Dinner for 100
Wendy

09/20/05 		Hello, I am planning on a spaghetti dinner for our church on Sept. 30th to raise money for a Harvest Festival. We want the adults to have the spaghetti and mac & cheese for the kids. Should we have the some ladies cook the noodles at home and bring them in? How do we reheat? This is our idea for the mac & cheese. Heat up Velveta cheese in a crock pot (pour and serve over Mac noodles). Will this work we are looking for short cuts. (Luckily The Olive Garden donated salad and breadsticks to us!)
Sincerely,
Wendy
ellen

09/21/05 		You might consider the pasta sausage bake for 120 on the spaghetti planning page or one of the baked spaghetti entrees under budeget entrees, both on the big pots page. Neater and much easier if you have ovens. Velveeta is sticky and expensive, the mac and cheese recipe in big pots is easy and cheap.

If you do not have a stove, use crockpots or Nesco roasters.

wendy

09/21/05 		Well there is a bit of a problem, we already bought 4 big bags of meatballs, Pasta, 6 huge cans of sauce. So now what do I do?
ellen

09/21/05 		Go to the baked spaghetti casserole page and make that, adding the meatballs, or use the sausage and pasta page wubstituting meatballs for sausage. A number 10 can of sauce is 12=13 cups.
chas green

12/22/05 		how do u break down a recipe
ellen

12/22/05 		Charles, I assume you mean to scale it up or down.

I find the recipe I have that is closest to it, use that to estimate the shopping list, then re-create the recipe in the size or style I am aiming for. I have a couple of articles on scaling recipes tucked around this website. It workas least well for baked things.