Kids party - is beige food ok?

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28 kids and approx 15 adults. Was planning to hit Iceland and do a sea of beige so mini pizza, sausage rolls, cheese and onion rolls. Bread and cut up carrots, cucumber etc with houmous. Lots of crisps. Can you serve chicken nuggets cold? I'm doing it in a hall so needs to be precooked and served.
Also on a bit of a budget :-)

Sounds like normal party food to me!

Sounds fine to me. I've served cold chicken nuggets and no one seemed to mind.

apart from cold nuggets (which is apparently a thing with tween daughters mates to have in their lunchboxes, vom) it sounds like food of the gods. I'd not get mini pizza but big ones you can cut up.

Sounds good to me! And nothing wrong with cold chicken nuggets.

Maybe add cherry tomatoes and grapes, if you want to add a bit of colour to it.

Yes I'll do token fruit and veg :-)

It's pretty much mandatory.

Don’t forget the party rings and pink wafers.

Oh no it mustn't be entirely beige. You've forgotten the party rings and pink wafer biscuits :)

To help with the "eating a rainbow" I suggest some nice orange wotsits or monster munch, and some green gummy bears.

I'm doing rainbow cake and rainbow cupcakes with haribo rainbows on them as well. Lots of colour

@ChippyMinton - just what I was going to say!!

Sorry chippyminton I forgot to hit refresh before I posted

Yes, can I come please?

I wouldn’t bother with the fruit & veg - in my experience it never gets eaten. I mean, I wouldn’t eat a cherry tomato when there’s a party ring on offer!!

Cheese and pineapple hedgehog is always popular and is practically health food due to dairy and fruit.

I wouldn't bother with the veg and hummus, especially as you are on a budget. It won't get touched beyond a few token bits so it's a waste.
Definitely but big pizzas and cut them up. They taste nicer and work out cheaper.
I would also only do 2 out of 3 of sausage rolls, cheese and onion rolls and bread.

Something I've done that's been cheap, easy and gone down well is a variation on those build your own sandwich snack packs. A loaf of thin sliced bread cut into small rounds using a biscuit cutter, small round crackers, wafer thin ham cut into rounds with same or smaller biscuit cutter, cheese sliced and cut into rounds. Mine, and quite surprisingly many others liked the mini cucumbers sliced into tiny rounds and halved cherry tomatoes on their mini sandwiches too.

I freeze the meat trimmings for bulking up a tomato pasta sauce or pizza topping and as a bit of an over economist (war babies daughter) grate the surplus cheese and breadcrumb the bread crusts/ trimmings.

pizza and crisps is all any of us want tbf

Trail mix...popcorn, m&m's or smarties, mini marshmallows, always goes down very well.
Get some cheap coloured cellophane and you can wrap it with a slice of cake instead of party bags. If doing this, would add edible glitter to the mix too.

Mine ignored the peppers/tomatoes/hummus at DS1's recent party, but guzzled the strawberries. DS2 guzzled cucumber but he is strange.

I would also suggest a token packet of quorn sausage rolls/sausages for any vegetarian/Muslim kids - we had these at our party (I'm vegan so we had them anyway) and the kids were over the moon

Quorn is well known for giving people the shits, so I wouldn't serve it.
Sorry Contess

Brillo really? I've never had that, but fair enough! Other (non-Quorn) veggie brands are available - I recommend the Linda McCartneys.

I'm veggie so by default lots of it will be, I think sausage rolls, mini sausages and chicken nuggets will be the only meat on the table.

So long as you cook the chicken nuggets before letting them cool OP. (I'm sure you're not that daft, but I remember a thread on here where someone's DP was - he genuinely thought they contained cooked meat and were only marked "heat for 15 minutes" to warm them up ).

Carrot sticks, cucumber and cherry tomatoes as a nod to veg!