Holiday Table Playbook — Printable Hosting Planner With Portion Calculator, Turkey Thaw Chart And Oven Timeline

Holiday Table Playbook — Printable Hosting Planner With Portion Calculator, Turkey Thaw Chart And Oven Timeline
$24.00

Full Description

A printable hosting system for the big meal. Not a menu planner but the part nobody writes down.

Most holiday planners give you a shopping list and a menu page. This one does the math, sets the deadlines, and gets other people doing the work.

WHAT YOU GET — 24 PAGES

  • How Much To Buy. Fifteen portion figures per adult, from turkey and potatoes to ice and coffee, then a worksheet that turns your guest count into totals
  • Thaw And Brine Dates. Weight-to-days table, the cold-water rescue if you're late, brine windows, and a backwards date line from the meal to the fridge
  • Menu Against The Oven. Your dishes sorted by temperature, so you find the conflict before the day
  • The Oven Timeline. Nine time slots from four hours out to plating, with space for each dish and its temperature
  • The Fridge Plan. What must be cold, what can live in a cool room, and what comes out to make space
  • Working Backwards. Three days, two days, the day before, the morning, the final hour
  • Two Trips shopping lists, splitting what keeps from what has to be fresh
  • Drinks And Ice. Bottles, glasses, beer, non-alcoholic and ice per person, plus a buy-list worksheet
  • Borrow List. Chairs, roasting pans, warming trays, and who has them
  • The Table. Seating and a serving-piece inventory
  • Allergen Tent Cards — fold-over cards for the buffet, with tick boxes for gluten, dairy, nuts, egg, soy, shellfish, vegetarian and vegan
  • Before They Walk In. The arrival plan that keeps twelve people out of your kitchen
  • Delegation Cards. Four cut-out job cards to hand to whoever offers
  • Hour By Hour for the cupboard door
  • The Shot List. The photographs you'll want in ten years, including one of whoever cooked
  • Leftovers. What goes home with whom, and what to use by when
  • What Worked This Year; what ran out, what nobody touched, one thing to change
  • Recipes Worth Keeping, When Something Fails, and a note to your future self for next October

UNDATED, AND NOT JUST FOR THANKSGIVING

Nothing inside names a holiday. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, a birthday for twenty. Print it again every year.

PRINTING

US Letter, 8.5 x 11 inches. Print at 100 percent, actual size. Cardstock for the allergen and delegation cards. Fonts are embedded, so it looks the same on your screen, your printer and at a print shop.

HOW IT ARRIVES

Instant download. One PDF, delivered by email the moment you check out. Nothing shipped, nothing to install, no editing software needed.

TERMS

For personal use. Print as many copies as you like for yourself or as a gift. Please don't resell, share or redistribute the files, or sell printed copies. All sales are final on digital downloads, message me if a file won't open and I'll fix it.

You will get a PDF (115KB) file