s/ Thanksgiving tips for hosting, gluten free, vegan and vegetarian guests

[Anonymous]

They are the issue, not the host who wants a traditional Thanksgiving.

They're only an issue for you. I have no problem providing naturally tasty vegan dishes, and turkey for those who prefer turkey to prime rib (which I personally prefer). If it were up to me, I would never prepare or eat turkey, but I am hosting and my guests prefer to have turkey.

the host who wants a traditional Thanksgiving.

Where are you sourcing your eel, venison, and mussels for your traditional Thanksgiving?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We host a large crowd.

GF - be mindful that some Turkeys are injected with solutions that contain gluten. High quality organic birds are usually safe but check first. Thicken gravy with cornstarch or arrowroot not flour. Serve two stuffings -one traditional with bread and one with rice/grains. Have a GF dessert. If the people are bring dishes ask the GF people to bring their favorite dessert. Make your own salad dressings or buy the GF ones.

Vegan/Vegetarians- try to make vegetarian dishes vegan so it serves both types. Mashed potatoes made with olive oil and roasted garlic are amazing. Roasted butternut squash, and pumpkin are great. Do not mash them. Grilled and charred sweet potatoes are great. Carmelized onions and green beans or roasted brussel sprouts are great. Have a few desserts that are vegan.

We lay things out buffet style and have a toppings section that we call the fixins. This is where the boomers get their butter and bacon bits. I also put out Gorgonzola cheese, dried cranberries, chives, sour cream, different nuts etc.

I get label each dish so people know if it’s gf, vegan or both.

So glad you are concerned with everyone, other than the older guests you hosts, perhaps parents and grandparents, given this callout. Nice.

We lay things out buffet style and have a toppings section that we call the fixins. This is where the boomers get their butter and bacon bits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

They are the issue, not the host who wants a traditional Thanksgiving.

They're only an issue for you. I have no problem providing naturally tasty vegan dishes, and turkey for those who prefer turkey to prime rib (which I personally prefer). If it were up to me, I would never prepare or eat turkey, but I am hosting and my guests prefer to have turkey.

the host who wants a traditional Thanksgiving.

Where are you sourcing your eel, venison, and mussels for your traditional Thanksgiving?

Haha I came here to make this comment but you beat me to it. Well done.

[Anonymous]

I’m a vegetarian and would be really bummed if all the non-meat-containing foods were vegan. Gimme dat butter, cream, and cheese!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We host a large crowd.

GF - be mindful that some Turkeys are injected with solutions that contain gluten. High quality organic birds are usually safe but check first. Thicken gravy with cornstarch or arrowroot not flour. Serve two stuffings -one traditional with bread and one with rice/grains. Have a GF dessert. If the people are bring dishes ask the GF people to bring their favorite dessert. Make your own salad dressings or buy the GF ones.

Vegan/Vegetarians- try to make vegetarian dishes vegan so it serves both types. Mashed potatoes made with olive oil and roasted garlic are amazing. Roasted butternut squash, and pumpkin are great. Do not mash them. Grilled and charred sweet potatoes are great. Carmelized onions and green beans or roasted brussel sprouts are great. Have a few desserts that are vegan.

We lay things out buffet style and have a toppings section that we call the fixins. This is where the boomers get their butter and bacon bits. I also put out Gorgonzola cheese, dried cranberries, chives, sour cream, different nuts etc.

I get label each dish so people know if it’s gf, vegan or both.

In our house, it is the older folk that do not want so much butter and bacon. A little bit is fine, but no one wants every dish packed with butter and cream. Too rich for our blood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not that hard. Specially the gluten free. There are gluten free stuffing and most common deserts are pumpkin and pecan pies. Gluten free pie crust and gravy are straight forward.

Not making two type of stuffing, deserts, gravy, mac&cheesy, turkey, salad dressing, etc when no one can tell the difference.

Nah, people can tell the difference.

No. If you know how to cook it is really easy and no one can tell the difference. There is a lot of sh#tty premade gluten free stuff. That stuff is horrible.

Pizza and bread are bad because gluten free flour does not rise with yeast. Quick breads, cakes, pie crust, gravy, stuffing(basically rock hard bread), angel food cake, pound cake, cornbread, cookies, etc made by a skilled cook will be in distinguishable.

