Brethren Help

Wifes parent's having there 50th anniversary and brisket bill is asked to BBQ. so i need some help with quantities of precooked food. food listing i am asked to make is

Ribs- prob BB

Chicken- whole chickens and also sidenote of quantity if we changed to just thighs and legs

Brisket-

Pork Shoulder-

sasauge-just like hillshire farm

this is for 100 people


ANY help would be appreciated i have no clue. i am talking them into serving the meats to actually do portions.

WOW dust thanks time to do some price estimating

You have been asked to do all of that for 100 people???? Wow that is a lot of meat.

We usually go 1/4 pound per person of each meat if we are doing more than one meat. Sides about the the same.

Ribs I would do 2 bones per and then do enough for everybody to get 2 bones. Once they see ribs they will plow through them like nobodies business.

Chicken do hind quarters and your guests can split them if they want.

Sausage one per guest.

Bill this is tough as I have seen guests load up on one of each meat served and then the host get ticked off because you the cook didn't prepare enough food. We have started telling our clients that people will load up on the BBQ'd meat and you need to plan on one portion of each meat per person or you run the risk of running out. We further tell them that the left overs do freeze well. It is hard to tell what they will all want to eat, but given a choice they will want to try it all. Almost impossible to do 30 pieces of chicken, 40 pieces of sausage 25 pounds of pork ect and have all the guests happy.

Just my 2 cents.

Well the worst part is wifes mom and dad loves all our meats so the children of the family want to do all the meats for them and everyone else.

I have already talked to some of the family and there are 6 people volunteering to help serve the food as i have told them portion sizes and how the men of the family will scarf all the ribs and brisket. yadda yadda yadda

So far none of the meats are set in stone. actually trying to talk them out of most of it LOL. if we did pork it will be pulled for sammies. brisket will be sliced, chicken would be easier quarters. we will have roughly 10 people to help with prep and all of this.

I myself was thinking 2 bones a person. Just i haven't cooked for this amount of people. on side note we will have other sides we are doing grilled sweet corn on the cob, potatoe salad and cole slaw.