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Cordie & Vicky homeschoolingsisters@yahoo.com 12/08/04 |
Our Sunday School class adopted an apartment complex near our church and will be hosting a Christmas dinner there this Saturday, 12/11/04. We're expecting between 200 and 300 people. Will 4 hams, 3 turkeys, pork fingers and chicken be enough? (Not sure of the quantity on the last two or the pounds of the hams and turkeys). Also, how much green beans and corn do we need? (We'll also have potato salad, rice and peas and nachos and salsa.). We're nervous rookies and appreciate any advise. Thanks much! |
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ellen 12/08/04 |
Very glad you are making this effort. You will need about 25-30 volunteers the day of the event for set up, serving , hosting, and cleanup. Hosting is VERY important if you want this to be a success. Please do go read the archive threads below on Thanksgiving dinners for a lot of tips on the job. In a situation like this, you can expect the high side of your numbers to attend. However, you sre getting s very late start. Also you have given very little info on your plan, for example, how big are the turkeys and is the ham boneless cooked ir raw and what size. Also how and where the food will be prepared, is it potluck, a church kitchen or what. The ball park figure is 5-6 ounces total of sliced cooked meat per person, which is 37-40 pounds per hundred persons PLUS 10 gallons of side dishes per hundred persons. 10 gallons is 10 large crockpots, if you are dividing it up that way, so you would need 30 crockpots. PLUS bread and butter, condiments,beverages and picklesm and dessert. If you go to the big pots section and scroll down about half way, there is a section on planning and budgetting for larbe events which has over 20 articles outlining all the different food amounts plus pages of 100 person recipes. Good luck. The meat you can figure out exactly by going here:
http://www.ellenskitchen.com/bigpots/plan/quan100.html |