[Anonymous]

Thanksgiving has evolved over the years! It’s ridiculous to demand that somehow the mid to late 1960s defined how things should be made from here on out. Green Bean Casserole didn’t even become popular until the 60s when Campbell ‘s soup did a big marketing push putting the recipe on the back of its soup can! Somehow your mothers and grandmothers didn’t mind ignoring tradition and putting this new dish on the table.

There is no need to be regressive about hosting Thanksgiving! Embrace the new multi cultural, more plant based, less gluten and less processed foods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanksgiving has evolved over the years! It’s ridiculous to demand that somehow the mid to late 1960s defined how things should be made from here on out. Green Bean Casserole didn’t even become popular until the 60s when Campbell ‘s soup did a big marketing push putting the recipe on the back of its soup can! Somehow your mothers and grandmothers didn’t mind ignoring tradition and putting this new dish on the table.

There is no need to be regressive about hosting Thanksgiving! Embrace the new multi cultural, more plant based, less gluten and less processed foods.

Oh my gosh, no.

Plant based fake vegan "meat" is the most processed food around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanksgiving has evolved over the years! It’s ridiculous to demand that somehow the mid to late 1960s defined how things should be made from here on out. Green Bean Casserole didn’t even become popular until the 60s when Campbell ‘s soup did a big marketing push putting the recipe on the back of its soup can! Somehow your mothers and grandmothers didn’t mind ignoring tradition and putting this new dish on the table.

There is no need to be regressive about hosting Thanksgiving! Embrace the new multi cultural, more plant based, less gluten and less processed foods.

Oh my gosh, no.

Plant based fake vegan "meat" is the most processed food around.

Sigh, plant based doesn’t mean eating processed fake meat! It’s elevating plant based foods with cooking techniques to make them a higher proportion of the meal and not polluting them with meat products because it’s easy or Campbell soup company had an advertising campaign decades ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanksgiving has evolved over the years! It’s ridiculous to demand that somehow the mid to late 1960s defined how things should be made from here on out. Green Bean Casserole didn’t even become popular until the 60s when Campbell ‘s soup did a big marketing push putting the recipe on the back of its soup can! Somehow your mothers and grandmothers didn’t mind ignoring tradition and putting this new dish on the table.

There is no need to be regressive about hosting Thanksgiving! Embrace the new multi cultural, more plant based, less gluten and less processed foods.

+1

- a meat eater

Marketing is responsible for most of thanksgiving. Even the turkey. This in itself isn't necessarily a bad thing. What's bad is people overwhelming themselves to prepare more food than they properly execute. Because the thanksgiving table must be decorated as advertised.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanksgiving has evolved over the years! It’s ridiculous to demand that somehow the mid to late 1960s defined how things should be made from here on out. Green Bean Casserole didn’t even become popular until the 60s when Campbell ‘s soup did a big marketing push putting the recipe on the back of its soup can! Somehow your mothers and grandmothers didn’t mind ignoring tradition and putting this new dish on the table.

There is no need to be regressive about hosting Thanksgiving! Embrace the new multi cultural, more plant based, less gluten and less processed foods.

Oh my gosh, no.

Plant based fake vegan "meat" is the most processed food around.

lol Only people who have never branched out of their tiny bubble say this stuff. I don’t know any vegans who eat fake meat.

[Anonymous]

I really don’t want my food made with oil instead of butter.

I do have friends with celiac, but the majority of gluten free people I’ve met are doing it for dietary reasons, not because it makes them sick. I mean I would like low fat foods for Thanksgiving but I realize it’s not a low fat holiday and I just eat what I like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really don’t want my food made with oil instead of butter.

I do have friends with celiac, but the majority of gluten free people I’ve met are doing it for dietary reasons, not because it makes them sick. I mean I would like low fat foods for Thanksgiving but I realize it’s not a low fat holiday and I just eat what I like.

Oil is a fat. Substituting butter for oil isn’t reducing fat.

[Anonymous]

traditional thanksgiving meals will have some kind of food that gluten free and vegetarian people can eat anyway. I'm vegetarian and love Thanksgiving. You don't need to go crazy.

[Anonymous]

One tragic year my MIL hosted Thanksgiving dinner and made the mashed potatoes with just potatoes and hot water, to make them "healthier". That is only slightly less sad than mashed potatoes mashed with oil. Blech!