AIBU to think this dinner spread will be enough for nine?

[geminicancerean]

Nine people for dinner tomorrow, 6 adults, 3 kids. It’s going to be really hot. 5 of the guests will have travelled some of the day.

I’ve actually been unwell this week so have relied on M&S to do the actual work. DH isn’t sure my planned spread is going to feed everybody so I’d like some opinions

I have bought:
2 quiches (one bacon and cheese, one cheese and onion)
2 packets hot flaked salmon
Ingredients for big Greek style salad (cucumber, tomatoes, red onion, feta etc)
Big bag of green salad
2 big pots of pasta, pesto and pine nut salad
6 sausage rolls
Big bag of M&S wotsits
Big bag of M&S bacon crisps
Huge double punnet of strawberries
Meringue nests
Cream
oh and cake

The sausage rolls and crisps are for whoever wants them but I obvs had the kids in mind picking those - I know all three kids like these things and eat them.

So that’s it. I think it’s enough. DH suspicious and thinks we might need ‘extras’.

Over to you Mumsnet (don’t worry, I’m braced for criticism and I can take it!)

Tbh I feel like cake bakers are notoriously shit at how many people a cake feeds. Always advertising served 20-30 when you actually get max half the amount of slices. I don't want a bite of cake if I'm getting a nice cake a want a full slice.

Having said that I think the cake is fine.

Oh wow a nice bit of gratuitous ageism. I think you will find that boomers are not fussy eaters, especially those that were born into post war rationing.

Your cake and potato salad sound lush. Enjoy your visitors OP and fuck the haters. Man people get worked up on here. It wasn't enough food and you've corrected it.

Seriously what made you think that was enough? Are you a competitor undereater?

I am not ‘notoriously shit’ but thanks for the confidence boost. I felt that a cake that would easily feed 20 people would satisfy fewer than half that amount. Also I don’t know where I would get a 10 or 12 inch tin at a pinch and even if I could I would have an absolute mountain of cake on my hands.

My boomers are. They will eat garlic bread now but it was a whole process getting there.

I think you’ve missed the point a bit? Op herself said her family wouldn’t eat “that muck”…..

Because they wouldn’t…

The cake is enough to feed the guests.
But an additional but different dessert is needed.

Also go for some cheesecakes or gateaux for puddings (as well as the fruit).

I’d be calling at the chippy on my way home after such a meagre spread.
And I’d harbour a grudge forever.

Not a phrase I have heard anyone say in a very long time tbh.

Add another pack of sausage rolls or maybe some cheese rolls for anyone who isn’t keen on pork! Bread rolls and a cheese board always goes down well. More little cakes / scones/ fruit too.

My DM would have made a trifle. In a bowl large enough to bath a baby in . . . .

I really miss those trifles!

That would be the strawberries, cream and meringues.

This thread is full of people making up their own version of the OPs posts, most of which they don't seem to have read and commenting based on an entirely different situation to what she has said.

OP, you keep describing the food as enormous when it's clearly not, at least not for nine. 650g of strawberries is not massive for nine. 950g of potatoes is not massive for nine. Cakes don't come big enough for one to be enormous for nine. You need two cakes for nine people.

If you think all this food is such huge amounts, it makes me wonder if you have some issues around food and are an under-eater. The amounts are so small for nine people but you keep describing it all as enormous, massive etc.

Yep, I knew that was coming though. I can say with confidence that my cake is fucking enormous.

Lots of gastronomic ageism on MN today.

So maybe it's about their personality not their ages? The boomers I know will eat anything and absolutely love curry. Why the fuck is ageism so acceptable? If you're lucky you will be old one day too. And younger boomers are not even old fgs. Younger boomers are early 60s.

It’s enormous for nine people.

Those sound like a buffet of starters. There needs to be a main protein of some sort like a roast, steaks, chicken cutlets etc. If you got the flaked sweet chilli salmon flakes, the entire packet looks like it only feeds one adult, two at a stretch.

I think you're using the hot weather as an excuse to only serve salads and very light finger foods. People still get hungry regardless of the temperature and they would be expecting something more substantial.

Same here! Also pasta and pizza.

I think they work on the idea its a finger of cake , wedding size rather than a full slice

If its a birthday then should cater for a full slice
I always go larger as we like leftovers

My tuppence ha penny worth is that no one hopes there will be quiche, its a lunch food 😐
If its hot people want a BBQ
Loads of burgers and sausages, chicken, corn cobs,big green salad, big coleslaw,big pot salad, rolls, baquettes,cheese, sauces
2 options for pud , one fruity,one chocolatey PLUS cake
Always over cater

My DDad and his friends are all born from the late 40s to mid 50s, and they always make curry for parties among other typical party foods like pizza etc.

I don’t get the generalisations about boomers tbh. I guess in their circle someone must have done it well and everyone else thought “what a great idea!” In other social groups maybe not?

I don’t understand why isn’t there enough sausage rolls for each person considering how common and popular they are