I Need to Bring a Main Dish to a picnic....ideas?

Updated on August 22, 2012
S.R. asks from Scottsdale, AZ
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Need a main dish idea to feed 10 people...it will be outdoors (arrive at 10am, eat at 11:30)...probably no refrigeration.

Ideas for something kids like?

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L.P.

answers from Los Angeles on

Can't go wrong with pasta or fried chicken. Both are good for everyone and both can be eaten without refrigeration or heating.

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J.M.

answers from Chattanooga on

Pulled Pork is really good! (IF you have a slow cooker...)

Toss a nice big pork roast in the slow cooker before bed the night before, and pour a can of root beer over it. Cook it on low overnight, then in the morning shred it and dump a bottle or two of your favorite barbecue sauce over it. Let that simmer on low until it's time to go, and just load up your slow cooker. Even without being plugged in, it should stay nice and warm for that hour and a half-ish. :)

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M.C.

answers from Detroit on

Pizza

Sloppy Joes in the crock pot--bring some chips, baked beans, fruit salad or pasta salad

Fried chicken

Subs

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D.L.

answers from Dallas on

green stuff amazing stuff

google it i cant remember whats in it

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❤.M.

answers from Los Angeles on

pasta salad
potato salad
fried chicken
mini subs (bring all the fixin' ((salami, ham, turkey, sliced cheese, mayo
mustar)) in an ice chest. Let everyone asseble themselves.

keep all in an ice chest

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T.V.

answers from San Francisco on

Bring an ice chest.....what's YOUR special dish?

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G.B.

answers from Oklahoma City on

My favorite recipes for larger crowds came from Taste of Home magazine. The first few years they had a whole page in the back half that was especially for food for a crowd. I have made nearly every one of those dishes and they have been excellent.

If your local library has the editions from the beginning in the periodicals section you should go there and look at them. Each month for at least the first 4 or 5 years they had them on the same page # in each magazine.

There were charts for how much meat you needed to buy, how much of everything.

This section is not in the newer magazines that I have seen. I might have missed it but I have not been able to even find the recipes on the website.

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