Is this enough food for a barbecue?

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I’m having a barbecue for 24 people on Saturday. I haven’t hosted for this many before so can I check with those if you who are more experienced whether this is the right amount of food?

On the barbecue:

24 burgers
24 hot dogs

Prepared in advance and served cold:

50 buns
A large gammon joint
15 barbecue chicken drumsticks
15 plain drumsticks
A potato salad with lemon and garlic
Homemade coleslaw
A Caesar salad
Another type of vegan salad

Then for people arriving I’ll have a cheeseboard, crisps, dips, and sweets out.

Is it enough? Should I add a pasta salad?

This is hilarious. What evidence do you think there would be?!

I would not want to eat more than a burger and a sausage. + all sides it’s plenty. People just tend to over eat at bbqs.

Surely cold cuts in the garden in August is normal? It is around here anyway. Cold drumsticks are buffet staples.

I would like to know the 499 barbecue items ranking above it.

It was the same on her previous thread about this upcoming bbq. OP was a lot ruder to posters there, though.

Make sure you protect your vegan guest's food as others will scarf the veggie burgers and cross contamination the salad given half a chance.

Yes, I am rude to the absolute sad bastards who have so little going on in their lives that they feel passionately about barbecues to which they’re not invited.

Lol give over

So one burger and 1 hot dog each? No not enough

So why did you ask? People are telling you it's not enough and you're just saying you don't want it to go to waste and seem to think that because one person might want 2 burgers, that will magically mean someone else will want 2 hotdogs and no burger.

One burger, one hot dog, one or two drumsticks, gammon slices or pulled pork, potato salad,
coleslaw, cheese, scones, sweets, crisps and dips, charcuterie, caprese salad, green salad. Is this really not enough for your appetite?

Learn to read.

It’s plenty of food, but I’d be inclined to get ads more sausages, burgers, chicken, and leave out the gammon.

Ah, more of your distinct charm.

It will probably depend on how many men will be there as to how much meat will be eaten going by my own family bbqs (all complete savages). I find that having something that can be cooked in advance and heated up quickly helps if you get stuck. I usually have a batch of sausage rolls, mozzerella sticks and pizza bites just in case. Or I just do a big curry and freeze it into portions if it doesn't get used.

If you’re serving gammon and other meats that require a knife and fork, can they sit down. It’s really hard to cut meat standing up.
just for my two pennies, I would have a burger and salad. My husband no salad at all and would easily eat a couple of burgers, he doesn’t like hotdogs and he wouldn’t eat any of the salad. So listing all the food out and saying isn’t this enough is pointless as people won’t like all of it. I hate chicken on the bone and trying to eat it standing up is a pain.

So do I. The fat is the best part!

My Mum does a honey and mustard glaze on gammon, too, and it's knock-out.

OP was asking if the quantity was enough as she knows what her guests eat. Some said no (some called her cheap and suggested she swap burgers for a dressed salmon but OP ignored that) so she has upped the quantity of the food she’s providing (again, that she knows her guests will eat).

My nan can only eat soup OP. What are you feeding her?

Honestly, it’s a thread about barbecue food. Get a grip.

I'm with your husband, I hardly ever go to barbecues so I will eat as much of the barbecued meats as I can manage get away with and ignore most of the sides.

😂

How many portions will she eat? I will double it.

But from the BBQ, you're offering one burger and one hot dog sausage each. Most people won't eat tinned hot dog sausages, so that leaves them with a solitary burger. People generally expect to eat barbequed food at a barbeque, and it is that you are lacking in. Yes, they can fill up on other stuff if they're still hungry, but it seems odd to invite people to a BBQ and severely restrict the actual barbequed food. Your attitude comes across a bit like you can't be bothered barbequing, so I'm confused as to why you've invited people to a barbeque. It sounds like a drinks and snacks party would be more up your street. Then you could have just put out a few bowls of crisps and peanuts and been done with it. Minimal effort, minimal cost.

I think your guests will be disappointed, but I'm sure they'll be gracious about it.

Half a bowl usually, but make loads and freeze the rest just in case.

A solitary burger ?

because you don’t want the sausage or all the other stuff as well becuase only an idiot expects massive amounts of BBQd stuff when there is a big crowd

in a normal meal o would only have a solitary burger ( in the bun, with some salad ) and I don’t expect to stuff myself silly at someone else’s expense