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wedding Reception??

ok planning a wedding reception on a tight budget what is the best type of food to serve. not really into sauage rolls etc something that looks nice but on a budget.. Any ideas would be great as i don't know where to start

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1. hmmm...just give out some meat...and some sodas..and alot of beer and some liquor that will help out the party with some beer
2. ring up a toby carvery ask them to cater for your reception,its good food and cheap.
3. cooked ham salads bread rolls hot new potatoes dessert profiteroles gateux
4. chicken make it a buffet or have people bring something
5. Have a buffet and serve lots of salads, lasagna, and other low cost foods. You can buy a roast turkey and slice it down, too.
6. Fish and chips, cheap and trendy.
7. Lots of quality sandwiches and salad dishes, make some of the sandwiches open sandwiches, they look nicer, plus cheeses and bread rolls or french sticks to fill them up and offer them cheese and cocktail onions and pineapples on sticks. Make some home made trifles for dessert and make sure you've got plenty of cream - not in their cartons and some fresh fruit, the more exotic you can afford the better. have a great wedding
8. Have simple main dishes, like chicken and pasta, but have lots of appetizers: cheeses, veggies, crackers, etc...
9. What about some Chinese spiced roast chicken legs and wings. Bread sticks with a selection of dips. Smoked salmon is quite cheap these days and a pack can go a long way and you could make smoked salmon and cream cheese & chive voluvonts ?. Cold mini pizza's Corn chips and salsa dip. Some nice crusty rolls with ham, salad, cheese. Selection of cheeses with assorted crackers/crispbread. Chocolate muffins. Custard slices. Cream cakes. To name just a few things. Hope its a great sucess !.
10. Congratulations (aasuming it's your wedding you're planning.....) Partly depends on where you will have it, how much help you will have and the season; if you are hiring somewhere then cold food is easier to serve than hot, but a winter wedding will need something hot if at all possible. I am assuming you will have people to help prepare the food but little or no serving staff. Suggest sandwiches (bought from supermarket and cut in half to look prettier), salads - rice and pasta salad can be prepared the day before and different coloured veg or pasta look nice, and for something hot and easy, a BIG pot of chili con carne and masses of jacket potatoes - again, these can be prepared the day before and heated up to serve. They can even be transported from your home if wrapped in newspapers or blanket to retain heat. Colour co-ordinated balloons, ribbons and serviettes are cheap and look quite smart. For cost-cutting on a cake, if you are having quite a few guests, ask for a smaller cake on show and a plain-iced 'cutting cake' to hand round. Otherwise a supermarket iced cake is very reasonable and can be jazzed up with ribbons/flowers (check the flowers are non-toxic and put a bit of greaseproof paper between them and the cake anyway to make sure). A fancy drink always works wonders and a fizzy pink spritzer or a hot mulled wine are popular and glamorous. Good luck. FInally, make your own favours - sugared almonds can be tied up in net weeks ahead of time - and pile them on a cake stand for an impressive display.
11. Bangers and mash followed by apple crumble and custard. Heaven!
12. It depends on the time of day the reception will be held. A brunch reception would take place at 10 or 11 a.m. It is quite inexpensive because fruit, bread, muffins, mimosas and other breakfast foods would be served. Of course you would have to get ready very, very early. A luncheon reception follows a late morning wedding. You can easily make this food yourself as it is made up of sandwiches (finger sandwiches are nice), green salad, pasta salad and fruit. You can put a tray of cold cuts together and garnish it nicely and it would be great. The dessert reception is the most inexpensive wedding reception food. It's great if you do have a lot of people and not much money. The menu is self -explanatory. Just serve your favorite desserts made by you. This type of reception would be held from 2 to 5 p.m. The cocktail party reception is less expensive than dinner and is held from 4 to 7 p.m. Serve just hors d’ouvres (made by you). Supermarkets offer hors d’ouvres trays pretty inexpensively also. Redo them with your own garnish and make them really pretty. Then there's the dinner reception, the most expensive. You can still save though by doing it yourself. Serve it buffet style and make a nice presentation. You can also order maybe just the entrée (i.e. barbecue) from your favorite restaurant and make the rest yourself. It wouldn't be too expensive if you picked it up and set it up yourself. If you have a Sam's Club in your area, it would be worth paying for a year's membership just to get the food for the reception. They have a great choice of ready-made foods, plus meats, veggies and fruits.
13. The trick is to set the budget- set the amount and then work around it. So how much can you afford per head? work that out and then work out the menue. My sugestions would be entres - salads make great entres a caesare and greek salad and warmed bread rolls. Mains - two mains - chicken with cambert and roast beef, vegetables - dont forget the vegetarians a vegetarian strudel made with mushrooms or artichokes. Then deserts - cheese cakes and fruit salads, port and coofees with the cake for afters.
14. what about finger food. alternatively some cooked meats with lots of salads (cheap) is filling but cheap. dont forget lots of crusty bread and butter
15. If you bake some small puff pastry squares, you can top them with anything sweet or savory. BBWCHATT The old lady in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
16. This is a tough question. Lots of people will say pasta - but pasta really isn't easy to feed to alot of people without a staff to do the serving. Best on a budget is a buffet with one meat, a starch or two, a couple of veggies, and a salad. Example: Lemon Pepper Chicken Breast in Lemon Cream Sauce Mashed Potatoes Buttered Summer Sweet Corn Green Beans Glazed Carrots Hot Bacon Dressing Spinach Salad with Eggs and Red Onion. While it looks expensive, it is an easy meal to batch cook and to serve. People can serve themselves without alot of instruction.
17. how about mediterranean dishes. Try Lamb and vegetable skewers, Falafel always works, potato and Caeser Salad, also try sticking cheddar and olives on cocktail sticks. Vegatables with dips and dressings, also try Haloumi (grilled goat cheese). best of luck,
18. Cucumber Cut Into 4 Inch thick Slices scoop middle out with a baller spoon Mix up Tuna Fish Mayonaise and sweetcorn then put the Tuna Mix into the scooped area of Cucumber. Cut an Orange in Half scoop out the centre so you are only left with the skin fill with Table Jelly of all Flavours put in fridge till set the carefully cut in to wedges. Baked Potatoes Bake as normal Cut in half Scoop out the middle and mix with a Bechamel sauce ( White Sauce) when you have that smooth texture pipe it back into the skin using a star nozzle and add various things to mixture or topping eg Cheese , Pinapple, Chicken and so on. Good Luck
19. cook biryany, in almost all indian wedings feast biryani is always the main dish and youghart raita. very simple and cheep
20. fruits and vegetables are cheaper this time of year here, go with decorative fruit and vegetable trays/platters and maybe a crab dip which is also cheap and easy to make.