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You're having a picky tea tonight...what's on your plate?

46 replies

lucysmam · 20/01/2026 18:30

I've gone for a random selection of frozen party food that's open & being ignored - chicken bites, mini pizza, couple of cheesy jalepeno things, little taco type things & mini pasties. The other two tiny pizzas are earmarked for lunch tomorrow, unless I get a better offer (aka school dinner).

What would be on your picky plate?

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Starbri8 · 20/01/2026 18:44

Baked Camembert with a garlic baguette, duck liver páte on rosemary crackers, duck spring rolls with dip and pulled pork bao buns and a bottle of fizz to wash it all down , all left over from Christmas ! Eaten on Sunday night was fab !! Only con ate too late and had bad dreams from the cheese !!

therealmccoy1234 · 20/01/2026 19:13

Houmous & carrots & peppers
Duck spring rolls & sweet chilli sauce
Some cheese & crackers
Pringles
Jalapeno poppers

SheilaFentiman · 20/01/2026 19:16

Potato salad, naice ham, oatcakes

Sixseventeen · 20/01/2026 19:20

Baked Camembert, nice bread, olive oil and balsamic dressing for dipping, black olive tapenade, Melba toast, Stilton, chutney, pickles, cherry toms, maybe a small side salad including sliced raw onion, nice ham.

whistlesandbells · 20/01/2026 19:22

Some roasted chicken and cous cous salad leftovers ! 😋

SemmaLina · 20/01/2026 19:24

Cheese and hobnobs , grapes , olives
Crusty bread and butter
Mars bar ice cream

GKG1 · 20/01/2026 19:29

Oooh you’re taking your life into your hands here, the angry anti picky tea people will be here any minute! Anyway for me it’s cheese and crackers with slices of tomato and cucumber ready to add, chutney, coleslaw. Maybe quiche, pizza, crusty bread, various salads…

Whattheduck · 20/01/2026 20:06

Various cheeses
Pate
Crackers or fresh crusty bread
Nice Chutney
Pork pie
Pickled onions

CreamEggsForever · 20/01/2026 20:08

Olives, meats, baked Camembert, crudities

Begaydocrime94 · 20/01/2026 20:09

We’ve done that tonight! Leftover Christmas food and we didn’t have anything in
mini breaded camembert bites with cranberry sauce
pork belly bites in bbq sauce
chicken thing
potato waffle
bit of salad for health

Thortour · 20/01/2026 20:09

When I’m Queen everyone who says ‘picky tea’ will be imprisoned.

Bloozie · 20/01/2026 20:12

Salad with kimchi
Couple of fingers of cheese
Whatever cold meat is in the fridge
Part-baked oven roll

EchoedSilence · 20/01/2026 20:16

Thortour · 20/01/2026 20:09

When I’m Queen everyone who says ‘picky tea’ will be imprisoned.

🥱

oohyoudevilyou · 20/01/2026 20:18

crackers, cheese, rather woody celery and a stale mince pie. Today has been long and tiring :(

NeverDropYourMooncup · 20/01/2026 20:37

Olives
Olives
Olives
Green olives
Stuffed olives
Chilli pickled garlic
Gherkin slices
Goats' cheese stuffed pickled hot peppers
Cucumber
Tomatoes
Ewe's milk feta
Olives
Chargrilled marinated artichokes
Mozzarella
Rocket
Olive oil
Lemon juice
Olives
Caperberries
Watermelon
Kraut, cabbage and carrot
Marinaded mushrooms

Hang on, I might have forgotten the olives.

FerriswheelsKissesandLilacs · 20/01/2026 20:38

Cheese, crackers, grapes, fresh mango, sundried tomatoes, marinated artichokes, crisps, garlic sausage, saucisson, a few prawns.

Cherrysoup · 20/01/2026 20:39

Cubes of cheese, crackers, grapes, olives, those little sweet red stuffed peppers. Cherry tomatoes, cucumber. Coleslaw.

Cherrysoup · 20/01/2026 20:40

Cubes of cheese, crackers, grapes, olives, those little sweet red stuffed peppers. Cherry tomatoes, cucumber. Coleslaw.

ruethewhirl · 20/01/2026 20:51

Cheese and crackers, cold meats, ideally some nice bread, and quiche/pizza. A bit of salad and some coleslaw. And maybe some warm garlic bread.

sprigatito · 20/01/2026 20:56

If we could pretend it’s my birthday so I don’t have to think about my weight/health…then I want:

good quality cocktail sausages
mini cheese and onion rolls
a selection of cheeses, including Vignotte, Port Salut, Cashel Blue and some German smoked cheese
Red Leicester flavour Cheddars and Hovis biscuits, and some good butter
Burts beef crisps
some cold gammon slices
vine tomatoes, anchovies, capers and Kalamata olives
a big spoonful of fresh coleslaw and one of potato salad

HopSpringsEternal · 20/01/2026 20:57

Ive never done this. Do you just out it all out like a buffet?
I often make DD a snackette for dinner which is basically raw chopped veg, (ie carrots, celery, tomatoes, cucmber, peppers) soldiers with cream cheese and houmous, grapes, blueberries, some bits of chicken if we have any and some nuts.
She is 15 and still loves it, I love it because if everyone else is out, I will just have some leftovers she can have that.And I don't need to cook.

Lifelover16 · 20/01/2026 20:59

Jacket spud, baked beans, grated cheese. With butter and salt.

IwishIwasacaterpillar · 20/01/2026 21:00

Roasted aubergine and cauliflower
lovely dips and sauces especially the tahini lime one
chilli and lime crisps
cucumber
sweetcorn
quorn cocktail sausages

puppyparent · 20/01/2026 21:04

my favourite kind of meal

freshly baked baguette or sourdough bread
stilton or strong Camembert
apple chutney
sliced pears or apples, handful of grapes
those Spanish green olives stuffed with anchovies
handful of nuts
gherkins
sliced mortadella or sauscisson
2 glasses of white wine

Slightyamusedandsilly · 20/01/2026 21:04

Ooooooh, chorizo (spicy), french bread, tortilla (Spanish omlette), cucumber sticks, boursin cheese, olives, 2 pickled beetroot, homemade potato salad with onions, cornichons and mayo. Glass of fizz with my food and mulled wine after.