"Terry Pulliam Burd" wrote
> "Michael \"Dog3\"" wrote

>>Sure. I always have a containers etc. on hand for that very purpose. I
>>generally ask people if they would *please* take something home. I tend

> Ditto. I mainly send food home with our (grown) kids. One of 'em is
> always on the verge of financial Armageddon and another of 'em can't
> cook to save herself. I do, however, stock up on disposable containers
> when they're on sale. The miserable brats keep "losing" my Tupperware
> in their cupboards.

Grin, with our smallish set group everyone just brings whatever is handy and
if they didnt have something, they know where the 'ziplock baggies' are here
in my kitchen as well as the old soda cracker tin jar where we stuff plastic
grocery bags so they can load their containers in those.

We range from the 'fairly affluant' to 'dirt poor' and the 'can cook' to
the 'ohmyghodcanIjustbringsodas'? sort.

4th of July is shaping up now. Folks are listing if they plan to come and
what they will bring. Since none of us know just how many total will arrive
yet, we seem to have devolved on '20 servings' for a bunch of stuff. Sad
tale but a local lady with 3 kids (ages 3-7) lost her husband 3 weeks ago.
No insurance and she has no job. Little savings. So, we are making extra
(hoping she will accept it, normally she just takes a little bit as it it
was 'wrong' to take too much so we planned a lot of 'too much leftovers'
this time).

I'm making a southern 'burgoo' (3G of it) (2 of her kids positively inhale
this)
I'll have 4 loaves of fresh breadmaker machine bread (happy to have 2
machines!)
40 live crabs if they have that many on 3 JUL at local Asian market
7lb duck baked with seasoning

Others bring (almost all precooked):
40 chicken thighs, 2 recipes
20 chicken wings, buffalo style medium hot
20 chicken drums, cajun seasoned baked
25lb spiral cut ham, baked with honey and cloves
10lb 'beef hunk' (cut not determined, no idea if cooked yet or how if so)
15 lbs ground beef made to 1/2 lb patties, to be made at the time
2 packs of 10 each hot dogs, to be made at the time
10lbs cleaned squid rings, to be made at the time
24 hot dog rolls and 36 hamburger rolls
10 heads of lettuce, delivered raw as is, shredded at need at party
35 ears of corn in husk (pre-soaked in water)
6-12 green bell peppers (yard grown local by us-all, variable if ready)
12-24 tomatoes (yard grown by us-all, variable if ready)
6 big onions, red/purple, vidalia, white, delivered whole
10lbs idaho potatoes, delivered whole
5lbs sweet potatoes, pre-baked
15 various sized jars of home made jellies/jams
3 various fruit pies
4 jello or pudding 'confections'
2 watermelons, pre-cut
Odd lots of fruit

9 families so far, and still building list. Estimate 36 people but more
meat than 36 can eat by far. Can easily feed 50. Havent got the cassarole
etc type lists in yet.
Wanna bet we have leftovers? Heck, we planned for them! Grin, the local
'sodaguy' is just waiting to see what everyone wants.

Still planning so the gaps arent filled in yet.