Party food platter for a 5 year old dairy allergic vegetarian boy - HELP!

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This little boy is attending dd's birthday party on Tuesday.

His mum very kindly offered to prepare some food to give to him at the party - and like a fool I say "No, no -won't hear of it. I'm sure I can rustle something suitable up"

But actually I am fairly stumped. Non diary I can do, and vegetarian I can do - but both together is something else!

Have got as far as crudites with dips - houmous etc, and fruit; but it's not very partyish.

I suppose crisps are fine (no dairy in those, surely?)

What interesting filling can I put in sandwiches. Also the bread will have to be special 'free from' bread won't it (because regular bread would contain some diary?)

Any good non diary cakes I can make?

Sorry to be obtuse!

never come across any houmous with dairy in

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Anyway moving on

HMC I applaud you for sorting this out for the family

good on you

You can make hummus easily enough , never used dairy in mine, basically puredd chickpeas and garlic but can use Tahini best avoided for non-allergy version. Marmite and cucumber sarnies, fruit/veg sticks, mini pizza (no cheese) with veg

Yes, I agree with F&Z. I know that ds's vegan friend went to several parties where the parents didn't bother and he ended up with a few crisps and some grapes.

And don't forget if you are doing party bags and including any sweets/snacks as part of it to include something that is dairy-free and vegetarian (i.e. no milk chocolate, or sweets that contain gelatin)

Mayo is normally vegetarian and dairy-free, too.

I have lots of dairy-free cakes I can recommend - are you planning to bake one?

Thanks again everybody - I feel I've got a plan now!

Oh btw - this little boy is unusually bright and very advanced. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it wasn't his own decision to become vegetarian. I can quite easily imagine him objecting to the fact that meat is from dead animals.

Fortunately for me, my children are not quite so clued up and aware