Editable spreadsheets + coordinated planning pages
The Holiday Hosting Kit
Guests, menu quantities, shared dishes and preparation timing. Confirm guests and record food or access requests directly with them. Assign each menu item to a person.
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Inside your kit
- 7 visible workbook tabs with editable inputs, linked calculations and a summary chart
- A clean XLSX for your own records and a separate fictional worked example
- 18-page printable planning guide plus a 3-page quick start
- Guests: One row per invited household.
- Menu: Portions per guest lets you plan smaller side portions or extra servings.
- Ingredients: Enter quantities per batch using the ingredient unit on Shopping.
- Native Google Sheets blank and worked-example copy links
A simple place
to begin.
A household hosting a meal or seasonal gathering at home.
- Confirm guests and record food or access requests directly with them. Assign each menu item to a person.
- Enter recipe servings per batch and portions per guest. Ingredients scale to the number of whole batches needed.
- Check pantry quantities and the shopping list. Enter dish-ready times to work backward to preparation starts, then resolve shared-kitchen conflicts.
The details
- Included files
- Holiday-Hosting-Guide.pdf
Holiday-Guest-Messages.txt
Holiday-Hosting-Workbook.xlsx
Holiday-Hosting-Workbook-Example.xlsx
Quick-Start.pdf
Start-Here.txt
Google-Sheets.html
Google-Sheets.txt - Workbook tabs
- Hosting overview · Guests · Menu · Ingredients · Shopping · Budget · Tasks
- File use
- Choose Google Sheets copy links or the included Excel-format files. Sign in to Google and choose Make a copy to save an editable workbook in your Drive. Use the clean workbook for your records and the separate fictional example to learn. PDF pages are US Letter; use Fit when printing on A4.
- Compatibility
- XLSX formulas were checked during authoring and independently recalculated in LibreOffice. Native Google Sheets blank and worked-example copies are included and were checked for formulas and visual layout. A Google account is required to save an editable copy. Native Microsoft Excel testing is not confirmed. The PDF guide is designed for printing or annotation in a compatible reader.
- Use terms
- For the purchaser’s own household planning. Share completed event plans with your guests and helpers. Do not resell, publish, or redistribute the blank files.
- Important limits
- A planning system, not a recipe book, catering service, or food-safety manual. Serving amounts are your own assumptions. Confirm dietary needs and follow current food-handling guidance. The workbook does not schedule appliances automatically or guarantee quantities will suit every guest.
Ready for your details.
A clean workbook for you.
A separate filled example to follow.
Cream cells are editable. Formula cells calculate the results. These previews show fictional records in the included example file.
Open full preview ↗02 / Guests
Open full preview ↗03 / Menu
Open full preview ↗04 / Ingredients
Open full preview ↗05 / Shopping
Open full preview ↗06 / Budget
Open full preview ↗07 / Tasks
Open full preview ↗Follow the example
Eight confirmed guests need two batches of a four-serving dish. Ingredients combine across dishes, pantry quantities are subtracted and pack sizes can round up the shopping quantities.
Your first session
Open the separate example workbook to follow the demonstration. Enter your own records in the clean workbook.
Guests: 100 rows · Menu: 100 rows · Ingredients: 200 rows · Shopping: 100 rows · Budget: 100 rows · Tasks: 100 rows Rows added beyond the stated capacity are not automatically included in summaries. XLSX example calculations were checked in LibreOffice. Native Google Sheets editions were checked for formulas and visual layout. Native Microsoft Excel testing is not confirmed.
Look inside.
Actual pages from the guide.
