To serve bread and butter sandwiches at a children’s party

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To clarify right away, it’s not just bread and butter. My DD is about to turn 4, and isn’t a fan of sandwiches. If we’re eating a cold lunch at home she’ll generally have bread and butter and then cold chicken/salad on the side. She doesn’t eat cheese/ham/tuna/any sandwich filling you might reasonably expect!

For her party I’m doing ham sandwiches, cheese sandwiches and cold pizza but she won’t eat those so am I going to look a bit odd having bread and butter sandwiches as well?! There will also be cucumber/carrot sticks, breadsticks, hummus, crisps etc but would you be wondering where on Earth the filling is if you had b&b on the platter too?! Her preference would be dry bread so trying to do a step up from that!

I’m planning to label them so no one bites in expecting a nice cheese one!

I'd probably just let her fill up on pizza and the other stuff. Nothing wrong with bread and butter but will the kids be able to read your label? In my experience of parties, kids only pick at the savoury and go msg for the sweet stuff anyway

If it's labelled 'bread and butter' I think that's fine. That's what my dd would choose too

I don't understand why you would make a bunch of bread and butter sandwiches when it's probably only your daughter who will want one? Just make one for her.

Perfectly reasonable in my book. Some kids are fussy eaters and will eat only the plainest of food.

Full marks to you for catering to such children.

A sandwich is 2 slices of buttered bread with something between them.

Why not forget about sandwiches/bread and butter, and have crisps, quiche, chicken nuggets, fish fingers, sausage rolls. sausages - the usual kind of -crap- thing children will eat?

It's her party, so if plain sandwiches is what she likes, make them! If you want to go nuts you could make butter and sprinkles sandwiches and call them "birthday sandwiches".

Does she each slices of buttered baguette? Standard party table food.

I’m confused about the concept of a bread and butter sandwich. What’s the filling? Is it bread and butter inside bread and butter? Why isn’t it just called bread and butter if it’s just 2 slices?!

Anyway, yeasty pedantry aside, it’s absolutely fine only if you call it bread and butter and not a bread and butter sandwich

My toddler DS is the same when it comes to sandwiches, so I'd be grateful if you did this and maybe some other parents would, too.

I'd butter a load of bread, and put the sandwich fillings on the buffet. I'm guessing the parents will be helping their kids get a plate of food, so they can help make it into a sandwich as necessary.

(My DD was extremely awkward at that age... generally ate a wide range of food but hated bread and potatoes. So no chips or sandwiches....)

Could you have the fillings and bread and butter separately so they can make up their own sandwiches as they like? You could be on hand to help them if needed.

Because those are fairy sandwiches as everyone knows. Tosses antenna, rearranges gossamer wings……….

As long as it’s actual butter and not some Frankenstein “spread” it’s a great idea

Bread butter and sprinkles it’s the best 😬

If she wants dry bread at her party, I'd give her dry bread and forget the bread and butter.

It sounds like there will be plenty for the other kids to eat anyway.

It must be fairy bread made from trashy white bread, margarine and sprinkles, or nothing at all, sorry.

Bugger what it looks like! It's her party, so serve her preferred sandwiches

You're doing plenty of food to cater to everyone else's tastes. It sounds lovely!

My 9yo DS likes bread or bread and butter with no filling too! He has grated cheese, tomato and cucumber separately. Deconstructed sandwiches! All good. I think it's perfectly reasonable to do that for the birthday girl.

My daughter only eats butter sandwiches so I pick out the fillings, I’ve done the same for 2 other classmates so there are other children the same. I would stick to ham or sliced cheese so others can pick out and then do hers and put it on a plate for her.

I think it's fine. I'd just do buttered bread cut into triangles so it's obvious they aren't sandwiches, rather than make them into sandwiches with no filling. We used to have margarine on bread triangles at primary school break times!

No you won't look odd. Do normal sandwiches. Do one for her. No one is gonna comment and if they do, you just say 'it what she likes. And she is the birthday girl' - ie mind your own business!

*Cut into pretty shapes!

Plenty of kids don't like sandwiches - my 4-year-old doesn't, he just prefers bread and butter (well, he'd eat Nutella sandwiches, but he's not getting those unless it's a special treat!).

Just do some sliced 'open' bread and butter? Or sliced French bread and butter

My dd would only eat Nutella sandwiches too. And they'd be at her birthday tea