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Hi Michele
Yes we are feeding 3 meals a day to 17 children. It's only short lived. This time every year we take on all our neices, nephews, and great neices for a week for VBS. This year is a slow year
I really do look forward to having them out here. I think it was 2 yrs ago we had 21 children for 24 hrs. One child left the next day and the rest we took to church with us on Sunday.
For meals here is what we do.......
Breakfast
Pancakes
French toast
Eggs & potatoes
Coffee cake or muffins
Oatmeal & cold cereal
Lunch/Dinner years past
Usually sandwiches or left overs from the night before with some fruit. Usually watermelon. Most of the children don't eat leftovers.
Supper
Tacos/Nacho supreme
Speg w/ garlic bread & salad
Hamburgers w/ beans or salad and chips
Sloppy joes w/ chips, raw veggies, watermelon
Hot dogs, beans, salad and applesauce.
If we had enough corn in the garden we would do corn on the cob.
Drinks at our house are milk w/ breakfast, water and sometimes gaterade or lemonade if it's really hot out, like this week.
Most of these children don't eat veggies so it's always a challenge to get them to eat a meal with them. I know most people would say tough luck but I have to live with these children for a week and crabby hungry children don't make a house fun. I do expect them to try it if they don't like it.
As far as quantities.....
Taco's-5lbs of hamburger & 4 large cans of refried beans
Speg-3lbs of meat, 2.5 of pasta, lots of sauce, 24-36 slices of garlic bread
Hamburgers-8lbs of meat=roughly 32 burgers and will have about 5? left over, #10 can of pork-n-beans, 2 heads of lettuce
Sloppy joes-6lbs of meat, I make my own sauce with ketchup, bbq & mustard, 2 bags of chips, some carrots, cucumbers, celery, etc veggies with ranch dressing and 1 watermelon.
Hot dogs-will cook up 36 hot dogs w/ some left over to put in the beans, #10 can of pork-n-beans, 2 heads of lettuce, #10 can of applesauce.
Pancakes are made from scratch, french toast is usually texas toast bought at the bread store w/ 24 eggs?, eggs & potatoes=36-40 eggs w/ 5lbs of potatoes, coffee cake is made in my huge pan-no idea what size, and cereal is what ever is cheap not sure how much we go thru. Usually buy too much and have extra.
Yes the meat is a big expense but its the only time we do this much meat. I do doctor up the pork-n-beans. I have no idea what the expense is either. Just this past week I was able to get ground beef 80% at $1.69 a lb which was a huge savings for me. Plus they had grapes for .89 cents a lb. They have a popsicle snack in the afternoon at 3pm. Our main meal this year will be at lunch/dinner time. Then we will have sandwiches about 4:30pm each night to be out the door at 5:30ish.
At night anyone older than 14 stays up to have a malt or shake with us. This is our time to spend with our older nieces. We have a fun time with them. We usually go through a bucket of ice cream a night with them but it's worth it.
These meals are not set in stone either. This is usually what we have. The weather is usually hot so we do easy meals. I also have a 2nd stove in our barn so I can cook outside when it's hot.
Let me know if you want more info.
Blessings!
Michele
Crew mom to 11 plus 6
Yes we are feeding 3 meals a day to 17 children. It's only short lived. This time every year we take on all our neices, nephews, and great neices for a week for VBS. This year is a slow year
For meals here is what we do.......
Breakfast
Pancakes
French toast
Eggs & potatoes
Coffee cake or muffins
Oatmeal & cold cereal
Lunch/Dinner years past
Usually sandwiches or left overs from the night before with some fruit. Usually watermelon. Most of the children don't eat leftovers.
Supper
Tacos/Nacho supreme
Speg w/ garlic bread & salad
Hamburgers w/ beans or salad and chips
Sloppy joes w/ chips, raw veggies, watermelon
Hot dogs, beans, salad and applesauce.
If we had enough corn in the garden we would do corn on the cob.
Drinks at our house are milk w/ breakfast, water and sometimes gaterade or lemonade if it's really hot out, like this week.
Most of these children don't eat veggies so it's always a challenge to get them to eat a meal with them. I know most people would say tough luck but I have to live with these children for a week and crabby hungry children don't make a house fun. I do expect them to try it if they don't like it.
As far as quantities.....
Taco's-5lbs of hamburger & 4 large cans of refried beans
Speg-3lbs of meat, 2.5 of pasta, lots of sauce, 24-36 slices of garlic bread
Hamburgers-8lbs of meat=roughly 32 burgers and will have about 5? left over, #10 can of pork-n-beans, 2 heads of lettuce
Sloppy joes-6lbs of meat, I make my own sauce with ketchup, bbq & mustard, 2 bags of chips, some carrots, cucumbers, celery, etc veggies with ranch dressing and 1 watermelon.
Hot dogs-will cook up 36 hot dogs w/ some left over to put in the beans, #10 can of pork-n-beans, 2 heads of lettuce, #10 can of applesauce.
Pancakes are made from scratch, french toast is usually texas toast bought at the bread store w/ 24 eggs?, eggs & potatoes=36-40 eggs w/ 5lbs of potatoes, coffee cake is made in my huge pan-no idea what size, and cereal is what ever is cheap not sure how much we go thru. Usually buy too much and have extra.
Yes the meat is a big expense but its the only time we do this much meat. I do doctor up the pork-n-beans. I have no idea what the expense is either. Just this past week I was able to get ground beef 80% at $1.69 a lb which was a huge savings for me. Plus they had grapes for .89 cents a lb. They have a popsicle snack in the afternoon at 3pm. Our main meal this year will be at lunch/dinner time. Then we will have sandwiches about 4:30pm each night to be out the door at 5:30ish.
At night anyone older than 14 stays up to have a malt or shake with us. This is our time to spend with our older nieces. We have a fun time with them. We usually go through a bucket of ice cream a night with them but it's worth it.
These meals are not set in stone either. This is usually what we have. The weather is usually hot so we do easy meals. I also have a 2nd stove in our barn so I can cook outside when it's hot.
Let me know if you want more info.
Blessings!
Michele
Crew mom to 11 plus 6