AIBU - No sweets or squash

[mamab30]

AIBU to not serve squash or give out sweets at a children's party?

Just wondering what parents would think of going to a children's party where there was only water to drink and just birthday cake to take home. For us that would be normal and I wouldn't think anything of it but just wondering if parents would be surprised at not seeing squash or sweets?

..there are also these excellent inventions comprising a short plastic stick with bristles on the end. It's called a toothbrush.

i love this yummy sugar free coconut flour orange cake can i have seconds please .................................said no child EVER ....

Oooh! overrated, moi?
How exciting, must celebrate with a squash.

Did people know that NFC fruit juice isn't fresh? They boil it and store it for up to a year, then add flavour sachets to it (as it is now tasteless) which is why it always tastes the same.

Take that, NFC snobs.

sounds like a blast

My fresh orange juice doesn't contain Flavouring sachets. What rubbish?

Pip orange juice, ingredients = 12 whole oranges, nothing else

www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Pip-Organic-Valencia-Orange-Juice/60830011

I think I have mixed moral myself as I gave this some thought.
I usually serve fruit juice in cartons and no sweets BUT I do serve lashings of icecream with all the bits like spinkles and strawberry sauce!

forevergreek, they do, but because the flavouring which is added back into the juice is made from oranges they don't have to declare it as a separate ingredient.

www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/100-percent-orange-juice-artificial_n_913395.html

artificial ingredients taste much nicer than raw ones. otherwise we would all eat the same stuff and weave the same lentils.

If I knew the other parent was a Mumsnetter I would expect it and warn my kids! But seriously, it's 'normal' for us to have water at home and no sweets but surely a party is a great excuse to break out of normality, have a bit of fun and relax the rules a bit??

I am the Minister For Children's Parties and I say anyone serving crudites and water are uncompromising, witless dullards

The whole point of a party, shallweshop.

I don't see why others don't get it too!

Jewcy there is no need to call me a f*ing dentist just because u dont agree with me. That is unnecessarily rude. However if you really think teeth are overrated I would be more than happy to remove all of yours and provide you with a nice set of dentures. You can eat all the crap you want then

The cake will be fabulous (the thing to look forward to of course) and we are having a BBQ feast, no processed stuff

See, it was AGES before you said this. Until then I genuinely thought you were throwing a party with just water on offer then a slice of cake to take home! That would be pretty dire.

I don't see why you NEED sweets if there is a BBQ and cake. I can't see much wrong with this but just because your child drinks water doesn't mean the other kids will. What is wrong with a bit of diluted squash? It can't be because you have issues with sugar as you are serving cake. So why not have this on offer?

My little girl doesn't eat sweets. FACT. She doesn't like the texture of all the Haribo stuff but will shovel cake down until the sun goes down! However, she is a bit rubbish at drinking plain water unless she is really hot, so always has diluted squash/fresh juice or milk.

I don't give a tuppeny fuck whether you serve squash or sweets, but it aint a children's party without a polystyrene cup of lukewarm Chardonnay

I just wet myself laughing.

Sorry - am I right in thinking you are making a cake with no sugar? Any particular reason?

I threw a joint party for my one year old and supplied bowls of baby salt free snacks/rice cakes/cheese cubes and sliced fruits. I thought this was sufficient. A beautiful carrot cake was being brought by another parent.

Other mums turned up with

Iced gems
Chocolate covered strawberries
Chocolate fingers
Haribo
Mini cakes
Marshmallows
and so on...

I was genuinely horrified especially as a slice of cake was enough sugar for a 1 year old without all the above crap. I don't think you NEED masses of sweets to be honest.

I have a nice recipe for sugar free cake - it's banana and raisin cake.
Each to their own.

yummytummy, I didn't say I didn't agree with you, I simply insinuated that a dentist proselytising on the evils of sugar may prove to be interminably dull, tedious and predictable.

And, guess what? I was right.

mumma, the mumsnet jury has already given a verdict on your sugar-free raisin and banana cake. I'm glad you missed it

mummabubba123 did it (taste like fruit cake) and was it in the shape of a train ? we know you bleat said about it again and again and again ...

notso, shall we play tit-for-tat? I'll be the tit

Me too.

I don't really know what squash is...is there an American equivalent?