What about the old standard layered salad -

Lettuce
Green pepper
Onions
Peas (I've also had it with cauliflower)
Ice with miracle whip or mayo
Shredded cheddar cheese
Crumbled bacon

BeckyD,

Did you see there was a recipe sharing thread up at the stickies???

This is so FUN!!!

FYI

the sticky for recipe sharing here :p

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread22361.html

I'm loving this board the more I find on it - we get to have fun again - yea!!!!

Platter of veggies and/or fruit might work. I always have some sort of healthy stuff. Even if they just eat 2 baby carrots, just might be the only nutrious thing they had all day.


BOL!;)

faith, you can buy already cooked bacon. not those fake bacon bits, but real bacon. in strips or crumbled. heck..you can buy hard boiled eggs already peeled too. :D

makes these type of salads really quick.

i have made big dinners for my son's soccer team many times.

big hit has always been meat balls. i use an ice cream scoop and bake them in muffin tins. they love it when i put either mashed potatoe's (from a box) or a chunk of cheddar cheese in the middle.

broccoli, rice and cheese casserole. add a big can of chunk chicken meat if it's the main casserole.

i am super bad about not cooking from recipes. but i do have them if you are interested. i'm a dash of this...a smidge of that..toss in a handful...:)

Faith - Re: the spaghetti salad. I was going to recommend the same thing as Sleeper - it is a cold dish and super easy. Don't have to worry about it sitting out for awhile either because it doesn't really have anything that's going to cause food poisoning if it sits at room temp.

Broccoli salad is also really easy and yummy, but I bet hungry boys would rather have a pasta salad. If you need a broccoli salad recipe, let me know.

I'll be over. When is a good time for you? :winky:

Come on over, I'll put the coffee on! How bout some chocolate chip cookies? On second thought, it's absolutely frigid out today, maybe I'll make hot buttered rum instead!