Thought some of you might have some good ideas for cooking for large families. We have 9 people in our family. Seems like 15 as that's how many it feels like I'm feeding--LOL. Anyone have any good, frugal recipes that make large quantities? Give you an example of how much we'd need; we usually cook 2 whole chickens at a time, a whole turkey(about a 13 lber), 5 lbs of hamburger meat at a meal. If we have soup(condensed), usually takes 10 cans. I need recipes that use that type of amount of food. Hope I'm making sense. Breakfast food would help too. If we do eggs, we use 24 at a time. Pancake mix is always two batches. Any good, BIG, CHEAP recipes out there I'd love to have them and give them a try. Thanks a bunch! take care, Stephanie--mom to 7
When I make Chili or homemade Chicken Noodle Soup, I have enough for Wake and Johnston Counties! :shock: Start buying up chicken on sale. I don't use beef in my chili I use venison and that's FREE <except for the gas and bullet> :mrgreen:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Many_Mouths_Family_Recipes/ Many Mouths Family Recipes is, as the name suggests, a place for those of us with larger families to find and share recipes that are scaled to feed a multitude. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Friendly-Freezer/ OAMC.. Mega Cooking.. Bulk Cooking.. Freezer Meals.. What does all this mean? This list is about preparing food ahead... especially for the freezer but also canning, drying, shopping in bulk and lots of money saving ideas. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WasteNothing/ Use, reuse, reduce waste, and recycle at home! Share ideas for waste nothing use everything homemaking, frugality, crafting, cooking, decorating, sewing, canning, preserving, gardening, cleaning, organizing, conserving, home management, saving time money, recycling, consumerism, and more. I thought the following was funny because so far they've 955 posts for Sept!: NOTE! If it isn't "use everything and waste nothing", DON'T POST IT HERE. ABSOLUTELY NO: medical advice, copyrighted material, scans, attachments, forwarded messages, petitions, urban legends, hoaxes, chain letters, jokes, spam, politics, computer discussions, virus warnings, advertising, promotions, coupons, using our group to create for-profit items, flaming, frequent off-topic posts, bad behavior, profanity, arguing, promoting businesses/ other groups, freebies, long signature lines, etc! Send "thanks" personal messages PRIVATELY, not to the list. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CookingBigFamilies/ This has had 1 post in Sept but it's been a "group" since 3/2006 ...maybe they have recipe files to access once they are joined. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/frozen-assets/ This may have something useful, if not, at least it's public In the past I have been a member of the first two. And last but not least... one popped up for Ken ...I don't know why it showed up on the search. Rotten Kids There must have been something special going on in Nov, 2001 : there were 5,873 posts that month!
Thanks for that nsanemom22!!! Those will indeed be helpful. Chickens are definitely cheap to cook with. I don't think I could do the venison Harley Girl. My uncle's an avid deer hunter and eats and cooks venison frequently. and just about any other "critter" you can think of--LOL. He's never been afraid to try something new. For me, I'm a little timid on some things. I know when we go to his house it's always a gamble. He'll tell us AFTER the fact that we've eaten it. So I have had venison before and apparently rabbit. Never go to a cookout at his house! Thanks for all the ideas. seriously keep them coming. And HG, if you ever have enough homemade chili again for Wake or Johnston counties, send them my way--LOL. We try to make a new recipe at least 3 times a month. Last week I tried eggplant parmasean for the first time. It was great but definitely NOT a frugal meal. I didn't realize just how expensive eggplant was. for 4 eggplants it was $10. They didn't count allt he other ingredients. So, for me to avoid another eggplant disaster, keep sending some great recipes and ideas my way. checking out some of those websites tonight. Hvae a great evening everyone! Take care, Stephanie--mom to 7
Have you ever seen the Duggar family on the Discovery Channel? I did for the first time tonight and while I wouldn't advise looking to them for hair or fashion tips, you might want to try some of their recipes. I just typed in the Duggar family and the search engine took me straight to their website.
