Tips on making your Eid dinner inclusive

LUTHO PASIYA

With spiritual reflection and prayer, why not also mark the holiday by organising an Eid dinner for your loved ones?

EID IS a wonderful time to get friends, family, and loved ones together to celebrate the season of kindness and good deeds.

If you are organising an Eid dinner for your loved ones and you do not know where to start, we are here to help.

Plan ahead

Planning ahead can spare you valuable time that you can instead use to celebrate and fully enjoy the Eid spirit. Usually, it is just the parents and older kids who handle all the Eid chores and preparations.

This year, try to include everyone in the household with chores, have them give their input, and ask them to share their suggestions for how they want this Eid to be.

You can have a meeting with your family, where you assign each member, including young kids, a task that they will be responsible for.

Plan breakfast, lunch, and dinner on the first day instead of dumping all chores and responsibilities on an elderly person.

Choose the correct setting

The first thing to do is decide whether you will be serving a buffet or a sit-down. For maximum functionality, it might be best to serve dessert on an additional table, if you have the space, with the dining table available as a sit-down for the main meal for the elders. This will help to keep overcrowding at bay and will also elevate the entire dining scenario.

Include an assortment of food

Make sure all the food you serve can be eaten by everyone, whether it has to be kosher, or gluten-free.

Get out the best utensils

Lastly, put out the best plates, serving dishes, etc. After all, if you have a fancy cloth on the table, it has to be matched by fancy utensils.

EID is a wonderful time to get friends, family, and loved ones together to celebrate the season of kindness and good deeds. |