We've just had (single dad) son and 5 grandchildren to stay for a week - so lovely and such fun! But oh my word! Where do they put all that food? We live very remotely, and so do a shop rarely - I filled the pantry/fridge/freezer before they arrived. Glancing at the supermarket receipts, I see that they consumed the following: 16 loaves of bread, 5 dozen eggs, 8 litres of milk, 2 kilos of cheese, 1 kg yogurt, 5 kilos of sausages and a heap of homemade burgers on the barbeque, with a dozen burger buns, 5 kilos of chicken legs, 6 freshly-caught snapper straight out of the sea, 1 kg prime mince, 1 kg butter, a large fruit cake, a dozen banana muffins and 40 wholemeal choc chip biscuits (all homemade), 4 lettuce, 6 broccoli heads, 2 cauliflowers, a cabbage, a huge bag of homegrown potatoes and at least 8 kilos of tomatoes from the garden, 3 kg oranges, 1 kg fresh apricots, 1 kg sweet potatoes, 4 red peppers, 6 avocados, spring onions and carrots in salad every day, a litre of cream, 2 litres of icecream, 4 litres orange juice, a tub of drinking chocolate, plus "treats" (the usual...)
They are very active and energetic, and permanently hungry! No wonder my son is perpetually broke! Is this normal?? 
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Sounds about right to me and if you have adult visiting DGCs there's alcohol to add into the equation as well. 
PS,sadly I've never got out of the habit of buying for an " army " 
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