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

[PignutSalamander]

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?

agree with overmydeadbody

yes a low table not on the floor

and yy to cakesmash too

OP do you regularly eat from the floor?

Pignut the idea is lovely, whatever other people might say.

Do it again when the children are 3 or 4 and they will really love it.

One year olds won't even associate it with the book, it will just be food.

How about keeping the tressle table at its normal height and parents hold their children up to select food onto a plate or into a box to eat? Or did you want the kids actually eating around the tressle table?

The pp who said I'm going to do it whatever was right

Then why bloody start a thread about it wasting everyone's time?

It is ridiculous for a 1 year olds birthday party and a total waste of food - which I hate.

Perhaps a picnic layout with blankets, rugs and cushions on the floor, and oilcloth tablecloths in the middle with the food arranged on a number of platters around them, and parents help their children select what they want onto plates or into boxes and then sit on the rugs and cushions eating?

Yeah - absolutely brilliant idea for a 3 or 4 year olds party. Not a 1 year olds.

Op would you like to remove your head from your arose and unhoik your judgey pants.
You clearly posted to show off as you were never planning on listening to other posters.

So are you going to give them plates or are you really going to make them eat off the floor?

arse not arose

Food mush. Promoting 'messy play' group.

OP would you take some random food off some random babies High chair tray in say a cafe and feed it to your baby ?

Gosh OP, you are so right-on and free-and-easy, your friends will look at you with awe and wonder because (however much you pay lip service to the idea of there being more than one way to do things) really YOU ARE RIGHT. Yours is the best way. No other mum in your circle of friends will ever put on a party that matches up to yours.

Does that feel better OP? Is that what you were after?

Well said janey

So actually the food is not for eating its for playing with , now I get it , still find it a revolting idea but I do get it ! Are you going to provide unsmooshed food for them to actually eat ?

PS after your last post, it's really obvious that despite your free and easygoing veneer, you are actually quite controlling. You want mess and destruction. You want children toddling through the food and exploring (vomit emoticon) it. In fact what would really piss you off is if the children just happily take a bit of food and toddle back to mum. One year olds are capable of just picking up their food and eating it you know. It's quite normal (though in their own homes they probably sit up to do it, not toddle through it). You seem to have a real mismatch in your concept of BLW and what most one year olds are like. Most of us just call it eating

Another one who has lost sympathy with the OP a bit. Seriously these kids are ONE! They are not going to give a flying fuck how the food is organsied - they are not going to be thinking 'oh look at this buffet, its arranged just like the Hungry Caterpillar'! So you are doing it to show off and post pictures onto Facebook/Pinterest so that everyone can marvel at how oh so creative you are - its not for the children at all is it?

Also, another point. My DS was a slightly late developer so by the time he was one he wasnt actually crawling, he was sort of dragging himself on his front, so would be smushing the food underneath himself!. And he couldnt get from sitting to his front and wasnt pulling himself up so would not have been able to access anything on a low table. And even kids who could do this are only going to be able to access the food that is on the edge? And I agree that the kids are not going to carefully and thoughtfully select a nice balance of every food.

Do the wanktastic Hungry Caterpillar buffet if you must, but just put it on a normal table give the parents a plate, let them choose some stuff for their child and then let the child eat it - seriously what is the problem with this?!

My son is almost one, I will really steal this amazing idea, but I won't have a parents buffet, they can fight with the children and we can all eat on the floor.

Genius!!

Well if your happy with clearing up loads of mess go for it!

It's really a sensory party isn't it? take out the BLW poncery and it's just messy play.

I see no prob with it actually, apart from the grubby hall floor.

Could you lay down a (clean) tarp - I think someone upthread suggested a shower curtain.

Am presuming hard floor - if a carpeted hall then you might get a cleaning bill after.

What a waste of food

Wow.

You are an amazing clever creative mum.

All the other parents will be jealous and wondering just how you do it.