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

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MintyandTink · 22/06/2008 22:08

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.

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hatrick · 23/06/2008 16:15

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AbbeyA · 23/06/2008 16:15

I agree with kiddiz, make the most of worrying whether your DC eats cheap sausages because there is far more to worry about at teenage parties!

OverMyDeadBody · 23/06/2008 16:21

yes where exactly can one buy this 'crappy humous'? All the humous on the shelves of every supermarket in the UK is make in the same factory by the same manufacturer, and no one does a value version do they?

snickersnack you mean you don't serve camembert to 4 yr olds at parties?! Whyever not?

AbbeyA · 23/06/2008 16:37

I think you are supposed to make your own hummus-making sure all ingredients are organic!!

notwavingjustironing · 23/06/2008 16:44

proper sensible question. What's a party ring?? and do I need one?

EffiePerine · 23/06/2008 16:47

biscuits
neon colours
lovely (am serious;ly considerig buying a packet on my way home)

EffiePerine · 23/06/2008 16:47

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MaryAnnSingleton · 23/06/2008 16:48

a party ring is a round iced biscuit with a hole in the midle - essential party fare along with twiglets and jammy dodgers a

MaryAnnSingleton · 23/06/2008 16:49

do children still light the ends of twiglets and smoke them btw ?

Psychomum5 · 23/06/2008 16:49

I would feel utterly awful is someone came to a party for one of my children, and then had the audacity (sp?) and snobbery to complain about the food.

how RUDE. I would rather you not except the invite, thank U kindly!

I cannot always afford the very very high quality food that I would feed my children had it not been a party......nt least because a party in my house normally constists of minimum 15 guests if I have a cut off of 10invites, seeing as I have 5 children myself. I would rather they had plenty of food, than 'posh' food that MAY go, but not all, as 99% of the time, kiddies come expecting 'crap' and therefore won;t eat anything unless it is crap....

oh, and just as an aside, for some bizarre reason, it is mainly tesco value products that have the least additives, and also are mainly milk free, which seeing as I am highly allergic to milk, plus 3 of my children are, is actually a godsend, as it means thay my children can eat all they want and not react!!!

filthymindedvixen · 23/06/2008 16:51

I remember one 2nd birthday party we went to: all raisins and dried apricots and rice cakes and only water to drink - and nothing provided for adults at all though it was lunchtime. It was the quietest children's party ever. And no fricking cake!It was also the gloomiest children's party ever....

EffiePerine · 23/06/2008 16:51

how odd about Tesco Value! I wonder why?

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EffiePerine · 23/06/2008 16:52

ah I have been to a sugar-free children's party (complete with sugar-free cake which DS promptly spat out again )

feeling very sad at thought of raisins and rice cakes party

notwavingjustironing · 23/06/2008 16:52

Thanks. I know what they are now. I think I was getting them confused with "prawn rings" such as those you see in Iceland at Christmas, and struggling to wonder at the place they would hold at a kid's party!!

OverMyDeadBody · 23/06/2008 16:53

Why is is odd Effie? Just because they are marketted as value doesn't mean they are necessarily inferior goods. Usually they are made by one of the big manufacturers as part of a deal with tesco who will then stock their branded goods too.

OverMyDeadBody · 23/06/2008 16:53

at prawn rings.

I love party rings though, mmmm

OverMyDeadBody · 23/06/2008 16:56

Guess who make Tesco's value jam? (and their organic and fairtrade jam too).......

The same company that make bon maman jam, that's who. The recipes may be different but they still use the same fruit and sugar.

EffiePerine · 23/06/2008 16:56

oh I know they aren't inferior, but I would have assumed they were bulked out with cheaper ingredients (maybe milk isn't cheap?)

prettybird · 23/06/2008 16:57

I serve cocktail sasages at ds' birthday parties - usually the adults eat most of them. ('cos we have the space, we usually have a parallel party while a friend, who is a magician, entertains the kids -and then afterwards they run around the garden until the adults decide to leave ). TBH - I get the best quality I can find, but that seems tobe difficult from even big supermarkets - the only sem-decent ones I have found are frozen ones and even they exude loads of water

Kids' parties are often a load of crappy food - which, once a year, they enjoy. I follow Nigella's template (with a few bits of my own), with piles of marmite sandwiches, cheese sandwiches, hula hoops and quavers (birthday and Christmas are the only times they are bought), crips, cheese star biscuits, mustard/honey cocktail sausages, lots of Lidl gummy sweeties, traffic light jellies, fairy cakes, "age" biscuits (7s last year, 8s this year) and of course birthday cake. Washed down by fruit shoots - and jugs of diluting juice. I do put out bowls of fruit - but they are mostly ignored.

Most of the time the kids are too excited/running around to eat much anyway.

The adults probably eat more of it - the only difference being that in our case it is washed down by bubbly .

In terms of the OP, I'm impressed by the fact that there is something as healthy as carrot sticks!

louii · 23/06/2008 16:58

I am kinda with the OP.

I would not eat shitty food and would not expect other people to, I use a good local butchers so get cocktail sausages and make my own sausage rolls, chicken dippers etc

Nothing wrong with crisps and chocolate etc but i do object to cheapy processed meat and chicken, for example i would not dream of eating a frozen burger, have you seen the shite that comes out them, bleurgh. Why would i serve it to others.

Same when i go out for a meal why on earth in a good restaurant do they insist on having a childrens menu which has bloody frozen fish fingers/chicken etc.

Not too difficult to use fresh ingredients, just because they are kids why should they eat processed rubbish

I always order from the adults menu for ds.

AbbeyA · 23/06/2008 16:59

Dried apricots, raisins,rice cakes and water!! Not much birthday joy there-I wonder what they got on a normal day?!

OverMyDeadBody · 23/06/2008 17:00

not always effie, usually they contain less ingredients though, and that's a good thing.

A lot of the manufacturers make no profit from supplying tesco's value ranges, but they get shelf space for their own products so on balance need to do it.

Tesco don't make a profit on a lot of the value ranges either, but it draws people into the store who then buy other stuff with a high mark-up so it still benefits Tesco (obviousoy, or they wouldn't do it lol)

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filthymindedvixen · 23/06/2008 17:02

I know! It was 8 years ago and I still think of the joyless freak of a mum every time I buy a packet of party rings