What are your buffet essentials?

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Planning a shopping list and some idea would be great!
Thanks

What’s the occasion and who’s eating?

Cold meats - gammon & Chicken

Salad, new potatoes

Ah that would help. Its for my sons 1st birthday. Kids ranging from 1-7 plus 10 adults

No dietary restrictions

cheese & pineapple on sticks - I don't know anyone that doesn't love these & get all excited as they haven't seen them in years

Corned beef plate pie .. mmmmm

Small sandwiches - really tasty ones

Sausage rolls.

Potato salad
Nice crisps
Pita bread or French sticks
Good cheese
Quiche
Hummus
Veg sticks
Sandwiches
Salads

Charcuterie and cheese board

Dips and crudites

Lovely sandwiches cut into chunks you can eat with one hand

Those mini scotch eggs

Pickled onions and cubes of cheese

To save the ball ache of making sandwiches I would buy a ready made platter from sainsburys or M&S.

Pizza
Baguette
Salad
Cheese and meats
Vegetables and dips
Crisps
Fruit salad
Cheesecake
Gateau
Ice cream

Someone mentioned Magnums or ice lollies for dessert on a recent thread - I did it at my sons 1st birthday and it went down a treat!

Crisps and dip
Mini sausages, sausage rolls, scotch eggs
I usually do a mixture of ham, cheese and tuna sandwiches
Chicken drum sticks
Breadsticks
Quiche
Potato salad
Cold pasta
Salad
Pizza cut up small for the kids

A good cheese board.
Meats
Prawns And salmon, poached and smoked.
Salads
Crusty bread
Butter
Pate
Dips
Olives
Crisps and nuts
Self cooked chipolatas

And bizarrely for the adults, not the kids, hotdogs in the slow cooker with onions.

Cheesecake
Strawberries
Fresh cream
Mini meringues

Quiche, scotch eggs, sausage rolls, nice salads, cooked meats, cheese, crusty breads,

Smoked salmon
Olives
Hummus
Veggie sticks
Potato salad
Coleslaw

M&S sandwich platter
Crisps
Sausage rolls
Salad
Pizza/garlic bread
Salad
Coleslaw

Thanks all! Some great ideas here. Although i don't like cheese and pineapple

Cheese and picked onions? But really it should be pineapple!!
Dips
People like labels so they know what they are eating

If I make sandwiches for a kids party, they tend to be left.
Mini pasties & porkpies
Mini scotch eggs
Cocktail sausages
Ritz crackers spread with cream cheese
Cucumber sticks & pepper strips ( at least an attempt to be healthy!) with some sort of dip
Cheese
Small slices of pizza
Crisps
Breadsticks
Mini sausage rolls

I don’t bother with a lot of sweet stuff if there’s birthday cake but personalised cupcakes go down a storm
Chocolate fingers
Iced gems

Cater for the adults too with cold meats, salads & crusty bread & butter

For the adults, cocktail sausages cooked in honey and mustard and served warm. Food of the gods.

If you are serving french sticks make sure you have proper butter. I can’t bear it when bread is served with ‘spreadable butter’ or a low fat spread.