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Catering a Graduation: How much food do we need?

A friend asked me and my sister if we would cater her son's graduation party (50-75 people). She wants the following dishes:

Ziti dish with meatballs
Veggie Lasagna
Chicken with gravy
Salt Potatoes
Sauteed Green Beans
Green Salad

I figure about 10lbs of Green salad, 30lbs of salt potatoes, and 20lbs of green beans.

I have no idea whether a full pan (full catering size) each of the ziti, lasagna, and chicken is enough for that number of people.

Any ideas?

Wife. MoM {1G + BBG triplets}. DIY'er. Cloth Diaper'er.

Re: Catering a Graduation: How much food do we need?

  • Wow!  That seems like a lot of food...

    I would probably do 2-3 trays each of Ziti with Meatballs, Veggie Lasagna and Chicken.  Probably 2 trays each of Potatoes and Green Beans and 2 Large Salads.  The weight (lbs).  seems way off to me.

    My guess is that you will still have lots of food leftover even with those rough calculations... and if you run out of a particular dish - don't feel bad.  That means everyone liked it.

    HTH and GL

  • I feel like you should check a local italian place and see how much their pans estimate (I'm thinking one pan =25 people) and base it from there
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