Lactose Intolerant, Vegetarian

[joannie10]

Can anyone help. In my office I help arrange working buffet lunches. One visitor expected is vegetarian and lactose intolerant. Can anyone suggest what we can offer as I dont feel the catering company has come up with much. This is really just to be finger food - not sit down lunch. I have thought something like sandwiches with chargrilled veg - ensuring no butter or anything, or vegetable/fruit kebabs. Would that be suitable - any other ideas? I dont really have much knowledge on the subject as you will notice.

many thanks

[Pea Pod]

I think you may have to offer a salad bowl,as most commercial breads contain milk. This cuts out offering any type of sandwich.

[aurelia]

I have recentlyeen diagnosed as lactose intoleraqnt. all the supermaqrkets sell dairy-free margarines made from soya or sunflower oil - which actually taste fine. I have not been advised that I can't eat bread. I jus assumed that commerical bread didn't have milk i it whears homemead does.

Vegetable crudites would be fine with a dairy-free dip. Alpro Soya do a large tub of natural dairy-free yoghurt - whih you could add garlic paste or something too to give a bit of flavour. I thinkhummus doesn't contain dairy but not too sre as I've not checked it ou yet. There are a lot of vegan things availale now which woukld be suitable for a lactose-intolerant vegetarian as that is effectivly the sdame as a vegan. there are man alternatives to dairy-free which I have never noticed before such as dairy-free cream and oat milk and rice milk which are an alternative to soya milk.

Luckily I'm not vegetarian so can eat meat as well. could you get vegetrian sausages o something - you know like cocktail type - there are quite a number of vegetariaqn pretenders to meat aailable including quorn.

Nuts and crisps should be ok and raisins - my family in france put peanuts and raisins together as an appetiser and nuts are very healthy and the sweet an saltiness together go together really well - my mouth's watering remembering the taste

[Jugglering]

Hi Joannie

I'm going to assume that people don't want to be cooking stuff but that you want to be able to go to a supermarket and just buy a load of stuff suitable for your visitor (let us know if someone is prepared to cook from scratch and I'm sure we can come up with suitable recipes). As lactose intolerant means no milk or cheese, can we can assume that a vegan lunch would be alright ?

Tortillas and pitta breads don't contain milk (at least the one's I've always bought from T--s-o's don't !) - they can be the carb part of the lunch, esp nice if served warm.

Hummus (chick pea pat�) should be vegan, as should be a three bean salad. There is protein in the chick peas and the beans, so they are both nutritious dishes. You might want to check with your visitor as to whether s/he will eat quorn or soya burgers (I'm veggie and dislike both but a lot of vegans/veggies are happy to eat them). As others above have said, include a salad bowl, rice salad, couscous salad or tabouleh (cracked wheat salad) if you can get them, plus plenty of fruit for pud. Bananas are good to have too for the extra carbs.

[bebo]

hi joanne.you have proberly done your shopping by now for the office lunch.but for people on special diets sainsbury`s sell bread called free from.i have posted a link below to give you an idea.

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/food/foodandfeatur es/sainsburysandfood/ourranges/Free+From1.htm