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What about telling everyone that you'll provide beef stew for sixty and they are responsible to bring the rest - give each one a choice of two dishes to bring and then strike it off your list?
If each family group is expecting the meal you serve them to be 'the Christmas feast', which is the sense I get from your mil's comment, then you have been had. Very unreasonable. If that's not the case I would suggest feeling free to be casual or go pot-luck.
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