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!

What about Dairylea or something like that? And just do your child a plain one?

Great idea. Lots of kids like simple plain food. My DD would have been very happy if more parties offered bread and butter!

Are you Dutch? This is actually a staple of Dutch breakfast 😅

Wow you learn all kinds of stuff on mn! fairy sandwiches!!

Op, as long as there's variety I am sure noone will mind/care. My son won't eat any sandwiches with butter on, so we are the opposite, always used to do a few separate for him/other weirdos and just labelled them

It’s fine op. I was a fussy child and I’d have been relieved to see bread and butter! Maybe just sit it separately to the sandwiches?

Bread and Butter used to be a fairly standard tea for children. Bit of jam on special occasions and a piece of cake if you were really lucky.

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

Fairies don't have antennae...are you sure you're not a dragonfly?

Bread and butter yes but not as sandwiches, just a slice of bread buttered and cut into triangles.

Why though? The child wants bread and butter.

YANBU OP. Also a word of caution, I made hundreds of ham sandwiches for my 5 year olds birthday recently and about 5 cheese sandwiches. All the children wanted cheese sandwiches and nobody ate the ham!

Thank you everyone for your responses! The baguette/open bread and butter would be great. We’re in a hall so will have to transport everything covered so was picturing butter getting on everything if I didn’t do them as ‘closed’ sandwiches - although appreciate the point it’s not a sandwich with no filling!

We’ve limited storage so will be moving everything in cool bags as there’s no fridge so was trying to avoid anything too meat/egg based that really needed refrigerating.
This has been so helpful, and reassuring to hear my bread and butter fan is not alone in her plain eating…although when I asked her what her favourite thing would be to eat for her party she said ‘maybe a roast?’…that was a no 😂
Thanks again to everyone for replying - I’m pregnant and not been well with it so having you all help me think has been a wonder.

I do this with pancakes for parties and breakfast sometimes

Well, technically it is a sandwich. It's a butter sandwich.

Its her party, serve food she likes.

Oh, yes. People will make crisp sandwiches from them, and it will be great. Do some mini jacket potatoes, too.

Excuse me? I know what I identity as thank you very much. ( searches for an F in the alphabet soup, doesn’t find one so composes hurt feelingz letter to Owen Jones )

I love a bread and butter sandwich and don't think it's weird to serve them at all.
Lots of kids prefer sandwiches with extra filling too.

Just put a label by them so people know what they're getting.

Go for it!
do some extra since my daughter would have loved going to a party with that option!
she’s 11 and if she has the option she would also choose to have bread… and crisps.. and maybe a biscuit on the side (ignore the cheek) - she does not has that option if I get to say anything… but she’s been know to try her luck…
also you know at 4, kids will more likely ignore all your veggies… even if they do eat them at home… but you still have to do it… if anything so other parents (unsuccessfully) attempt to get their kids to have some veggies

Cheese… not cheek

I wouldn't bother with sandwiches at all, I find at a buffet pizza, sausage rolls, cheese and onion rolls, cold cocktail sausages, bits a cheese, veggies and crisps tend to go down much better.

The only time I've ever bothered to do sandwiches at a party has been when I'm making individual lunches for each guest and I offered a choice of fillings otherwise they always seem to be the bit that is left over on a buffet and you feel like you should be eating bloody sandwiches for the rest of the week 😂

Transport them butterface-to-butterface and separate when you get there?

Also I've never tried it, but pastry-cutter shapes might be fun, if you can be bothered.

Fairy bread is made with 100’s and 1000’s. Not just any type of sprinkle. And cut into triangles was the standard when I was a kid and so is correct lol.

I quite fancy a butter sandwich myself after this thread.

For four year olds, I wouldn’t offer sandwiches. I’d keep it very simple with a fruit platter, fresh croissants, crisps, muffins/buns and the birthday cake.

Really, the majority of children are not interested in hummus, carrot sticks and cucumber at a birthday party.

You’re overthinking it. Who cares if it looks ‘odd’? It’s not like it will be the only food available.

I am in favour of sandwiches - my DS and his friends would go for sandwiches and crisps rather than pizza, sausage rolls and croissants.