I WOUDL BE GRATEFUL IS PEOPLE WOULD STOP OFFERING SHITTY FOOD AT BIRTHDAY PARTIES.! Thank u kindly!

[MintyandTink]

Having been to a few birthday parties since my little one was born I am quite shocked at the shit quality of the food being served at bday parties.

Shitty cocktail sausages- yuk, rancid carrot sticks, hard cheese just to provide some examples.

The thing that gets me is not the kind of food but the bloody quality... CRAPITTY CRAPITTY CRAP!

Rant over.

I was trying so hard to work that one out batmum.

it was omdb's knitted party food which reminded me of margoandjerry's post here.

now I am really going to bed. Thanks for a lovely and v informative evening.

Night.

I have to say Overmydeadbody, that this is spectacular. I am such a saddo that i would enjoy making it.

I actually agree with the OP. But I think that is because I dont have any nice memories of childrens birthday parties in the UK myself, as I grew up in Norway where a birthday party is a totally different kettle of fish.
Party at the home of the birthday child and not a hall/softplay. (never mind there is hardly room to breathe). Food served is usually either large amounts of delicious home made pizza. Huge pots of spaghetti bolognese, or sizzling hot dogs.
This is usually followed by a cake table, customarily 3-4 cakes, and home made cupcakes. Usual is Marzipan cake, Chocolate cake and some other cake such as Jelly cake.

The first birthday party I went to hear had me wondering "when is the food served and is there no end to these vile nibbles?"

I got used to it though.

I actually remember posting a similar thread a few years ago, and being equally flamed.

I always did homemade food at my DCs parties, including imaginative cakes.However you can't dictate what other people do for their parties and I am afraid that if you accept the invitation you have to relinquish control-it doesn't hurt for the odd day.

Have thought about this a bit. If the OP means that the food is badly prepared and looked after - ie hard cheese because it's dried out, carrot sticks that have gone dry, curly sandwiches...I can agree with her. Not nice and a waste as no-one will eat them anyway. But if it's a reference purely to the cost and provenance of the food I think it's quite unacceptable - and this being MN I'm not entirely sure that the best quality Tesco sausages wouldn't be scorned in favour of Waitrose value ones .

If you wish to vet your DC's friends and only allow those with plenty of dosh I am sure there are easier ways to do it. "Darling you can't be friends with X, her mother served Tesco cocktail sausages. She might be poor!"

I'm smiling to myself at the number of people on this thread who are nailing 2 sets of colours to the post - both their home-made-crudites-quality-sausages-and-bunting-in-my-house colours and their I'm-laid-back-and-fun-a-little-bit-of-crap-at-someone-else's-house-doesn't-hurt colours.

the one thing I don;t get is pale, soft, undercooked sausages. they are rank.

I'd like you all to know that I hold you personally responsible for the fact that I am scoffing party rings as I type. I am sharing them with the rest of the office

they are as scrummy as I remembered. Plus I got some chocolate fingers (currently half price at Tescos)

Effie I also bought a packet of party rings thins morning as a result of this thread![nlush]

I may save a few for DS though

You won't omdb. You won't. It simply won't be possible. They are very nice with coffee.

ooh yes if you dunk them the sugar bit disintegrates (yum)

In five minutes I've eaten three!

Only 3?

Ahhh...you're making the classic beginners errors of only eating one at a time.....

hahaha
It's because her teeth are like pears, Orm. She can only cope with one at a time or they disintegrate.

my dd is having her party this weekend and im serving a variety of nice pizzas. garlic bread,dips,crudites,garlic breaded mushrooms and then cakes,ice cream..my dd wants those crappy cocktail sausages too but that is the only time she eats them and TBH she normally hates all that junk food and doesnt usually eat at parties for exactly that reason...she rather have a plate of sushi [strange child]

I'm moving to Norway before my next birthday

yes and the pears are very ripe now.

not read any of the thread only the start, some people ant afford grand fod plus t usually goes to waste its for the children is nt it, dont think very fair of you to judge bring your own ifyou had a problem, but think your over reacting, sorry

Well.... For my sons 6th party I had large quantities of M£&S coctail sausages and sausage rolls (which I myself love and not to mention my kids scoff them). But I had also ordered two bags of frozen sainsburys basic coctail sausages for 50 pence per bag of 50 coctail sausages. There was a difference. I did not serve up the Sainsbo ones. Mostly because when I defrosted them they were more like soggy pulp than coctail sausages. So anybody who has made the mistake of ordering these, may have been quite stuck with vile food, not due to the food itself, but the fact that it doesnt defrost well.

An example of my last menu this year

PARENTS
Vegetarian Fritatas
Spicy meatballs pork and lamb with mint.
Chicken pasta salads with pomegranate dressing
Marinated chicken wings
Various crudités with homemade chile (a Mexican yummy dip) with homemade guacamole.

Drinks
Pimms, ginger beer, lemonade, and beer

KIDDIES

Homemade chips
Homemade meatballs with veggies in skewers
Small organic chipolatas from Butcher
Bread sticks with sesame seeds,
Mango, watermelon and grapes skewers dipped in yummy choc.
Cheesy puffs

Homemade blueberry muffins with choc buttons on top

A super lovely homemade chocolate cake!

Organic drinks

That?s it!