Gluten and soy-free Christmas?! 😳

Question

I'm hosting Christmas this year and my dad can't eat soy or legumes, so I was going to make a seitan roast... then my sister in law texts me and says that her dr. just told her to go off gluten for the month and can I please make a gluten-free Christmas meal? 😞

Anyone have any ideas for me? I can figure out everything except for the protein centerpiece.

Answer

Girl! Welcome to my life. I can't have gluten, soy, corn, oats, dairy, chickpeas/garbanzo beans, cane sugar, or any refined sugars in general. AND I'm vegan too. It's so hard!!
As far as holiday dinners...I haven't had to cook one yet since my strict diet is fairly new. But in a few months I will have to figure it out!
All I can think of is side dishes. Obviously grilled or steamed veggies is an easy one. Just make a huge variety. Instead of the normal creamy mashed potatoes everyone does, you could do a mix of potatoes and cauliflower mashed and mix it with oil based margarine. The Earth Balance brand is the best. They have soy free options of it too. And then of course season it with salt and pepper and garlic. You could do rice. You could do sweet potatoes still, just without any dairy and you could do vegan marshmallows on there. Um...for bread or rolls there are plenty of gluten free recipes out there. For dessert you could do gluten free pie. For the crust, instead of the normal pie crust dough, there's vegan gluten free based ones out there. You just have to search around.

Gluten and soy-free Christmas?! 😳

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