Thanks everyone! It was a 1:00 confirmation service, guests all drove from between 25 min to 2 hrs to get there. I ended up running to our local grocery store’s deli counter, loaded up on premade salads, precut fruit, slider buns and sliced meats/cheese. Made slider deli sandwiches and dumped the rest of the stuff into bowls along with some veggies. Turned out really well, everyone ate more than I expected, and now we have two full frozen custard pies left over.

About 75% of the guests were mourning the same family member with varying degrees closeness. The non-mourners aren’t the helpful ones in the family so they wouldn’t have been inclined to go out of the way to pick up anything.

Ended up being a nice event. Thanks everyone!

Potbelly or Panera only need an hours notice, get a sandwich tray with chips, cookies and salad

Presumably most of these guests are also mourning your loved one, right? I doubt anyone will notice if you just pick up a sandwich tray, some fruit, and a cake at the grocery store even if you'd never throw a party like that in "normal" times. Allow yourself to phone this one in, OP.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this Catholic confirmation so people wouldn’t have eaten before the (noon?) mass?

I do think lunch things make sense. Maybe “nice” pizza, salad, and a cake? Someone close enough to your family make the top 13 list is going to either be close enough to understand, or be a teen friend of your DC and not mind a bit!

Yeah - if they are all going to the confirmation - they will not have eaten. I would ask a close friend to go to Costco and pick up some trays/platters. Also, I like Chick Fil a for trays of nuggets, wraps, and fruit.

Oh whoops - chick fil a is closed - sorry - just go to Costco

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this Catholic confirmation so people wouldn’t have eaten before the (noon?) mass?

I do think lunch things make sense. Maybe “nice” pizza, salad, and a cake? Someone close enough to your family make the top 13 list is going to either be close enough to understand, or be a teen friend of your DC and not mind a bit!

Yeah - if they are all going to the confirmation - they will not have eaten. I would ask a close friend to go to Costco and pick up some trays/platters. Also, I like Chick Fil a for trays of nuggets, wraps, and fruit.

Chick FIL a is closed on Sundays.

Anonymous wrote:Is this Catholic confirmation so people wouldn’t have eaten before the (noon?) mass?

I do think lunch things make sense. Maybe “nice” pizza, salad, and a cake? Someone close enough to your family make the top 13 list is going to either be close enough to understand, or be a teen friend of your DC and not mind a bit!

Yeah - if they are all going to the confirmation - they will not have eaten. I would ask a close friend to go to Costco and pick up some trays/platters. Also, I like Chick Fil a for trays of nuggets, wraps, and fruit.

Sandwich/wrap tray from a grocery store with veggies, a tray from Chipotle, anywhere that does lunch or fast casual should be able to put together a platter quickly. If you tell us your location we can be more specific. You might have to call a few places.

If all else fails, pizza delivery is perfectly acceptable.

Cut up a watermelon, if it is outside?