GET OFF THOSE NARKY THREADS and come and give me your fun, healthy and gorgeous food ideas for DS's party - please :-)

[FrannyandZooey]

I am doing the food myself, for about 15 to 20 children (aged 0 to 6) and maybe 30 adults?

So far I have thought of:

-strawberries half dipped in chocolate
-tiny pinwheel sandwiches - with cream cheese? any other fillings?
-grapes
-olives
-vegetable bits to dip in hummus and sour cream

I am a bit stuck for easy foods for the adults. My intention is that this will be the children's main meal, with enough things for the adults to nibble, so that they only need a snack later on, type of thing. We don't eat meat or fish. Come and tell me what was a hit at your party, please

Yes popcorn - double check

will recap shortly

oh and do the breadstick recipe

Sorry. Long thread. I'll get me coat..

OK confirmed stuff so far:

-strawberries (possibly dipped in chocolate if we can be sure the Ponce Police are not on duty )
-Fruit plate grapes etc etc etc
-Pinwheel sandwiches with cream cheese
-olives
-Veg bits to dip in hummus, sour cream, and the scary green dip
-mini and not so mini pizzas
-cheesy pineapple hedgehog
-mozzarella pearls and cherry toms on sticks
-some cold roasted / baked potatoey thing (still not totally convinced about these)

oops pressed post too soon

-tartex sandwiches
-homemade cumin breadsticks
-brie and cheese platter
-mini fairy cakes
-popcorn
-poss jelly but maybe too messy
-cold salad thing
-slices of vegetable tortillas
-cold veg sausages
-roasted chickpeas (subject to recipe)

and prob loads of other stuff I have missed, this really is a good thread, thanks

ok this is all TOO MUCH FOOD isn't it? How can I decide which things to do, aargh

and I want mozarella slices to wrap round things

whats tartex?

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Tartex?

Ah, tartex

it is a vegetarian yeast pate

(quite nice actually)

What about samosas?

Or burek-type pastries?

I make a very nice cheese pastry from Claudia Roden's book of Jewish Food. Mix of cottage cheese, gruyere and cheddar, wrapped in filo. Baked in oven. Nice cold. Slightly fiddly to make, but no more than pinwheel sandwiches really.

There's also a nice aubergine filling.

Mellowma what is your stance on presents? Do you tend to buy fairly traded instruments made from sustainable forests, or a great big lump of plastic from Asda?

I really really really have a thing about not fooling about with pastry or anything like it

will you make them for me becky?

is it liek marmite then
kidn of ssalty tasting?

btw in my espeirence kdis never weeat sandwhiches

it is salty but nowhere near as much as marmite

kind of like a savoury, smooth vegetable pate?

Ds eats ALL the sandwiches

he just sits there until they are gone

plus as mentioned adults like to eat the tiny ones

oh the reason he eats all the sandwiches is because we only have home made bread at home and he thinks shop bought is a divine treat (I admit to seeing his point )

It's so easy.

But no.

oh fair enough

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oooh you were so close there mellowma

Nice bread - crusty baguette type bread - and butter (not marg) was a surprise hit at my DSs' party a couple of years ago!

mmmmmm nice bread

Ooh, sorry, just saw that you make all yours - not implying for one second that yours isn't nice ...

well see my comment earlier

(I wouldn't be making the bread for the party, as you need sliced bread to do the pin wheel thingies, really. May make some nice granary rolls for the adults?)

Mars Bar Crispie cake:

3 Mars Bars chopped
3 oz butter
3 oz Rice Crispies

..multiply as appropriate (melt butter & mars bars into gooey mess, add rice crispies, pack into appropriate shape tray and chill). It certainly doesn't qualify as healthy, but you can cut it (once well chilled) into v.small pieces