to think that if you're hosting a kids party up till lunchtime...

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..don't feed the kids junk and then send them home full of crisps and popcorn and unwilling to eat something proper.

Dropped DD off at said party and table of food is already laid just with junk and a token amount of fruit.

Loving the sound of the organic farm lunch! Sad that it was wasted on party children :(
I wouldn't eat the stodgy jam sandwiches and value 'corn snacks' served by the place my DD is having a party. I hate cheap junk food but they love it.
OP, a party is a party. Let them enjoy it and feed them properly later in the day.

I'd probably make a curry and rice. I would have a healthy platter too. I'd be OTT.

I always do pizza chips and nuggets before cake and send them home with the sweets. Kids at a party are hyper enough for me thanks :o
yabu and a misery guts!

YABU it was a kids party, Having junk food occansionaly is fine and it doesn't matter if they don't have a proper lunch once in awhile,

How many childrens parties do you go to OP where the meal is prawn cocktail as a starter followed by lasagne with fresh garlic bread and a chocolate cheesecake with fresh mint to garnish......feck. im hungry now.

I think it's really rude to allow your child to benefit from someone's hospitality and then bitch about the quality of the food behind the host's back.

That kind of snidey behaviour is far less healthy than serving up a Haribo buffet once a year, imo.

I really want a Haribo buffet now

I would class the party food as lunch personally.

Next meal for them would be tea time, but would check they had eaten enough and offer supplementary snacks if necessary.

I think you are totally missing the point about the whole party thing.

You go to a party, eat crap food have a great time, usually feel sick on your return therefore no more food required.

Why on earth would you expect your DD to eat lunch on her return????

I agree with pink. bitching about children's parties is as horrid as bitching about weddings. someone's invited you to their special day, fed you, entertained you, and all you can do is bitch. horrid.

The kids won't eat anything that looks like normal "lunch" at a party.
Why should they? Since when has party food needed to cover all the food groups? I'll bet your parties are utterly joyless, and while the mums might be impressed with your party fare, the kids definitely won't be.

YABU in assuming your dcs will want to eat any sort of "proper" meal after a party. Regardless of the time of the party. It's one day. They'll not turn horridly obese or fearsomely malnourished on the basis of one party.

PS. Although I suppose you could always do what the mother of one of ds1's friends did. Send her very pfb along with her own food just in case there wasn't anything "wholesome" to eat. Said child (who did not have food intolerances or allergies) would always "lose" this grim offering as soon as possible and even our dog wouldn't steal it.

You should've given DC a hearty breakfast of eggs and homous on toast, this would've filled them up and minimised their junk intake?

I find that children round our way like party food that's done differently. Sausage rolls, mini sausages and sandwiches with no crusts are what they have in packed lunches..pizza squares and chicken in breadcrumbs are hot dinners.

It takes a bit of imagination to make party food special these days.

Eggs and Homous Golden?! I feel sick :o :o

Have you ever held a kids party.

What ever you make, only the junk will be eaten.

Sandwiches are there for the grown ups.

I always used to laugh inwardly at the kids whose parents stayed to help...because those kids were the ones with sandwiches on their plates and a grumpy look.

"Come on Amelia, once you've had some sandwiches and fruit then you may have a cake or a jam tart".

And the kid's thinking "Yeah right, like there'll be any fucking left by the time you've made me eat this shit"

So true worra!

I once stuck around at my daughters party but was chatting to another mum when th food came out and when I turned to check n my daughter her plate contained 5 cupcakes and absolutely nothing else!

Bet she wished I wasn't the at that moment.

My DSS2 (6) & his best friend must be a bit of an oddity. For DSS2's birthday party, we did a spread of pizza, sausage rolls, carrot sticks & sliced peppers, homemade cupcakes, chocolate biscuits & fruit kebabs (apple, strawberry & pineapple). DSS2 & his best friend scoffed most of the carrot sticks & sliced peppers first, had a couple of slice of pizza, then a couple of fruit kebabs. They then followed this up by customsing the pizza slices by topping them with broken up bits of carrot, pepper, strawberry & pineapple.

Yes I'd say they are an oddity compared to most children I've met at parties.

My first mumsnet flaming.... Off to comfort eat some wholewheat pitta chips and carrot sticks

I just had a party for my dd. heaps of junk, fizzy pop, token fruit. Whoopie cushions in party bags, kids trashed the house, the garden, soaked each other with water guns.

All in all a roaring success! I bet the parents want to kill me!

One of my ds (6) went to a party a number of months ago and came back home and said to the rest of them, ' guess what they had at the party... Pause for effect carrot sticks! They were all aghast. If he's talking about that particular child at any stage he will say, you know the boy who had the carrot sticks at his party. I fear he will still define him this way till they are 18