I need some ideas. I’m in charge of VBS dinners and I’m making hot dogs. I need a side. Help! Quick and easy. Baked Beans are out as I don’t think alot of young kids like them.
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Baked sweet potato potato fries
My kids love baked beans with brown sugar!!
Chips or fries both go good hot dogs.
Kids love chips and maybe a veggie tray or fruit
Macaroni salad
Macaroni and cheese
Chips
Fresh fruit
Veggies and dip
What about chips, like apple slices and fruit snacks or the cream cookies my kids love the aldis vanilla cream ones!
We kept ours super simple! Every night we had a different entree but we had chips and cookies to go with it. And our kids were fine with it! It was so hot that no one wanted to eat anything heavy!
we did tator tots on hotdog night at VBS. We also did chili either the dogs
Cole slaw, fruit, potato salad, chips, pickles, fresh veggies…like raw carrots, cherry tomatoes, celery sticks, broccoli, cauliflower, red bell pepper strips and maybe Ranch dressing. Jello cup.
Mac and cheese
Fruit
Corn
We are having VBS this week also. We are doing hotdogs one night, pizza one night, spaghetti one night, fish fry one night, and chicken nuggets one night. They are also doing salad, chips, French fries, tater tots, fresh fruit and cake and brownies for desserts and cookies.
Bake tater tots, crispy and then put them in crockpot on warm . Put paper towels over the crockpot before you put the lid back on.
Most kids like ketchup with them.
Cut up fruit and make that dessert called DIRT.. can be made ahead of time also.
Mac n cheese. Kids love it & will eat it.
Tater tots, Mac and cheese, chips, fruit, watermelon, pickle spears,
I do VBS food most years. The last few years I have been trying to fix meals that can go in a brown bag. We wrap each thing individually. It is usually a main food item, one side and a handheld dessert. I put out small bottles of water in a cooler. The children walk by, pick up their bag, get their water from the cooler and the teacher take them outside or back to their room to eat. Everyone seems to like it this way.
My kids love baked beans, I would do fruit salad and chips
Fresh Fruit with Fruit Dip. In a Mixer mix one package of cream cheese with large Marshmallow Cream
I have seen a hotdog cut like an octopus on one side. It swas served with shell mac and cheese. They used mustard to draw a happy face on it.
Every little kid I know LIVES baked beans! My grands call them “sweet beans”
Make those little octopus by cutting them in quarters 1/2 way down the wiener
When they cook the it’s curl up and makes your hot dog look like octopuses
We just finished our Vbs and I was honestly shocked at how many kids loved the baked beans. Even my kids who I would have said with 100% certainty wouldn’t, did. Haha.
When I cooked for our VBS we did chips and fruit trays with hot dogs
Fries, pickles, chips, fruit, Mac and cheese
At this time of year fresh corn on the cob is cheap and delicious. When you say “young kids” I’m not sure how young you mean, but this was definitely a treat growing up that I looked forward to, along with some fresh watermelon slices.
They like spagetti nite taco nite pizza last night.ov vbs hot dogs on the grill. nite hamburger nite.
Chips was always when we done hot dogs at our VBS with some kind of dip
Pasta salad!!
Noodles, black olives, cheese, cucumbers, tomatoes, and Italian dressing!!
You can really do any veggies with it.
Mac and cheese Then some fresh veggies. Baby carrots and broccoli are always a hit with my grandsons
Baked potato bar goes great with dogs.
It’s mostly key to late, but kids like meat balls, put I a crock pot add beef gravy, cook for a couple hours, get the flavor in the good luck
Cole slaw, mac n cheese muffins would be easy and no mess. Just make your mac n cheese and use cupcake liners and make it into muffins. Then just top with some panko breadcrumbs or crushed potato chips. I have a mini muffin tin and it is awesome, 48 little muffins each time I bake. I love being able to bake for a crowd, with a pan like this one you can. It works great and I didnt even need liners but for the standard size cupcake tin I would use a liner to be sure it holds together.
Fruit bowls and water melon. My grandkids love the fresh fruit
You would be surprised how many kids like baked beans, all three of my girls love them and I don’t like them
Fruit, Mac & Cheese, fries or tater tots
Chips works for kids. Or a watermelon and fruit tray.
Fruit, chips, or fries. I’m with you alot of kids don’t like beans or pasta salads.
Kids like simple things. Not casseroles or pasta salads usually. Chips, plain veggie strips with ranch to dip, cookies and Little Debbie. Koolaid or Gatorade or juice.
Cornaroni!
1 can whole corn, drained
I can creamed corn
1 cup raw macaroni
1 cup Velveeta cubed
1 stick butter cut up(I use 3/4)
Mix in a casserole and bake at 350⁰ for 45 minutes, covered (stir occasionally). Then bake 30 minutes uncovered. We made a double batch when the kids were home. Have tripled the recipe for big events. Its a hit!
Fruit salad and chips, macaroni and cheese, fries, potato salad or macaroni salad are all good. For kids though I would do chips and dip and fruit salad. They would probably eat that the best.
I would get a basket and put several individual chip bags in it from a variety pack. I would get another basket and fill it with assorted little debbies. Easy peasy and everyone will be happy. Hot dogs, chips, and dessert their way !!!
We would take a banana cut in half, leave the peel on . Push a plastic spoon in the cut side for a handle. Freeze. When ready to serve, peel, dip in melted chocolate, pecans, sprinkles, etc
Kids love those little gold fish chips. And fruit
Carrot strips, cherry tomatoes, mini cucumbers sliced, watermelon popsicles ( cut out with cookie cutter or rectangles and add a popsicle stick), etc.
Mac & Cheese in the crockpot. (make sure an adult dips the servings) precooked noodles, block velvetta(I’ve used the cheddar & white) stick of butter, cup of milk, salt & pepper. Add extra milk as it thickens.
Plain chips, (little individual bags)fruit,Mac and cheese, I add just brown sugar to beans and my grands love um…
To make it easier on everyone do your hotdogs and have mustard, ketchup,slaw, you could do chili but it is so messy, maybe some shredded cheese, then do chips. Then use either Little Debbie snack cakes or cookies for drinks use small bottles of water, juice boxes, or Little chucks drinks
We usually do an assortment of chips (Cheeto puffs, Doritos, bbq, plain) or fries/tots then something for dessert (cookies, Rice Krispie treats, cupcakes). We try to stay away from anything they need silverware for
Mine and my brother’s favorite meal was beams and weinies growing up but if your kids don’t like them….
Mac n cheese, fries, chips, carrot sticks, fresh fruit salad