To think that all the dietary requirements these days is taking the joy out of hosting?

[ChristmasMenuDrama]

Across my family and their partners, we have:

• Allergic to all fruit
• Allergic to nuts & seeds - won’t eat anything that “may contain” just in case.
• Allergic to Seafood
• Vegan
• Coeliac
• Legumes set off his IBS

And then there are other people who are just plain fussy like the person who won’t eat anything with cream, creamy, or that is too similar to cream in their opinion.

Then you factor in children and I start to lose the will to live.

I really try to be an accommodating host and I always find something everyone can eat eventually but is just me or is it getting worse?

It was fine when it was just one person with a “requirement” but a lot of the ones I have listed aren’t very compatible with each other.

It really takes the joy out of it when I have to keep vetoing things or replacing them with very expensive substitutes!

I’m sure it’s more joyful than making your guests ill or dead.

Eating meat or dairy products after not doing so for a long time would likely make them very unwell.

My adult son has fish and tree nut anaphylaxis, it's very easy to accommodate. But I agree with a wider list it gets tricky

Oh FGS I thought we could have one mumsnet post which doesn't mention trans kids....

They were rarer because they ate gelatine a lot.

The op mentioned many dietary requirements vegan was one. Not serving their dietary needs is rude tell them or eat out but not catering is rude. Plenty of vegans I know have no tolerance for dairy anymore so will have significant side effects of they eat dairy.