Re: Cooking for larger families.
We're also a family of 6 and have similar issues on occasion. We've started to just make more. Rather than one cassarole, I would use one huge dish and then one smaller dish. We don't use our crockpot that often but we have a large one.
We also up the veggies and always provide salad no matter how many other veggies we're serving which helps keep people satisfied. On the rare occasions there isn't enough of the main dish, we try to improvise and will give more snack type options.
This post reminds me we need to use the crockpot more!
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