Children’s party food with no fruit?

5 bags of apples and 5 bunches of bananas will mostly be rotting in the corner after the party, don’t bother 😂

Dunno- my 2 youngest would prefer that to sausage rolls etc.

To be clear - I’m not a cucumber sticks for show person. I refuse to put out token salad at adult bbqs 😂🤦‍♀️. I will always put out strawberries (and other berry friends) as it gets eaten 🤷‍♀️

Are my kids the only ones that hate cucumber and watermelon…?

Yes - it’s a party. They eat sensible food the rest of the time.

For under 4 year olds?

@SouthLondonMum22
I don't know at what age I'll stop bringing food with me for him.
We always have fruit in our bag when we go anywhere, to the park, the supermarket, in the car. He eats tangerines and bananas non stop.

I get that I'm being way more uptight about it than most parents. Most kids get cake and chocolate.

But his body is so much better off without that stuff and it's within my power and budget to keep giving him fruit and healthy stuff so why wouldn't I?

A few of my friends was recently talking about stupid they think it is that parents waste money sending their kids into school with every kind of berry in their lunchboxes. I kept my mouth shut. I think if you can afford it then you'd be stupid not to. Good health is one of the most valuable assets your kid will ever have in their life.

Don’t know what world everyone is living in where they say that this kind of fun party food is for ‘special occasions’ and a treat. Maybe in some distant past. Crisps, sausage rolls, party rings, chocolate fingers? This is now just standard lunchbox post-school snack fair every day of the week for a lot of families.

I'd lose the carrot sticks and cucumber and put the budget towards pizza and sausage rolls, but I guess we're all different.

Not for our group - pizza, crisps and chocolate biscuits are the key ingredients

I’m really surprised people think it’s weird to have fruit at a kids party. Any 1-4y old party is usually hummus and crisps/ crackers, cucumber, cheese, carrots, maybe pizza slices and then loads of berries/ melon and cake.
Parties with actual sweets for 4 and under have been incredibly rare, and we do a lot of nursery parties.

My DC’s would have asked where is the party food🤣

I would forgo the popcorn as a choking hazard especially given the ages of party guests.

I usually do a couple punnets of berries or a watermelon (the latter if it's very hot) and never have any left. I'd say it actually goes first and I find parents are always thankful there's that option, especially with some kids unable to have wheat etc.

You've got to be joking?

Strawberries always go down really well at every party I’ve been to.

Yes. I absolutely do. Made a rainbow platter out of strawberries, oranges, pineapple, green grapes, blueberries and red grapes. And another one using veg (cherry toms, carrot sticks, yellow pepper sticks, cucumber, black olives) with houmous and it was popular. Also had homemade scones, jam, cake, crackers, cheese, ham, pineapple and cheese on sticks, ready salted crisps, biscuits and cream cheese on baps. Also a bowl of upf free chocolate buttons. No one complained. I don't think healthy food has to be considered boring 🤷

My daughter (2 and 3/4) just started eating strawberries within the past 2 weeks. She still won't touch blueberries or raspberries. From being a baby until very recently the only fruit she would eat was bananas - unless puréed and mixed with yoghurt. She even refused fruit crumble!

I bought enough fruit for 20 people for DD’s 2nd birthday, stuck it in the fridge, got caught up in the party and completely forgot to put it out! Not only was it not missed, we survived off just fruit for days 😂

Our of curiosity, will you always bring him his own food at parties or is it just until a certain age?

It's your party, you can do what you want.

My 2 year old wouldn't touch any of the food at your party as we make Jim's tick to healthier food and he doesn't eat celery or carrot sticks, but parents with these kind of restrictions like us bring food with them for their kid. We do, it works out fine. People can have whatever they want at their parties.

Bananas are quite a cheap fruit to include or grapes if you want something still healthy but a bit cheaper.

You have carrot and cucumber, you absolutely do not need fruit too.

It'll be fine with no fruit, it's just a couple of hours.

I would really advise against popcorn though, it's a choking hazard with young children and just to cover yourself it's not worth the risk.

Maybe some veggie sausage rolls or something for the non meat eaters? Kids won't know the difference!

The last couple of self catered parties we went to there wasn’t any fruit, it was fine, I definitely didn’t have an issue with it, I just made sure my boys had fruit at other times throughout the day.

The best one food wise we went to the parent had done individual lunch boxes for them all with a sandwich, packet of crisps, frube yogurt thing and a miniature chocolate bar. This was for a 4 year old party. It was great, more than enough food and whatever my sons didn’t eat we just took home with us.

Strawberries are one of the few fruits my DS doesn’t like 😂 he would be all for the chocolate fingers anyway to be fair.

He likes apples, bananas, grapes etc but strawberries (and blueberries) are a no go. Weird child.

If the party includes one year olds, I'd say fruit would be a solid and popular option!

Fruit is the one reliable thing all my baby friends can get down our older babies.

Strawberries and melon would be very popular.

Aldi are selling a huge tub of strawberries for £3.50 at the mo. I think its 1kg or something.

If you want to nod towards health get something like that as everyone likes strawberries....... Otherwise don't bother.