Catering For A Children’s Party

Kylie
Children’s parties are one of the most difficult events to cater for. Every parent has their own way they like to feed their child, so finding something that works for all the children can be extremely difficult. But here are our tips to help make this less difficult. Food Groups – when catering for a children’s party, you want to ensure you are including all of the important food groups for their diet. So, you should have fruit and vegetables. You should have savoury options like pasta, sandwiches or pizza. It is also an excellent time to have some sweet treats for them to enjoy. Serving Food – Buffet style is the best way to serve food at a children’s party as this allows everyone to help themselves to what...
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The Best Way To Cater For A Wedding

Kylie
Catering for a wedding can be an extreme challenge. Keeping everyone at a wedding seems near impossible, but what if we told you that doesn’t need to be the case? As a wedding caterer, it is your job to keep the bride and groom happy, it doesn’t matter about all the people they invite. They are there to celebrate the happy couple, you are there to keep the couple happy. However, if you want to keep everyone happy, the best way to do this is with a buffet. This style of catering allows you to provide a variety of different foods for everyone to enjoy. You are less likely to get complaints as people can help themselves and are not stuck to a single menu. Having a single menu helps...
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All Round Catering For Business Events

Kylie
When you are catering for a business event, you need to ensure you are catering for all potential dietary requirements. This may seem impossible, but there is an easy way to do this. The best way to ensure you are catering for all dietary requirements, you should simply ask the business what requirements they have. This will help you to know what you need to provide if anything at all. Businesses should know their employees’ diet requirements, therefore this should not be an issue to discover. If the business is not willing to disclose this information, we recommend providing the event with a platter. A buffet-style menu if you will. This helps you to be able to provide a large selection of food. You can also share all allergies and...
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Help – I Want To Eat A Balanced Diet!

Kylie
At school, we are all taught about the importance of eating a balanced diet. But as we grow older, we tend to forget about this. We eat what we want to eat and what will fulfil our hunger. But sometimes there comes a point where we want to eat a balanced diet once more but have forgotten what a balanced diet consists of. It’s important to remember that eating a balanced diet is not only about eating healthy food. A balanced diet needs to have a full balance of every food group to ensure you are getting the correct nutrients from every food group. So whilst healthy items like fruit and vegetable take a big chunk of your diet, there is still the ability to eat sugary foods, the option...
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Catering For All Dietary Requirments

Kylie
When working in the catering industry you must always consider all dietary requirements and allergies. When you are working with an event you need to ensure you have all details on dietary and allergy requirements. When catering for an event, some of the dietary requirements you may need to consider include those who are vegan or vegetarian. This means you will need to be able to provide meat-free alternatives for those who do not eat animal products. You will also need to take into consideration allergies. If you are made aware of any allergies you need to ensure these items are not used in any of your recipes. Someone having an allergic reaction could potentially die, so to keep everyone safe, do not include these ingredients. As long as you...
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Making Your Meals Healthy

Kylie
One thing we all need to become more conscious about is our meals and making them healthier. Ensuring our meals are healthy is something we should all be doing to improve our bodies health. Today, we are going to share with you some of our tips on ensuring your meals are healthy. Plan Your Meals One of the best ways to ensure you are eating healthy meals every day is to plan. By creating a plan for your meals for the week, you know what ingredients you need and can plan what of your five a day you are including. By planning, you will be able to ensure you have each of the food groups in every meal to ensure you have healthy meals. Know Your Portions Another way to...
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Catering Tips For Small Events

Kylie
Previously on our blog, we have discussed some of our catering tips for large events. Now, it is commonly known that larger events can be more difficult to cater for. But, this does not mean that small events are super easy either like you would assume. So, today we are going to share with you some of our tips for catering for a small event. When you become so used to catering for an event of a certain size it can be difficult to revert to what is necessary for a smaller size. Here are our tips for catering for small events. Don’t OverbuyWith small events, it is super easy to overbuy on catering goods. You can get carried away with yourself and end up providing the event with more...
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