Party food help.....

[wurlywurly]

I always end up with far too much and spending a fortune. Write me a list of food for 20 kids please....

anyone, these poor kids will starve.

Not really sure but I figure pizzas and sandwiches will always get eaten?

For my dd's birthday (mainly adults though!), I made 2 cheese and tomato pizzas, 1 lahmacun (a lamb pizza thing) and 12 spicy lentil pastries! Plus chocolate chip cookies, crisps and cake.

I have currently just planned sandwiches (mixture of fillings), pizza, breadsticks with dips, small sausage bite things, fairy cakes and muffins, fruit, root vegetable crisps - a mixture of some healthy and favourite party food. You will always over cater - its tradition!

How old are the kids?

They won't eat it anyway. Yesterday I did pizza, chip, crisps, sausages on sticks, pineapple and cheese on sticks (for me really!), bread sticks, dips, carrot and pepper batons, grapes, cherry tomatoes. And they ate...some pizza, some chips, some crisps, all the sausages and only my daughter ate the healthy stuff because she felt sorry for me.

they vary in age from babies to about 10yo

Visualise thier plates, say 1 sandwich, 1 cake etc etc for the younger ones and then double it up as they get older. If you have plenty of stuff in reserve you can bring it out if it looks like you need it without wasting loads of food.

Ooh yeah, little chipolatas, yum!