YIKES! Who else is helping you?? Pancakes, bacon, fruit muffins to go with the eggs~~~can you have other people make the casseroles?? Have others done this before you? Ask for their advice?

Man 50 boys can eat alot~~

How about pigs in the blanket using canned biscuits and cocktail sausages.

You could make them ahead of time, and reheat when serving.

Cheese grits and oven scrambled eggs. Here's recipe for eggs

Original recipe makes 12 servings

1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted

24 eggs

2 1/4 teaspoons salt

2 1/2 cups milk

1.Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2.Pour melted butter into a glass 9x13 inch baking dish. In a large bowl, whisk together eggs and salt until well blended. Gradually whisk in milk. Pour egg mixture into the baking dish.
3.Bake uncovered for 10 minutes, then stir, and bake an additional 10 to 15 minutes, or until eggs are set. Serve immediately.

Just a thought!

This post was edited by glenda_al on Thu, Sep 12, 13 at 21:58

I would ask at the cooking forum, they always have ideas and a lot of people have been in similar situations. I would probably bake and freeze muffins, bagels are cheap and filling, maybe biscuits and gravy?

Muffins of various flavors and bagels from Costco. Butter and cream cheese

Cold cereal in Styrofoam bowls

Milk and OJ.

If your oven only holds two 9 x 13 pans, I'd say a hot dish is out. Unless you have several nearby neighbors to share the prep with.

With teenage boys, it's all about volume of food and speed of delivery, what you serve and how elegant it is won't matter.

How about a breakfast sandwich of some sort, fruit and maybe various small muffins with jams and jellies.

Breakfast tacos!
You will need some help assembling.
Egg, Meat and Cheese
Egg, Potato and Cheese
Bean and Cheese
in a soft flour tortilla, individually wrapped in foil and kept warmin a chafing dish or by some other means.
Have little containers of salsa available.

This post was edited by gardenspice on Sun, Sep 15, 13 at 20:39

I would get a large throw away aluminum pan for easy clean up and size. Get several packages of smoked sausage, like Hillshire farms or Eckridge , I pick up the family size package at Costco or Sams, cut into 3-4 inch pieces, heat the sausage in the oven, they are fully cooked so don't require much time for heating. Get slider size buns or dinner rolls to make a sausage sandwiches. Use the crockpot to make overnight casserole, if you have more than one you can also do a hash brown casserole, you can make a cinnamon apple dump cake the day before it will be fine at room temperature. A tray of mixed fruit.
If you want my dump cake recipe I am happy to share, it looks like a coffee cake and I have used it for breakfast meals.
Make ahead casserole

2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 cup chopped green or colored bell peppers
1/2 cup onions
12 eggs
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream or half and half
1 bag frozen hash brown potatoes
1 cup grated cheddar cheese
1 teaspoon salt (or to taste)
1 teaspoon black pepper (or to taste)
directions

Saute onions and peppers in olive oil and set aside.

Slightly beat eggs with heavy cream or half and half. Add egg mixture, sauteed vegetables, hash browns, cheese, salt and pepper to crock pot.

Cook overnight on low, and this yummy breakfast will be ready for you in the morning!

Don't forget boiled eggs! You can boil lots at a time, think Easter, and refrigerate them.

Also at Costco etc you can get the huge trays of croissants, throw out some jams and butter.

Google crockpot breakfast casserole for lots of ideas.

Holy crud, 50 athletes is a LOT of food. I say pancakes and sausage......easy to cook, reheat and fill boys.

I would work with basic easy to prepare ahead and not get too involved with making fancy casseroles, etc. Not sure how old these guys are, but if they are kids, they make prefer simpler food anyway.

I can't remember the name for this, but you can get the big aluminum pans and put the little flame pots under them to keep them warm. Fill those up and let the guys help themselves.

