Meat and Vegetable Trays for 50
Colorful Vegetable Tray
Here are amounts and suggestions for preparing meat and vegetable trays for 50 guests.
Helpful Hints
- Use the meat and cheese trays for guest to prepare sandwiches. Serve thinly sliced or shaved meats and thinly sliced cheeses
- To set up meat and cheese trays for appetizers, cut meat and cheeses in cubes or chunks and provide toothpicks or skewers for guests to serve themselves
- If you are serving other foods such as a main course and side dishes, reduce these amounts by 1/2 to 1/3
- Use larger amounts of more popular items, such as turkey, ham and cheddar cheese
- Always consider color and flavor combinations when determining placement
- Meat and cheese may be rolled, folded or stacked and garnished with leaf lettuce, parsley and colorful vegetables
- For cheese trays without meat, use about 6 lbs. of cheese in total
- Blanch vegetables such as asparagus, broccoli, green beans to enhance texture and improve flavor. Serve with one or more large quantity dip recipes
- Add assorted fruits to meat and vegetable trays as garnish such as strawberries, cantaloupe chunks, pineapple and cherries
Small Meat and Vegetable Trays
Meat and Cheese Trays
Approximate amounts to serve 50. Amounts can be doubled to serve 100
Meats Shaved, thinly sliced or in chunks 10 lbs. total, in combination
Assorted Cold cuts Corned Beef Roast Beef Ham Pastrami Deli Turkey Cocktail Sausages
Seafoods - Change of Pace Cold Shrimp Oysters on the Half Shell Jumbo Lump Crab Salad Serve with Crackers
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Cheese Thinly sliced or cubed for appetizers 4 lbs. total, in combination
American Cheddar Edam Gouda Monterey Jack Pepper Jack Colby Munster Provolone
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Breads 100-125 bread slices; 60-75 rolls; 2-2½ lbs crackers
Sliced white, wheat Small buns, rolls Mini croissants Mini pita pockets Pumpernickel mini slices Rye mini slices Crispy specialty crackers Saltines or other crackers
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Condiments Use suggested amount of each
Softened butter, 1-lb Mayonnaise or salad dressing, 1½ cups Mustard, 1 cup Horseradish Sauce, 1 cup Leaf Lettuce, 3 lbs Sliced tomatoes, 7 lbs. Sliced onions, 2 lbs. Pepperocini Cornichons Olives
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Vegetable Trays
Approximate amounts to serve 50. Use 5 lbs. in combination
Asparagus spears Broccoli florets Baby carrots Carrot sticks Cauliflower florets Celery sticks Cherry tomatoes Cucumber spears or rounds
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Green beans Green onions Jicama Mushrooms Pea pods Radishes Red, green, or yellow bell peppers Zucchini spears
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Relishes
3 lbs., in combination
Black or green olives Dill pickle spears Pickled beets Pickled vegetables
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Sweet pickles Garnishes Chives Herbs Scallions
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Dips
1-1½ quarts
Blue Cheese Creamy Herb Sour Cream and Onion
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French Onion Thousand Island Fruit Dip
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