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zxcvbob wrote:
> wrote:
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>> I have a question for ya'll. My husband and I get together with a
>> group of friends every week to play games and hang out, and we all take
>> turn making dinner. Several of us in the group like to cook and enjoy
>> trying out new recipes, but some just bring sandwich meat and bread or
>> pizza or something easy like that. It happens occaisionally (and most
>> often when one particular group member is in charge of dinner), that we
>> run out of food. I was wondering if anyone has any good websites I
>> could forward to the group that give estimates of how much to buy/cook
>> of various things (e.g. "x pieces of chicken" or "y lbs meat" per
>> person)? .
>>
>> What got us thinking is recently, the member in question picked up
>> fried chicken and sides for dinner. No big deal, except that there are
>> 7 adults (4 men, 3 women--1 man was absent so total of 6 for the
>> night), and she got 12 pieces of chicken and two tiny sides (one might
>> have fed 2 people and the other maybe 4) plus a loaf of bakery bread.
>> There might have been 2 chicken breasts in the batch, and the rest was
>> legs, wings, and maybe a thigh. Several of us basically had bread for
>> dinner that night. She actually asked as we were all leaving if there
>> were any leftovers!
>>
>> I don't usually have trouble, since I grew up in with 4 siblings, so
>> cooking for a group is easier than cooking for 2. But others just
>> don't know portion sizes (or they think "serves 4-6" means they can
>> feed 7 adults??). I found a couple of websites that talk about feeding
>> crowds, but they're talking 20-50 people, not 7-8.
>>
>> Any help or pointers that I could pass on would be great! My challenge
>> will be to find a way to bring it up without embarrassing anyone....
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> Bring a sandwich and a Thermos of soup along and leave them in the car
> when it's her turn to cook. A really /good/ sandwich. When the food
> runs out before you've been served, you can go get yours out of the car.
> Say (as cheerfully and nonjudgmentally as possible) something like, "I
> knew you never bring enough food so I packed a lunch." HTH ;-)
>
> Bob

LOL!!! That is SOOOO funny

Roberta (in VA)