Diets, fads and frudstsration

For over 60 years I have loved hosting dinner parties and introducing friends from one of my interests to those with other hobbies, jobs, backgrounds etc. I have loved planning my menus and although not a great cook I love trying out new dishes or showing off my favourites. However, I have stopped all dinner parties now and suggest we meet at a restaurant or cafe and with the cost of living so high now and with our personal financial problems now, even those are almost non-existent. The reason I stopped being 'the hostess with the mostest" was I just could not keep up with requests to cater for guests 'special diets'. Yes, I can manage a couple of vegetarians, (even though I never met one until I came to Australia), but what on Earth do I provide for a vegan? Then another invitee says she is "dairy free" (out go all my delicious French desserts). Another stated she is on a 'plant only' diet and drinks only kombucha. Oh, but her husband is a pescatarian. Then I am told someone has to have no wheat or grains because they have just been diagnosed at the age of 65 as celiac. How did they survive so far? Other friends say "no chilli" which I can sympathise with but when he asks to bring his boss along who is Jewish and so could I cook a kosher meal - I cancelled the whole wretched event. I do sympathise with people with genuine food problems being myself very allergic to many foodstuffs, but I grew up in post War England where we were lucky to get a meal with meat and two veg every day. For many children that was the free school dinners. Food was rationed in my early years. We ate things my grandchildren think are disgusting. We often queued for items such as fresh fruit from overseas. Coming to Australia I discovered severe allergies to many fruit eg. banana, pineapple, pawpaw, melons, often ending up in hospital. However, I still abide by the rule, if you have something on your plate you dislike or cannot eat, push it to one side or, refuse politely and eat twice as much of the dish you can enjoy. So, no more dinner parties. I do not run a restaurant, nor am able to cater for every conceivable diet, allergy or fashionable fad. I am on a pension!!!!! Omnivores welcome or let's go to a restaurant and we buy our own.