cheap ideas for evening food

[lemonbeaver]

Daughter is getting married later in the year, no date set as yet.

She wants ideas for cheap buffet for around 150 people.

Has toyed with the idea of doing a iceland job [shudder], I personally think a hog roast or fish and chip van. Or even having a smaller evening do at our house with a BBQ.

Can anyone come up with ideas to help.

Budget is around £300 to £400 for food

pies and pasties? Depending on location, there are lots of companies that supply for occasional do's like weddings

Hog roast for that number of people would work out to be quite reasonable I should think. We had a few quotes for around the £350 mark but we were having only around 70 and you have to pay for at least a half a pig (rather than per head iyswim) so anything over 100 people and it works out quite well and people like the novelty.

Might be worth ringing around a number of caterers and getting menus, not so much to book them but to see what they do, pick and choose what you like. We are having a typical party food buffet so mini quiches chicken goujons etc. would give you an idea what to get then?

we did a massive hog roast which for 200 people was £400, and then we bought in some local cheeses, had some nice bread, salads. Job Done.

I went to a wedding last year where they did chilli (veg & meat option) and hot pot for the sit down meal and then sausage and bacon barms in the evening, went down great and I'm sure it must've been fairly inexpensive :)

Best wedding food I ever had was a hog roast, 3 bowls of salad on each table and then sides of dauphinoise potatoes and crusty bread. Heaven!