Invited for tea etiquette?

[Medulla]

DD has just started Preschool and is wanting to invite people around for playdates and tea. I have never done the feeding other peoples children thing! My children eat fairly well and love veg (wierd I know), every now and then we'll have fish fingers and the like. Would you just cook what you normally have? Or would you maybe do a fish finger kind of dinner?

Id cook what i usually do,

or ask the mum 'what should i do for dinner' just in case the child has any dietry requirements or allergies,

Ask the other mum what sort of food her child likes/will eat. DD's friends will almost all eat pasta, so that tends to be our playdate meal - also ask the child if they want pesto, tomato or plain with butter. Meal is followed by fruit and maybe a yoghurt.

Pasta is a fairly good bet, thanks for that!

i always ask the mum, and have so far always been told hotdogs, chicken nuggets etc which mine rarely have so good to know! one mum told me her son wasnt picky so i thought i would just do cheese sandwiches for lunch, it turned out he wouldnt eat anything other than ham so we had to go to the shop

yes i usually go for pasta too, or a 'help yourself' with pasta, salad, bits of chicken, olives, crusty bread, baked potatoes etc

even if they dont eat stuff at home, children usually eat better at other peoples houses (i have found anyway)

certainly wouldnt do the fish finger thing, thats for us to know and nobody else to find out

That's what I want want to avoid gigglin, the appeal of having children round if we've got to go to the shop every time will wear off quickly!! I just need to be organised, it's not hard having pasta, cheese and ham in is it? (she says going to check her cupboard and fridge!!!)

there is no way i would go to the shop if a child refused to eat what i gave them!

i wouldnt do that for my own children either

if a child doesnt like something its up to their mother to let you know, so if the mother hasnt said anything i presume every thing is fine

That's the response I was hoping for nailpolish, just checking that I wasn't being too harsh! It's how I treat my children, I wouldn't give them something they don't like but I cook one meal for everyone - that's it.