Cheap meat dish to serve for 100 guests?!
Answers: I was going to serve fried chicken (store bought) and they said plan on 2 pcs per person so the cheapest I can find in the St. Louis area is at Shop and Save for 69 cents/ pc. so we are looking at $140 dollars I would like to go a little cheaper if possible nay one have any suggestions?
If you're set on fried chicken, you can probably save about 30 to 50% by buying whole fryer or loins, cutting them and frying them yourself. It's a pretty simple process, or you can bread them and bake them.
If you're using ground hamburg, get some TVP (textured vegetable protein) and it will stretch out the hamburg much further and nobody would ever know it's there. It's cheaper than meat, if you can find it in your area. You can add equal amounts of TVP into hamburg and you get twice the amount! This is great for things like sloppy joes, meatballs, lasagna, or meatloaf.
You can buy large hams for fairly cheap around Christmas time, which can be sliced up per person. Watch for sales on hams. They're especially great because you can coat them with just mustard and brown sugar, bake them and you're done! Mashed potatos are a great side and a 50lb bag is really cheap, as are big bags of carrots, yams or parsnips.
chicken and rice...and it's so much easier
for a holiday? maybe try a thing of chicken strips or fill people up on cheap sides like salad and mashpotatos
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meat balls
Lasagna with a meat sauce will go far.
about $1.50 per person for a meat dish? Ewww, get burgers. Nah, I'm just kidding, make kebab or try to make chicken and rice, (rice multiplies and is a starch so it will fill them up).
go buy a few bags $3.99 of chicken breast but them into medium sized strips and prepare them like fried chicken..so yummy..homemade chicken strips.
Spaghetti - count on it !!
Admittedly not associated with any traditional Christmas/Holiday meal - but you can feed an "army" for a few bucks !!
Sloppy joes cooked with ground turkey
Hamburgers and hot dogs
Lasagna (made with sausage or ground meat)
Cold cuts
instead of paying 140$ for something thats store bought u could always use that kind of money either to make the food ur self or highering a chef to make u the food using that 140$.
Potted Meat as a Meat Type Dip with Crackers.
Vienna Sausages Sliced in half on wheat Crackers with a small slice of cheese underneath
Chicken and rice is a a great idea! Is it for a wedding?
Meatloaf. No, kidding.
Sausage, peppers and onions
Shish-ka-bobs
Swedish Meatballs with noodles in sauce and mushrooms
Chicken Caccitorre (Chicken slices)
Keilbasi and sauerkraut
Try mixing a meat with vegetables. It will make your dollar go farther.
Go buy a couple of big black forest hams. Bake them up like the instructions say, but you don't have to since they are pre-cooked. However, they do taste better double cooked. Then slice them up and serve on a platter.
If all else fails, tell everyone it's potluck. LOL
Something with a pasta works well and can stretch the budget
A home made meat sauce with lots of vegs over corkscrew pasta is really good tasting and it is really cheap.
Chili! I used 1 lb ground hamburger, 1 large can diced tomatoes, 1 can beans w/ jalapenos (I use Ranch brand), 1 large can diced green chili, 1 can chicken broth, and 1 packet of chili seasoning. This feeds about 8-10 people. You can multiply that out for your 100. Grab a bunch of tortilllas (also inexpensive), some onions (you can also cook some of these in with the meat, diced) , cheese and sour cream, and you have a wonderful meal. My family loves it in the winter. Pricewise, I think it costs me approx $11-15 to make my 8-10 people amount, depending on the price of ground beef, but you can get it cheaper in larger amounts at places like Sam's and Costco.
You could always buy chuck roasts and add the dry italian seasoning package. For 100 ppl it will take about 15 roasts and 5-6 packages of seasoning. It makes great italian beef sandwiches. Just buy some fancier buns and there you go. These sandwiches are really tasty and go far. It will cost you around $100-$125. If you need the directions to make it please email me. I hope you get it figured out.
Go out and bag some, squirrels, coon, fish, CHEAP!!!!
If it's casual, hamburgers and hotdogs. Or even just hot dogs. You can buy huge packages of, like, 36 at Walmart for a just around four dollars each. At that price you probably won't mind springing for chili , chips and all the fixin's, too.
spaghetti or meatball subs