Easy Foods:
-milk and cereal
-bacon can be cooked ahead in the oven or microwave, frozen, and then reheated
-scrambled eggs, make fresh and then put in warmer
-toast, have a toaster set out with loaves of bread so the guys can do it themselves
-pancakes or waffles can be made ahead, frozen and then reheated. Can also buy these in boxes in the freezer section and have the guys reheat in toaster.
-cut fruit or individual, apples, bananas, etc.
-yogurt
-sausage cooked ahead and rewarmed
-muffins, made ahead or even bought prepackaged
-juice, coffee, milk for drinking
-chocolate donuts, the breakfast of champions

You can make a bunch of breakfast burritos and wrap in foil to reheat later. They freeze well also. That with some fruit and maybe pastries if they are still hungry. Just pastries won't be good for athletes. They need some protein (meat and eggs). Good luck. I don't envy you.

I agree that is alot of people especially boys. You did not mention the age range that would matter since the small ones would not need as much as the high school boys would.

I was thinking about it and besides the big alum pan of the smoked sausage, I buy at walmart these big bags of frozen fully cooked sausage patties they are large and very good they come regular and maple syrup flavored. Those would be very easy to have thawed and just throw in the pan with the smoked sausage, I also get the large family packs of pre cooked bacon at Costco you could add a few packs of that in the pan too that would give a good selection of meats which those boys will need.
Great Value Fully Cooked Original Pork Sausage Patties
Eckrich Smoked Sausage

I would also get a few bags of either tater tots or the similar sized hash brown rounds, spray your alum pan well with cooking spray (I use the olive oil kind) dump the potatoes in and spray a little more on them add some salt and pepper then pour a bag of grated cheese on top stick in the oven to heat according to the bag, that will make a very easy fast hash brown dish. Meat and potatoes = filling.
I would also do ahead of time a couple of the apple cinnamon dump cakes for the sweet tooth.
Ore-Ida Tater Tots Seasoned Shredded Potatoes

If you do have one of those big roaster ovens you mentioned they are great to put stuff in to keep warm, like all your meats etc.

Cooking eggs will take an awful lot of eggs and a lot of time. That is why I mentioned the boiled eggs. By the way at Costco you can buy already peeled boiled eggs and they are similar price to raw eggs, I have used these many times and they are great, makes making potato salad fast and easy.
You could buy several of the large size containers of egg beaters and put them in the oven in an alum pan stir often and make scrambled eggs with them.

and I guess you could consider the pre made frozen pancakes
Great Value Buttermilk Pancakes,
For drinks I would just put out a couple gallons of milk and orange juice.

oh here is the recipe I use for the dump cakes, the instructions for the apple cinnamon version is included.
Dump Cake
1 lg.can crushed pineapple (with juice, always use the pineapple!)
1 can cherry pie filling(or any fruit pie filling 21oz)
1 yellow cake mix (can use white also)
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans if you have them
1 stick butter(1/2cup) cut in to small pats
brown sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
In 9x13inch cake pan dump the pineapple and spread evenly.
Dump in the cherry/fruit pie filling and spread evenly.
Sprinkle cake mix (straight out of the box) on top of the fruit, level with a fork. Sprinkle the nuts over the top and dot the top with the pats of butter evenly spaced. *Secret ingredient to make it even better= sprinkle a hand full of brown sugar on top!
Bake 45 minutes to 1 hr. Cake top should be light brown when done.(cover with foil for first 30 mins to avoid over browning.) I always cook mine at least an hour.
Cool and cut into squares.
*Other fruit pie fillings can be used in place of the cherry
*Optional shredded coconut can also be added as a topping with the nuts.

*When doing the CINNAMON APPLE version you need to sprinkle cinnamon on the fruit layer and then sprinkle more cinnamon on top of the cake layer, and remember to add that sprinkle of brown sugar on top!
I often times do not add the nuts because I have no nuts!

*For my apple spice dump cake:
I used 1 can of spiced apple pie filling along with the can of crushed pineapple. I sprinkled on top of the fruit cinnamon. Then after leveling the cake mix and breaking up the big hunks I sprinkle on more cinnamon then the pats of butter and next grab a hand full of dark brown sugar and sprinkle it over the top. Cover it with foil cook for 30 mins at 350 then take the foil off and cook it another 30 -35 mins. IF you do not cover it part of the time it gets too browned. You can add nuts if you so desire.

