1st Birthday food ideas

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GC 1st birthday coming up, doing a little party, and mum wants 'traditional' party food?

give me some suggestions for a little buffet to suit ages between 12ths too about 3 years and also adults?

Cheese sandwiches ham sandwiches
cucumber carrot sticks, tomatoes and peppers cut up
humous
pizza slices
Pom bears
blueberries
melon
cake

What is traditional to one person might not be traditional to another, depends what parties you've been to yourself. But generally little sandwiches, could be finger sandwiches or triangles, cheese, ham, if you want to go posh then smoked salmon, or opposite then jam! Sausage rolls or cheese pinwheels, sausages or cheese and pineapple on sticks. Little cakes/buns/jam tarts, or party ring biscuits. Some cut up fruit. Equally you could go samosas or tubes of Pringles and dips! Whatever is traditional to your parties.

Traditional for me would be;

finger sandwiches
cheese and pineapple on sticks
mini sausage rolls
Selection of crisps
Party rings, chocolate fingers and those little cupcakes with different coloured icing
jelly and icecream
Birthday cake

Cocktail sausages
sandwiches made with medium sliced bread: ham, egg, tuna, jam.
cheese and pineapple ( not on sticks until they’re all over three.
grapes, apple slices, melon slices.
pom bears or quavers.
jelly and ice cream.

I'd skip the sausages as was at a party with an almost choking incident with one. As above I'd go with 2 or 3 types of sandwich cut into triangles with at least 2 kid friendly fillings e.g. ham, cheese,.tuna. Then a big bowl of cut up strawberries (for kids as well) with a pot of.cream on the side for the adults, plate of watermelon slices for the kids, plate of crudités and a big bowl of adult crisps and packets of pom bears for the kids. If a big group I might also do a quiche and crusty baguette for adults but if just snacks I reckon that's plenty (plus obvs birthday cake!).

Please not cocktail sausages because of the choking risk. Mini sausage rolls or pastry pinwheels fill a similar niche, but are safer.

We've also never done grapes at a baby or toddler party because there's no way I'm slicing up that many grapes. Strawberries and watermelon seem to go down well, and are faster to slice.