Turkey Dinners For A Group of 140 People
I am cooking turkey dinner for 140 people at our church. My meal consist of turkey, stuffing balls, mashed potatoes & gravy, green beans, noodles in gravy, and cole slaw. I am not sure of the amounts of food I should cook and your advice would be very helpful. Thank You
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Pound per person for bone-in birds, so 140 pounds of turkeys (6-9 whole birds)
Sides are a half cup per person — 60 pounds potatoes, 18 heads of cabbage for slaw, 12 pounds pasta, and 70 cups stuffing.
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Answer 2
I know this is late, but in answering another 'bulk-cooking' question, I stumbled upon a website with advice specifically for turkey dinners (with a note that this is for 'holiday' dinners, that might be more generous than usual):
http://www.ellenskitchen.com/turkey/planshop.html
In case of link rot (although some characters didn't come through ... I suspect 1 1/4 to 1 1/2):
Whole turkey and turkey parts- turkey only
Allow for 1 pound of uncooked turkey per person when purchasing a whole turkey up to 12-14 pounds or turkey pieces (legs, thighs, etc); allow at least to 3/4 pound per person when purchasing a whole turkey weighing over 14 pounds.
Reduce the total amount by 20 percent if you will have a server for the meat (not self serve) and want no leftovers.
Increase the total amount by 50% if you want lots of leftovers or expect lots of heavy eaters
Prestuffed frozen turkey (do NOT prestuff and freeze your own, it is unsafe)
Allow 1? to 1? pounds per person when purchasing a prestuffed turkey.
Turkey breast or boneless roast
Allow 2/3 pound per person when purchasing a bone-in turkey breast, which usually weighs between 4 and 8 pounds (4 pounds for each 6 people)
Allow 1/2 pound per person when purchasing a boneless turkey breast or roast, which usually weighs between 4 and 8 pounds (4 pounds for each 8 people).
To condense/summarize some of the rest of that page:
- dressing or stuffing: 1/2 to 3/4 cup per person (6 ounces)
- mashed potatoes: a pound raw of potato for each 3 persons for mashed potatoes.
- vegetable casseroles and/or sweet potatoes and/or winter squash: 1/2 cup or 4 ounces by weight for each vegetable. A #10 can holds 24-25 servings. This is an inexpensive place to bulk up the meal, maybe corn AND sweet potatoes AND peas with onions or green bean casserole AND one or two others.
- gravy: 1/3 cup is best, 1/4 cup minimum
- cranberry relish: 1 pound per 5-6 persons
- rolls: 4 for each 3 persons minimum, up to 1 1/2 per person
- butter: 3 pounds for each 100 people
... and notes to see the dessert and drinks pages for more info on those
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