to think party food does not need to be healthy/ eaten savory before sweet

[MikeRotch]

what IS with the party food nazis/
let the kids NOT have veg for ONE meal fgs, let them eat three cupcakes and NO sandwiches

its a party

Ahaaaaaaa. Thankyou. I think we have fairy cakes and call them cupcakes. No-one actually likes (even kids) that large amount of icing - usually as much as the cake itself!

Semantics

A cupcake is usually bigger, which makes it better in my eyes

Yet another anti-american. Why?

No, I am not American.

Most parties I go to do have carrot and cucumber and baby toms etc on the table as well as sandwiches, sausages and cakes. I would say the majority of kids eat the veg - mine like it. Crappy food is necessarily a treat for a lot of kids. And having some sort of healthy food means they don't feel sick. Which is good, surely.

I always hope all the sausage rolls disappear as they will surely all disappear into my mouth if not. :)

Even if you give them muesli sandwiches and gluten free cake they run around like headless chickens and squealing pigs. Let them eat crap for one day Healthy parties are cringey and try hard. It is meant to be fun and different

I am not anti-American, just anti the replacement of fairy cakes and buns with 'cupcakes' or renaming them as cupcakes.

Have you no respect for tradition?

(you clearly have no sense of humour!)

What happened to the days of sandwiches sausage rolls , jelly and ice cream??

mine found out about the existence of nutella on pancake day. I was surprised, but he still eats cheese an' 'am

the world didn't end.

Kids party rules is at least 4 different kinds of "crisp". Two of which are orange in colour.

worraliberty are they Greggs sausage rolls? horror lol

my kids wouldnt eat tomatoes, carrots or cucumber but I do normally do a fruit plate with grapes and strawberries which tends to get demolished.

party food nazis lol

oh gosh - people are so about the most peculiar things - unless medically unadvisable to eat gorgeous junk food, then give the kids a break, jeeez

At our parties we MUST have iced gems and party ring biscuits

I help my 4yo choose a balanced meal (if it is stuff she likes) with a moderate amount of treat bits - last weekend the girl next to her was allowed to choose what she wanted, puked, and was allowed to start over.

Bwaaaahahahaha

At ds1's 5th birthday party, Ds2 (about to turn 2 years old) disappeared.

He was found tucked in between a sanitary bin and a loo in the lady's toilets, with a whole plate of iced cupcakes (each with the icing carefully bitten off) and a shirt pocket full of mini sausages.

He was reeling with sugar overload and could barely walk. he was sat down and firmly gien a drink of water and told "No more cakes now"

But every time we left the house for about 3 weeks after that, he lifted his curly cherubic little head up and exclaimed hopefully - "Cake Parpy? More cake Parpy?"

oh Mike I agree! It IS wicked treating it like "tea" ...alll the po-faced ummies saying "No darling....eat 2 sandwiches and THEN a cake!"

In my day it was eat what you want!

I make mine eat some sandwiches before cake, because they will eat the sAME AMOUNT OF CAKE REGARDLESS AND IF THEY EAT ENOUGH AT THE PARTY, i DON'T HAVE TO GIVE THEM ANY DINNER

compo unpeeled grapes? What an outrage

I had a boy for tea once who wanted his sausages peeled.

I let DS (5) choose what he wants for his party food.
First he wanted me to cook a 3 course meal (salad, meaty macaroni cheese and cheesecake) for 30 kids when I said it was a buffet he chose:

Jam sandwiches
Choc spread sandwiches
Party rings
sausages
chicken nuggets
pizza
sausage rolls
crisps
homemade jelly cups and homemade biscuits
melon, cucumber, cherry toms and cheese cubes.

He's also having a bouncy castle so I will take a few buckets.

peeleed sausages?!

I dont get it - adults dont go to someones house for dinner expecting junk and no veg, or go to a BBQ and ask for your pudding first. at a BBQ you might pig out, eat more meat and bread than usual, but you eat salads too

Kids SHOULD eat some fruit and veg at a party , the party is usually a lunch/tea MEAL, and should offer basic nutrition as well as extra treats

People lose sight of the fact that food isn't just a fuel, it is to be enjoyed and it is also sociable-anyone who is denying it for parties is setting up their DC for an unhealthy attitude to food inlater life.