All of us could use some new recipes, right? I love to exchange recipes with others and find new dishes to try. If you like experimenting with new foods, you may enjoy hosting a recipe-sharing party with your friends or family. The basic idea is to get together and sample each others’ favorite foods and leave with some new recipes for your own family. This is also a great way to save on the cost of entertaining.
Here are a few tips to help you with your party planning:
* First, decide who will be invited to your party. Do you want a family event where children are welcome and kid-friendly foods are served? Or would you rather plan your event with only adults or only women? The type of guest list you choose will play a role in what types of foods will be served at your party.
* Next, decide a theme to your event. You may decide to only have desserts, appetizers, Mexican foods, or various pies. Or perhaps you’d like to have a dinner party and ask each guest to bring a portion of the meal. Either way, the theme is part of the fun, so be creative.
* Send out invitations through the mail, email, or over the phone and ask each guest to bring a food for everyone to try, along with multiple copies of its recipe. By planning this as a recipe-sharing party, you have a fun and creative way to have a potluck that has a little more class. Bringing food to share is not an obligation, it’s part of the event.
* Next to each dish at the party, keep copies of the recipes for guests to take home. Or, if you prefer, have your guests get copies of their recipe to you before the day of the event and print them all up together to send home with each person.
* If your party is a success, perhaps you and your friends might enjoy continuing this tradition every month, hosted by a new person each time.
One of the great things about a party like this is that it actually gets people excited about sharing in the cost of providing food for the party. It’s also a fun way to try new things and a frugal way to feed a crowd.
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