Cold Sunday Lunch

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I have invited a distant relative to lunch next week, as they will be in the area. When I asked if they had any dietary requirements, the reply was “we only eat cold food”. (I was expecting veggie, GF, Dairy free etc. I can deal with all of that) My teens will have been out doing outdoor sports and will want something warm and substantial. I’ll be with them, so I need something I can make in advance. And DH can’t eat raw veg.

Any ideas please?

Sandwiches for them, usual whatever for the rest of you!!

Take them at their word and do a ploughman’s lunch - cheese, ham, crusty bread, pickles, a quiche, etc.

Antipasti bits for them and your usual Sunday plans for dinner?

quiche and salads?

Could you do an anti pasto style platter for them and then your usual for family and kids?

That’s blooming weird!!

Quiche is a good shout - cold for them warm for your lot. With various salads and cooked veg and tell your lot that the salads are mainly for the guests.

Make roast dinner, but give them cold meat and cold boiled potatoes and salad while you all have the hot version!

If you want a plated meal..
Make a fresh chopped salad after sport.
Make another salad the night before - like a caulslaw, potato or bean salad.
Serve salads with cold meat such as a chicken, cold cooked rissoles or sliced ham.

Otherwise serve baggettes with cold toppings.

Make a pot of soup for those who are cold from sport.

I think I would want more details tbh.

As in – if you all have roast chicken and veg, will they be happy eating that but cold?

Or (seems more likely tbh) do they mean they only eat certain types of food which are usually served cold? as in they live on yogurt and salad and cold ham and hummus and pasta salad? Still weird tho.

But I think you will have to prep theirs separately. Bonus is that (since it is cold) you can have it sitting in the fridge while you heat up the delicious chilli/curry/lasagne the rest of you will eat.

Ask them, they haven't specified what food they eat, only the temperature.

I think quiche, salad and jacket spuds will be the way to go. I was trying to avoid quiche, because I wanted to do apple pie for pud, but obviously ice cream is colder!

I’d do a joint of meat cut some and allow to cool to have with salad, baguette or similar and cold new potatoes, keep the rest warm and do some hot roast vegetables and potatoes. I do meals like this often as my sister won’t eat anything that’s been hot but has cooked. I sometimes do gravy as well or something like a salsa verde.

Just get them a bag of ice cubes.

I would do a platter of meats and cheeses, salads and bread. Then supplement with jacket potatoes to warm your family up.

Make a big pot of soup or chili for your family and serve it hot, with a separate plate of cold cooked meats, cheese, bread and fruit for your relative.

Sandwich bar - have bread rolls, a few fillings, condiments and crisps available so they can make their own, I’d also do a big batch of soup in the slow cooker that your DH/DC can have.

My grandmother would always say “oh just something cold & easy” when people asked her what she would like to eat, she was a classic “silent generation” women who would shudder at thought of people going out of their way for her so she felt this was easy answer to give someone, albeit not always the answer people wanted 🙈

M&S quiches would be my go-to, with salad, nice bread and cheese.

Love this!

I’d very much be asking more questions about that one. Are they on a raw diet? Is there a dietary reason on it to help guide you?

it just sounds so batshit that it feels like there should be something behind it. Or they are trying to be ultra polite and not put you out?

meats and cheeses always pleases, throw in a salad and some nice bread and call it done.

Agree you need to know what they mean here. I'd never eat quiche cold so that's not cold food to me.

Ask them for examples but mix up hot and cold food so everyone else won't feel they're missing out on a decent meal.

This is possibly one of the most bizarre answers I have ever heard to "Any dietary requirements?" And it''s more than one person in the same family who won't eat hot food? How bonkers!

How strange. Could you prepare a salad using cooked veg that you serve at room temperature? The quiche or cheese/bread ideas would be a good pairing.

It feels like this request is not actually about cold food! Something else going on that you're not being told about.

Did you not ask why only cold food ? Honestly id just do a cold salad and maybe have soup on the go for anybody who wants it.

Or sandwhiches and you have dinner at night.

Why on earth should everyone else have to eat a cold meal when the plans is usually a proper roast? Agree with pp, roast as normal for everyone else, they can have salad/sandwiches!