How many donuts for people coming over the day after Thanksgiving?

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Anonymous wrote:Who are these people who assume all teen boys pig out? My teen son is athletic, eats healthy, and works out. He's not stuffing his face with 3 donuts and neither do his other athlete friends.

Not buying this post

You're projecting. A lot of us raise kids with self control who truly care about their fitness and health (mental and physical). Wolfing down several donuts is a poor person thing, I'm sorry.

Very convincing.

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This thread is hysterical! I keep coming back to it. Congrats OP you may become DCUM famous.

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Anonymous wrote:OP it's really sad that people are traveling from your house in Nowheresville along a two hour road that has no stops; just tumbleweeds, on the way to Obliviontown.

Nope. Absolutely nowhere to stop and get whatever they need On Their Own.

2 dozen donuts are fine. People are so entitled.

The whole thing is weird. They are all meeting Friday morning to separately drive 2 hours to visit someone else? Why not just meet there. My kids would be annoyed at having to get up extra early to do this and don't care about donut that much to need 3-4 they would rather sleep longer.

Op here. The other family is not local. They’ve flown in and rented a car. We are here in the General region, so familiar with the route to the other home. They plan to follow us in their rental car.

Because this is grab and go, I’m thinking whatever is simplest. I pictured everyone could grab and go with the donut, cup of coffee, juice, milk, water. No heating required, no silverware needed, kids don’t need help to eat it, etc.. just how many would be needed. Donuts don’t keep well for days in my experience they get hard and dry pretty quickly.

In keeping it grab and go, I did consider fruit though I’ve seen a few comments of not liking bananas or oranges which are probably the easiest grab and go fruits. Maybe apples too? I’m not sure of dairy vs. soy preferences for yogurts but I could grab a mix of both packs. There’s a nut allergy so nuts are out. Eggs to the other points raised are a variable in how people like them cooked, bagels may be as well? Toasted vs. Not toasted, types or flavors of cream cheese, flavors of bagels, kids need help cutting the unsliced ones. Less of a quick if you’re interested in one grab it choice.

Overall, I’m seeking something to offer that is very easy to grab and go. That would appeal to mixed age group and wouldn’t need much if any customization.

Stick with the original plan

There appears to be a lot of parents of the 5 and under set, plus some with weird eating fears, posting on this thread.

2 fozen donuts and coffee sound like a plan.

If they don't eat all of them, throw the extras in a baggie to take in the car, or just toss them.

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Anonymous wrote:An orange is not an easy grab and go fruit - if you are planning to eat it.

They would peel it in the car, where the orange will dribble juice while they are picking the skin off in pieces. Now there are 20 pieces of orange skin - is there a trash bag? Then they break the orange in sections, creating more juice and now their hands are sticky. While they are eating it, there are possible seeds that need to be spit out.

The only "easy" grab and go fruits are banana, apple, pear and seedless grapes. And all of these would need a trash bag. The easiest fruit option is to put mixed berries in sandwich size Ziplocs.

Agree.

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Anonymous wrote:How did this thread get to 13 pages?

People who have weird anti food hangups found the thread.

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A dozen is enough

Donuts are sugary and they’ll be eating later.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is hysterical! I keep coming back to it. Congrats OP you may become DCUM famous.

OP wins 2 dozen no added sugar, gluten-free donuts.

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Anonymous wrote:1 dozen and cut them in half = 24 portions. Nobody needs a gigantic donut in the morning, it's not like your coddled guests are going to work in an oil field in the blazing sun burning 2,000 calories.

I just checked the Dunkin site, and their donuts range in calories from 270-350. This is not actually particularly caloric.

But multiply by 3 because people are suggesting that some guests will eat three.

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Donuts for family is a prole tell.

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Anonymous wrote:1 dozen and cut them in half = 24 portions. Nobody needs a gigantic donut in the morning, it's not like your coddled guests are going to work in an oil field in the blazing sun burning 2,000 calories.

I just checked the Dunkin site, and their donuts range in calories from 270-350. This is not actually particularly caloric.

But multiply by 3 because people are suggesting that some guests will eat three.

Of course some will.

There are multiple teen boys in the group.

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If they have toppings or frosting on them, I might eat a bite, not even half luke almond mom.

If they are plain Krispy Kreme hot and fresh, I could easily polish off 3 in like 6 bites.

[Anonymous]

How about scrambled eggs inside burritos. You can have them individually wrapped in foil. People have brought a tray of them to work before and they were hot and delicious.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is hysterical! I keep coming back to it. Congrats OP you may become DCUM famous.

OP wins 2 dozen no added sugar, gluten-free donuts.

With a salad

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is hysterical! I keep coming back to it. Congrats OP you may become DCUM famous.

OP wins 2 dozen no added sugar, gluten-free donuts.

With a salad

Or an asparagus spear?

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Anonymous wrote:Donuts do not have to be bought by the dozen.

Get 18 donuts and call it a day.

The purpose of having more than enough for guests is so that each is comfortable having as much as they want without worry. If there are a few extra, it was the right amount. And people will come back and pick at those later.

They are grabbing and going. Where are they putting a trio of sticky donuts to eat on the way in the car?

I'm so glad we've moved on from contents of the grab and go to the implementation of the grab and go. It has been tearing me up inside on how this will actually play out. Oranges are drippy. Yogurt is messy. Don't even get me started on donuts. And OP came back (I love that she keeps coming back to the crazy) and mentioned there is a rental car involved!

That means deposit! Insurance! Cleaning fee! Discuss.