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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP  again.  I think if we were just told that the family was vegan now, I could just accomodate that.  I would not change the standard menu that the rest of the family look forward to but I would add  1-2 vegan dishes and a vegan dessert.  This is more complicated.[/quote]

That’s why I recommend that you TELL them what you are making with plenty of lead time for them to make other plans accordingly.[b] As long as your side dishes include a salad and one or two other plain or plain-ish vegetable dishes, there’s no reason why a Noom type and an “other” type of non-medical-restriction dieter can’t make it work for one damn meal.[/b]

Restrictions and allergies are one thing. Mysterious, moving-target preferences and “just kidding now I DO eat sweet potatoes” dieters are quite another.[/quote]

+1 My DD has a gluten sensitivity but we don't ask the relatives who host Thanksgiving to do anything special. I'll bring a GF dessert that she can eat since otherwise it's all pies. But other than that she can eat turkey and ham (SIL always has both), deviled eggs, vegetables, mashed potatoes. The only place that might have non-obvious gluten is gravy and a vegetable casserole that might use flour as a thickener but DD doesn't eat those anyway.

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