Jump to content

Recommended Posts

Having a BBQ Sunday with newish friends. Among the people needing to eat are 1x coeliac, 1x vege and trickiest of all 1x person allergic to garlic. Ideally I'd want us all to be able to eat the same thing (as opposed to different options for the different 'special' people).


Help!! I thought this would be easy to suss, but my brain has turned to mush. Hummous and pesto are out even!!

Barbequed veg. Can also find gluten frree buns from Sainsburys. The health food shop in crystal palace sells 'dragonfly' burgers which are vegetarian and gluten free (amd do not contain dragonflies). Not sure about garlic. You'll have to look at the ingredients. You may be able to find out online. Cheese OK too.

You could do meringue, cream and fruit for desert.

Potato salad? (aren't potatoes gluten free?)

veg burgers/sausages, (but I'd make regular ones for those who do eat meat)

grilled veg (courgette, peppers, corn on cob, etc) just done with olive oil, salt and pepper on BBQ

Just don't add garlic to anything.

Good idea re having hallumi and veg kebabs as a veggie alternative.

You'll find the meat eaters want them too- they BBQ well. Best to grill slabs of it tho- and then put on the plate with the veggie stuff-they fall apart on a kebab.


Coeliac not hard- as people say there are gluten free buns (I prefer gluten free pittas that sainsburys have) but watch out for sausages. 99% are not gluten free, go for 100% meat products. Potatoes and rice all fine.


Yottam Otttolenghi does a really good salad we've adapted for brown rice: brown rice, shelled broad beans, avocado, radishes mixed together in olive oil, tsp cumin, 1/4 tsp chilli flakes, lemon juice. Really tasty. Shelling broad beans is time consuming 20 mins but worth it.


Hummus not out- make your own. Buy the big chickpeas (in foods of the world section), get tahini (no garlic in that) creme freche and oil....

This is the recipe:


http://www.thebroadbean.com/2010/07/avocado-broad-bean-and-quinoa-salad.html


Forget quinoa (expensive) - get the easy cook sainsburys brown rice. Cook whatever quantity you need until its reasonably soft (c. 30 mins) and then allow to cool. I love this salad and everyone I've made it for has really enjoyed it. It'll go nicely with BBQ'd meat.

As a coeliac vegetarian (!! I know!!) I second the haloumi idea, and you can get gluten free vegie sausages etc (usually from a health store). Maybe a rice salad would be good too - with raisins/ cashews/ veg?


If you do end up cooking other stuff too, just ensure you cook the gluten free (and vegie) stuff on a clean part of the BBQ to prevent cross contamination (not to be fussy, it's just another inconvenient fact unfortunately). Lots of dips will fit the bill too, but not sure which will not contain garlic.


Re the dessert - fruit is lovely, but don't assume the love of chocolate is any less in this group of people (I speak for myself ;) - if you would usually go for a sweet desert, then maybe a flour-less chocolate cake (check ingredients)?


I think it's great you're thinking/ planning this so well - people with special dietary needs are often made to feel like 'fussy eaters' or that they have to take their own food everywhere (often our own choice based on experience!), so it's nice they'll be able to come to your place relaxed in the knowledge you've done your research! Also - alcohol is a safe bet as being gluten/ meat and garlic free :)

Well done forum - to the rescue as ever.


I'm actually the coeliac (but quite a 'new' one so still learning).


We are having:

The rice salad from ellie78 and a few variations

vege kebabs with halloumi and yoghurt dip

some meat for the non-veges

sausages for the non-coeliacs

Lardy gluten-free brownies (the nigella ones - thanks for reminding me of the wonders of brownies)for all!

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
  • Latest Discussions

    • Why is the name a big of a red flag? Blighty is a common name for the UK whatever people might think.
    • The only election which counts is the General Election.  There is still strong resentment for fourteen year's of Conservative rule. They squeezed the working class's way to hard, then they squeezed the middle class, but somehow the upper class never got touched, funny that.   There is also new resentment for Labour because of the utter balls up they've made of things since coming to power nine months ago. The majority of the population (or at least those with an ounce of common sense) want these clowns out of office ASAP because they see the damage they are doing to UK plc. They squeezed the pensioners, then the farmers and then business. They made and broke promise after promise, or just didn't tell the truth or say what they where going to do, otherwise known as merely lying to get elected. Inflation may be falling but the cost of things in the shops and utility bills keep on rising, the direct opposite of what they promised. They will never be trusted once they are ousted from power in about four and a half years time.   Everything they do and touch causes further harm, led by three stooges, Rayner, Reeves and balls'less Starmer, who couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag. He still thinks he's a solicitor at the DPP. Rather than spending week upon week getting involved in international politics he needs to be sorting out the UK's issues, sadly he's not up to the job and nor are his Cabinet.  Society needs a mix of people with different skills to prosper, not more and more graduates who can't get jobs in what they studied in.   Reform is the current anti establishment party, which will hopefully wither away back to where it came from.  The Liberals and Greens, well what can you say apart from using them as another alternative vote of dissatisfaction, but neither will come to power.  The country seriously needs stability and a Government that stands up for and represents it's people, not what MP's want but what the constituencies want and need.  Government needs to become far more open and transparent, it needs to be seen to be doing its job, doing what MP's are elected to do,  working for the people in the constituencies, getting back to basic principles and rebuilding the trust which has been lost by successive party's immaterial of them being, red, blue, light blue, yellow, green or some other colour.     
    • That’s very insulting! You are basically calling 17 million people that voted to leave the EU ‘thick’.        Brexit happened Sue.  Boring graphs!  Calling Nigel Farage a plastic patriot is also very insulting seeing as he and the Reform Party have had a landslide victory all over England.
    • These charity collectors are often classed as chuggers.  It can be scandalous that the charity/admin may keep a huge percentage of your donations and a tiny percentage is  actually given to the charity.   I can not speak for individual collectors - but it common practice.  
Home
Events
Sign In

Sign In



Or sign in with one of these services

Search
×
    Search In
×
×
  • Create New...