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!)

Don't bake more cake. I made a similar size cake for family a few weeks ago - fed 16 with leftovers.

But they had been well fed beforehand with a full lunch and dessert!

Definitely get more potatoes, your potato salad should have at least 2 bags plus do some extra plain buttered potatoes for any fussy kids. I would arrange the pesto pasta salads on a platter with the green salad, maybe with some avocado sliced in as well. Enough sausage rolls for everyone to have at least one. Fresh bread and butter. An alternative protein to salmon. Crisps, crudites and dip.

And in this heat a load of mini ice lollies for dessert would go down well - mini magnums etc.

I fully suspect my boomer dad of being neurogroovy

Sounds like issues with selective eating run in the family tbh. That being so it is likely irrelevant that some of them are "boomers" (hence why you pissed people off using that term to explain a dislike for curry) and more likely that many of your family of all ages have major issues with food.

What if someone doesn’t like quiche?

Stop with the quiche!! Quiche is horrible 🙂

Glad to see you’re getting more in, you don’t want to be the house people have to pregame for! I feed 9 people for most meals every day and your initial calculations were definitely too low. Mango cake sounds amazing, would love the recipe!

@geminicancerean

AIBU (unsurprisingly) has gone a bit far here. I think you need more, but probably not masses more. Another quiche, two or three of baguettes and cheese, maybe some meat, and definitely one more punnet of strawberries.

Re: cake size. Get a dinner plate. Hold it up 6 inches off the counter. It’s plenty.

I love cake. I'd eat it every day if I wasn't concerned about my health and weight. But I've bought and made quite a few in my time and I think the cake sounds both delicious and plenty.

The rest of the food needs bulking up and I note you have since said you are adding chicken, flatbread etc, so I reckon you'll be fine. If in doubt, however, I'd buy a few extra things that don't need refrigerated /consuming straight away, especially for the kids, as I've seen far too many slight eaters turn into gannets when they don't have a "normal", plated meal.

eta I hope you are on the mend and feel better soon.

This mase me chuckle. I love it but It bought back memories of my gran who would make multiple quiches every week (we all went over on a Saturday afternoon, about 10 of us)

One afternoon my gramps just snapped and blurted out

"I CANNOT EAT ANOTHER FUCKING QUICHE PLEASE STOP WITH THE QUICHES!"

What's the diameter of the quiches? That will determine if they're big enough. You said the 3 kids don't eat quiche, so that's 1/3 of a quiche each for 6 adults. With side salads that sounds good to me. Obviously others think not, so I'm thinking the quiches are small?

What are they going to eat the salmon with?
id do bagels and cream cheese to go with it

@YourJustBee

Start a thread and you may get some specific help but I think at around that age they grow through another development stage but I could be wrong . Usual advice is low reaction ignore what you can and. Love bomb her .

I'm not the best at maths or a baker, but surely a 9inch square cake will be cut into 9 x 1 inch squares. I would not consider a 1inch square of cake to be enormous.

Meats and cheeses, always pleases.

Even with your apparently amazing potato salad and boiled eggs thats what I'd be putting out for 4 people, but with more fruit. 1 punnet of berries for 9 people is hilarious. I'd feel mortified if people were left hungry. Even more so when you've got people who don't like quiche. What are they having instead?

Have you not fed people before???

Wrong thread?

Not enough at all. I think having too much is better. Your giesrs will be hungry. Order pizzas on top and your spread will be lovely sides

Yes you need to recalculate. But also, the cake is round.

oh my god don’t make another cake you’ll be throwing it away! I honestly think what you had originally, especially with the spuds you’d forgotten, sounds fine

It’s a round cake, not square. And the cake is 6 inches tall. A three tier, 9 inch round cake is massive and serves far more than 9 people.

its 9x9 babes. 81 square inches. But also round so not actually 81 square inches. But I will drag out pi should you really wish me to.

I think we can all agree that an enormous cake would be able to feed 81 people more than a square inch each

Why are people saying a 9" cake isn't big enough though? It's pretty big like, and twice the height of a normal round cake.

I've bought this before and the slices weren't exactly borrower sized.

Second only to posts with hand-drawn diagrams. 😁