Dinner Caddy

Dinner Caddy Tell us about your party — we build the menu, scale the shopping list & write the prep schedule. Potluck signup sheets too. Free at dinnercaddy.com

The only portion rule you need: ½ lb of boneless protein per adult, 4 oz per side dish, kids count as half. Everything e...
09/08/2026

The only portion rule you need: ½ lb of boneless protein per adult, 4 oz per side dish, kids count as half. Everything else is arithmetic — or let dinnercaddy.com do the math for your exact headcount.

Feeding a crowd of 24 at the Labor Day cookout? The math nobody memorizes: 1¼ burgers and 1¼ dogs per adult — most peopl...
09/03/2026

Feeding a crowd of 24 at the Labor Day cookout? The math nobody memorizes: 1¼ burgers and 1¼ dogs per adult — most people eat two things total, and the extra covers not knowing who takes what. Half that per kid. And 2 POUNDS of ice a person, because it's still 95° out. Full cookout math at dinnercaddy.com

08/28/2026

How many wings for 20 people? 6–8 each with a spread — the whole menu + shopping list builds itself. dinnercaddy.com 🏈

08/27/2026

Why Dinner Caddy exists

My mom has hosted more get-togethers than I can count — birthdays, holidays, Sunday dinners, sometimes thirty of us around one table. She makes it look easy, and that's the part people miss: the planning starts weeks out, and the host is usually the last one to sit down.

So I built her something. Dinner Caddy is a free web app: answer a few questions about your party and it builds the whole menu scaled to your headcount, a shopping list with real store quantities, and a prep schedule that works backward from when people arrive. Hosting a potluck? One link — everyone claims a dish with just their name. No app to download, no accounts.

The best advice in it didn't come from me. It came from my mom and my fiancée's mom, who've hosted more dinners between them than I ever will. Their number one rule is built right in: you don't have to make all of it. Buy the rolls. Order the platter. Save your energy for the one dish people actually talk about.

It's free at dinnercaddy.com. I hope it gives you back your own party. — Adam

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