garciasangria Dont know if you will read this but wanted to say Thank you for the Chilli recipe - Everyone loved it we made 2nds for most 1 guy did say it was not hot enough but hey.......its free food quit complaining ! lol hehe
The whole day was excellent

For the friends I would go with the chilli with rice/salad
followed by cheese and bread
For the children I would do pizza with apple slices on the side

lol im offen up that late i did sign out though about 5 mins after. i cant seem to sleep b4 midnight (well unless im ill)
Im gettin lots of 'yes we'll be there' coming in so trying to work out how much to do. Pizzas and rice dont take to long at all so will buy extra of them for stand by :-)

Thought i was the only one still up at this hour! Let me know you get on

Thanks for the ideas garciasangria and no your not to late its not till nxt weekend lol. Im stressing in advance haha

the rice idea sounds interesting, think i'll do that for sure

hi, I might be too late if your party's in the morning, but how about loads of raw veggies (carrot, cucumber, celery etc sticks) with some store bought dips (I can recommend Tesco's caramelised onion humous and salsa - but serve them in your own dishes as though you made them yourself ) Also for the veggies - pizza - again, you can throw on a few extra toppings of your own to a plain cheese pizza, maybe some olives, cherry tomatoes, extra mozarella cheese, roasted red peppers from a jar.

If you want a REALLY easy chilli recipe, this one was given to me by an American friend - fry up 1 lb mince, 1 onion, couple of cloves of garlic (the garlic's optional), then add 1 tin chopped tomates, 1 tin Baked Beans, 1 tin drained kidney beans, pinch sugar, and ground cumin/dried coriander/chilli powder or chili flakes to taste. Simmer for half an hour and you're good to go! Might not be authenic chili, but, hey, it tastes good and v.v. cheap and easy to make!

If you're making rice salad, boil your rice in veg or chicken stock instead of just water, it tastes much better. I'd suggest buying a bottle of store bought salad dressing to toss your rice and veg in.

Agree with MamaG, you can't go wrong with stuff like garlic bread, cocktail sausages etc.

For pud the easiest thing in the world is to buy meringue nests from the supermarket, whip up a big bowl of fresh cream, have a big dish of strawberries / raspberries/ whatever fruit you have, and leave people to assemble themselves. For kids, (and adults too ), different flavours of ice-cream, cones/wafers, sauces, nuts, mini marshmallows, chocolate chips, 100s and 1000s - let them make them up themselves, you'll be a legend!

What could i make thats vegetarian......

ooo just found an apple pie in the other freezer ..... or is that to random?

Oh and im gonna buy 1 coke 1 diet coke and 1 lemonade....

Yeah pizza and garlic bread ...... didnt think of them

Don't bother with the chili.

I'd do sandwiches, little sausages, bowls of crisps, dips, cherry toms, cucumber sticks, bread sticks

For the mates coming to yours, could you do home made pizzas with salad and garlic bread? Can be quite cheap to do.

Im have a kids party in the morning at a venue, then 5ish friends and family are coming to mine.
I was going to do some sandwichs but dont know what else to do?????

Was thinking ;
bowl of basic salad,
bowl of chill con carni (anyone got a cheap quick recipe?)
Bowl of rice and ham, onion ......??? (any rice recipe suggestions??)
Ive bought a bottle of wine (lambrinee bad spelling i know - i dont drink wine hehe) and a case of them little bottle beers and told people its bring a bottle..........

Should i buy / do anything else????