Party food for child with food allergies

[misshardbroom]

I wonder if anyone could give me some advice or ideas about this?

My DS is having his birthday party this weekend and I'm hoping to do a sit-down lunch for the children (there's 7 of them): was thinking pizza, garlic bread, houmous, raw veg to dip in it, possibly a few home made chicken goujon / nugget type things.

DS's best friend cannot have gluten, dairy or egg.

Can I have any suggestions about what I could do for him which would meet all his needs without 'singling him out'?

I have a box of pizza base mix which is gluten, dairy & egg free - is there any sort of vegan cheese that could go on this to make a pizza he could eat?

Is there any way of making chicken goujons / nuggets with a gluten free coating and without egg to stick the coating on?

What about sweet stuff? Was thinking of doing jelly which I know his mum gives him, any other ideas? And are your gluten-free children normally given a piece of cake to bring home, or do people give them something else instead?

Obviously, I'll run all this past his mum first, but I know what she's like: she's so conscious of not wanting to make extra work for people that she'll just say 'no no, don't worry, I'm sure there'll be something OK for him'. I thought it might be better to be able to suggest specific things and ask her if it sounds OK.

Any help gratefully received!

vegan cheese is all vile, i tend to make pizzas without, although i put homemade pesto on it to make it tastier. might not work with young guest though

you could do strips of chicken and use soya milk to stick breadcrumbs on, it might not be as successful as egg, but i'm sure it'd work

you can buy a lovely dairy-free ice cream called swedish glace, most supermarkets stock it now

It's really thoughtful of you to do this. You can buy vegan cheese a like in health food shops for the pizza. You could get some gf rolls (the DS or Bercoli ones are best) and make garlic bread for him with dairy free spread.

Jelly would be enough sweet stuff I'm sure, especially if cake isn't being eaten at the party. There are some fab vegan chocolate cake recipes around if you fancied having a go at that

How about the sainsburys no gluten no dairy no egg (i think) chocolate bars you get in the free from section? I think they are kinnerton, black wrapper with big coloured dots on, they don't taste half bad!

This is really helpful, thank you all for your answers. I'm lucky that none of my children have any (known) allergies, so I'd hate to make this little one unwell!

My dairy/egg allergic Ds loves pizza with tomato sauce (even Dolmio works quite well)
and pepperoni or ham (no cheese at all). It also works well on a bread roll split open under the grill so could work on a gluten free bread roll. We tried one of the gluten free base mixes but it was very very tough and crunchy to eat!!

hope the party went well.

When my child's gluten free friend comes we often have sainsburys or birds eye beefburgers. They are not all dairy free but if you check boxes some are just meat and flavouring and are fine. You can also get Sainsburys gluten free fish fingers if the child will eat them. We buy ordinary and gluten free jaffa cakes so all the children have something similar looking (gluten free aren't very nice so non-gluten free prefer the others) and make popcorn. Don't know if the jaffa cakes are egg free.

I've made gluten free victoria sponge with apricot jam and ready roll icing but most of the children weren't impressed. I've made gluten free rich fruit cake recently and that was better. We don't have to worry about egg but you can buy egg replacer or use oil.