Well, since you will be cooking for 250 guests, you should use 300 good sized potatoes so each guest could eat at least one big potato, or a little more than that. And there will be leftovers.
It all depends on how much of an appetite each one of them has.
1 Gallon of potato salad feeds about 30 people, so 3.33 Gallons.
A fist-sized potato for each person, or the equivalent in smaller potatoes.
120 lbs of potatoes plus the others ingredient you will add will make about 160 lbs of potato salad just enough. Have fun enjoy life.
how many pounds of potato salad to feed 600
20 pounds
that would depend on how big the salad is... but maybe if it was diced like 50 g of potato for every 100g of salad :)
To make cheesy potato casserole most recipes require about 2 pounds of potatoes to feed 8 people. If you are feeding 150 people the recipe would need to be made 19 times over and require 38 pounds of potatoes.
A good rule of thumb with any potato dish is 1 potato per person. This always works because some will eat less.
You can use potatoes to make so many yummy dishes! If you want to steer clear of the usual mashed, baked, or boiled potatoes, you can try potato salad, Hasselback potatoes, scalloped potatoes, or try frying them to make delicious chips!
Since 25 pounds feeds 100, you'll need 106 1/4 pounds of potato salad.
2.5 pounds of potato
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