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.

[EffiePerine]

Hard cheese? What on earth is wrong with that? DS lives on hard cheese

Thos poor paretns, taking time to ut on a party and you go rodun snigging at the food.

I'd be more worried about teaching my children incredibly bad manners. What a rude woman.

[EffiePerine]

what happened to my keyboard there? It must be feeling fractious as well

[Izzybel]

At my DD's Birthday party (she was only one so it was mainly adults) we served salad, cucumber and celery sticks, dip.
We also served loads of party 'crap' like party rings (can't have a party without them), cocktail sausages, scotch eggs, cakes and jelly and ice cream.

People were delighted and the whole lot was scoffed except for the vegetables! Crappy party food is what it's all about .

[TheArmadillo]

This is a joke, surely?

[EffiePerine]

mmm party rings...

[TheArmadillo]

IF not are you used to everyone following your orders or something.

I can see this going really well.

Surely parents should have, y'know, free will to decide these things themselves or are you and your kids so important you override anyone elses opinions/wants

[TheArmadillo]

can you imagine a party food task food - sent to check all food before party starts.

'I'm sorry ma'am I think these are tesco party sausages'.

The look of shame on the parent's face as they are clamped and led down the van to be 'reeducated'. All the neighbours looking on.

[uberalice]

By MintyandTink on Sun 22-Jun-08 22:12:35
nice crisps, nice humous, nice sausages...
not shitty crisps, crappy humous and tesco value sausages.

Nice crisps = high in salt
Shitty crisps = high in salt
Nice hummous = high in salt
Crappy hummous= high in salt
Nice sausages = high in salt
Tesco value sausages = high in salt.

[DumbledoresGirl]

A children's party is not a party without Wotsits or supermarket's own cheesy balls IMVHO.

[hotcrossbunny]

Think we're nearly all in agreement then. Crappy food is the party food of choice

[Tortington]

i only serve sushi freshly made by my japanese chef.

[BettySpaghetti]

A party wouldn't be a party without some shite food! If a child can't eat crappy crisps at a party when can they eat them?

IME most food gets wasted anyway as the children are too busy playing/waiting for cake/asking for their party bag () to actually eat very much.

I guess budget is also an issue for a lot of people especially if there are a fair few invited

[onebatmother]

balls is humous high in salt? Buggeration that's my staple healthy bit in ds;s diet.

[margoandjerry]

It's also got approaching twice the fat of single cream

This thread is hilarious btw. I'm as organic beetrooty as the next woman but kids' party food is enshrined in law as fatty, salty, sugary, cheap crap. And quite rightly. It's a party. Or does the OP take raw vegetable chunks to the cinema to nibble on instead of popcorn? And offer the DP a vegan alfalfa seed wrap instead of a hot dog at football?

[onebatmother]

lol margo. i saw that woman the other day at the cinema. it was only the possibility that her poor dc's had allergies that prevented me from shouting "look, a new branch of the natural shoe store has opened right behind you" to distract her attention, which would have afforded me the opp. to slip the kids some haribo-flavoured haagen daz

[Cammelia]

MintyandTink, this should not be in Food. It should be in AIBU

And yes YABU

[deanychip]

jeeez, guilt piled on guilt!
i agonise over the food i serve, is it ok? is it enough? is it presented ok?

feel bad enough thenks without your twopwnneth worth.

this time, i have only invited 2 kids from school class to play with butties n crisps n party cake.......is that ok?

[Cammelia]

PMSL: at the concept of nice crap party food

[MsSparkle]

You would have loved my dd's birthday food then, bearing in mind my dp owns a bakery.

We had (majority made at the bakery that day):

Sausage rolls
Pizza slices
mini iced buns
sandwiches made with fresh bakery bread and quality homemade fillings
chocolate fingers (mmm)
pink wafer biscuits
mini cheese and onion pasties
kettle crisps

Who wants to come to my party...

[cupsoftea]

I just do a big cake at a party - no one misses all the other food

[katw3kitts]

I dont know how old your DCs are Minty but I'm afraid shitty food is part and parcel of most parties in this country no matter what stock you are from.

I dont know why we bother providing food as 9 times out of 10 times it goes to waste.

Most kids just eat the crisps and crap (mine included) 'cos they rarely get it at home. I always make sure my kids go to parties at playcentres having had a good meal beforehand and then they hopefully just eat crisps or biscuits and ignore any dodgy sausages or worse .

I know I've influenced my kids in their choice of food as they wont touch a nugget unless I've made it

[ItsNotOnlyTheGoodBits]

I'm reading this and giggling to myself.

Yesterday Baby GoodBits (23 months) went to his first ever birthday party - a friend's 2nd. Normally I make sure he eats fairly heathily and was pleased with the range of food on offer. Two different sandwich fillings, cocktail sausages, crisps, ice-cream, cake.

The only things that I thought were odd were the crudities and fruit plates. Since when were they b'day party staples?! I cretainly don't remember them from my childhood.

Usually I avoid giving him crisps, but as everyone else has said - it's a party, so I put some on the far side of his plate thinking he would eat the stuff in front first. Did he heack - he reached over everything else and scoffed the crips!

Was a bit at the lack of party rings and fondant fancies though. When I told my mother she said that apparently you can't have a kids' party without them. Thankfully reading this thread I see it is still the case in the majority on instances!