Your plan sounds good to me. Here's a post from a couple of years ago on the subject, including my repost of "sassy water", including how I make it. It's really good! But you have to use the proportions. It gets out of balance and not particularly nice if I just wing it.

https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/5710286/non-alcohol-drinks-particularly-flavored-waters

You can also combine about 1/4 soda pop, like 7up, for fizz and sugar, with 3/4 fruit pulp blended with water, and any other flavors you like, for a punch. Just about any combo that you like the taste of together works. That's a sweet but not sugarbomb drink.

Or there are aguas frescas which are just a single fruit pulp or infusion with lots of water. Just don't have hard bits floating around in it. That's normal for homemade, but people don't like lumpy beverages.

And, of course, there are teabags for all kinds of tea and infusion flavors.

Not a bad plan, but I think I’d get a nice quiche and a couple of rotisserie chickens to cut up and have cold, rather than sanwiches. Feels a bit more festive :-)

And congrats on the new grandie!

Another congratulations on the new grandbaby, that's always exciting.

I'm probably no help with the drinks, most of the kids in my family drink soft drinks, I have coffee or tea, Elery drinks coffee, my SIL only drinks Mountain Dew (ewww) and one granddaughter loves orange juice. No one drinks alcohol except Mother, who will drink a glass of red wine about twice a year, LOL.

I know those fruit infused waters are very popular right now. My daughters would drink just water with some lemon slices and be happy, but the kids want stuff sweet.

Just have fun. I'm happy with peanut butter sandwiches as long as my family is with me. Oh, but dessert, I'd probably have to go over the top with that. Maybe cheesecake, or tiramisu. Or maybe just cookies and brownies, to make it easy to handle.

Annie

Yes, or buy burger buns and send a visitor into the kitchen to flip burgers LOL The most important thing is Congratulations!!!

Congratulations on the newest addition to your family.

Sounds like a good plan. I would buy rolls and sandwich makings and lay them out for everyone to make their own. Easier and everyone gets what they want. And I would order a few desserts. Enjoy the new baby!

If you have a crockpot or two you can also offer option of a thick sort of stew, a thick to thin soup, or something sort of cuppa warm. Like tomato soup, chicken stew or maybe a potato leek sort of thing? That way you got sandwich, salad, and soup options easy.

Offer up some trays of pickled stuff, fresh to blanched veggies.

Well, we asked everyone and decided to go with the original menu. There's a place that makes exceptional sandwiches, and I'll put together the rest. Keeping it easy while the littles don't know/care what's going on!

It doesn't have to be hard to make a nice dinner.....some years back my mother in law called me Easter morning and said dinner at her house would be off because suddenly her stove conked out. I said nonsense bring the ham here and I'll cook it.

I skipped church,s et thet able, picked a few daffodills from my yard,peeled potatoes to oven roast, made a green salad (s he had planned a jello something..) pulled out some frozen veggies and frozen berries and asked my husband to pick up some ice cream at the quick shop on the way home from church.

Buy a ham....makes a potato casserole, steam some veggies, buy rolls and a pound cake and put berries and ice cream on top.

Take out sandwiches for Easter dinner....when you hav e days to plan? I can't imagine.

I can imagine it. If you're not as experienced and intrepid as Linda, and you don't want to miss church, I say go what suits you best. The very good take out sandwich plan has already been approved by the family. That's a plan.

As for drinks, if guessing and preparing is too much to deal with, if you have a lot of good-tasting water, that's sufficient. Spread the word that you're providing the water, and invite people to bring whatever else they'd like to drink. Maybe start making and gathering plenty of ice.

Thanks for the update nancyjane. It does make it a bit easier and happier since everyone is on board with sandwiches and salads. Especially with a new blessing at the party!

Maybe make up a pitcher of iced tea and/or aid. I like to make a lemon and lime one that I slice up a lemon, lime, sometimes an orange or grapefruit. The fruit adds something and makes the aid look extra festive.

So what about dessert? You could take that easy too if you have a good bakery in the area and you can pick something up. Or if you feel like making something, I bet there will be plenty of suggestions for that :)

I think I'll ask others to bring dessert (since I rarely eat it!) and take it away after! Same with sodas!

I will, however make a nice ginger/lemon water that is lovely. It's all too early to break out the wine!

Lindac, we aren't talking a big Easter dinner, we're talking a 2-3 hour get together, before the parents of the twins have to make a 2 hour drive home, so not so formal.

We'll hold off on formal until the Grands stop throwing food! ;)