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:

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.

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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!

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

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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!!

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

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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.

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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 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!

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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 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

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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.

Well then can bring their own sandwich.

I keep pasta and jarred sauce in the pantry, and frozen meatballs and shredded cheese in the freezer. Easy to pull together quickly, and easy to adjust to any size group. Picky eaters are usually fine, and easy to make vegetarian or vegan.

Anonymous wrote:Y'all are way too nice. No way am I buying sushi for a bunch of hungry teenagers. $$$$

I was thinking the same thing 😂😂

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.

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

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.