If you had to cook 3 meals for ~50 would you do? UPDATE: FML

Some locals, some from out of town.

Light breakfast, light lunch, good dinner.

Medium budget. Not around an industrial kitchen.

I have some ideas but looking for as much input as I can get from the great minds of the F&D board.

Thanks

ETA: I have or can get any equipment I'd need. Big black iron pots. Very big pits/smokers.

I have experienced cooks. I have some ideas. I've cooked bigger events. Just not 3 meals for 3 days for this many.

It's at the end of December. So I have some time.

Some out of town people I want to wow. Really appreciate any input I could get.

Agreement blossomed from 1 meal to 3 meals to 3 meals for 3 days.

Update: so once I gave them the original quote, they balked. I cut them a deal. They still waffled. The whole thing jumped around from 3 meals/day to one meal/day to 2 and so on and so forth.

Finally I told them that if they didn't give me a solid firm answer and some money by a certain date, it wasn't going to happen because I wouldn't have time to line up stuff and prep and so on.

Well last week I'm talking with a friend involved with the project and he asks me if I can cook all three days...Again.

I flat out tell him no, that I needed time to plan and prep and get logistics down and that last minute wasn't enough.

So he asks me to do one meal as a favor for a sweetheart deal and I agree. My podnah and I cooked a jambalaya and white beans (phenomenal. Kicking myself that I didn't take pictures) that they were thrilled with...and when they started digging around in the pot someone with some stroke decided "cancel whoever else we had, we want them."

We tell them it's theoretically possible...(we happen to be off this week) but it will cost. They deliberate and decide to have us cook a gumbo on Friday.

Then 7 o'clock wednesdsy night after they were done they started eating the leftover jambalaya and called us up and asked us to do yesterday (Thursday)...I make some calls and my buddy and I decide what the hell and agree.

Cook some chicken and sausage spaghetti today with some green beans and salad and whatnot. That was around 3 the food was ready so we've been cooking all day.



Then I'm on the road rounding up ingredients for tomorrow's gumbo, thinking they need it to be ready at the same time as today.

Get a call about 9:45 that, oh, they ran late and moved the time and now want the meal around 6pm tomorrow, and also want us to make sandwiches to have in between start time and dinner.

So here I am at midnight fixing 20 lbs of potato salad, tired as shite, aching from heat to toe, tomorrow night plans befouled, have to make a bunch of sandwiches and pre-prep for a gumbo.

They aren't gonna like the bill when I give it to them.

Sorry, had to rant to someone to get it off my chest.

Thanks.