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You could do make your own sandwiches with a loaf of bread, a couple of kinds of lunchmeat, pre-sliced cheese, jar of pickles, and then you slice the tomatoes and have already washed lettuce. Bags of chips and apples, grapes, etc.,and a box of Little Debbies if you need a dessert. Lol!
Does it have to be an actual meal? I like antipasto trays with a couple of kinds of cheese, salami, pepperoni, olives, pickles, mushrooms, tomatoes, etc. It's filling.
Not too long ago, a friend could invite other friends to their home and offer a light meal of the host's choosing and within the host's budget. The guest would enjoy the meal provided by the host as a sign of hospitality even if the meal was not that person's favorite meal.
Today, the host has to spend twenty minutes with each guest trying to find out each person's real or alleged food allergy, preference, diet du jour and the like.
Op, buy a loaf of bread, various coldcuts, a brand new jar of mayo, some mustard, and people can make sandwiches. Buy some chips, bag of baby carrots, etc.
If people are willing to risk it, maybe you could chop up a tomato or onion to put in the sammiches.
Spit tea through my nose reading this.
Make your own sandwich or sub is the perfect solution.
I like the antipasto tray too. Crackers or sliced baguettes, cheese, cold cuts, olives, marinated mushrooms and/or veggies from a jar, roasted red peppers, artichoke hearts, pickled peppers... Then everyone can nibble along as you study.
Be sure to have some gluten free crackers (don't worry, you won't run out of these), wear disposable gloves when slicing the baguettes and open the jars in front of everyone.
Someone else hosts, so for better or for worse, they won't see my kitchen.
While i suppose somebody could make a suggestion that we switch to dealing with our own food...
1) for the time being anyways, it's already this way
2) we meet early enough that it's about dinnertime anyways
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Originally Posted by toosie
With that budget, and being wary of home cooked meals, I'd probably get a couple $5 rotisserie chickens from Costco. A bag salad and/or side of Mac n cheese (frozen or from deli) will round things out and you're still within your budget.
You could probably do the same with chili and cornbread.
Well, while they're free to surmise what my budget was, the person providing the food spends his own money, so we're NOT required to share nor adhere to any sort of that.
Dang it.... in my OP i missed the "no" in front of Cocsto and wholesale clubs (e.g. Sams, BJs). Those are also too far away for me to buy from
-I'm wary of making my own food due to time, and that the group may not "trust" home cooked foods from me
-I cover food every other month or so, so it things wouldn't really add up too much
-I did $12 for McDonalds, but I can up that to $20, $25, or $30 if the stuff was right
You mention the budget yourself in your OP. Hope you got some good ideas from this thread - even if people said costco you can still do the same from many grocery stores.
Make your own sandwich or sub is the perfect solution.
I like the antipasto tray too. Crackers or sliced baguettes, cheese, cold cuts, olives, marinated mushrooms and/or veggies from a jar, roasted red peppers, artichoke hearts, pickled peppers... Then everyone can nibble along as you study.
Be sure to have some gluten free crackers (don't worry, you won't run out of these), wear disposable gloves when slicing the baguettes and open the jars in front of everyone.
Pretty much this. I actually don't really see why a study group would need a meal - seems unwieldy. I would provide a selection of nuts, some clementines, cheese and crackers, hummus and crudite and call it good. A plate of cold cuts at the most - not everyone is going to like the same type of sub.
I showed up for a movie night at a friend's house one time with a wedge of Manchego, blood oranges and raw almonds, and my buddies went crazy over the plate I set up. They hadn't requested I bring anything in the first place, but they loved the simplicity and flavor.
I showed up for a movie night at a friend's house one time with a wedge of Manchego, blood oranges and raw almonds, and my buddies went crazy over the plate I set up. They hadn't requested I bring anything in the first place, but they loved the simplicity and flavor.
What a good idea.
Just saw a Barefoot Contessa episode where she made up an antipasto tray and with cucumbers and so forth
Those people who are worried about what the ingredients might be in the Tuscan mashed chickpeas or the cleanliness of OP's kitchen, could stick with the stuff out of the jar.
Maybe you could served canned green beans.
With a snake head in it.
Lol.
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