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midwesterner
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I offered to bring a simple lunch for a 5-person committee meeting tomorrow - sandwiches, salad, cookies - reasonably easy for everyone to eat while listening/speaking and using one hand to write. No vegetarians in the small group. Now I'm stressing over what kind of sandwiches and salad. Does this combination of options sound good to you:

Roast beef "roll ups" on flour tortillas/flatbread, with tomato/basil/cream cheese spread
Chicken salad on whole wheat bread
each made/sliced as a half-sandwich, so people can mix/match if they want

Apple/Strawberry fruit salad with creamy poppyseed dressing on the side
Salsa bean corn salad (3-bean salad goes Tex-Mex)
Mixed lettuce greens (butter lettuce, red lettuce)
Tomato slices and cheddar cheese slices to add to sandwiches

Cookies will be Oatmeal raisin and/or chocolate chip - depending on how well baking goes this evening.

Take your initial estimate, double that and add 20 percent.
It always takes more time and money than you think it should.
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niner
niner

Are you kidding me?

Just reading your menu made me drool.

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staninmaryland
staninmaryland

Can I come to the meeting? I promise I won't contribute much.

Menu sounds great, although maybe a bit much for 5 people. Nice of you to do all that work.

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sashac001
sashac001

It does sound absolutely wonderful but, if people are going to be writing you might want to make turkey roll ups instead of chicken salad. While I love chicken salad I tend to drop bits of it if I'm trying to do something while eating it.

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northamerican
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I like oatmeal with raisins, but I don't like oatmeal-raisin cookies, so I'd say "No, thanks" to that. Everything else on the menu sounds great, although sashac001 makes a good point about the chicken salad. What a disaster if a bite of chicken salad sandwich drops on someone's notes! Can you bring some small paper plates, bowls, or cups (such as Solo brand) and maybe and serve the chicken salad without bread?

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auntie_social
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Yeah, we usually get greasy pizzas from some shady/cheap takeout or something from Quizno's.

If I could have a lunch like this, I would probably have to kiss you.

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sashac001
sashac001

Thanks for the reminder NA. I got so caught up in the chicken salad I didn't mention that I'll have a chocolate chip cookie, please. There are very few foods I like raisins in and cookies aren't one of them.

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midwesterner
midwesterner

Cooking this morning was much less stressful with your friendly reassurances.

Happy to report the meal was greeted with smiles and enjoyed by all. Any escaping chicken-salad landed on the plates and was eaten with forks. I discovered as I was unpacking the cooler that I'd missed grabbing the bag of lettuce, but all was good without it.

I had baked both kinds of cookies last night, and I think one of each got eaten by most folks. The strawberry-apple salad (without dressing) also doubled as dessert.

People who think they don't like oatmeal raisin cookies probably have never had one of the Quaker Oats recipe Vanishing Oatmeal Raisin Cookies. http://www.quakeroats.com/cooking-and-recipes/content/recipes/recipe-detail.aspx?recipeId=593 There's also a link is to a recently modified recipe that reduces the fat by 2 T and the brown sugar by 1/4 C - mine, as printed under the box lid for many years, calls for 1 C. (2 sticks) of butter, 1 C brown sugar. http://www.quakeroats.com/cooking-and-recipes/content/recipes/recipe-detail.aspx?recipeId=474

And best of all, I made enough of everything to keep half of it at home (more than half of the cookies), so we've got good lunches for a few days already prepared.

Edited by: Midwesterner to include a link to the older version recipe of Vanishing Oatmeal Cookies

Take your initial estimate, double that and add 20 percent.
It always takes more time and money than you think it should.
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sashac001
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I'm glad the lunch went well and the chicken salad wasn't difficult for anyone. Congrats!

I have had the Quaker Oats cookies - I really don't like raisins in it. However, I've had oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips in them which were amazing.

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