About Feastimate

Feastimate helps hosts turn a guest count into a practical party shopping list. Instead of guessing how many bottles, pounds, trays, bags of ice or plates to buy, you can enter the size of the event and get a clear estimate you can adjust before you shop.

Party quantities without the guesswork

Most party planning mistakes happen in two directions. Buy too little, and someone has to leave for an emergency store run. Buy far too much, and the budget disappears into leftovers nobody needed. Feastimate sits in the middle: enough cushion to host confidently, but not so much padding that every number becomes waste.

The site is built for real hosts, parents, office admins, family organizers and first-time planners who need a useful answer now. It is not a luxury event-planning brand and it is not a recipe blog trying to look fancy. It is a set of plain-English planning tools for people asking questions like "how much food for 50 guests?" or "how many 2-liter bottles for 40 people?"

How the estimates work

Feastimate uses practical serving ratios, then rounds up to the way people actually shop. A drink estimate becomes whole cans, bottles and cases. A food estimate becomes pounds, trays and serving counts. Ice becomes bags. Supplies become plates, cups, napkins and cutlery with a small margin for drops and second servings.

Every calculator page explains its assumptions in plain English. The drink calculator starts with a first-hour surge, the food calculator uses per-person portions, the BBQ tools account for cooking shrinkage, and the ice tools separate ice for chilling from ice for serving. For the full breakdown, read how Feastimate calculates party quantities.

What Feastimate covers

• Drinks Calculator - beer, wine, spirits, mixers, soda and water for any guest count and party length.
• Soda Calculator - 2-liter bottles, 12 oz cans and flavor split for non-alcoholic drinks.
• Food Calculator - appetizers, mains, sides and dessert in realistic per-person portions.
• BBQ Meat Calculator - brisket, pulled pork, ribs and chicken, with raw-to-cooked shrinkage built in.
• Ice Calculator - bags of ice for chilling drinks and filling coolers, adjusted for weather.
• Party Supplies Calculator - plates, cups, napkins and cutlery, including sensible extras.
• Party Budget Calculator - a per-head cost estimate so the final bill is less surprising.

What Feastimate is not

These tools are planning estimates, not catering contracts. They cannot know your exact menu, local store sizes, guest appetite or venue rules. Use the numbers as a starting point, then adjust for your crowd: teenagers eat more, small children eat less, outdoor heat changes the ice count, and long events need more food and drinks than short ones.

Free, instant and transparent

Feastimate is free to use. There is no sign-up, no account, no app to install and no hidden premium tier. Calculations run as JavaScript in your browser, so the answers appear instantly. The site is ad-supported, and future shopping shortcuts will be kept optional and clearly separated from the planning content.

Get in touch

Feastimate is a small independent project, and it improves fastest when real hosts tell us how the estimates held up. If a quantity felt off, if you have a better rule of thumb from your own events, or if you would like a new calculator entirely, please send us a message. You can also read our privacy policy and terms of service.