Best way to cheaply and easily feed 30 people!

[sidekickdmr]

Having a new years eve party and I've blown the budget on gazebos, ice luge's and beer bongs!

Any ideas of how to easily, cheaply feed 30 drunk people with some nice nosh?

I've made a big chilli con carne before but that will be far to messy!

The more I can prep before hand the better!

[condor]

hot dogs ? soup?

[Wadeski]

Curry?
Tacos? (people can do their own)

[mybrainhurts]

[petemurphy]

point out eatings cheating

[BrabusMog]

Get a loaf of bread, a few fish and give Jesus a bell. He can also sort the wine for you. Job done.

[Henry Hawthorne]

Hot dogs and burgers.

Curry, chili are not suited to milling around and chatting with people. Finger food is always best.

[petemurphy]

can u stretch to a piece of meat that can be slow cooked - eg pork shoulder then bung in a roll yummy

[blackburnlad]

spud pie peas and pickled cabbage

[fizz47]

Loads of spuds-

Then big bowls full of cheese, beans, tuna etc etc and people build their own spuds..Cheap and tasty

[Mobile Chicane]

condor said:

hot dogs ?

^^^ This, I think.

Lidl hot dogs are cheap and good. Also the 'Inferno' pizza: £1.79 from the freezer cabinet.

[0a]

Pick the weakest of the group and cook and eat them.

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

Easy, I'm sure I read somewhere that Jesus did it with a few loaves and fishes!

[jas xjr]

Hope you are near an Indian sweet centre. Last time I bought some , veg samosas were 100 for £18.
Veg pakoras are sold by weight but cheap also.
Job jobbed

[BrabusMog]

Ray Luxury-Yacht said:

Easy, I'm sure I read somewhere that Jesus did it with a few loaves and fishes!

It wasn't a few posts up, was it?

[Wacky Racer]

30 tins of baked beans from Poundland....£15....plus a quid for a can of air freshner.........

[Shaolin]

Big pork joints are cheap at the moment, get enough (i.e. twice what you think you'll need) and slow cook them for about 6 hours + in a low oven or BBQ.

Add baguettes, make apple sauce from Bramleys and get bottles of other sauces, stuffing too if you can be bothered. Rip the pork to bits and pile it in a pan with crackling too, let people help themselves. Coleslaw too.

This is pretty much what I'm doing on Christmas eve though for less people - planning needed obviously but the actual effort isn't too much.

[mybrainhurts]

BrabusMog said:

Get a loaf of bread, a few fish and give Jesus a bell. He can also sort the wine for you. Job done.

What's the bell for...? Cabaret...?

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

BrabusMog said:

It wasn't a few posts up, was it?

D'oh. I'm writing out 100 times 'I must not skim read threads on Pistonheads.'

Sorry Sir.

[Hoover.]

depends on cheap...... I've found hog roasts are relitively cost effective for mass catering