My first real food dilemma. Need help !!

I'm on a team for the first time in my life!  That is a good thing!!  (Never would have happened 100 + lbs ago).

The challenge is that they plan meals to share which is going to be something I am going to have to figure out how to manage.

This first meal they say they are doing the "usual" spaghetti and bread.  And margaritas.

I need ideas about what I can take to share and what the heck I am going to take to eat.  I don't have any problem saying I am gluten intolerant (which I am).  I can't even have a nibble of spaghetti or bread so I won't be tempted.  I can't drink margaritas either, altho I CAN drink straight tequilla but I think I will be much better off to stick to water!!!

I just don't know what to take to share and what to take to eat.  They will be cooking this meal in someone's motel room.  And I will be arriving via a ride with a friend after a 4 hour drive.  I'm not sure how much room I will have to bring stuff along and I won't have access to a grocery store after we get there without asking for someone to drive me.

Please chime in with all your ideas!!!  Thanks much.

~Becky

I think that is a great idea.  I can make the meatballs and freeze them and then put them in the cooler.  By the time we get there they will be thawed.  I can ask if I can heat them with the spaghetti sauce that someone else is making don't you think?

I would like your recipe.  I'm afraid the store bought ones will have something in it that I can't eat.

THANKS!

~Becky

Tara,

Also can you tell me how many meatballs or how much ground beef to prepare per person?  I don't have a headcount yet but it will be around 20 people.

THANKS!

~Becky

 Becky, you can just substitute Parmesan cheese for the breadcrumbs in any recipe and it would work, use Mozzarella cheese as the binding ingredient. I make my meatloaf with the Mozzarella and it tastes great.
Good Luck and enjoy.

Now that sounds good.  Can you tell me how much parm and moz cheese to use?  I am NOT a cook but I can follow recipes pretty well.

~Becky

 You are a genius with the meatballs idea!

Dawn's Balls:

1 pound meat (lean)
1/4 cup Italian bread crumbs
1/4 Parmesan cheese
1 egg
1 teaspoon garlic powder (sometimes I'll add more depending on who's eating them)

optional: (I use these if I don't make my homemade sauce)
1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
couple shakes of red crush peppers 

Blend in mixer, bake @ 350 for 25 mins

makes 10 large meatballs- 1 - 1 1/2 each person.

Thanks Dawn.  A couple of questions.  Is there a way to make them without the bread crumbs?  I can't eat bread crumbs. Is it necessary to use lean meat or is that just a leftover direction from pre-DS days? Also do I cook them and then freeze them?

Thanks!!!

~Becky