... to hate people that bring their own food to parties?

[trumpetgirl]

My dd has been to a few parties recently and I have noticed that some people have brought food for their children and I assumed that their child must have allergies or something.
I have just found out that actually they just don't want their child eating the crap party food.
Should I feel offended by this? Are they implying that I'm a terrible mother for letting my dd eat crisps and cake for her tea? If not, then why do they have a problem letting their kid eat it?
It's a one off, a treat. What's the flipping problem with that?!

wahwah, I think you will find that the correct LOLCAT spelling is fud, not food.

thank you

roffle at pox chase....

It not a one off- we get invited MANY parties...

i don't object to a couple of hula hoops but oh god, those horrid sausage cocktails made of 99% fat.... why don't they put their kids of fat drip for the duration of each party....let's not get confused again - party food doesn't need to be cheap and nasty ladies!

ah, before anyone asks i am not jools oliver.

Thankyou Fabio

why do cats do that btw?

yoofed? catfud? (thought was typo or ref to Larson). Please explain, I have not been wandering the land of Mumsnet for that long...

and now LOLCAT...need a flipping interpreter.

Left to my own devices and if I didn't actually care about my longevity I would happily eat party food for the rest of my life. I love crap mini sausages, party rings, Hula Hoops - all that stuff. That's the reason I'm always so reliably early to collect my offspring - if I time it right I can pretend to "help" while hoovering up the stray cheese and pineapple.

Bringing your own rice cakes and alfalfa is just plain rude. I wonder if they bring their own food to "dinner parties"?

I love cheese & Pineapple and Prawn Cocktail crisps

'I wonder if they bring their own food to "dinner parties"? '

I knew a chap who did this.

At dinner parties and BBQs in the US South (he wasn't from that area).

Not.the.done.thing.

He soon found his calender with a lot of vacancies.

Ok Sunshinesmith, so it's not as much of a one off as I always imagine it will be. But my child has at least one proper meal a day, and so it won't kill her to have a meal of party food once every few weeks (or twice maybe!)
However, I did go to a party once where only strange healthy food was served, and organic juice which tasted weird, and my dd came home starving!

flight - have you or your dc read the book 'Patrick teh Party Hater'? It's great. Very you.

sorry FA buy lol lol o lol at your post still

'no one is in uniform'

I don't know the game of lobbing water at grownups.

You poor, emotionally scarred dear.

But you are so right about scary mums and weird smelling houses and farking clown (was it Krusty?)

FA - because we can, and we don't trust you stupid humans to know where a tail goes, you might veer off in the wrong direction, so we go 'here is the rest of my tail'

yoofed - to have someone say to you 'well, nowadays' like you are a fossil (I was amused)

catfud - you feed cats on it. you can get it for 4p a tin from lidl [bitter]

summary of my thoughts

Does anyone remember 'iced gems' from parties in the 70's.

Happy days .....

70's - We had them last week

Ta for explanation. Am sniggering at yoofing you given I am Methuselah-like, but clearly young at heart!

Crikey, that is very rude - can't believe people do that. Eating together is what makes it a social occasion and it should be enjoyable and not overshadowed with people's ridiculous hang ups!

YANBU at all.

Lol! Pointy i will google it. I am glad am not the only one then.

I still have a bar of soap from claire's party bag when we were 9.

IMO, party food should be party rings and ice cream.

sadly, you feel you have to go the whole hogs and also provide burnt pizza, teeny sausages, hard cheese (as otherwise flame complain that the brie slides off the sticks), plus (now we are in the noughties, which really should mean really naughty food but hey, the wrong spelling has obviously got to people), carrot stick and grapes.

mind you, grapes start another thread entirely when you proved them whole and there is always one mum there with her PFB complaining about the non-peeled-non-chopped grapes......

Oooh AbbaFan where did you get them?

Author Emily SMith.

They sell them in Tesco's, they also do choccy top ones too.

thanks hav found! What happens in the end, does he have his own party?

He goes to party from hell held by Miss Popular, goes outseide for some fresh air and finds Miss popular's dad hiding in the shed because he hates parties too. When his own party comes, I think he has some sort of woodwork thing and that dad bloke might be involved but my memory is letting me down now without digging out the book.

Basically, the messages is It's OK Not To Like PArties.

thankyou for resume

I did actually have my own once after lots of pressure. I had to invite the ones who invited me to theirs and they didn't like each other. I think I have blocked it from memory!!!

We put on two parties in June for the girls' birthdays and we provided a mix of healthy and traditional party food. ie we made hot dogs, but served them with vegetable sticks and hummous, with strawberries and gingerbread men for desert.

I thought this was a pretty good mix, and most kids filled their little faces. But I had one mum who stated that her child, aged three, was a vegetarian. So I popped some cheese in a hot dog roll for her.

Why can't parents just allow children to have fun at parties? Bringing your own food is a bit bizzare imo

Unbelievably rude! I would expect it if they had an allergy. If there was no reason except 'overcontrolling mummies' I would wait until they had gone and put it in the middle of the table with the rest and let them all take a free choice.