Help! What to make for dinner for a picky crowd!?

Question

I have to cook for my first mother's day for my parents and my inlaws. Unfortunately there are a lot of different strong food dislikes. My father won't eat shellfish or mushrooms, my inlaws are Chinese and disgusted by cheese, on top of that my mother in law is diabetic and my father in law won't eat tomato sauce. I need something to feed these 10 picky eaters that won't take my whole day (which should be spent relaxing) slaving in the kitchen! Any suggestions?

Answer 1

How about a nice, simple roast chicken or baked ham? Do both potatoes and rice as side dishes, plus a steamed or roasted veggie. Do a simple tossed salad, and serve some bread with it. I would keep it as simple and easy as possible, with that many restrictions!

Answer 2

Call ahead and make reservations at a decent restaurant that both sets of parents can abide. Cover the check.

In truth, it sounds like there's more than a little bit of family dynamics going on here. but more on that later.

OK all kidding aside, try this

A couple of roast chickens (rub with a good spice-rub inside and out and roast at about 325 for 90 minutes to 2 hours or until done) Save time - buy roasted chickens at the market.

Serve with boiled Broccoli spears and lemon butter

Corn on the cob and/or boiled fingerling potatoes with herb butter

Good tossed green salad (can be from a plastic bag) with assorted "light" dressings - pass the chopped tomatoes separately - or use grape/cherry tomatoes that can be picked out.

Hot rolls (can be brown/serve)

For dessert, a big mixture of M-I-L's favorite cut up fresh fruit and angel food cakes from the bakery.

Your diabetic m-i-l can eat most of this so she won't cry. There's no cheese, no mushrooms, no shellfish, no tomato sauce - for the other picky folks to fuss over.

Be prepared for someone to fuss no matter what you do.

Make Hubby stand up for you in this one. Ancestors notwithstanding - he's not married to his mother - he's married to you.

Same for you - not a peep out of your folks about your husband.

Answer 3

well...I actually just made this and its totally healthy I'm eating it as i speak laugh out loud! OK so this will only take a little while if your a fast preparer if you have four people in your family then this is a breeze!

1)What you ll need is about a pound of ultra lean ground beef,
1 egg white,garlic powder or real garlic,par meson cheese,
black pepper.

2) mix ground beef, 2 tbs of garlic power(or less real garlic),
2 tsp of Parmesan cheese, egg white in a bowl.

3) mold the meat into burgers and put in pan or on BBQ or however you like to cook (if your frying no butter). Until no red in middle completely well done.

4)put on bread and sprinkle with pepper serve with fresh veggies and fruit salad for dessert!

why this is healthy is because ultra lean ground beef is good for you, garlic powder prevents cancer, pepper is good to spice up your taste buds and ...yea its a very healthy hamburger That feeds four but upp the ingrediants ok i hope i helped

I hope i helped also they will never know there is chese in it or you dont have to use it you can substatute it wiht something else

Answer 4

Take a chicken, clean it , rub olive oil all over it, place it in a baking pan, dust it with lawrys seasoning salt (found everywhere) insert a cube of butter to the insides, put it in a preheated 400' oven for an hour, cook some jasmine rice, steam some broccolli or asparagus and DONE!!! You will most likely need two chickens though :)

Answer 5

Try roasting a chicken or a turkey. You put it in the oven, and with the exception of basting it once or twice, it pretty much cooks by itself. You can stuff it and serve it with a salad and rolls. No sweat! Buy a nice dessert at a bakery or make something the night before. Good luck!

Answer 6

Cheerios

Answer 7

Grill out, kabobs (some with out mushrooms, and some nothing but veggies), burgers, chicken. Twenty minutes and foods done and your relaxing.

Answer 8

catfish fries salad slaw sweet tea

Answer 9

you could make something that no one likes so you dont have to cook next time