When I do a peach one I also get a can of cling peach slices and drain it and use just the fruit along with a can of the peach pie filling and the pineapple. You can do the cinnamon if you want or not. But do the brown sugar.

IT is also very good with blackberry filling and some fresh or frozen black berries added.

Whatever fruit you use always be sure you still add the can of pineapple. The can of crushed pineapple is about the same size can as the pie filling and is needed to give the added moisture to the cake.

THANKS for all of your suggestions. These are high school boys~~lots of food!!!
I was told that I can buy flats of already made biscuits and canned sausage gravy at Sam's......but I do not know how good it might be. I might be able to make my gravy ahead of time and keep it warm over night in crock pots. Jelly and butter for those who do not want gravy.
I had thought about fresh fruit...even stick out some bananas, oranges and apples.
Milk and juices.
Oh raven, your recipes sound great...and thanks for all of your ideas.
I still have a month to think (worry) about this, but I need to start planning ahead of time.
I would love to do scrambled eggs, but how can I cook them the night before and be sure they do not turn GREEN? I like the burrito idea, but that is what they have served them the last two weeks. The last parents went to Sonic and bought 100 of the $1 ones early that morning......which is a great idea....they might just have to eat them again :-)

Any more ideas are welcome....but there is no cooking facilities at that school.....meals are brought in from another district building. I need to do everything at my home kitchen. THANKS again for all of your help.

Sams or Costco their food is great in large quantities. Fresh fruit on a platter. Our band boosters feed our band students during camp in the summer. Over 125 students. They ask for volunteers to make the food. The lead person makes a menu and decides how many helpers she would need. She sees that all the food is purchased and ready for the volunteers to pick it all up at her house. Hopefully you have had some time to make it and you didn't have to do it all. Many wonderful suggestions here.
Mary

I can tell you from experience - the flats of biscuits from Sam's are pretty good. You do need to warm them in the oven.

The canned sausage gravy - not so much. It is OK, but I think it tastes "off" . I prefer to make it using the packets of gravy mix. Red packets, McCormicks... I think. You can make it with only water, or with milk and water. You can prepare it in a stock pot, then transfer it to a crock pot to keep it hot.

I don't know if you can get the large bags of eggs? The school lunch ladies are good about letting us order through them. They are large bags of frozen eggs. You thaw the bag and then boil the entire bag to cook them. They are scrambled eggs - and as long as you leave them in the bag... they will stay hot A LONG TIME. And they are quite good. Real eggs.

I hope you have help!

I have fed that many athletes many times, but we usually have a committee that switches off. That way there are at least 3 or 4 of us each time to prepare and serve the food.

You've gotten lots of great ideas!

Biscuit sausage/cheese sandwiches, cereal and fruit along with some juices would hit the spot! And, if it's in a month, it will be getting cold in the mornings, so maybe some hot chocolate!

If you are doing this at a school, there HAS to be facilities to keep the food hot once it gets there. My guess is a steam table. Are you able to use the equipment they have to keep food hot, or cold for that matter? I was a middle school lunch lady, and also an assistant district cook, who made all the food that went out to all the different schools, so I know they have equipment to keep food hot and cold.

What time is the breakfast? If you premake food, is there time to get it hot again before they eat?

I was told there are no facilities we can use at the school.... Kids need to eat about 7 so they can get to 7:30 classes. I live several miles from the school...and need to get on to my own commitment on the other side of town about 7:30. I think I can get DH to help set things out, but he needs to be down town by 8...and traffic can be bad. Oh well, maybe someone will step up and help me....but everyone I know has a family to get off to school and to work theirselves.

If I do biscuits and gravy, fruit, juice and milk how much do you think I should fix for about 50 of these young men?

My opinion only:
You have too many to serve with limitations.
cereal
doughnuts, breakfast rolls
fruit
Save yourself

I would not do anything that requires warming or cooking

Continental breakfast is the way to go.

They can indulge themselves!

Back in the days when the Super Bowl was played at 2:00, I use to do a Super Bowl Brunch.....baked ham, deviled scrambled eggs, biscuits and a coffee cake for 18 adults who ate a lot (we were young and could eat then)

I did the eggs in a large stock pot.....for your size crowd I think I would do them in two pots so they cooked quicker.

