How much food for 4 year old's birthday party?

[Anonymous]

Planning is getting down to the wire...and this is the first time we've held a party for the entire class. We're expecting between 14-16 kids and maybe 20 adults, if not a little more. We're planning on getting the requisite pizza, but also wraps, fruit platter, and chips/dip (dessert has been taken care of already). Also, no juice, but water and perhaps milk boxes for the little ones and soda for the adults. Help me fill in the blanks:

Pizza- how many? What kind? The party girl is a vegetarian and only likes cheese pizza, but what about vegetable and pepperoni pizzas?

Wraps- how many? I assume we can buy as a platter from BJs. Would one be sufficient?

Fruit platter- one or 2?

Chips and dip- do we get a variety of chips, like Ruffles and Doritos, or just stick with Ruffles? How many bulk-sized bags?

Water and milk boxes- will kids even choose to drink plain milk? How many?

Soda- Diet Coke, Coke, and Sprite? How many?

Sorry if this seems really basic- we've just never hosted a party like this before (not at our house) and want to make sure there's enough for folks to eat, esp the long-sufferring parents.

[Anonymous]

Pizza- one slice per kid, and 1.5 slices per adult- so 46 slices...or 6 pizzas...normally, but since you also have wraps, I'd just go with 5 pizzas, have them double slice them so each slice is narrower...will produce less waste. Three cheese, and two pepperoni.

Wraps, one platter should be file

Fruit- one large, or two small.

I'd go for one type of chips and not doritos...that orange stuff gets everywhere. Maybe two bags.

I'd skip the milk and just go for water

Soda, two sleevs of diet coke, one of spirite

[Anonymous]

2 slices of pizza per person. Up it to 3 per person if you will have several children over the age of 5. (Kids usually eat one piece of pizza until they get to be around 5-6 and then may have 2). Ask the pizza place to cut the pizza down (like 10 slices instead of 8)

2 drinks per person (inlcuding per kid since). You may be able to find the mini-bottled waters.

Make 2 pitchers of ice tea.

Wraps, 1 /2 per adult.

1 large fruit tray.

1 large veggie tray (or just carrots & cucumbers)

I'd skip chips & dips.