Thanksgiving on a very restricted diet

[melannen]

A friend of mine is in the middle of a long process of being diagnosed with Something (is it pcos? is it mcas? is it eds? is it pots? is it me/cfs? is it neurological? is it gastrointestinal? is it all of the above? will they ever stop doing tests and start suggesting treatments? you know the kind of thing) and as a result has been put on a very restricted diet, by which I mean separate specialists have put her on:

-low fodmap
-low histamine
-low fat
-low acid
-dairy-free

We are trying to throw together something resembling an American Thanksgiving meal for her that we can all eat together. Does anyone have suggestions?

-I found a roast chicken with popcorn stuffing recipe that will work if we leave out the onion and celery and go easy on the oils
-We'll do a fruit-she-is-allowed-to-eat salad
-We can do cooked carrots
-I'm going to try to do a simple savory raspberry sauce for the chicken

Anybody have any other ideas or suggestions? (I'd especially love ideas for something like a traditional American holiday dessert that has no dairy, nuts, grains, or sweeteners...)

Comments

[stultiloquentia]

A sweet potato pie with coconut milk might fit the bill.

[melannen]

Sweet potato might work! Not sure how to do a crust, though, or a pie with no sweeteners. (I'm going to be very annoying about shooting things down, but in my defense, this diet is very annoying.)

Coconut isn't on the definitely-low-histamine list she was given, and also she's supposed to avoid anything canned for histamine reasons; I'm not sure where to get in not-canned around here. (It is a *very* annoying diet.)

[stultiloquentia]

Yeah, I figured it would be crustless, a pudding. This sort of thing. I think sweet potato is sweet enough on its own that it would be worth attempting without the sugar, even if it winds up teetering between a side dish and a dessert.

Aw, coconut wasn't on the list I googled, sorry. Can she have any of the usual non-dairy milk options?

[melannen]

I don't really understand the low-histamine list she got, tbh! It does not make logical sense (she can have popcorn but no other corn products?) so we are just following it to the letter - it seems a lot stricter than some of what's online.

I don't think she can have any of the commercial milk substitutes; most of them include things on the no list and avoiding highly-processed things in general is part of it too. (in some ways this diet converges on strict paleo too.) Also she can't have pretty much any sweeteners at all, the natural ones aren't on the fodmap list and the artificial ones aren't on the histamine list. And she can't have most spices because histamine.

I am thinking maybe an unsweetened fruit ice for dessert though! She can have raspberries and blueberries. And she just got a delivery of farm-fresh eggs from her parents' free-range birds, which she can eat and are reasonably safe raw, so we could live dangerously and even do a frozen egg white fluff with berries.

[vass]

Those fruits are are all ones that would taste good frozen whole, too.

Edit: well, balled rather than whole in the case of the cantaloupe.