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Party box food - sound okay?

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Hulababy · 31/03/2006 08:40

Off shopping today for the party food. Each child will have a party box and I already know their sandwich and drink choices.

What does this sound like for their boxes:

1 small soft roll with their choice of filling (ham, chicken or veggie cheese)
1 carton/bottle of chosen drink (orange, apple or water)
1 small bag with some salad/veg in - cucumber, peppers, cherry tomato, celery
1 small portion of cheese
1 box of raisins
1 mini chocolate/gingerbread man
1 chocolate crispy bun (if MIL manages to make them!)

Is that enough?

They will take a piece of party cake home, along with their party loot envelope (not bags!) which includes a book, a thank you letter written by Mollie and a small chocolate bar.

There will be nibbles and home made cakes (by my sister) for the grown ups, and hot drinks and juice too. Children can get water drinks throughout party if they wish.

Party food will be eaten sat on picnic blankets, part way through the party.

Children are mainly aged 3 and 4 years, although have 3 six year olds, and 4 babies (only catering for one of the little ones).

Anything I have missed?

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Hulababy · 31/03/2006 15:59

LOL! It is the teacher still lurking inside me :)

Boxes are all now lined up in kitchen and labelled with name, sandwich choice and drink choice. All have a napkin and their drinks in. Have turned heater off in kitchen so quite cool.

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Hulababy · 02/04/2006 10:50

The thank you letter said "Thank you for coming to my party" not for the resent. i wouldn't be so presumptious.

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Hulababy · 02/04/2006 21:51

The food boxes went down really well and I had several positive comments from the other parents about the use of them :)

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SPARKLER1 · 02/04/2006 21:54

I always do party food boxes and they go down really well. I love the idea of your thank you letter inside. Must say I did wonder what you wrote on it, esp re: pressie. I shall been pinching that idea next time. Thanks. Smile

Hulababy · 02/04/2006 21:56

It eans I don't feel guilty for not doing thank you letters to allof DD's friends who were at the party. We said thak you when pressies were handed over, we said thank you as they left and have the thank you for coming letters. And DD will say thank you for their gifts as and when she seems them.

We can now concentrate on thank you letters to family who didn't come to the party.

We did cheat a little. DD wrote the message herself and drew a picture. But she is only (well, almost) 4yo and to write this out 25 times would be too much, so we wrote it once and photocopied them.

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Hulababy · 02/04/2006 21:56

\link{http://www.partypieces.co.uk/pages/images/products/large/1967-castle-party-box.jpg\These} were the boxes we had.

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