Is this 'junk food'?

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We had a party for dd's 5th birthday.
I had little sandwitches, mini pizzas, potato wedges,biscuits, cake.

Now being a mumsnetter i knew that some mums will be about the sweets. Fine i was prepared for that. But potato wedges? What is wrong with them? One mum said 'oh she always go for the junk food' when her dd ate the potato wedges first, the other moron said 'at least they eat it with hummus and it balances up, oh its ok once in a while' .

Funny thing is they were very happy with the olives (salt).

Do you call home made potato wedges 'junk food'? Potato, olive oil, oregano.

And anyway, even if you wanted to serve up neon pink jelly and plates of sweets it would be FUN for the kids and they would remember parties fondly when they get older, just as I do. Some people really need to relax.

the only time i've had a problem with kids paty food was my stupid sil when mine went to her little princess's party aged about 2 a few years ago I had to work she knew my ds who was about 4 was food intolerant to chocolate, orange and coke what did she do gave him everything he couldn't have he went nuts and her attitude was well it doesn't matter occasionally.
she was also annoyed because dd1 aged about 7 didn't want to go but went to her friends cinema party.

Yanbu. God, those parents are anal!

I remember going to a party in the 70s, and we were given sugar sandwiches on white bread. They were nice and crunchy, and didn't do any lasting damage.

Dh just read that comment and asked me who it was for?? omg!!

BTW, can I come to your next party OP? Your food sounds gorgeous!

I remember going to a party in the 70s, and we were given sugar sandwiches on white bread. They were nice and crunchy, and didn't do any lasting damage

used to love sugar sandwiches and ketchup ones cant imagine kids eating it now.

quert that wasnt my mum was it??

she did put some 'unusual stuff on bread and say it was what 'posh people ate' now im telling you as an adult I do not believe posh people eat a bovril cube in hot water and a crust of bread for their dinner.

nickschick

No wonder so many people have really fucked up attitudes to food, which, tragically, they'll probably impose on their kids.

There is no such thing as good and bad foods, only good and bad diets.

Also, bet when they go to adult parties they are knocking back the vino like nothing on earth and scoffing loads of canapes.

Borderslass - where did I mention ignoring food allergies ?

Hmmn, and crisp sandwiches. crunchy carb fest.

Mmmm, potato wedges are nicer than chips.

you didn't, sorry wasn't getting at you just some idiots attitudes.

I was at a healthy children's party once. Lots of children looking at carrot sticks and asking where the real food was. The mum who organised it for their child was there and close to tears.
Everything about a party should be fun.

Potato wedges are fine. I use lots of paprika on mine. I agree with whoever said that oven chips are fairy healthy too. Children need some fat in their diet.

lol!@nickschick

Bovril in a cup with toast was a standard lunch in our house!

Kids these days don't know they're born. It was cheese and pineapple on a stick, warm cherryade and only one prize in the 'pass the parcel' parcel in my day. Nobody gave a shit if half the kids were high on E numbers and whacking each other over the head with balloons

lol @ crisp sandwiches that was Saturday night 'treat dinner'.

Im thinking my mum may not have followed health guidelines on healthy eating .

I also love cheese and pineapple on sticks.

Probably no sticks now for safety reasons.

Riven, i nearly did!

at 'safety reasons'.!!

Some people are just ignorant idiots when it comes to food.

I knew someone once who complained bitterly about the state of food these days, with all the "nasty harmful chemicals added to them" when she read 'ascorbic acid' on the ingredients list of something. Wouldn't let her little darling eat it. Stupid woman.

Oh yes, cocktail sticks definitely break somebody's H&S rules somewhere.

I did go to a party at a softplay a while ago where they had laid on the standard 'softplay' fare of nuggets and chips with Fruit Shoots. There was a palpable tension in the air when the Shoots were wheeled out . It got me thinking how many of the other mums must be on MN...Everybody far too polite to ban their child from guzzling the lovely aspartame-laced juicyness, of course. DS had two, I seem to recall .

Who cares if it was 'junk'?! Wouldn't be much of a kids party if you made them munch on carrot sticks now would it? She had no right to comment on what food you had taken the time to make anyway. This is why I don't invite the Mums to kids Birthday parties - it's all about the kids, not about interfering Mothers!

Your food sounds lovely-ignore the silly people!

As an aside, I have never, ever forgotten being served choc ice and chips at a friends house in about 1975-delish, thought I was in Heaven!

As an aside, I have never, ever forgotten being served choc ice and chips at a friends house in about 1975-delish, thought I was in Heaven!

Iremember the tv advert with that in