Feeding 8 people quick after an evening event

[Anonymous]

I have to feed inlaws and my own family of 5 after an evening event - we likely won't be home until after 8 pm and everyone, especially the kids, will be starving. Any suggestions of what I can have ready to serve super quick? I can do prep work earlier in the day or week.

[Anonymous]

I'd order pizza on the way home so you swing by and pick it up, and prep a salad earlier in the day.

[Anonymous]

I'd either do something that tastes good cold and can be premade. Like roast or grilled chicken, potato salad, fruit salad, veggie tray.

Or something in the crockpot like chili or Smitten Kitchen's pizza beans.

Or I'd make a nice pasta sauce (bolognese is always a hit here), and then just boil pasta or ravioli and a bagged caesar salad.

[Anonymous]

This is what pizza or Chinese food was made for

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is what pizza or Chinese food was made for

Yup. A Mamma Lucia’s pizza kind of night.

[Anonymous]

Pizza for the win.

[Anonymous]

I like the serve cold idea, particularly as it gets warmer. Grilled chicken as PP said. Something that’s lovely is cold poached salmon with a dill yogurt cucumber sauce. Baguette and a colorful roasted veggie dish would go well. Could go with a cold couscous salad - easy peasy. Grill some veg earlier in the week for some other meal (any kind - red pepper, zucchini, onion…), chop them small with lots of mixed herbs including mint, throw together with lemon juice, olive oil, dried cranberries, salt/pepper and you’re done. If grilled chicken I’d serve with tzatziki and hummus and tomato/cucumber salad and warm pita bread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like the serve cold idea, particularly as it gets warmer. Grilled chicken as PP said. Something that’s lovely is cold poached salmon with a dill yogurt cucumber sauce. Baguette and a colorful roasted veggie dish would go well. Could go with a cold couscous salad - easy peasy. Grill some veg earlier in the week for some other meal (any kind - red pepper, zucchini, onion…), chop them small with lots of mixed herbs including mint, throw together with lemon juice, olive oil, dried cranberries, salt/pepper and you’re done. If grilled chicken I’d serve with tzatziki and hummus and tomato/cucumber salad and warm pita bread.

I would not be pleased to come home hungry after 8 pm to cold salmon and couscous.

[Anonymous]

Pulled pork in the crockpot, paired with cucumber salad, potato salad and/or cut up fruit. Buy/purchase the sides ahead of time. When you hit the front door, kids set the table, someone else shreds the pork, a third sets out rolls and bbq sauce while other pour drinks. Dinner on the table in 10 minutes.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know when the event starts but I would probably do dinner before the event, even if that means eating at 4pm. I would do snacks after.

[Anonymous]

I’d do thick deli sandwiches, salad, and roasted veggies to heat up in the microwave.

[Anonymous]

NY Times Chicken Shawarma with cut up veggies, hummus, and pita. All can be prepared ahead of time. I also usually have cheese cubes for the kids.

[Anonymous]

What evening event doesn’t serve any food? If there truly is no food, I’d bring snacks for the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pizza for the win.

If I have something prepped at my house I can get it on the table so much faster than driving out of way waiting for pizza my way and waiting for pizza pick up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What evening event doesn’t serve any food? If there truly is no food, I’d bring snacks for the kids.

Most sporting events, school concerts, recitals, middle school graduation. Just to name a few evening events I’ve been through.