Last year I made firecracker hamburgers.I added crushed red pepper,cayne pepper,chopped onions,onion salt,garlic salt.I have red faygo pop,blue faygo pop,very vanilla nesquik milk mix as red white and blue beverages.Make a ambrosia salad,it has marshmallows,coconut,madrain oranges,pineapple, cherries,whipped cream and is delicious.far as a green salad,use regular lettuce,different shredded cheeses,green,black olives,tomatoes,onions,chopped green pepper,chopped red pepper,chopped or diced devil eggs,your favorite salad dressing.A cucumber salad ,add sour cream,mayonaise,black pepper,dill weed,large cucumbers ,cider vinegar,white onions ,keep refrigerated till ready to serve.Red jell-o,whip cream,add blueberries in jell-o ,there's a red,white,blue dessert.regular sugar cookies,add white frosting,sprinkle with different colors,count it as your fireworks.cookies in a rectangle shape,spread white frosting a square upper left,food color till dark blue,a small tube of white frosting,add a couple white dots too the blue count it as the stars,small tube of red frosting,make stripes across the flag,there's your american flag.Spinach salad with devil eggs and bacon bits,italian dressing.Blueberry cupcakes,white frosting,red sprinkles,white cupcakes,add red food coloring to white frosting till dark red,use blue sprinkles or a american flag decoration.Use red ,white,blue plastic silverware,red,white,blue,plastic cups and plates.Polsih nails red,white,blue,use different glitter nailpolish,count that as fireworks.Far as baked beans,for your party of 30, 5 cans of baked beans,simmered for 25 minutes is your best.A 25 pound potato salad with 3 stalks of chopped green celery,as much onions as you want,add mustard a bit at a time and stir it up,add the celery,onions as you do the mustard,and any spices if you want.I hope this helped you out,have a safe 4th of july