[Sca-cooks] large dayboard feast: need advice from those who have done this before

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

>  Having done a 12th night luncheon in the East (Fed 900 dayboard), I
>would suggest that meat is well received by the fighters (especially our
>kingdom).

That would be the understatement of the year. Show them beef and the
snouts and tails emerge. They will eat all the meat you let them have, and
ask for more.

>You might be best able to afford this if you can get stuff in
>bulk or even cook something ahead of time and slice or cut into chunks
>that day or night before. Cut back on the cheeses to save money.. cheese
>is expensive and less well received than meat.

Actually, cheese is less expensive than beef for the volume, and if the
goal is to have enough food and stay under budget, keeping the meat
numbers low is a plus. Fighters will eat 1-2 lbs of beef at a dayboard if
nobody hits them with a long spoon, and ignore all the inexpensive stuff.
I don't know how much kielbasa they will eat, but I wouldn't underestimate
their tendency to go right for the expensive stuff.

They don't pig out as much on cheese because they believe that it
will make them sick to eat cheese and eggs before they fight, and for
other sociological reasons.

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
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