Boil Question

[BDR]

We are doing a boil for my daughters first Holy Communion. We are inviting about 110 people. We will be doing Crawfish, and Shrimp boils. I also plan on doing some sausage, corn, potatoes, and whole green beans in the boil. So for all you boil experts how much of each would you buy?

[super_dave]

200lbs of each
30lbs of snausage
30lbs of corn
40lbs of tatoes
Never did beans

[stickman]

For 30 ppl(adult eaters): 2 sacks of bugs,10# of 21-25 count shrimp. 15#sausage, 20# small red potatoes, 36 ears fresh corn snapped in half,8# of mushrooms, and 5# of edamame.. We have very little left overs.

[meltingfeather]

If it was all crawfish, my go to, never fail, home run quantity calculator spits out:
300 lbs. crawfish
60 ears of corn
50 links of sausage
100 lbs. red potatoes (make great leftovers)
??? green beans... never dun it... maybe figure 1/4 lb. per person max
15 lbs. white button mushrooms (always a hit)

that's if you were doing all mud bugs. if you want to swap shrimp in, do it for double the weight of the crawfish (i.e., if you want to do 20 lbs. of shrimp take out 40 lbs. of crawdads)

[BDR]

Where are y'all getting the bugs from? Was just gonna order live from HEB. Last time we boiled we didn't have edamame so we just threw in whole fresh green beans. May do the edamame again. The beans were a hit though. Thanks guys

[meltingfeather]

Where are y'all getting the bugs from? Was just gonna order live from HEB. Last time we boiled we didn't have edamame so we just threw in whole fresh green beans. May do the edamame again. The beans were a hit though. Thanks guys

The best bugs in Austin come from a specialty seafood shop (Quality) or a cajun meat market (Stuffed).

[BDR]

Also how do I get my hands on some of that Good Ole Boys seasoning from Katy?

[stickman]

Also how do I get my hands on some of that Good Ole Boys seasoning from Katy?

Breezy had some shipped for my boil. Believe it was 2 day shipping.

[DoubleGProstaff]

La crawfish company ships and great bugs

[texan16]

Sounds like a blast......gonna be an expensive party.

[Cajun Blake]

Pm sent, I have spicy and regular boil mix for those allergic to fire

[BDR]

Perfect Blake. I sent you a PM earlier. One coming back to you shortly. Gonna use this instead of good ole boys.

[BDR]

Sounds like a blast......gonna be an expensive party.

Yea that's what I'm thinking. She's my only one so I guess I can justify. Heck the meal is only part of it. We got the dress, decor, etc.