Ideas pls!I have a prayer meeting to cater for in the church hall. About 150 people. Cant afford to call the?

Question

caterers so thought of making something at home. What do I make thats easy and fast and filling. Its an afternoon meal too. Could I have some ideas please.

Answer 1

Sloppy joes are easy but not a great afternoon meal.  You could always cook turkeys in advance and slice them. The meat could be in a large electric roasting pan and then just heated the day of.  I would buy fresh dinner rolls and then you could have the option of a sandwich or turkey dinner.  Also  you could make large pans of lasagna with  garlic bread. For dessert i would order a large sheet cake and make sure to have coffee.

Answer 2

Our church has different people cater meals for our Wednesday Night services for about the same number of people. When I am short on cash, I do several pots of different kinds of homemade soup (type depends on what is on sale and/or in season). I also provide several types of bread and/or rolls - again, whatever is on sale. Brownies and cookies are a good choice for dessert since portions are easy to control and they need very little clean up and can be ready a day ahead of time.

Answer 3

sandwiches with chips and  pasta salad. I'd also make cake for dessert.

Answer 4

first you can make a pica-pica such as biscuits, sliced cheese, sliced pepperoni, sliced hams (any hams will do) arrange it in a special plate.

for the main course you can make 5 kilos pasta and 10 kilos chicken or ribs

for the pasta:

cook pasta by its intructions

for the sauce simply buy a 10 packs mccormick pasta pesto mix you can find it in the seasoning area of supermarket, 3 kilos ground beef and 20 packs of all purpose cream

simply saute the ground beef in the pan, let it cook by its own oil after that stir in the pesto mix and the all purpose cream then let it simmer for 10 mins.

for the chicken or ribs

simply marinate 15 packs of mccormick's rosemary marinate mix in chicken or ribs then add yogurt to make it tender..mix it with your clean hands then ready to deep fry it in 30 mins. or 1 hour.

for the drinks:

banana nut shake

cut banana in small pices put in a blender put peanut butter, skim milk ice water and sugar. then mix it in the blender.

for desserts

a 1 scoop of  ice cream will do just top it with cherries

Answer 5

pasta is easy and cheap. so are hot dogs and burgers. maybe you could have it be like a potluck, and have each family bring a dish?