I need advice - don't hate me =- nowhere near as poncey as it sounds

[colditz]

I am an Iceland girl at heart.

but I need advice on M&S food

I am organising ds1 & ds2's birthday party for next saturday

I have Marks and Spencer vouchers, and we have a Marks and Spencer food hall.

what would you do? Would you buy ingrediants from them, and make stuff yourself, or would you buy their party food (we are talking 3 and 4 year olds, not 15 year old sophisticates) reasoning that there isn't much else you do buy from M&S?

Going elsewhere isn't really an option, when I bought their presents I budgeted for not having to pay 'real money' for the food, but now I am panicking a bit, and it's a different world in their and although the staff are gorgeously lovely, I am terrified of the place.

So what shall I buy?

M&S is a huge rip off, albeit a lovely rip off

can you not go anywhere else and treat yourself with your vouchers?

dd1 likes the pizza - 99p for a teeny one
and the sausages
grapes
they do things called potato crockettes that they like
tons of choc
Percy Pig sweets (of course)

oh ok then. Yes, get M&S cheapish stuff though and you'll have some left for yourself. Not the mini burger canape rubbish.

get some little rolls
some cheese
bag of sausage things
sausage rolls
crips
choc
nice selection of fruit
juice

don't go mad

and save some ££ for a top for yourself (or wine)

Mumble mumble miniburgers mumble

Ok

Will buy tiny bread rolls and fill them with Nice Ham, or something.

canape stuff bobbins

mil gets it for christmas

got mini fish and chips once in little cone things which were so crap it was funny

I saw those, they did look a bit ... odd.

Some of the children who are coming don't cope well with unfamiliar food.

yes - remember that they eat about 12% of what you provide at parties and don't go nuts. Make sure there's room for a bottle of wine and something yummy for you.

GET NICE BIG POSH PIZZAS

£1.50 each atm

i work there, it's really not that scarey. in amongst all the 'it's not just food' stuff they do sell normal stuff. so if i were you i'd just get a load of big pizzas (they do square ones perfect for parties), some of the 3 for 2 mini bite cake things, a birthday cake, some crisps, some drinks..(fruit juice/fizzy stuff whatvere, they have it all) and that's it, easy peasy.

Pizzas good plan
so, pizzas, teeny rolls, and cakes-in-a-tub, and crisps, and fruit salad with jelly and icecream.

tell you what, get mini burgers for yourself 'cause you obviously covet them. No point yearning for them when the vouchers are all gone.

they also do party plates and all that stuff if you want to get that with your vouchers too.

blardy cocktail sausages, 50 in a box! Kids totally love them.

I think at 3 and 4 they are just impressed by anything unusually small, aren't they!

Pizzas

mini bites

the end

or unusually big, colditz

and you;re th eone fantasisiing about mini burgers

you;re just anti-sausage, franny

I know, I'm just...charmed, by the idea rather than the product.

I am doing biscuit decorating after the birthday lunch, so mustn't go overboard on the sweet things to eat at lunch

thank you very much, io think you are right to say NO Miniburgers.

but so so wrong about the sausages?

Well, now, it always depends how sausage - dependent the partygoers are, doesn't it?

I went into M&S today

usually, when I nip in for a quick yoghurt for ds2, I try to grab what I need and leave quick - but today, I browsed.

It's so wonderful in there, all the lovely mini bread rolls and winky little cakey bites. They sell sausage rolls and pizza too, and I'll buy some grapes and icecream....

yum yum!

but the ham was crap, and the very good ham was a rip. I'll do chicken instead.

"winky little cakey bites"

did you mean wanky?