Cooking for 60!?!
Cooking for 60!?
I'm planning, and makeing food for a friends Grad. party. I need to know hoy many lbs approx. im gonna need for 60 people. we're doing italian sausauge, meatballs w/ sauce, rigatoni, potato salad, macaroni salad, baked beans, tossed salad. The rigatoni isnt really a problem. but i need to know the poundage for the italian sausage, how many lbs of potatoes, and how many bags of the pre-mixed salad. Oh, and how many cases of soda.
Answers:
Well, you can figure a half pound each per person. To be safe, buy 30 pounds each of the ingredients in question...
wow!! you've got your hands full with this!!
do you (or anyone in your family or friends) have a membership to costco or sam's club warehouse? if so this is truly the best way to get all of your stuff.
i have a costco membership and i love it (i have 5 in my family and get most of my groceries there)
-they have 2-3lb tubs of ready made potato salad
-the sausage comes in packs to feed about 15 people (so you could get like 4-5 of them)
-the salad comes in 2-4lb bags
-the soda comes in cases of 24-36
and everything is cheaper than a normal grocery store.
if noone has a membership to either one of those-check to see if you have a smart & final wherehouse store in your are-this store is similar to the others but doesn't require a membership to get it.
buying stuff at a regular store is time-consuming and could get really expensive too.
hope this helps
use math conversions! Like, for a fmily of for, you will need at least 4 potatoes, 3 bag of mixed salad, a one pound of itallian sausage! now converting it to supply that many people, you will need at least 45 bags of salad, 25 pound of sausage, 70 potatoes
good planning is very important . To me you need to know who are they and balance the food . you really have a lots of salad . how about keep 2 salad and cook 1 soup with some bread which you can get from the bakery shop. 8kg potato's enough for every-things . salad 2kg should be a lots . drinks you need to buy others instead only soda ..