My office is having a pot luck luncheon next week to pay tribute to a co-worker that's leaving. I need to bring a dish. I figure I would make something SB friendly so at least I could eat it :Clap:, but I'm having a hard time coming up with something that can feed a bunch of people (around 30) without making me go broke.
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Ideally it needs to be a hot entree type dish. And something easy to make. First I was going to do something I call "Chicken Marinara", which is simply chicken tenders covered in marinara sauce and you bake it in the oven.

Well I use Rao's marinara sauce at home. One because it is totally SB friendly and second because it is absolutely delicious. But that stuff costs a fortune! I don't buy it too often because of the price, so as much as I "love" my co-workers I can't see me feeding 30 people this stuff.

Any ideas on a low-cost, fast and easy SB friendly entree I could make to feed a lot of people???? Pot luck lunches used to be such a great thing in an office but with the price of food these days it's breaking the bank!!!!!

What about a pot o chili with lots of condoments on the side, made with turkey, or lasangna or something with pasta. I once found a great mexican lasangna recipe on the back of the noodle box.

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Hey Lynne good suggestion! But unfortuntely I read this today - Monday morning and I did my grocery shopping yesterday:Sarcastic:

But I settled for making a SB legal chicken caeser salad. I figure I could make a couple of packages of chicken breasts stretch a long way but cutting up the chicken into small cubes and then there's the lettuce, homemade dressing and homemade croutons.

I wanted to make something I could be sure to eat because I know this potluck will be boobie trapped with all kinds of bad for you ingredients!

I already had one package of chicken breasts so I bought one more, romaine lettuce, a lemon, and a loaf of ww bread to make the croutons with and some pre-shredded parmesean cheese. I have the mayo and worstechire and garlic and olive oil that I'll need for the dressing.
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But when we have another (my office is always partying), I'm going to make the turkey chili. In fact, I may make some this weekend. You got me in the mood for chili!!!!!!:joy:

Oh and the mayo is low fat and no one will be the wiser. The dressing still tastes full flavor thanks to the garlic, olive oil, worstechire and lemon!!!!!!!!