Is this enough food for this party?

[Anonymous]

Birthday party for a 3 year old, about 20 adult guests and 20 children ages 2-5. Party is from 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM at a playground with an indoor party room. Kids will paint pumpkins and play outside. We are serving:

Large cheese, fruit and cracker platter
Small platter with pita, hummus, baba ghanouj, feta and olives
Some chips, goldfish, etc
Fresh baked pumpkin bread
Birthday cake
2 gallons hot apple cider
24 small bottles of water

Are we good?

[Anonymous]

Perfect. (Only suggestion I have is: Maybe a little more bottled water; maybe 36 mini bottles instead of 24 regular sized bottles. Kids will drink it too if they are running around and hot and sweaty.)

[Anonymous]

I agree you def need more water! At least one bottle per person even with the cider.

[Anonymous]

Definitely need more water. I'd double it.

[Anonymous]

More water, otherwise fine.

[Anonymous]

More water, one more gallon of cider

[Anonymous]

I always count guests and then assume 2 bottles of water per guest. I'd also nix apple cider and add juice boxes.

[Anonymous]

Also finger foods for kids. The platters will appeal to adults but not kids. Can you do mini sandwiches?

[Anonymous]

It's not over a meal time so I don't think you need sandwiches for the kids. And most kids will eat tons of fruit and cheese

[Anonymous]

Definitely not enough food. I would add 2 more platters. One more for the adults and another for the kids.

[Anonymous]

OP here - just thought I would report back. I stuck with my gut that my original plan would be enough food and was right. We had a little left over of everything and feel confident that our guests were satisfied. Thanks DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Did you at least get more water? If not, I doubt your guests were satisfied.

[Anonymous]

I did not get more water and there was plenty left over. People mostly drank the hot apple cider and the kids drank juice boxes (the one thing I did add).