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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP Trader Joe’s sells a vegan French onion dip. I would try and do as much as you can vegan except the turkey. You can make the same potatoes for everyone  using a plant based milk and butter. [/quote]

Why should everyone else suffer? :lol: [/quote] why is it suffering? [/quote]

Because no one wants watered-down versions of their favorite foods on a holiday. Seriously, once or twice a year, we should get to indulge in traditional fare with no compromises and no guilt. Just like I don’t want a “diet version” of Thanksgiving, and I don’t want an “alternative meal” for people who don’t like the turkey dinner, I don’t want vegan versions served to everyone. I can’t pronounce the ingredients in vegan “cheese” and vegan “butter,” so no thank you. If you want to eat that stuff, fine. If you want to serve it to your guests, fine. But I’m not eating it and I’m not serving it to the majority of my guests. There are plenty of foods like roast vegetables that are naturally vegan and delicious, and that’s great. But when you start getting into fake processed foods, no thanks.

I think OP’s plan and a few of the suggestions here sound really nice. There’s no need for a host to make extra work for themselves or serve weird food to all the guests just because some of the guests choose to be difficult.[/quote]

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NP who also agrees with this. I would make a few accommodations for the vegan guests, since they deserve to have something to eat too, but I would not veganize the overall menu for everybody else. As a guest (or a host) who is not vegan, I have no interest in eating veganized versions of indulgent holiday foods - especially things like mashed potatoes, stuffing, pie, etc.[/quote]

Exactly no one is asking or expecting this (in this thread). We know absolutely nothing about this family other than they are getting together at thanksgiving and two of the potential guests are traveling from out of state and they are vegan. Oh, also op would like to make them feel welcome without changing too much of feel of menu. Which is hospitable. They’re setting aside portions of certain dishes to make vegan, not serving everyone tofu soufflé.

I’m not a vegan and I really don’t understand the pushback. We all can be rigid, but we can also adapt and be gracious. Op has it under control. [/quote]

DCUM hates vegans almost as much as it hates dogs. I'm surprised no one has yet suggested pepper spraying the vegan guests to really teach them a lesson. [/quote]

They hate gf people even more. Which is just evil. Imaging not being able to eat gluten and also being hated for it. Some people make life on earth its own version of hell.[/quote]

Maybe I should tell my law professor, who is a Holocaust survivor, that hell is really having a gluten allergy in 2022.[/quote]

How about if we hate him for being a holocaust survivor? That's at least similar, dolt.[/quote]

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