To serve a baby led weaning buffet at my daughters party?

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Dd is turning 1, I am planning to do a buffet based on the very hungry caterpillar. The plan as stands is to set it all up on a trestle table and when it's time to serve it put the legs down and let them at it.
Consideration has obviously been given to making it safe and easy for kids to feed themselves and the first few people I mentioned it to said they thought it was a great idea
I mentioned it to a mum who will be bringing her dd and she said " err! What about germs? How will we stop them taking a bite and dropping it, then another baby eating it?"
I basically feel that they will be spending the whole party sharing toys, touching each other etc and that germs are just going to be shared.
Obviously I will ensure that hands are washed before they eat and have also checked for allergys and warned mums not to put them in there best clothes. Also seperate snacks for adults
So what's the consensus mn? Aibu?

Sparkling

You got it all wrong - you chuck them on the floor now.

Next time I see baby crawling under high chair picking up breadcrumbs I'll say to myself 'ah she's baby led weaning.'

Oh right-high chairs a bit twentieth century? By the time DSs have children of their own I wonder what BLW will be like then?

Spaghetti rings in a paddling pool?

Ring rings.

Have you acutally said to parents that you are going to put a wide mix of food on the floor, some chokable and let the 1 year old's have a free for all? Basically a picnic.

Or have you described it simply as a blw buffet?

Because these are two very different things.

Also if you are having a free for all, you will need to look into insurance for when someone slips on puked up grape, or other chokable food.

I think it sounds really fun.

Haha love this thread

OP you are being a right knob. I cannot wait until you have this party and you see why it's such a bad idea!

If the focus of the party is 'get covered in food' then fine. But focus should be, a lovely birthday party with soft/play, music etc. V.weird to make food all over the floor the main bit. After five mins it will be a destroyed yukky mess. Potenitally with vomit in.

I'm surprised it hasnt been suggested the OP builds each invited child their own "edible" caterpillar from the ingredients - now that's poncetastic (and precisely what I would do!)

This thread has made me reminisce about my DS's first birthday. We went to the aquarium, which he loved, then had dinner (in a high chair ) with his GPs and a cake with a candle, and we all wore a silly hat. I still remember the look of utter delight cross his face when he saw the candle and realised that everyone was singing a song for him.

I don't think I'd swap.

You lot are so pedestrian. If babies haven't walked over, sat in, smashed up and trailed bogies over their food how can they possibly have experienced it? You plate using fascists are bringing up a generation of emotionally stunted children who will turn into adults who don't even know how to have a proper food fight. Shame on you.

seems contrived and all about you, oh look,we do blw, yes it's blw a buffet
so you're not want to dscuss blw,but it's the feature of your party?
it's sounds so pretentious looking for a reaction

Wandering around while eating is a choking hazard. And you can clean the floor as much as you like, but the moment the guest arrive the floor will be dirty again.

I'd leave it at adult height and supply bowls for the parents to choose which bits to offer their kids.

They won't all be at the same weaning stage and there may be allergies/intolerances to consider.

I think it's a lovely idea otherwise though.

We did BLW or similar (made it up as I went along tbh).

The first time we tried it I was so pfb excited only to watch in horror as ds ignored his food on the highchair table, reached over and pinched a chip off Dh's plate.

And once more... This is NOT BLW!!!! As has been previously explained, BLW is introducing your LO to various food types and allowing them to explore the taste/texture and decide for themselves what foods they would like to eat. This is just plonking a load of babies next to a carefully thought out buffet and watchin the carnage commence! BLW is a load of hippified, pretentous bollocks anyway. How on earth do you think we were introduced to food?!?!

I doubt the OP will be back, she's probably arranging the roast beef and yorkshire pud into some themed artwork for Tarquin and Jocasta to roll around in explore.

BLW buffet
Pretentious shite!

Teaching poor table manners

OMG ^^ this!

I have read the thread dying to mention learning table manners! I would have hated taking any of my DCs to something like this. Seeing my DCs crawling through food and throwing it .........

But - it sounds like the OPs guests are all members of her messy play club so they're into this already and wont raise an eye-brow.

That's it.

Sorry - no, i have to just say the words table and manners once more. Thanks.

fluffyraggies Yes, yes and double yes!!! Do we really want our dc's going to a resturaunt and thinking they can climb on the table, take food off other people's plates, smear it all over themselves and the carpet, eat whatever they please and have the control over their own diet at the grand age of one... Well I for one certainly don't!

Oh the waste, the waste

Dear god.

My spoon refusenik DD eats off a plate and is BLW. Am I doing it wrong, OP?

poor op I am feeling a little bit sorry for her now she was probably thinking she was being really creative and exciting and we are all about it,

Recipe for carnage

Total waste of decent food. You'll learn OP

sparkling when your grandchildren are weaning age the will be foraging for food and exploring their surroundings

Yeah, I think the OP has got the message, mumsnet thinks its wanktastic. She only wanted to do something amazing for her daughter.

I think it would look amazing, I'm picturing something like this:

blog.hwtm.com/2011/06/the-very-hungry-caterpillar-birthday-party/

The bit people are struggling with is where it is put on the floor to be trodden on, rolled around in and mashed up rather than eaten nicely.