msg64588#msg64588
date=1616095890]
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.
[/quote]
Sounds good. Maybe you can toss a handful of nuts or sunflower
seeds in the salad for a little protein and crunchy texture.
That is, if she likes nuts/seeds and nobody is allergic.
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Re: Easter Dinner with an Occasional Vegan
By: Rho Date: March 18, 2021, 9:08 pm
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My younger daughter is vegan. When she was still iving in
Chicago and attended family Thanksgiving dinners the hostess was
told to carry on as usual. I brought a side dish that daughter
could eat. And she was not trying to lose weight.
Then there was the Thanksgiving dinner when son could eat about
3 mouthfuls as he was being eighed in the next morning for his
H.S. wrestling team. No connsessions were asked for.
Perhaps the dishes that do not have milk could be prepared with
margarine instead of butter?
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Re: Easter Dinner with an Occasional Vegan
By: Oz Diva Date: March 19, 2021, 3:24 am
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I’d be annoyed that she was an occasional vegan. She can have a
basic menu based on that.
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Re: Easter Dinner with an Occasional Vegan
By: Aleko Date: March 19, 2021, 3:52 am
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[QUOTE]I’d be annoyed that she was an occasional vegan.
She can have a basic menu based on that.[/QUOTE]
To be fair, she may have figured that calling her weight-loss
diet “vegan” was the simplest and surest way of
avoiding saturated fats, and advertising that she won’t
eat them. At least she’s upfront about her motives, and
isn’t dressing it up in any spurious moral principles.
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Re: Easter Dinner with an Occasional Vegan
By: gramma dishes Date: March 19, 2021, 11:35 am
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[quote author=Oz Diva link=topic=2010.msg64604#msg64604
date=1616142276]
I’d be annoyed that she was an occasional vegan. She can have a
basic menu based on that.
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I feel the same way. I'll do back flips and cartwheels trying
to find just the right foods for people who have genuine and
real medical conditions that call for limited accessible foods.
Same with religion. But for people who just 'decide' that
they're going to avoid certain foods from time to time just to
be trendy I am far less enthusiastic about jumping through hoops
for.
If this woman is on a weight loss plan, she can either just eat
less of what is offered or be really grateful that her host is
trying hard to make things to suit her. But a lot of hosts
would be so turned off by individuals wanting special foods just
for them (when not necessary) to be enough of a burden that they
either stop inviting this guest or just stop hosting altogether.
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Re: Easter Dinner with an Occasional Vegan
By: Aleko Date: March 19, 2021, 12:44 pm
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[quote]If this woman is on a weight loss plan, she can either
just eat less of what is offered or be really grateful that her
host is trying hard to make things to suit her. [/quote]
But to be fair, if she's trying to not eat saturated fats that
really would leave her nothing she could eat but the
ratatouille. Even the usual advice to vegetarians, 'just eat
bread and vegetables and don't make a fuss', isn't any good to
her. And as I said earlier, many people just wouldn't like a
meal that was wall-to-wall eggs and fat. When laying a feast of
lots of different dishes, I do think it's best to have some rich
and some refreshing, some light and some heavy, some sweet and
some sharp.
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Re: Easter Dinner with an Occasional Vegan
By: TootsNYC Date: March 19, 2021, 1:09 pm
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I wouldn't care whether this diet was a whim, or an occasional
thing.
I would not want to serve a meal in which any guest could eat
only one thing.
I'd be coming up with some vegetable dish that didn't use much
fats. Blanched green beans with cracked pepper.
I'd be sure I had a salad, but also something meatier. Other
people who DO eat vegetable and saturated fat can eat those
things too; it won't hurt them.
I'd cancel hosting before I'd say, "You can bring all your own
food."
If they wanted to bring their own, I'd be very happy to go along
with that. But I'd never just say, "Forget you, bring your own
food--I'm not cooking for you, because you keep changing your
mind on what you are willing to eat."
I might not feel required to make all the other foods in
accordance with their diet, but I'd make sure they had something
they could eat!
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Re: Easter Dinner with an Occasional Vegan
By: Jem Date: March 19, 2021, 1:35 pm
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I don't make a big deal of my food preferences when someone is
hosting me for a meal, but I personally don't like cooked food
or any sauce or butter or oil. I personally am happier with an
apple and peanut butter than I am with something that has grease
or butter or oil or any sauce on it. I don't like food that I
don't know what is in it, especially if it appears to have a lot
of butter or lard or oil or sauce. I love vegetables......that
are raw without anything on them. I really strongly dislike most
cooked veggies, especially if there is butter or oil or
something on them. I eat a lot of raw carrots, raw tomatoes, and
raw greens (without dressing - I don't like it; I do like mild
salsa on my salad sometimes). Once someone does something to
them, I don't like them.
So if a host were thinking, "Jem likes veggies....I'll make my
special glazed asparagus" it is not like I would refuse to eat
it. But I would have preferred just plain asparagus without
anything on it.
My point is, a host is not going to be able to please everyone
unless they specifically ask and cater to each guest. I don't
think a host should have to do that. I think if a guest has food
requirements or preferences, that guest should either suck it up
for one meal, eat before or after, or make it clear what they
want and offer to bring their own.
I think it is nice that some hosts make elaborate feasts, but I
also don't think a host should expect that each guest is going
to be blown away by their cooking. Different people have
different tastes.
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