Meat and Vegetable Trays for 50

These images will spark your imagination and give you an idea on how to create beautiful meat and cheese trays and appetizer platters.  Choose a combination of savory, sweet, creamy, crunchy and zesty ingredients.  

Helpful Hints for Meat, Vegetable and Cheese Trays for 50

• 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
  
  
• Ingredient amounts are suggested places to start.  Please use your best judgement based on your budget, whether or not other food is being served and the appetite of your guests .
  
  
  

Meat and Cheese 

Ideas and suggested amounts to serve 50.  Amounts can be doubled to serve 100

Vegetables
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
Green beans
Green onions
Jicama
Mushrooms
Pea pods
Radishes
Red, green, or yellow bell peppers
Zucchini spears

Relishes
3 lbs., in combination

Dips and Sauces
You will need about 1-1 1/2 quarts in total.  Purchased or homemade