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!)

I hope you feel better soon.

Maybe some strawberries would help? 😉

You’re right, I should have gone to Alaska, caught a whole one, gutted it, smoked it and served it on 2000 blinis.

We're actually having chicken and vegetable curry for dinner today...not a massive one though...and with a side salad 🤪 my family is food as normal 😆

Update, DDad has arrived with quiches (ha fuck you quiche haters), pork pies and a trifle!

No.

im guessing you e previous for under catering.

I’m enjoying this, in a twisted kind of way. Now I see the kick kinky priests get from self flagellation.

My dad has not a passive aggressive bone in his body.

Do people really eat a massive curry on a BH monday in May when its going to be 30degrees??

@Kittybway What do they eat in India and other S asian countries every day? Three guesses.

I appreciate the effort you're making here, but I think your scaling of wild Alaskan salmon to blinis is on the extremely tight side. I'm not an expert, but I reckon another order of magnitude is needed. Could you catch and smoke another 9 whilst you're there?

@geminicancerean your family sounds like mine - what a lovely dad ❤❤❤😭

When I’m better I will definitely post recipe, I had to adapt it and wrote it long hand

Well exactly. She was feeding 3 kids, 2 old people and 4 adults. There was a delicious sounding cake that would have fed 18 as well as meringue nests and marinated strawberries for desert. So there’s 3 servings of desert each. There was a Greek salad, a leafy salad, over a kilo of potato salad by the time you’ve added the egg annd mayonnaise (which sounded delicious) and almost a kilo of pasta salad. So that’s plenty of salad for the guests in question. 9 young adults fresh from an afternoon on the beach, probably not, but that’s not who was coming…. Quiche and sausage rolls are not exciting, but the OP knows her guests. All that was really needed addition was some crusty bread, cheese and charcuterie to go with the salmon and crisps IMO. Those suggesting chilli, 2 roast chickens, jacket potatoes, pizza and lasagne clearly hadn’t understood the brief,or the guest list. Or the fact there’s a heatwave.😂

I regularly bake cakes that size - it’s big, but not 16 people big. It might be alright for 9, but I’d still get another dessert in I think for variety.

I hope the OP gets the cake recipe in on this thread.

And also that she gets the last word, the actual 1000th post!

Don’t worry I would make a new thread. Anyway DDad is outside playing with kids in hot tub and I'm in front of a fan with a Coke.

But- does that hot tub fit 9?

I think it's because whilst the total amount of food might be completely fine if being plated up and everyone was going to eat a bit of everything, this is a buffet. If Uncle Steve goes first and has 2 sausage rolls because he doesn't fancy quiche today, and then Aunty Peg fills her plate with a full lunch portion of pasta salad and salmon, the guests near the end won't get much.

OP this is the most amusing thread I have read in a while. You are very entertaining and good humoured, despite the abject nonsense being thrown your way. I hope you feel better soon, and please will you bake me a cake? Doesn't matter if it's in feet, cm or potatoes, it sounds absolutely delicious 😊!

The only thing there i'd eat is the pine nut salad, and the tubs of those aren't big, one tub wouldn't be enough for one person as their dinner.

How is your three layer nine inch cake only 6 inches tall? The one I usually do is about 9 inches. It looks ginormous but it doesn’t last long!

My kids wouldn’t eat drumsticks and I don’t really like them either. I do, though, love wings. Hope it’s all going well.

Ah, I see it’s cancelled. Hope you feel better soon. Pizza delivery to the rescue.

Oh my word! You're going too? Now there are 10 people!

Not sure you read that properly.

I totally appreciate some children have challenges but again that would make it ARFID friendly not child friendly

Fuckdrumsticks
is a serviceable word