On Monday date I was a substitute player for a friend’s Bunco game night. The group, all from the same neighborhood, has been getting together for a while, but they recently instituted a new rule: The host can only serve food out of a box.

If you’ve ever been involved in any kind of weeknight monthly get-together, you’ve experienced the craziness of cleaning your house and trying to get home from work in time to start preparing the food. I really like the only-out of-a-box rule, as it eliminates some of the stress that goes into planning a book, knitting or game-night group gathering. Bottom line, you get together with friends to talk and have fun. If you’re exhausted from getting ready, what’s the point?

Here’s a photo from our out-of-the-box (okay, a can was also invlolved) dessert: Root Beer Floats.