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.

Spooted you as being in Derbyshire Meridian the minute I clocked "Birds shiny cobs"

They are peculiarly shiny aren't they?

Well I don't know about you but, I just despair of the lack of cheeselets at the ones we attend. Some people just have no class!!

snice- LOL they are most defintly shiny... don't get me started on the pink gravel they put on the mirangues or the green grass ont eh strawberry tarts..

At DS2's party yesterday we served:
pizza fingers
Hula Hoops
chocolate fingers
Rice Krispie cakes
tomatoes
grapes
strawberries
cucumber sticks
cocktail sausages.
Guess what got left uneaten? All the fruit and veg.
And these are middle class children who I'm sure eat very well at home.
Parties are about eating crap.
Where's the harm?

The only way I have ever got children to eat anything healthy at a party is to put out big bowls of strawberries and grapes at the beginning, while they are playing. They stand over them like vultures!! Then bring on the jam sandwiches and cupcakes

I wouldn't be prepared to slave away producing healthy, wholesome food for a DC's birthday party because it simply wouldn't get eaten. It doesn't do any harm once in a while. (I always found that it was those who had a very strict diet at home that were stuffing themselves on party junk food-probably why hated by their parents).

oh please, crappy food is the law at parties!

i love party food

i would eat it every day if i could

nothing finer than an iced party ring, or iced gems plus a vat of crisps, washed down with juice

yup. Far too addicted.

So there are people going to children's birthday parties and fretting over the quality of the houmous? REALLY? Do you take bring a little pot of houmous from Harvey Nick's to do a comparison.

"Well, I know you liked the bouncy castle sweetheart, but don't you think the lemon overpowered the chickpeas?".

Hecate - the siren call of MN is impossible to resist

I know. [shame]
It's a new low for me.

Tis the hard cheese issue that is baffling me.... surely brie would fall off the cocktail stick?

I'm throwing ds his first party next month. Am bloody worried now.

DD's party last year was in the middle of a whole load of parties in one weekend, and I couldn't face her on all the additives and colourings. Just shopping in Asda, I managed to get all her party food without colourings or additives.

The sausages probably weren't up to scratch though

Well clearly you'll need to hire someone. Sausage rolls and jelly just won't cut it anymore! Can you afford Jamie or Nigella?

That guy Hugh Fearnley-W lives close by, maybe I'll give him a ring to see if he's free.

how
very
odd
indeed

can you even buy 'good quality' cocktail sausages?

I never expect children to eat much at parties. Most of the time they don't coincide with a meal time and the children are more interested in playing/seeing their friends. All brands of houmous and cupcake are equal when trodden into the floor.

On the other hand maybe some children still go to parties where the nanny brings them and the children wear white gloves and they have to eat the meat paste sandwiches before eating one fairy cake, and the parents stay at home and drink cocktails? Hmm, maybe there is another way...

It's a party. The rules are you serve up shit that kids like.

You are fighting a losing battle if you try to do anything else!

The whole point of a party is that it is something out of the ordinary and being able to scoff a lot of junk is part of that.