5th b'day party - what I want them to eat or what they want?

[PennyLess]

Have got 12 girls for party this Friday. Hate junk. Want to do all homemade and also eat cake as part of birthday tea.
Will any of them touch it? Should I just give them want they want ie crisps and fairy cakes?

yes I agree
but give them a bit of crap
IME it easier to do a meal
cnat you do pizza?

How about a mix?
Healthy and crap?

(See what gets left at the end!)

what they want! otherwise you will have tons of leftovers... trust me

I just hate it. It doesn't feel right.

do homemade junk.

Well, as someone who stood and read the label of every cake in Sainsbury's last week, trying in vain to find a cake without hydrogenated veg oil, I'd say go for middle ground and make a cake so you know it's not full of crap. I ended up with a Tarte au citron, being the only one I could find without hydrogenated oil. Small sandwiches with crusts cut off needn't have anything horrible in them, ditto decent crisps, strawberries and decent ice cream, shortbread, good biscuits. Delicious doesn't have to = crap imo, it just needs more planning.

so... homemade pizza and...

What is it exactly that you want to do? Don't go overboard. I always remember the first children's party I hosted and all my lovingly made sandwiches and other home made things were rejected. I swear some kids only ate crisps. I was so upset. Now I just give them what I know they will eat as I can't abide food wastage.

tatre au citron! fgs you ponce

and more work. but i agree.

potato wedges
garlic bread

and ice cream

So you could buy nice pizza and nice bread and butter and make a cake and I reckon they'd love it and not even know it wasn't crap iyswim.

I am a ponce, I know cod. It was for dp's birthday though, not a child's!

And what do you reckon about the cake... will they eat it? dd wants one with rasps and cream in the middle so it won't really keep.

ponceyponce-ponce

What they want. You can manage to make what they want healthier than it can be (iyswim!)

but consider the fact that junk once in awhile does no harm.

right?!

oh fair enough
I make a choc cake and bung smatries and footballs onit
they love it every year

I'd go for home-made (but then I am a food snob), as tasty as you know you can make it, and still looking like "fun food" (home-made pizza, etc.) They will be too excited to eat much anyway.

dont oput greent hings on it though

that's it, fishfinger. fishfingers perfect example of "junk", or Heinz baked beans. junk with some nutritional value.

It's not a "harm" issue. It's because it makes me feel sick to serve it. It's not good food and I want to give them nice food. Not because I have this illusion that it'll be appreciated but because I have high standards for myself.
Was going to do rolled up tortillas (then chopped) instead of bread just for a change.

Of course they'll eat home made cake, definitely. But if you make it it won't have loads of crap in it and it will actually be reasonably healthy with strawberries in it! I don't think the odd bit of crap is the end of the world but I do mostly think that healthy doesn't have to mean horrible! I do buy crap for kids' parties sometimes, honestly. Iced gems are fine as far as hydrogenated oil goes btw.

Cod, I know, I know, I know, I am as poncey as a poncey thing on a poncey day in a poncey wind

Don't give them something they've never had before and won't recognise, you're setting yourself up for yuk imo! Pizza is fine! Crisps are fine!

ok