brunch for sixty people - how to estimate amounts?
We will be hosting a buffet brunch in our home for about 60 people, serving bagels, lox, tuna salad, egg salad, kugel, and farmer's salad.
How do I determine many eggs I need for the egg salad, and how much tuna?
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There are two parts to your calculation: how much egg or tuna goes into a "helping" at your buffet brunch, and how many helpings you are likely to need.
For the first part, you probably know how many egg salad sandwiches you can get from a certain number of eggs. Let's say one egg makes one sandwich. Are people likely to put that same amount on a bagel? Or will it be more? Less? Let's say a can of tuna makes two sandwiches. Same questions.
Next, how many bagels-with-something will a person eat? Maybe two, right? Especially since there is kugel. So 120 bagels would be a LOT of bagels. You could then take your guesses from the first part and estimate what you need for 60 bagels of egg and 60 bagels of tuna. Sure, one may be more popular than the other, but some people may eat only the lox, right?
If you've never done this before, I wouldn't make up 60 bagels of egg salad mix in advance. You can make maybe 20 worth, and as it disappears, make more. That is assuming a relatively informal get-together where you are the host and friends and family are happily gathering, and will watch you stir up some more egg salad (using eggs you hardboiled in advance, and veggies you chopped in advance) as needed. Things would be different if you were the paid caterer. Not doing it in advance means that if you don't use all the eggs or veggies, you'll have a chance to use them in something else instead of egg salad. Same for the tuna - open the cans as you need them after some initial inventory of tuna salad is made.
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How much food do I need for 60 guests?
Most experts agree that for a party of 60 guests you should provide each guest with at least 1 lb. of food. This is a good rule of thumb as some guests will only nibble as others will take much more than 1 lb. You should also take beverages into account--approximately two beverages per person, or 120 beverages.How do you estimate food for a crowd?
Based on the suggested total amount of one and a quarter pound of food per person, you would need 62.50 pounds of food for 50 guests. That's for everything; protein, veggies, side dishes, salad, bread and dessert. The same formula applies to 100 guests. Your buffet would need 125 pounds of food for 100 guests.How do you calculate portions for catering?
It's pretty simple too: We just determine an appropriate size portion of any dish in ounces per person, the we multiply that times the number of guests and divide by 16 (# of oz in a pound) and just like that you get the number of pounds you'll need.How much food do you need for 40 50 people?
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The best approach would be to test it out on a few people.
Get a batch of like 5 people together, make it for them with them. See how much they actually eat of each item. Make more of each items as it runs out with them. Do it on a weekend when you have tonnes of time. Keep track of how much is eaten by item.
Then multiply by 12.
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