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speaking of menus....enough food?
Can't believe it, but my baby will be 1 on Saturday! We're having a party with about 40-45 people at our community clubhouse. Anyway, this is where we are with food. WDYT? I've never done anything like this before so I'm at a loss.
6 ft italian sub
3 ft turkey sub
full tray of a pasta dish (not sure what exactly, but my bil, who's a chef, is making it, so no complaining here!)
full tray of sausage and peppers (also made by bil)
full tray of chicken marsala
salad
a smallish sushi tray (our indulgence, more for the adults, obviously)
chips, pretzels, party mix
a cute fruit kebob thing I found on pinterest (my first pinterest project)
cake
ice cream
(I will probably also do a small tray of mac and cheese and get some chicken nuggets for the kiddos)
Re: speaking of menus....enough food?
Mmm sounds good. Welcome to the wonderful world of party planning. I've been planning my daughters 1st bday as well! It's in the afternoon so I decided against the "dinner" foods (if that's what you want to call them- and mostly because the three of us don't eat meat). I think you should have plenty of food. Here's what we were thinking:
a ton of PIZZA!!!!
mac and cheese
pasta salad, potato salad, macaroni salad, bread salad (our families are suckers for the salads haha)
Meatballs (for those that do eat meat)
Sushi (for me, my husband and my best friend to nosh on)
Chips and dip
veggies and dip
cupcakes ( I was going to leave ice cream out)
I'm hoping that's enough for 60 people. Enjoy your baby's party!
I would skip the sushi--it isn't cost effective and doesn't go. It is probably my favorite food, but I would save it for another time.
I would add some sort of potatoes--maybe roasted new potatoes? And maybe some meatballs. You could do grilled shrimp if you want some seafood.
And to other poster, sushi for only the host is just disrespectful. Just go out to dinner some other time.
Oh relax. There will be a whole tray sitting out for all to enjoy. I just know we are the only three who will eat it (rather than the meatballs). I think sushi is fun. It's not some kind of fancy I-need-to-go-out-to-dinner-to-eat-this-kind-of-food. Plus we love the owner of our local take out sushi place (it's not an eat in restaurant) and want to support her.
I used to do a lot of event planning professionally and I regularly have to do catering orders for groups of ravenous high school students. Here are my thoughts:
- Are you going to have enough seating for everyone to sit down for their meal, or were you planning on it being more standing/mingling? You're menu is good if there will be plenty of seating but most of that stuff will be tough to eat if people have to stand.
- How do you want the event to go - do you want people to show up and eat whenever they want, or do you want a critical mass sitting down at the same time? If you want to have everyone eating at the same time, I would have they "snacky" stuff that people can eat with their hands out and ready to eat, with the sit down food covered at a different table so people know to wait.
- Are any vegetarians attending? If so, I would add a small thing of eggplant marinara (parm on the side if there are vegans).
- If the food will be outside, put the sushi tray and fruit kebab plate over large bowls with ice to keep them cool.
- Consider adding cut veggies and dip (celery, carrots, cauliflower, grape tomatoes)
- Consider adding a diy cheese plate with crackers. This is really easy if you're near a trader joes!
Overall, I think you're good on the amount of food.
I think that sushi sitting out grosses me out, so I personally would nix that.
You have the subs for the people that will not eat the sausage and peppers. The chicken marsala seems out of place. Maybe get a tuna or veggie sub for people that don't eat meat.
I think the pasta, salad and chips are good sides. I would also add rolls.
It would depend on how many kids there will be if I did the mac/cheese and nuggets. If there's a lot then for sure do something separate. If there's a few and they're all around 1 year old, I wouldn't do specific food for them.
I think it is fine. It is kind of weird to me how obsessed people are about good "going together". It is a first birthday party, no a fancy dinner party. I think it is fine to include things you love and call it a day.
And to the feisty "it's rude to have sushi for just the host". Come on. Do you think she is really hoarding the sushi? Please....clearly she knows her group. It will be out and they will be the only ones who want it. If someone wants it, they can take some.
We'll miss you sweet Debbie Girl (4.21.12) and sweet Cindy Girl (8.9.12)
This. I think it's fine too.
It's okay to be a bit disjointed once in awhile. I had a party like that once and just played up as our favorite things.
Also in our family it's important to have different options whether or not they "go." I have a big family with very different food tastes. And while I'm fully aware I don't have to keep everyone happy, it's the nice thing to do.
That was to the other poster who said it was for her, her husband and her BFF. She restated that it would actually be shared so that's fine. I took that her statement as literal. I have certainly seen worst judgement displayed on the Nest.
I don't know where she got the idea that I was implying it was fancy. I did say it expensive as compared to the other party foods listed.