Rainbow food

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Dd wants a rainbow-themed birthday party with proper food. (I know, I know )

No problems on the sweet side, I can make any number of cakes, mousses, biscuits etc and I'm not thinking about the E numbers. No, no, no I'm not. but I'm struggling for the savouries.

I could make rainbow sandwiches by colouring cream cheese - but she hates cream cheese.

I could make Spanish omelettes- but she hates cooked peppers.

So far I've got:

Salads

Any street-cred I've got with these teens by feeding them cake, will be totally destroyed by feeding them salad. Even if they like salad!

Help?

You could make the bread for the sandwiches and colour it? My mother used to make us green bread for st Patrick’s day when we were children.

Fruit kebabs with strawberry, pineapple, watermelon, kiwi, orange , grape, blueberry.

Pizza with stripes of tomato, sweet corn, courgette, aubergine

How about rainbow bread like in Singapore, but savoury

E number tastic rainbow rice?

Red green and white pasta
Yy to pizza
Purple potatoes
Beetroot

Fancy Instagram type mason jar layered rainbow salads

Rainbow bread - genius!

And pizza - of course!

Crudites and dips so you've got red, yellow and green peppers, cucumber sticks etc then pesto hummus is green, you could make sour cream a different colour, salsa, guacamole, tortilla chips are yellow

Rainbow crudite, with lots of dips. Rainbow summer rolls and sweet chilli dip (sainsburys recipe). Pinterest shows rainbow cheese toasties and rainbow rice and rainbow mac and cheese - basically just whatever the hell they want with a lot of dye. A picnic pie might work also I you had very defined colours

It doesn't have to be E-tastic. For icing and cakes, food colouring works best, but for cold foods you can make your own: carrot juice: yellow/orange, beetroot juice: pink/red, spirulina powder: green. Cabbage can give a blue colour, but it's unreliable (something to do with the acidity of the food being dyed, I can never remember exactly).

Off to make a batch of dough, see whether I need to E-number it

Veg and hummus (peppers, tomatoes, carrots - if you include purple carrots you e got most of the rainbow)

Pizza topped in sections

I’d put salad out (it often gets eaten as people seek refuge from the sugar) but make it interesting salads, eg spinach and strawberry, carrot and peanut, sweet corn and feta.

Vegetarian pâté would work, with orange, red and green layers, can look great sliced on a platter.

Mini quiche each with a different coloured filling, green broccoli, tomato etc. Also bruschetta might work, red pesto for instance.

Dips and salsa, green pea, beetroot, salmon, sweetcorn....

It sounds like it could be a lot of fun to do, especially if DD joins in too!

Rainbow bagels? You can buy them online.

You could use plum, grapes, blueberries, green apple, mango, orange, strawberry. Use these fruits, decorate and make a rainbow out of these. Remember to share the picture in this thread later :)

First attempt at rainbow bread, coloured with food rather than E-numbers.

Tastes excellent. Looks...not so excellent

That looks lovely! I have seen a bread where you put little balls in the tin and they smush together as it bakes. Maybe you could try that with different colour balls.

There are some great ones on here www.eatsamazing.co.uk/rainbow-food/top-10-healthy-rainbow-food-ideas

It’s a lovely green!

Tbh I’d just go E-numbertastic. It’s a one off.

Roast veg arranged in a rainbow - so cherry tomatoes, carrots, yellow squash, broccoli, red onions etc -either on a pizza or to serve over pasta?

Layered salad, done in a big glass trifle bowl?

Does she want it to be instagrammable ? Is it style over substance, or dies she just really like rainbows?

Pasta tricolore.

Morrison's do packs of beetroot wraps (purple) and spinach wraps (green) if that helps at all? DS (admittedly only just 8) loves the beetroot ones.

Pizza with multicoloured toppings.
Fruit kebabs.

If you do bake more bread, just use the food colourings. Do a plaited loaf, much easier.

Have you looked at Pinterest?

I made rainbow bread!