Easy things to serve teen's friends for dinner besides pizza?

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you suggesting Chick-Fil-A, are you talking about your teens’ friends or your church meetings?

What? Teens love platter of nuggets or sandwiches.

Not all of them do. Most of my circle refuses to eat Chick-Fil-A for many reasons.

Well then can bring their own sandwich.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sloppy joes.
"chili dogs" option by having hot dogs and they can put sloppy joe on them or just have plain sloppy joe sandwiches.
Serve with chips, some fruit, salad if it's a salad crowd.
Cookies or brownies for dessert.

I haven’t had a sloppy joe in ages! Totally going to make these for the next teen gathering

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of you suggesting Chick-Fil-A, are you talking about your teens’ friends or your church meetings?

What? Teens love platter of nuggets or sandwiches.

Not all of them do. Most of my circle refuses to eat Chick-Fil-A for many reasons.

Well then can bring their own sandwich.

Bad host!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I make homemade macaroni and cheese and throw bacon or cut up hot dogs and teen boys scarf that up. Super cheap and easy.

What! I have incredibly low standards for grub, but macaroni and cheese with cut up hot dogs? No thanks!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I make homemade macaroni and cheese and throw bacon or cut up hot dogs and teen boys scarf that up. Super cheap and easy.

What! I have incredibly low standards for grub, but macaroni and cheese with cut up hot dogs? No thanks!

Not the PP but my kids love it. Nathans and Mac they call it, but it has to be crispy Mac n cheese - not liquid cheesy stuff.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of you suggesting Chick-Fil-A, are you talking about your teens’ friends or your church meetings?

What? Teens love platter of nuggets or sandwiches.

Not all of them do. Most of my circle refuses to eat Chick-Fil-A for many reasons.

Oh well. Plenty for the rest of us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of you suggesting Chick-Fil-A, are you talking about your teens’ friends or your church meetings?

What? Teens love platter of nuggets or sandwiches.

Not all of them do. Most of my circle refuses to eat Chick-Fil-A for many reasons.

Well then can bring their own sandwich.

Bad host!!

You eat what the host serves as a good guest. Everyone knows that. PPs kids probably demolish those nuggets when she’s not around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I make homemade macaroni and cheese and throw bacon or cut up hot dogs and teen boys scarf that up. Super cheap and easy.

What! I have incredibly low standards for grub, but macaroni and cheese with cut up hot dogs? No thanks!

Are you a teenage boy? Because my sons would devour that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of you suggesting Chick-Fil-A, are you talking about your teens’ friends or your church meetings?

What? Teens love platter of nuggets or sandwiches.

Not all of them do. Most of my circle refuses to eat Chick-Fil-A for many reasons.

For what reason? The Chick-Fil-A boycott worked. The company caved and changed its practices. Continuing to boycott communicates that changing its practices was a mistake.

[Anonymous]

My DS loves to host board game nights, so we'll end up with 5-6 extra 16yo boys for dinner on a day's notice. Some easy things we've done that have gone over well:

Pulled pork or chicken in the instant pot (or crock pot, but that takes more planning ahead). Buns, tub of grocery store coleslaw, cornbread.

Tacos or fajitas (whoever said there's never enough food just doesn't know how to plan - I cooked 4 lbs of ground beef into taco meat, or grilled 2 lbs skirt steak plus 3 lbs chicken for fajitas, and it was more than enough for 6 teens). Tortillas, salsa, lettuce, cheese, sour cream, beans, Mexican rice.

Any baked pasta dish - mac & cheese, baked ziti, lasagna - with garlic bread and salad

Chili and baked potatoes (better in the winter than now)

Ordered from Moby Dicks

Couple of whole chickens from the Peruvian chicken place down the street, with mashed potatoes or rice, and whatever frozen vegetable bags I can find in the freezer.

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you suggesting Chick-Fil-A, are you talking about your teens’ friends or your church meetings?

75% plus of the kids who work at the Chick-fil-A near us are LGBTQ and very obvious about it so my queer teen and all of their friends are very comfortable eating there

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you suggesting Chick-Fil-A, are you talking about your teens’ friends or your church meetings?

75% plus of the kids who work at the Chick-fil-A near us are LGBTQ and very obvious about it so my queer teen and all of their friends are very comfortable eating there

Keep telling yourself that.

[Anonymous]

Pasta, burritos, nachos, burgers. And snacks. Lots of snacks.

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A bucket of fried chicken, bakes beans, chips, rice

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Anonymous wrote:Or just make a bunch of taco meat. Salsa, sour cream, lettuce, cheeses, guac, black olives (we like them on our tacos). Mexican rice and black beans on the side.

Have hard shells, soft shells, and extra lettuce for those who want to make a salad. Could also have tortilla scoops for nacho makers.

Do not do this

It never works out never enough food

Not the PP but I’ve done this a ton of times and it’s always been plenty.

I’ve also done ground beef, 3 packages of cooked taco rice, dump a container of pico and stir until warm. Put shredded taco cheese on top until melted. Plop some on a plate and eat with chips - sour cream and guac on side.

How much ground beef do you make? I agree taco 🌮 never seems like there is enough or people fighting over the taco meat.