Family Get Together, any suggestions please?

Prosecco at £23?

Wow!

I would expect to pay about a third of that.

Must be really nice Prosecco.

I have arranged a warm buffet for family and friends (50 including 6 children) to celebrate my special big birthday, in the local pub/restaurant. Expensive but so much easier. £16 per head. I will also provide a glass of Prosecco (12 bottles @ £23 per bottle) . It’s once-in-a-lifetime so I don’t mind.
I am in awe of those of you do/ cook everything yourselves. My house is not large enough to accommodate 50. If the weather is good, they could probably move to my small garden.
Good luck with your plans!

Just what I was about to say jdotJ.

We attended a family get together a couple of weeks ago. We aall bought a contribution to main meal and a dessert and some drink. We let the hostess know what we were bringing so she could co-ordinate it and make sure we didn't end up with 5 green salads. What is more everyone takes their left overs home wth them!

How about jacket potatoes and some bake in the oven bread? You could do a couple of hot fillings e.g. vegan chilli and a meat chilli. They could be kept warm in a slow cooker or low oven.

A couple of cold options for fillings or with the bread grated cheese, tuna and sweetcorn.

Decorate your own cake or biscuit would go down well with the children. Fruit for fruit skewers also might provide an activity.

Have a lovely time. Whatever you choose aim to spend time with family instead of being stuck in the kitchen.

I'd ask everyone to bring their own food!

I would do salads, French bread, new potatoes, bread sticks as a base for all and then do meat, salmon, sausage rolls, cheeses etc for the meat eaters plus hummus and falafels for the vegan.
Just rol pastry is vegan so you could do a vegetable tart for all and some of M&S samosas are also vegan.
In my family the vegans don’t like the meat substitutes or vegan cheeses so I wouldn’t bother with them but plant based butter is ok.
Young children will probably be ok with bread sticks, hummus, cheese and cut up veg.

M and S, then you can enjoy the family.

I’ve done a cold cooked gammon before, with bought salads, new potatoes and a Mediterranean vegetable frittata for the vegan. Cooked cocktail sausages, hard boiled eggs and as Salti said a good loaf, or rolls, I did rolls, then people selected their own contents, good for children.
Can’t beat a Viennetta or two for pud, easy, not expensive and most people like it.

I'd roast a joint of meat (beef, gammon, pork, etc or salmon). Let it cool and slice it. A couple of salads. Paté of some sort, possibly vol au vents. Garlic bread or nice fresh bread and butter. Then last minute I get my big wok out, put in an inch or so of oil and make fritters (courgette, aubergine or similar) dipped in a batter made from just SR flour, salt, and beer or tonic water (vegan I presume). Then some prawn fritters made with raw defrosted prawns.

Order food from m&s?