Comments on: Feed A Crowd For Less

By: margo

margo — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:27:14 +0000

great post! I’ve used Ellen’s Kitchen before. We host community meals every week at our church, so sometimes I help with that.

By: Miss Mary

Miss Mary — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:41:34 +0000

These are great ideas. If I need to cook for that many people, I break out my trusty “Food for Fifty.” It is the classic book for catering. It is the book that I used “back in the day” in cooking class.

Usually, you can find it at used.addall.com – my go to site for out of print books – for about $5 plus shipping. (I am not affiliated with this or any other website, but it is an outstanding tool to research prices).

I prefer older cookbooks, so I have and use the 5th edition (1971). Finding that edition for under $10 took a couple of months, but I feel like it was worth it. All of the versions have very good menus and recipes that come out well time after time. Since it is meant to be used in a “for profit” company, it uses all of the caterers tricks to keep down food costs.

By: Shannon Miller

Shannon Miller — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:03:19 +0000

I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts on this. Our extended family is pretty big so anytime we all get together it can be a challenge. My grandfather always rsed to fry fish caught from his pond so all we had to buy and make was fries, hushpuppies and coleslaw – all pretty cheap:) Now that he’s not abl to fish as often though we’re trying to branch out a bit from the tried and true to something we can afford to do as often as we’d like to get together. Our other favorite – low country boil – gets expensive. But oh it’s yummy:) And easy!

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:28:38 +0000

The More with Less cookbook by Doris Jantzen Longacre has a few good recipes arranged for a crowd, especially the baked goods recipes (my favorite cookbook, full of great recipes) and its sister book, Living More with Less has a whole chapter on frugally feeding a crowd.

For a crowd, I’m fond of pans of cornbread, big pots of soup, or something served over rice or pasta.

By: KarenE

KarenE — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:54:09 +0000

I have the Church Suppers cookbook, which is really helpful. It has good, down-home recipes, great rolls and breads.

http://www.amazon.com/Church-Suppers-Favorite-Recipes-Communities/dp/1579124534/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266882670&sr=8-1

Those are all good tips, though! We have a shared meal every week at church, but we just ask folks to bring enough to feed their own family plus another family that size. That seems to cover things when we have guests join us. Yesterday I made curried chicken on rice – a nice, inexpensive meal for a crowd.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:31:46 +0000

This is perfect, I’m signed up to feed the Lenten crowd next week after church. I’m used to cooking for ten to fifteen, but 100 will be interesting. Thanks!