To think takeaway pizza at a 4 year old’s party is an odd choice?

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Just that really. I’m not especially neurotic about what my kids eat. I’m happy for them to have the odd happy meal every couple of months or the occasional chocolate biscuit. But a pile of dominoes pizza at a party in a hall just seems a little much.?

I’m fully prepared to accept it if I’m being unreasonable because I can’t quite put my finger on why I wasn’t keen on this. Maybe it’s the salt. Anyway daughter is now asking for the same thing at her party next week and I’m really not sure.

Pink - why do you think a pizza delivery is weird for a children’s party? Many places for children’s party don’t have any facilities for cooking supermarket pizzas and isn’t it easier on a very busy day to have the food delivered?

I'm stealing this idea for dsd and dds next birthdays. As I've got older I'm more for the easy life.
With my ds I've done the sandwiches and all the cut fruit and veg, party cakes and crisps etc. And it was a faff doing on my own with a young then 4 /5/6 Yr old. Also didnt drive so had to taxi the food to a venue. Where as if I had though of delivery it would of been a walk to venue. And enjoy.

Its not much different to when I was a kid and everyone had parties at mac Donald's or burger King

Standard fare at parties my 2 attended from around this age. Quite a few kids are veggie/kosher at my girls’ school so a few margarita pizzas go down well with everyone. Usually provide carrot sticks / cucumber and fruit to go alongside it so it’s not all bad.

Sounds fab to me. If you are very worried about the lack of healthy stuff, do a plate of crudites as well but be prepared for them to be largely ignored.
If my daughter's best friend wasn't a dairy free eater I would totally do pizza.

It sounds a great idea I loathe Dominos as they’re so salty but just googled our favourite local pizza takeaway and it opens at 1pm at the weekend. So that’s this year’s party catered!

Last year I did hotdogs (veggie ones from Tesco to cater for religious diets) heated them at home, wrapped them in tin foil, cut up the finger rolls at home and made them up at the venue. Plus a food bag with wotsits, mini party rings and a cup drink. I may have chucked in a box of raisins to kid myself it was a healthy option

That was easy but the pizza sounds even better!

You have all just reminded me I have a voucher for a free large pizza from dominoes. Thanks for that, that's Fridays tea sorted. I might even let my 4yr old have a slice......

Been to a party for 6YOs (whole class invited) with this. I'd say most pizza was eaten by parents due to how little kids will eat.
Had no problem with it, we'll occasionally eat pizza at home for dinner, no difference really

I think it depends on the quality of pizza you’re serving.
I’ve served it at a 3 year olds party. Not a cheap option, it was high end non greasy vegetarian pizza which the parents were also happy to eat.
Parties are about treats. I tend not to go overboard on the sugar side of things. I’d rather the kids had decent food that they’ll eat rather than sandwiches that get thrown away.

Haven’t RTFT but we had pizza for my DS at his 5th birthday party. It was a Rugbytots party so I though pizza complimented it very well. We also did carrot and cucumber sticks.
The children were fed, then it was offered to the adults. I think I managed to grab half a slice before it all went. I’d definiately do it again.
I loved it as I didn’t spend all day making party food and I wasn’t living on sandwiches for the next 4 days!
A lot of parties I’ve been to have also bought in kids portions from the local chippy.
I say do whatever is easiest!

I do find it weird the way adults are all on vegan/ exclusion/ low carb/ whatever diets and yet happily feed their kids 10x the RDA of sugar and salt on a weekly basis.

Well the amount of salt per 100 g in Domino's looks pretty much the same as that in Pizza Express pizza according to the nutritional data on their website when comparing similar toppings.

Would the Domino's haters classify Pizza Express pizza as salty and fat laden shitty grease?

Christ people post the oddest shit on here don’t they? How can kids eating Dominos tax anybody’s brain?

Kids have sandwiches all the time if they take packed lunch to school. Pizza sounds more exciting to me. Beats making the sandwiches too.

Just as a comparison. This is for 100 grams of pizza which is approx. 1 and 1/2 slices of large from Dominos.

Dominos Large Cheese Pizza Regular Crust vs. ASDA Cheese Meltdown Stonebaked Crust:

Cal: 284 vs. 277
Fat: 10.3 vs. 11.6
Salt: 1.3 vs. .9

It seems to me that Dominos is less greasy, but more salty, by a small margin.

If you want to talk about salty though... 1 back of quavers is 0.44g of salt!

On a side note how many large dominos pizzas do i need to buy for 30 5 year olds?

Big assumption but I’m guessing that your 4 year old doesn’t have older siblings, wait till they get to 8/9/10, it’s all they’ll get at parties or McDonald’s. I think that parents work really hard to show they’re feeding their kids really well when they’re younger and make healthy party food (getting a great sense of self-worth in the process) then get fed up with pretending they’ve got all the time in the world and stop caring what other people think and do something easier...pizza!

My Dd had dominos at her 5th birthday party. They only had 2 slices each, kids can't eat loads of pizza. They loved it and I loved that there was no mess, no wastage and it was so much easier and cheaper than doing a buffet. Kids buffets aren't much healthier, there's too much prep/wastage and it takes more time when there's 30 kids dithering over what sandwich they want.

Jesus. It's a PARTY. If you're feeding them Dominoes (much prefer Papa John's BTW) every day - that's an issue.

Balance, people!

It always amuses me, the way parents (me included) dutifully include chopped fruit and veg at preschooler parties. It's to show willing to the other parents, as most kids don't touch it. It feeds the recycling bin, not the children.

As a parent I try to feed my kids well, but they get treats. A party is a place to eat junk, race around like a fool and take home a bag of absolute crap. That's a break from normal life. A delivery pizza meal sounds really sensible, to me, as it's something almost all kids love, it's easy and saves bother, and it's a treat, and out of the normal way.

I don't judge adult diets by what they do at parties. If I did, I'd assume they live on alcohol and Doritos/canapes (depending on the style of party!).

@10pollypockets- thanks ill average 2 slices per child and throw and extra pizza in just in case!

I don't judge adult diets by what they do at parties. If I did, I'd assume they live on alcohol and Doritos/canapes (depending on the style of party!).

Oooh, my mum drives me nuts if I go on a walking holiday with them.

I needed to lose weight and am now full in the swing of it (4st down), but when doing full-on hiking of 10-20 miles per day up hils etc she would still purse her mouth and tut and try to snatch dishes away from me.

Happily my personal trainer is all about the cheat days!

I'll be doing pizza for my DS 4th birthday party in 2 weeks. Venue has ovens so I can cook them there. Also putting out snack sausages, carrot and cucumber sticks and maybe just to overload on salt, pom bears. The birthday cake will be the dessert.

What about tofu with a lightly grilled quinoa coating on cocktail sticks? Yum!Yum!

Pizza sounds ok for a 4 year old's party, though I doubt they will eat very much of an entire pizza!

DC1 is 4 and would definitely not eat any of it, but then they are highly suspicious of many foods!

This thread has reminded me that for all our focus on healthy eating, the second you bring out the cocktail sausages at any party (kids or adults) they are gobbled in seconds, while the carrot batons and cherry tomatoes languish unloved in their bowls.