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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Definitely need more details here, OP. Your menu sounds like fare for a relatively small group - in which case, I think you need to accommodate the adult by preparing something she can eat in addition to or as an adjustment to your planned dishes. A baked potato, as PP suggested, is too easy not to do. Pork, as a rule, is risky.

Actually, even if you've invited a huge group, you should provide some options that will allow everyone to fill up. Fruit, a mini salad bar (greens with extras in separate bowls), crudite, bread, a steamed vegetable.

I had an open house once where the only thing one woman (friend of a friend) would eat was the steamed broccoli, because she was vegan, nondairy and unbelievably picky. Fortunately, there was steamed broccoli on the table.[/quote]

I find this even more rude.  All you could manage to come up with was some steamed broccoli?[/quote]

It was an open house. I had piles of food, including many other vegan options which she dismissed for various reasons, mostly around her extremely limited preferences. She didn't eat tomatoes, onions or black beans, which nixed several dishes. She didn't like cantaloupe and believed it tainted the entire fruit salad. She wouldn't eat store bought hummus unless I could produce the ingredient list.

Some people need to just stay home. i wasn't about to go back in the kitchen and learn how to cook tofu for one guest out of 40.[/quote]

If you had a salad and I did not like a few vegetables, I would eat around them.  I am a vegetarian and would want to know something is vegetarian but I would also probably eat before going.  i will eat a fruit salad but I do not like them.  My kid will not touch a fruit salad but loves fresh fruit.  My husband hates cantaloupe but would eat a fruit salad. [/quote]

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