Food for adults at child’s party?

[PSL1990]

Hello, I’m throwing my first ever childrens party next month. The children are invited 11am-1pm and will have lunch. Do I need to provide food for the adults? What is the norm? The children are 4 so will each have a parent with them. Thanks

No. Tea / coffee and biscuits.

Watching with interest. I tried to cater for the adults last year and the school mum's turned their noses up at it. This year I'm only proving kid food, but there will be plenty of it.

Providing, not proving.

You definitely don't need to, but I'm always grateful for it as I always end up really hungry. I find if you just do a little bit extra than necessary for the kids then if there's leftovers say adults can help themselves then the hungry ones will be grateful and the snobby ones won't bother!

I'd just do plenty of 'kid food' and let the adults pick at it too if they want, personally. You'll probably find some will (me ) and some won't. I wouldn't do anything adult-specific (and wouldn't expect that as a guest).

Round here they write on the invite what the situation is. For example ‘lunch will be provided for the children’. As long as the adults know not to expect food it’s fine

A friend did some easy quiche stuff for the adults 🙂 easy to have variety vegetarian/non vegetarian....

I always provide food for the adults as well as I hate being hungry.
I usually do kid focussed food and then will go to Costco and get sandwiches, pizzas, pasta salads, normal salad, samosas/spring rolls/onion bhajis and add them to the buffet. Kids and adults alike eat all of it at the parties I've thrown and nothing goes to waste. Add a few packets of crisps, some nuggets and some cupcakes and you're pretty much sorted.
For drinks I bulk buy fruit shoots, have jugs of water and then do teas and coffees.

I do food for the adults. Just make a few sausage wraps, some cheese sarnies, cocktail sausages, snack foods on a platter. Just so no poor parents who are likely busy go hungry. It doesn't cost much or take much effort to put a bit of food out for them. What if they had little time, are breastfeeding, not eaten since yesterday, are skint, are traveling far, on public transport, are having a rough time?

I'm putting food out anyway so yes, I'd include adults.

No - tea & biscuits will be enough.

No. But watch the parents move in on the butties when the children have done.

Egg and cress please.

I cooked up some pizzas for the grown ups at my DDs party and was very well received by the parents.