Yesterday I threw a BBQ at my place for some friends. I had a great time and made lots of fun. I was nice to have those cool people together and I hope everybody enjoyed theirselves as well. There’s a few pictures online already on Flickr and I’ll send around a list with contact data so everybody has the chance to contact those they’ve met and had conversations with. Thanks, everyone who made it!
Here are some statistics for a bbq for 30 people, in case you’re throwing one in the near future for about the same amount of people:
Booze:
- Two crates of beer (48 x 25 cl)
- 6 bottles of cola (2 liters)
- 6 bottles of bubbly water (1 liter)
- 3 bottle of ice tea (1.5 liter)
- 6 bottles of white wine (1 liter)
- 6 bottles of red wine (1 liter)
- 1 bottle of red port (for cocktail sauce)
- 3 bottles orange juice (1 liter)
Appetizery Thingies:
- 1 kilo of salted peanuts
- 4 bags of potato chips (various tastes)
- Cheese cubes (3 boxes of 315 grams)
- Roll of salami to chop in cubes
Canned Stuff:
- Peaches (2 x 850 grams)
- Pineappel (2 x 850 grams)
- Corn (2 x 300 grams)
Veggies:
- 2 chunks of celery
- 2 cauliflowers
- 30 carrots
- 20 big tomatoes
- 4 big onions
- 4 crops of lettuce
- 3 cucumbers
- parsley
- about 50 radishes
- 15 potatoes
Fruit:
- 1 raceme of blue grapes
- 1 raceme of green grapes
- 1 little box of blackberries
- 1 little box of blueberries
- 1 little box of raspberries
- 1 little box of strawberries
General Stuff:
- 40 plastic cups
- 50 cardboard dinner plates
- 18 eggs
- 60 fish sticks (used only 29)
- garlic butter
- yoghurt (for dessert, with the berries)
- tomato ketchup (80 cl)
- salad dressing (2 liters)
- steak sauce
- Dijon mustard (for the cheese cubes)
- barbecue spices
- mixed pepper
- curry
- Provençal spices (500 grams)
- Pasta (1 kilo)
- 25 kilos of charcoal
- 1 jar of Applesauce
Total price tag is around 220 euros (280 dollars), but it’s worth every cent of it, if you get what I’ve gotten and have only 10% of the good time I had. Thanks for the Scotch, the gin and the Passoa and to all those who’ve brought extra wine: I’ll drink it all, promise :) … just not at once. And again, thank you all for coming. It means a lot to me.