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Please come and critique my boxing day buffet menu - feel free to be as harsh (honest) as you like

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LucyEllensmummy · 22/12/2008 10:40

  • Cold meats: Turkey, Ham (cooked in coke)
  • mini sausages
  • Green salad with advocado and blue cheese
  • Rice salad with garlic and tumeric
  • Pasta Salad with tomato sauce
  • Cheese board
  • Various condiments and dressings
  • French bread, probably the finish in the oven type
  • raw veggies for dips
  • houmous
  • coleslaw (the one from Asda that looks like you did it yourself)
  • Dips (shop bought)
  • Potato Salad (home made)

This is for about 10 adults and four children

For sweets

  • banoffee pie (home made)
  • fruit and custard flan (home constructed - tin of mandarins, tin of custard and some of that minging lovely instant jelly)
  • mince pies (home made) with cream or custard (shop bought).
Jelly and blamange for kids and fairy cakes (so DD can contribute).

Does this sound a bit tame and 70s? Also, if they are going to be here for the day is it enough? How do people feel about it all being cold? I was thinking about doing a chilli but my DP doesn't think his family will like it (and considering the party will be mostly made up of his family) so thinks its a waste of time. Maybe a lasagne? But then again, would that be too much on top of everything else?

Is there anything you guys would add to bring it into the Noughties? I think im opting for the safe option, but we as a household have spent the past month in the grips of a demon virus so im short on time.

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LucyEllensmummy · 22/12/2008 19:33

No moondog, i prefer honesty. .

not sure where im going to get chip peas from mind

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moondog · 22/12/2008 22:13

chickpeas sold in any supermarket-with canned beans. Hope it goes well. At the end of the day, it's the peopel that matter, eh?

LucyEllensmummy · 23/12/2008 09:56

well yes, and of course appearing like a domestic goddess and out doing SIL Mind you we are dropping like flies in this house just now - sickness bug

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