Naturally you would have to increase the recipe accordingly.

Deviled scrambled eggs

12 eggs
3/4 C milk
1 1/2 tsp. salt
dash pepper
1 1/2 tsp. dry mustard
3/4 tsp. worcestershire sauce

Beat together and scramble in 4 T. butter

Sour cream coffee cake or especially a pound cake goes a long way.

We "do" Winnebago Rallys pretty often and the breakfast Burrito is one of our favorites. (When Costco has them, they have been excellent) You can put many of those wrapped into the oven to defrost and heat, then transfer into those 'roaster' things and hand them out. Have small plastic tubs ( 2-3 Tablespoon size, you can get at Cash & Carry) of Salsa and Guacamole so they can be taken to their table. OJ, Milk, for us Coffee & Tea. Not everyone eats eggs (me) so the vegetarians will prefer plain bean burrito and fruit cups We do institutional size fruit cocktail and added fresh or frozen whatever is available. (I always contribute our frozen berries or peaches or strawberries. Bananas too. I would use 5oz drink cup (just easily handled) for fruit. Plastic spoons. BTW, the gravy in the institutional size from our Cash & Carry is pretty good as is their frozen Clam Chowder. The sizes make it to much for DH and me, but when we take it to the club gatherings they are good. We have a Rally this month.... 3 days of feeding 160 people, (attendees) plus the venders and others. Always a great time and we always have lots of help.

I agree with Glenda. No facilities mean Continental breakfast. I don't understand how you are the sole person doing an event like this.
Something this large should be delegated to a committee of people.
Go to Costco for the muffins, individual cereals, milk, Anything that you can buy the day before. So, forget about bagels. I wouldn't bother with a fruit salad. Just bananas and oranges, so you don't have to wash anything!

After a running race they serve, fresh fruit like bananas/ oranges/ apples, yogurt and muffins.

I like the biscuits and gravy idea, breakfast burritos are fantastic or a burrito bar.....?

Went to potluck, Monday, and a big hit was freshly baked ham cut into serving pieces, warmed in foil. They also had warm rolls to put the ham in. Delicious! Those were the yummy potato rolls, which I love.

Filling and great!

Plus how about boiled eggs peeled? Lots of them. Again, very little effort.

This post was edited by glenda_al on Sat, Sep 14, 13 at 11:45

Sounds good to me, Glenda. Ham, biscuits, boiled eggs, fruit juice. Done.

When I volunteered for the Michelob golf tournament they would serve the volunteers breakfast every morning. Ham biscuits, donut holes, coffee, juice , bananas and apples.

I am speaking from many years of experience here ------

YOU WILL NOT HAVE TIME FOR A HOT BREAKFAST!

Please don't stress over this. If it is just you - and maybe some help from DH - and you are setting up and breaking down everything..... You will NOT get it done. I have been serving pre-game meals to teams for a lot of years.

No doubt they can blow through the chow line fast - but if you start serving at 7 - there is NO WAY you can be somewhere else at 7:30. You would be lucky to have stuff back to your car by 8.

I would get doughnuts and bottles of juice and milk and call it good.

This is breakfast - not a pre-game meal. And it is just you.....

If you can order your doughnuts ahead of time, have them put school color sprinkles on them.

I do mean this will all sincerity... Don't kill yourself over this meal.

I was thinking you were going to have lots of help and people contributing to this. If it is just you,and you have places to be - keep it simple. Keep it cold. Do not have things that have to stay hot.

Those pans and tables are heavy. Set up and tear down does take time - not to mention getting it back to the car and stowed away.

Wanted to add an approximate time frame that I used for these kind of meals...

We would get to the school about 45 minutes before serving (this does not include the time at home cooking and the drive time to school!) with the hot food to set it up.

The kids would eat - and this doesn't take long - usually 20 minutes.

It would take about another 30 minutes to load up and then go back and wipe tables, etc. down.

Then the time to take the stuff home, unload and wash it all....

It felt like you had been hit by a train by the time you got it done ... and this is with a committee of 3 or 4 of us each meal.

