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[quote=Anonymous]Plan a simple menu. Salads that have 2-3 key ingredients rather than lots of little things. Single ingredients dishes like a roasted vegetables or mashed sweet potato.

Make things that reheat well as the sides (quinoa or another grain. Roasted veggies that just need to be tossed into fresh pasta. Soup.). You can do them one at a time in the days leading up the to event. On the morning of, prep fresh things like salads. Then you should just have to time out the main dish, and reheat everything else. Then you're not dirtying things other than serving dishes.

Wash dishes as you go, or better yet have DH wash as soon as you're done with something.  Let something go and do store bought instead of homemade...bread, salad dressing etc.

Set the table the day before. Pull out serving dishes in advance and mark them with a Post-It or something so you know what's going where.  Accept help. What do you hate making or have trouble timing? Salad, dessert...have someone else do it.

Make yourself a time table, and next to each dish, the time you need to deal with it on the day of. 2pm turkey in oven. 5pm prep appetizers. 6pm guests arrive. 630 take out the turkey and put in the sides. 7 pm eat.[/quote]

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