Anti-Panic
Passover Guide
Section Three
PASSOVER SEDER SHOPPING LIST
(SHOPPING LIST FOR 60 PEOPLE)
SAMPLE MENU: Chicken or Turkey Breast, Baked Potato, Green Beans, Carrots, Horseradish, Boiled Eggs, Charoset, Romaine Lettuce, Matzah, Grape Juice, Tea, Coffee.
(MANY ITEMS COULD BE DONATIONS)
---12 containers for juice.
---5 large ice chests for ice and foil wrapped baked potatoes. Styrofoam OK.
---100 16-ounce styrofoam cups. Fast food restaurants donate.
---100 12-ounce styrofoam cups.
---Paper towels, 2 rolls minimum.
---Large serving spoons, approx. 20 needed.
---4 sets of salad tongs.
---20 ounces grape juice per person.
---12 plastic pitchers, 64 oz. each.
---Matzah - 4 boxes for Passover Seder (5-8 pieces per table of 8).
---24 white candles - 2 per table of 8.
---3 heads of romaine lettuce. (You could substitute ice berg if romaine is not available.)
---4-6 bundles of parsley.
---2 dozen brown eggs or boil eggs with tea or coffee bags to turn them brown. (Only need enough eggs for one per seder plate!)
---6 jars of Kraft Horseradish. The blue jar will serve about 2-3 tables. You may grate your own horseradish, mix with beet juice to color red.
---100 5-ounce grape juice/wine glasses. (Plastic glasses are fine.)
---Kosher wine (NOTE: This should be kosher for Passover. Label will indicate Kosher.)
---coffee 1 lb can. Filters.
---150 styrofoam bowls for salads.
---Small white garbage bags to carry home items, i.e. silverware.
---Large trash bags.
---Apples for Charoset or kosher apple sauce simplifies the task.
---8# bag of Walnuts or Almonds.
---4 oz can of Cinnamon.
---5 lbs. Sugar.
---Kosher coffee creamer, 100 packets or small jar.
---Margarine in small 2 pack tubs for the tables.
---250 Sweet and Low packets. (Fast food restaurant donation.)
---250 Salt and pepper packets. (Fast food restaurant donation.)
---48 plastic spoons. (Fast food restaurant donation.)
---3 coolers for iced drinks. (Volunteers, friends, etc.)
---Roasters for meat (Volunteers, friends, or a local service organization.)
---Green salad. ( #3 size if prepackaged.)
---Kosher salad dressings. Please check labels.
125 baking potatoes/100 large and 30 smaller.
---Aluminum foil: We buy the kind that is already cut for our baked potatoes from Sam's Club.
---6 large crock pots.
---3 large cans, or 12 small cans, green beans. OR 3 lb. bags of frozen green beans, institutional size.
---16, 1 lb bags of frozen carrots, institutional size.
Three 9 lb turkey breast precooked, smoked, or regular. (We figure 1 slice of meat per child, and 1 1/2 slices per adult. Usually we have meat left over.)
---Silverware for 70 people.
---High chairs (please have them available)
SHOPPING LIST FOR 4-6 PEOPLE
---1-2 boiled brown eggs per table
---lamb shankbone (optional)
---apples or apple sauce
---Romaine or Iceberg lettuce
---cinnamon to taste
---Greens, parsley or celery
---Honey to taste
---Concord wine or grape juice
---2 candle holders
---2 white candles
---matches
---chopped walnuts or almonds
---Matzah bread (usually 10-16 pieces are in a box)
---hand towel
---1.5 oz jar of horseradish
---pitcher and basin
---Passover music
THIS IS AN EXAMPLE SPECIAL PARTY AGREEMENT WITH A HOTEL
Volunteers from our group worked with management at a local restaurant two years in a row. The following is a sample listing of the negotiated costs, which the ministry paid. Additional services requested, and use of facility place settings usually require additional negotiation. A meeting room can be $400 plus the cost of the meals at a Marriott Hotel. The service is great and they do a wonderful job while you sit back and relax.
NOTE: Prices subject to area. Allow for inflation. Listed costs: 1996.
DEPOSIT................................$50
Meal cost per person...............$20.95 + 18% gratuity + tax (then add the room charge on to that)
MENU: chicken or turkey, baked potatoes, salads, lettuce salad with dressing, green beans.
LINEN COLORS: white on white
P.A. SYSTEM : portable mike
REQUESTED PASSOVER FEE ON TOP OF MEAL: $2.00 per person covering extra foods and services.
DINNER SERVED AT APPROX. 7 PM
GENERAL PARTY INFORMATION
CATERER:
Hotel will provide the following per table:
--Table cloths
--Linen napkins
--2 extra white linen napkins
--6 custard/bullion sherbet bowls for horseradish and salt
--Water, and Charoset. Hostesses will put these into containers.
--4 extra spoons for Charoset and horseradish
--4 saucers to hold the bowls of horseradish and salt water
--Parsley
--Romaine lettuce prepared in halves as directed
--20 oz grape juice per person
--Wine glass per person
--Candlesticks
--1 platter per table