{"id":90,"date":"2006-12-05T20:40:31","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T19:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2006-12-05T20:40:31","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T19:40:31","slug":"nearly-time-for-school-christmas-dinner-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/nearly-time-for-school-christmas-dinner-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly time for school Christmas Dinner again &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My coeliac daughter would love to have Christmas Dinner at school with everybody else next week.  Not so much because she likes the food &#8211; she doesn&#8217;t, she&#8217;s verging on the vegetarian &#8211; but because she wants to eat off a tray, like the others do.<\/p>\n<p>So, once again, I&#8217;m going in to discuss with the staff whether this is feasible.  I&#8217;ve seen the menu, and I don&#8217;t think its going to work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>turkey and stuffing (stuffing &#8211; no!)<\/li>\n<li>roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, vegetables (all OK, unless the roasts have been tossed in flour by the caterers to make them crispy &#8211; always a possibility.  And I seem to remember that the mashed potatoes are dodgy too)<\/li>\n<li>gravy (probably not OK)<\/li>\n<li>christmas pudding (no chance)<\/li>\n<li>white sauce (eew &#8211; and not gluten free)<\/li>\n<li>iced chocolate stars (I&#8217;m guessing these are biscuits &#8211; so no, again)<\/li>\n<li>mince pies (not a hope)<\/li>\n<li>satsuma (yes! she could eat this!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think?  If the turkey hasn&#8217;t been prestuffed with the stuffing, then her meal could be plain turkey, no gravy, various vegetables and a satsuma.  If it has been, then its just the vegetables and a satsuma! Not very celebratory, but if the whole point of the event is to eat off the tray, then perhaps this won&#8217;t matter &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I could send in a homemade mince pie.  Or perhaps just ask the staff if she could use a tray for her packed lunch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My coeliac daughter would love to have Christmas Dinner at school with everybody else next week. Not so much because she likes the food &#8211; she doesn&#8217;t, she&#8217;s verging on the vegetarian &#8211; but because she wants to eat off a tray, like the others do. So, once again, I&#8217;m going in to discuss with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[163,158,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-90","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-gf-christmas","7":"category-gluten-free-child","8":"category-living-gluten-free","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}