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This is a timely topic, very interesting posts, but a rather lazy article. I am looking for SPECIFICS.

My husband loves to spend on a big holiday party involving staff who love him, and I have added neighbors and friends to the mix, but this year I want to keep costs down. If it were summer, I could perhaps ask people to bring a salad or dessert, but not this time of year so close to xmas. And it really is our gift to our community. People will bring wine likely which is great, or perhaps a sweet treat.

So I am looking for specific holiday foods not expensive to feed a crowd that looks like it will be over 50. So far, I am thinking of chile, cornbread, salsa, chips, on the one cuisine side, and chicken curry with rice, (chutneys? other?) which I have done before and which we bought last year but I think spent more than we needed to. I won't buy prewashed lettuce but since I believe in greens, want to offer something there - a gigantic caeser salad? I think where we will indulge is on the h'oeur d'ouerves (sp????) - buy those - which make me crazy to think about, though if anyone has a suggestion for tasty appetizers that will not cost a fortune in $ and time to produce I am all ears.

We also don't have an easy sit down situation for so many. Suggestions here?

I like the punch idea (anyone ever had PIMMS?)

xoxox to you all! It was fun reading these posts.