If you plan for an event involving food (a party, wedding reception, etc.), do you have a method for calculating how much food you will need?

[SaoirseS]

In other words, do you plan based on the number of expected guests, "pad" the numbers, etc?

[DonkeyDan]

I don't really calculate, I just always do enough to feed an army, and its always way too much, so everyone gets a doggy bag.

[SaoirseS]

That's how we plan in the Midwest US lol. Doggy bags, and put the homeless shelter on standby because there's going to be plenty left over.

[NathanDavis]

I just ask the older ones... from the Mexican side of the family... lmfao

[Pudsmucker]

If you google, it will show you what to do.

[SaoirseS]

I know lol. But for my upcoming wedding reception, our mothers are in charge of food. What Google says, as amended by what they think, times at least 2.5 seems to be their revised approach to food planning.