Cheer me up with gluten-free, fat-free Christmas food ideas please!

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Am feeling very sorry for myself.... I'm coeliac but was looking forward to making lots of lovely g-f mince pies and having trifle for Christmas day pud, as well as the usual crisps, chocolate etc... but I've just had my first (and I bloody well hope last) gallstones attack that saw me admitted to A&E over the weekend. So until I have my gallbladder out I need to be fat-free or as low fat as possible.

Any idea for Christmas nibbles to cheer me up? So far I'm thinking jelly, meringues and Haribo...

Hopeful bump...

poor thing - must have been so painful

pears poached in red wine with cinnamon
grilled peaches
fig tart with a few flaked almonds on gf base

Ooh thanks - I wouldn't have thought of any of those - the pears sound nice.

watching this with interest - DSFIL is a coelic, diabetic vegetarian

Blonde - diabetes is the one illness I worry about. I also have PCOS and Graves disease so seem to collect auto immune disorders!

I had to take my own food to the works Xmas do last night - which was fine but felt a bit stupid and didn't have any pud...

Will keep thinking - there are fat-free cake recipes out there, I've just never had to try them before - might give one a whirl...

And I've decided to have turkey and rice on Xmas day instead of having mash or boiled potatoes - which frankly was starting to feel like a punishment!

Oops - Blondie - sorry

Doesn't Nigella do a clementine cake made with ground almonds instead of flour? I think you simmer the clementines and use them whole or something mad like that. Anyway, I have had a slice when my friend made it and it was flipping lush!

Ooh - I just had a look and it looks promising but I'm not sure I'm able to tolerate eggs. . Because I don't know what might trigger another gallstones attack I'm trying to be really careful and eggs are higher fat than I'm attempting to stick to.

Think I'll have to abandon all thoughts of cake for the moment. Wish I liked fruit more - I eat it but a bit of me still sees it as a punishment...

If the fruit is on top of a meringue would it feel like less of a punishment?

It sounds like you are doing really well with the fatless thing even if it is driving you crazy.

My mum makes gluten free cakes by substituting flour for a mix of half rice flour and half ground almonds, she did a fat free one the other day and it was amazing. I think it was just a bog standard fat free cake recipe but I'll check with her and let you know. She also has a sticky toffee pudding recipe which is somehow fat free, but again tastes indulgent (loads of dates and sugar in it).

Can you have the very low fat yogurts? Muller light and that kind of thing? Some fat free cakes can be a bit dry and something slushy to go on the top should help.

I'm really sorry the sticky toffee and cake recipes both contain eggs.

i like lots of the recipes on the Intolerant Gourmet site, and she has some great links to other gluten free sites and blogs

www.theintolerantgourmet.com

I've recently made the hot smoked salmon pate, which would be great at Xmas.

Brilliant - thanks everyone. I haven't seen that website before so will check it out. Yes I'm trying to be no/low fat - so far so good but some variety would be good - had meringues and fruit jelly tonight at my mum's tonight which was lovely, but I got the feeling that was going to be the only pud I'll be getting for the foreseeable as neither of us could come up with much else!

Turkish delight?

ooooooh - I love Turkish Delight Will check the ingredients but thank you - good thought!