Why oh why oh why is party food so CRAP? (rant alert)

[Clary]

DS2 went to party today at soft play place. Not my fave party but he enjoyed it.

But the food was unbelievable. I quite like kids' party food and will happily hoover up left over salad bits, sarnies, choc mini rolls etc.

But this....no way! It was just the grottest of grot, really cheap and nasty. Sandwiches of the cheapest thinnest ham, cheese spread or crappy jam on pappy bread; wotsits and some other horrific coloured crisp thing; the cheapest smart-price cheese and tomato pizzas; horrid little sausage rolls; some kind of chocolate biscuit that DS wouldn't finish; and those smart price mini swiss rolls cut in half

Now call me a food snob! (and DS too as he just took a bite of it all and left it) but I would have been embarrassed to be the host of that party (food provided by play lace of course). I realise the reson is that it's cheap, and that cherry toms, cucumber sticks, carrot sticks and strawberries would cost money, but really! It just made me angry that we feed such dross to out kids.

Ok rant over, you can all go to bed.

Hello Clary, bad day dear?

I don't know why these places bother with 'food'
Why not just cake and ice-cream followed by a party bag with los of E numbers??

los = DD's favoured spelling of 'lots'

At least you didn't have to endure 'Boxo the Clown' (DD's last party)

Ah no GB, bad weekend.

Well not bad, just busy, what with DD's ballet show (2 shows Saturday and tears in the evening) and then the party on Sunday lunchtime and DS1 being away on school trip (why this should make us busy I cannot imagine. Maybe we just missed him!)

Was Boxo not great then? what frustrated me about this party was that it was over lunchtime but of course I got no lunch, and coulnd't bring myself to eat DS2's leavings, many tho they were. Sigh

What are you doing up at this time anyway? I have been finishing the World Ironing Mountain created by me being at Ballet Show all week but everyone continuing to wear and dirty their clothes in an annoying manner.

I was awake due to wide awake DS - who had slept during the day for most of Sunday!!

Don't talk about ironing - we have renamed the house Wishy Washy's

food snob!

I'm a bit of a food snob too, but don't allow myself to get wound up over crap party food. Try to look at their overall food consumption, not just what they had in one meal. There's enough other stuff to worry about in this life. If you've got your DCs so well trained that they turn their noses up at crap food, then feed them before/after the party. Once they're making their own decisions about food (eg at secondary school) they'll hopefully remember your training - but equally might rebel and eat nothing but junk alternatives to healthy food on offer in the canteen.

P.S. I used to get wound up about kids menus in pubs and restaurants. I'd rather they were offered a kiddies portion of a roast dinner/lasagne etc than nuggets/sausages/fish fingers. Then again, if they have the odd junk meal, a) they'll probably enjoy it and b) it's not going to kill them

we haev had htis htread begfore

lot of folk for lots against
look itn eharchives it was a WIld ONE

what lilo said

Cod, I reckon this was Clary's late night, post ironing rant. She will feel much better after a good night's rest. (And I bet she is at work and can't come back with any witty retorts just yet!)

do you rememer the last one?
god it got vicious

Oh yes; cherry tomatoes and sausage rolls flung all over the place.

Oh shoot just composed a big long message and then deleted it by accident.

But yes, what GB said.

I'm really calm about it now and yes, not worried about what DS eats as a rule (he didn't eat this crap). But some soft play places serve better stuff than this at parties, a bit of salad and nicer looking sarnies and cakes at least.
I just felt bad for the mum, she was so being ripped off. The food must have cost about 30p a head to provide.

must search for other thread now

right can't find in.
Help me Cod or GB, I enjoy a good ruck.

It wasn't that one about why do we have children's parties? was it?

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Well, I'm thinking that in this case the soft play place probably included the fodd in the price. So it was cheap.

well yes, it was incldued. But I don't see (really I don't) why it has to be so awful.
Is it just to make it cheap? But the soft play party itself is not cheap, and if that was a party I was hosting I would be so dismayed I would never go there again and I would tell everyone I knew too.