Winter buffet food for 100

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My parents are having a 50th wedding anniversary party in december. In a rash moment I have promised to do the food. It will be for 100 people plus kids. I am doing little party boxes for kids so just adult ideas needed. I will be spending hours with the cookery books but if any one has any fab recipes that are easy, can be prepared ahead and serve lots-I would be very grateful!

Are you doing proper food or just canapes?

If proper food I find easier to do a theme eg curry is a good one, can all be prepared in advance. Good for December too!

Or you could do a very wintery thing, stews, jacket potatoes etc.

Proper food but would be easier if mainly cold as will have to be transported.
Jacket potatoes good idea though as they will stay hot for ages.

Could you buy it from a supermarket - super size packs of mini quiches, vol-au-vents etc?

That would be cheating
but may well happen!

100 people is a lot!!
And if its a 50th wedding anniversary, will tastes perhaps be a bit more traditional? Hotpot? Stew? Chicken casserole? Maybe quiuches, flans, and perhaps some salmon? Salmon can be fairly cheap if you buy it whole and when it's on offer and it can be easily baked in tinfoil in the oven. It's always popular.
Good luck!
Have you got siblings you can rope in?

Easier to cook stews etc well in advance, freeze them and then defrost and reheat at the venue. So easy it's untrue.

Easy to do veggie ones too.

I have done a christmas time 40th birthday bash for about 80 people. It was a surprise party so I only had hte day itself to cook!

Mulled wine on arrival

Coq a leekie soup for starters,
then I made 3 massive pots of food for the main course,

chicken, lime and coconut curry

beef in beer casserole

smoky pork and bacon casserole

I cooked a huge pot of rice and shoved a sack of baking pots in the oven.

For dessert I made cheesecakes and pavlova (made the cheesecakes and froze them a few weeks before hand), the pavolovas keep for a week or so in an airtight tin. The just piled cream and kiwi fruit on the pavlova and raspberries on the cheesecake at the last minute (made a quick raspberry sauce from frozen supermarket rasps, defrosted them and mushed them up with about half a pack of icing sugar).

I think the trick is not to overcomplicate things and not to panic

Thanks
am coming round to the hot food-pre cooked casserole idea-less faffy than quiches and things
will def do mulled wine-lovely idea and hadnt thought of that

And mince pies for pud!