please help! Catering for loads of different dietary requirements at once.

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I'm feeding 7 people on Sunday.

Person A can't eat deep fried/overly fatty foods
Person B eats fish and dairy but not meat
Person C is allergic to wheat
Person D doesn't t eat cheese
Person E doesn't eat mushrooms
Person F is 10 months old and ideally needs finger food to munch on

The last person eats more or less anything.

I thought it would be easiest to pick a national cuisine and cook 3-4 things that can be mixed and matched in a buffet/mezze style. Any ideas? I like cooking but the 10 month old is mine, so I don't have massive amounts of time.

Can't you do a roast chicken? with roast potatoes, veg, cauli cheese and yorkshires.
And piece of fish for person B?

Then everyone can have some or most of it.

All this "can't eat" stuff, is it allergy or just fussiness?

What about a paella with salad, maybe grilled chicken on the side, some olives and tomatoes and baguette slices.

Or panko prawns with a noodle dish, some rice and a fish curry. With favourite finger foods for dc.

:)

Seafood paella? With a couple of tapas style finger foods as side dishes that the 10 month old can also pick at.

X post ..... Great minds

Fish fingers and oven chips. Person C can scrape the bread crumbs off!

How about tapas? Nachos, bread with olive oil and balsamic, olives, meatballs, bit if fish and a nice big salad.

Or go Asian with somosas, spring rolls, naan bread, rice and a couple of different curries.

I was thinking about a roast but that's what I made the last time they were over. It just seems a bit boring!

Two of them are fussy, one ideologically driven (I'm not convinced how ethically pure you are if you eat fish but not meat, but anyway, I can't get person B to tuck into a nice steak!), one gets a gallstone attack thingy from high-fat foods and one has an allergy. With the 10 month old, it's just easier to get him to eat finger food with everyone else than faff around with mashing and spoon feeding.

Thanks all, I think I'll go for the paella and various sides - yum!

Mexican! cook a bowl of meat "chilli", a bowl of bean "chilli" & some spicy rice & some wraps. The chilli doesn't have to be hot, or you could add spicy heat to just half of it.

Then bowls of toppings such as lettuce, tomato, cucumber, chilli sauce, avocado, cheese, sour cream, jalapeños etc - everyone builds their own plate to suit.

We have this situation. Often we go for a BBQ - burgers etc. Have done a fry up. Middle eastern mezze. Curry is a good option too, make a few different curries, choose a variation in textures and consistencies.

Buy a raclette from Lidl.

Put out bowls of sliced veg - peppers, onions, spring onions, carrot sticks.

Add a bowl of freshly boiled new potatoes and slices of edam style cheese. A couple of eggs and just let them get on with it - obviously not the 10 month old.

You could add prawns or fish if you wanted.