Don't forget if you are serving hot meals you need plates, forks, napkins, and drinks.

Maybe you can do it on your own - but be very well prepared!!!!!

Wait. You have to feed 50 teenaged boys at 7:00 AM and then get to the other side of town by 7:30 AM? No way. And won't you have to do some cleanup, too?

Can you reschedule either this or the other commitment?

Now, to your question about eggs, I don't know why they'd turn green if you make them the night before. Maybe rubbery, but not green. But since your oven only holds 2 pans (as most do, I think), I don't think you'd have enough. 2 9x13" pans of eggs wouldn't feed 50 boys, I'm pretty sure. I also don't know how you'd warm them up and transport them several miles to the school and have them still hot/warm.

Is one of these kids yours? Do all the parents take turns or something? I think I'd go with what others have suggested - muffins, bagels, stuff like that. Hardly ideal, but you've got a very tough task. Too bad they won't let you use the school facilities.

Is this a one time deal or will you be doing this daily for the season? Remember you can keep stuff warm in a cooler if you use hot water to heat it up first [then pour it out]..
But I would go with apples, bananas, oranges and PB&J tortilla roll ups [check for tree nut allergies] and individual milk cartons [maybe you could get a deal thru your local grocery for pint jugs]..
Think hand held foods; no utensils and minimum clean up. And trash bags!

What did you decide to do?

I once made a full-on hot breakfast for 15-20 men staying at my church for the night in a rotating shelter program. When I arrived with the food, they were all leaving. The supervising woman wasn't expecting me even though I'd signed up, but luckily called them back. I was glad the food wasn't wasted.

I think grab and go will be the name of the game for you. Milk, juices, apples, bananas, individual yogurts served in a bowl of ice, muffins, mini boxes of cereal.

Another thing that we love-sausage balls. Ground sausage, shredded cheese and bisquick. Mix together, shape into size of meatballs and bake in the oven. A bit of labor beforehand, but they are so good fresh or the second day, hot or cold. You could make a lot of batches beforehand, heat them up the morning of and they'd still be warm when you got to school. But 50 boys could probably eat 500 of them no problem!

Not sure if boys would go for it, but you could do big batches of Rice Krispy treats too?

Good Luck, you'll have to come back and tell us how it went!

Oh you all have been so kind to send me help. I do not have to do this until October....so I still have some time to "stew" about it. I am teetering between going to buy 100 burritos at Sonic, milk and juice OR getting biscuits from Sam's and buying/making some sausage gravy and adding bananas, oranges, and apples, and milk.

Oh my, I just saw that this old post was pulled back up. Actually, I posted the question for my daughter. Sorry, I never got back to you with what she did. Her DH, two sons, and herself got up very early and formed an assembly line.. DD scrambled the eggs, her DH browned the sausage, one son filled the soft taco shells, and the other wrapped them in foil and put them in an electric roaster....she also got jugs of milk and orange juice and poured in paper cups, and put out bananas and grapes.

The fellow soccer players were a huge help cleaning up and her DH went in to work a bit late...She got to school before her kiddos arrived.

Now this year, they have a daughter playing soccer, so suppose they will get to take their turn to do it again. Thanks so much for all of your ideas!...I passed them along to her and she appreciated them.

phoggie, your note that says you'll get "milk and juice OR getting biscuits from Sam's and buying/making some sausage gravy and adding bananas, oranges, and apples" reminded me:

We have a very active group of marchers (think athleticism and artistry combined, it is taxing!) that needed to be juiced up before we went to the state championship and some idiot got it all (horrible sausage biscuits, sans gravy, apples and milk/juice) at the school cafeteria. Can you say YUCK! So just don't get it there! Sonic burritos sound easy, and good. You'll have fun next go around.

We serve breakfast to our staff a few times a year and there is about 80 people for this. We usually have biscuits and gravy, scrambled eggs, fruit and muffins. You can buy big packages of biscuits at Sams that just need to be heated up. We also buy the big cans of gravy and add another lb. or so of cooked sausage to it before putting it in an electric serving pan. The scrambled eggs are made and then put in an electric serving pan. Muffins and fruit from Sam's and you have a big breakfast.