Ideas For Hosting a New Year’s Party

New Year’s Eve is the time to host a relatively low-key affair, especially if your guest list includes an older crowd wanting a more relaxed scene. Consider the following suggestions as you begin to prepare your end of the year party. -Begin by choosing a color theme to decorate for the occasion. You may also use your Christmas ornaments as decorations. Another great color scheme is black and white, but add a pop color to keep things looking festive. -Add some creativity to plain foods. For example, make pretzels and chips look chic by putting them in a nice bowl,…

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Baby Shower Catering Ideas

Hiring a caterer for a baby shower can make planning for a party much easier, especially if you know your budget and menu preference. Baby showers are highly social events that require finger foods that can move around the room with the guest. Baby Themed Shower Menu Ask the caterer to provide fruit babies consisting of melon ball baby heads with frosting dotted eyes secured to strawberry bodies with toothpicks. You can also serve cheesy meatballs speared with colorful toothpicks. Provide a rattle for accent and rubber duck-shaped pineapple. Bottle shaped turkey finger sandwiches and baby shaped cookies completes theme….

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Fall Wedding Catering Trends

Wedding food doesn’t have to be the standard menu. Event planners, chefs, and food fanatical brides and grooms are choosing unique, palate-pleasing ways to satisfy their guests’ appetites. Since the weather has started to cool, your guests will be craving rich, intensely flavored meals. Keep the following ideas in mind as you begin to create your wedding menu. Stand-out Starters One popular alternative to the standard salad as a first course is soups. Their warmth and heartiness make them a natural fit for fall. Consider squash bisque served in little pumpkins, or butternut squash soup ladled over crumbled blue cheese….

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Corporate Event Catering Ideas

Whether you are planning to cater for a meeting, awards ceremony, product launch or employee training, you can provide a food experience that can help guests eat healthier, try different cuisines, or even receive details about your company, product and image. Healthy Options The next time your company is catering a working lunch or employee brainstorming session, consider providing the attendees a buffet of healthy options instead of the traditional carb-filled office treats. Healthy lunch and snack options don’t have to be a boring. Start by serving a salad buffet instead of the high-fat mayonnaise-filled sandwiches, or baked chips and…

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3 Helpful Guidelines For Eating A Diet-friendly Dessert

Interested in preparing diet-friendly desserts but still feel the need to satisfy your desire for something sweet?  If so, follow these three guidelines to help you find/prepare a diet-friendly dessert that can end up being just as sweet as a regular dessert! Picking Out Which Dessert Recipe Is Best For You The best way to get a diet-friendly dessert on your table is to pick a dessert recipe that is for health or diet-conscious people.  This strategy will always save you the trouble of trying to replace ingredients—especially if you aren’t confident about doing that.  Also, many creators of dessert recipes have already…

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Popular Wedding Trends

Like decorations, invitations, the dress, and photography, catering trends change from year to year. When it comes to celebrating your wedding there is nothing more you wish for than an amazing day filled with great food, décor, and entertainment. The choice to go with a smaller and more intimate wedding with individual taste and personalized selections continues to be popular in 2011. General catering ideas include offering a choice of main courses. This may include keeping the usual plate of potatoes and vegetables while offering a variety of meats and sauces. You can also get rustic by providing guests with…

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Caterers For A Unique Event

Although many catering companies mainly focus in on larger events or corporate meetings, many catering companies also offer the option of sending specific meals to a family or individual. There are many ways to use this option, whether you are sending meals to a new mom and dad or someone who is recovering from surgery or a serious illness. It is a great way to let your friends and family members know you care. It can be compared to sending flowers or a card, but in addition to the thoughtful touch you are also giving the recipient something that really makes…

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Catering services can be very helpful for increasing the value of your events

Events have become a daily part of each one of our lives whether the events are social, corporate or wedding. One cannot manage the event well and make it successful without a good catering service provider. They would make things easier for you, and save your time to get the hard job done. It doesn’t matter whether the event is big or small, catering helps you to cover all your dining and refreshments requirements, provides food and drinks not only that they are provide professionals like bartenders, waiters etc. Whether wedding receptions or team building parties, catering can furnish you…

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