Hosting a pre-Halloween meetup in yard

[Anonymous]

Cheese pizza, double-cut.
Several buckets of chicken from a fast food place.
A cooler with juice boxes and beer.

If you have a crock pot or similar, a pot of warm apple cider, plus some bourbon or rum on the side for grown ups. Paper cups.

Napkins, paper plates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crock pot of chili seems to be a favorite in our neighborhood. I wouldn't judge if you just ordered pizza.

Planning to do chicken strips from pietanza and maybe some pizza. Crockpot with warm cider. The question is, how much pizza? How many tenders? Ya know?

We need to know how many people you are expecting, and the adult/kid ratio, before we can make recommendations on quantity. Ya know?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you have access, either yourself or borrowing from some of the attendees, two crockpots? I would do a couple crockpots of chili, one with cooked chicken nuggets to keep them warm, one with macaroni and cheese, and last year the biggest hit was a neighbor who baked a few cookie sheets worth of cheese quesadillas and then sliced them into triangles and kept them warm in a crockpot. Super easy to grab on the run.

Sheet pan quesadillas sounds interesting. How are they warmed in the crock pot without all sticking together? Do you need to individually wrap each one?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pizza is fine. I wouldn't get Chick-Fil-A, lots of people don't support them. Just buy some frozen nuggets and heat them in your oven.

Meh, I live in a DC gayborhood and someone always brings a Chik Fil A platter to our potlucks. They are scarfed up but there are a lot of kids and bears in our hood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do more pizza and tenders than you think you need. You can just give them out to the first trick or treaters who come by if you don't want leftovers. But clear out space in your fridge for leftovers to nibble on Monday and Tuesday.

Please don’t hand out pizza and nuggets to TOTers!

[Anonymous]

Costco’s Just Bare nuggets are a fabulous sub for chick fil a. Much cheaper.

[Anonymous]

Not sure why there are always so many chili suggestions. I think this is an at home/family only dish. Messy to serve, some people can’t handle spicy and kids are not interested.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure why there are always so many chili suggestions. I think this is an at home/family only dish. Messy to serve, some people can’t handle spicy and kids are not interested.

+1 I’m always surprised how this is the go to suggestion on this site. Plus most people cannot make decent chili.