Sleepover party food?

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My Dd is having a sleepover for her 14th, possibly garden camping for her and 3 others.

Please could people advise on the food quantities- it will be an evening meal, breakfast and snacks

I'd order pizza for evening meal. Snacks crisps, dips, fruit platter, choc and sweets etc. Breakfast pastries but also offer a bacon sandwich maybe. The girls are old enough to order in food.

My suggestion would be to keep it easy. Snacks, fruit skewers, crisps, maybe some cupcakes. Breakfast, cereals and some blueberry pancakes with strawberries. Dinner, some marinaded chicken drumsticks and thighs, baked potatoes and salad, maybe some hotdogs.
Check dietary requirements in advance.

Thanks for the replies Im going to try to keep it as cheap as possible

Im thinking of getting a basic birthday cake and sweets for them to decorate

Just order domino's or equivalent for dinner.
Transfer DD some money and let them go and buy whatever snacks they want from the shops. They can order their own food in as well if you do that.
Breakfast just have some fruit, yogurt, pastries, Crumpets, bread and bacon, sausage etc in and let them help themselves.
At 14 they really don't need anything organised as such.

Ordering in food is over my budget Im afraid

I'd do pizza for tea (maybe bases and they can add what they'd like before you cook them? ) then do a sleepover "hamper " with drinks, crisps, popcorn and chocolate/sweets) for the morning I'd have cereal, toast and pastries? Or maybe pancakes and waffles and put out fruit, Nutella and syrup?

Order a pizza, give her £20 to go round the supermarket to get snacks.
Toast, cereal and fruit for breakfast

I mean this gently but they are 14 not 4. I doubt they want to decorate a birthday cake. They will want to be either in DDs room or camping our chatting about boys, makeup, nails,watching videos on their phones and eating junk

If ordering in is over budget just get pizzas from the supermarket and give them some cash for crisps and stuff

For my DD11 recent sleepover I just done all the beige food - sausage rolls, pizzas, garlic bread, chicken goujons. Stuck them out on big platters with paper plates and let them crack on.

Bought 2 x big tubs of popcorn from B&M, and some haribo for while they watched movies.

For breakfast I done pain au Chocolat (8 in a pack from aldi). Stick them in the microwave, with some chopped strawberries in a bowl.

Everyone was happy.

The guests have only turned 13 this Summer and are all quite immature for their age. One doesn't like pizza

I take on board cake idea. Im thinking a tub of ice cream and sauces to decorate their own bowl instead

Agree I’d do pizza for dinner, snacks of popcorn, chocolate and sharing crisps then pancakes with or without bacon and syrup for breakfast. I’d also get fruit mocktails (or make your own) for drinks.

I'd go to asda and get their value tortilla chips and put them in a bowl, maybe some dips if you can. For tea (dinner) if you can't order pizza then I'd buy the asda value frozen pizzas and add toppings/extra cheese before cooking. Buy cheap sweets/crisps and put in bowls. Nobody will know or care how cheap they were if they're not in packaging. Paper plates all the way! Also cheap lemonade. Aldi do a cheap version of Pepsi max which is nice. Breakfast I would keep simple - toast or cereal.

You could do hotdogs, chicken goujons, dips and chips instead of pizza. All can be bought fairly cheap and with cake and ice cream will be plenty for dinner. Give DD cash or transfer her some money and let them go to shop/supermarket for the snacks. That way they can all choose something that they will like.

I'd order takeaway - pizza or Chinese plus have birthday cake, crisps, juice.

Cereal, croissants, yogurt, fruit, toast, fruit juice

Let them serve themselves and stay out the way as much as possible

If one doesn't like pizza then just do a load of beige food as well. Chop up some veg, houmous etc. Aldi's your friend here.

Ice cream and bits to top with sounds fun but maybe have some cupcakes/fairy cakes too.

Asda counter pizzas in that case - just as good.

Cheap "camping style" breakfast is cereal plus eggy bread. That's what we serve at scout camp.

Thanks all I am just making a list now