Lunch for adults

[Autumnlily14]

Hi all,

So it's my son's birthday soon and we're doing a picnic at the park. We don't want to spend tons on food because it's expensive and we usually have quite a lot of waste.

I'm stuck between doing party platters for everyone ( about 7 children and 10 adults) or party lunch boxes for the kids, but if I do lunch boxes what would I serve for adults? As it is over lunch time.

Thank you

I wouldn't expect food at a children's party even if it is over lunchtime. I'd do lunch boxes for the kids, drinks for the adults.

@longdistanceclaraclara we ourselves wouldn't have eaten all morning either though, and everyone we know would expect something. Cant exactly sit there eating ourselves and starve all the other adults 😅

Do parry lunch boxes for kids and tell adults to bring food for themselves

Picnics are a pain.

Do you want to be fancy or just fed?

Some of those cheap bags of chocolate chip brioche rolls.
Sausage rolls for the meat eaters
Cheese and onion rolls for the veggies
Bag of crisps to share
Mini flap jack pieces for the sweet toothed.
If you want to pretend your being healthy. Bag of apples and a few bananas.

All just open up and free for all. No assembly required.

Fancy - too much to choose from, too little time to prepare!

The same food as you give the kids?

We always made enough party food for the adults to eat when the DC were too young for drop off parties. Just standard children’s party food - sandwiches, pizza, sausage rolls or cocktail sausages, cheese straws or cheese, veg sticks, crisps, fruit, mini fairy cakes, Rice Krispie cakes, gingerbread and biscuits. The adults always went straight for the “kiddie stuff” like Rice Krispie cakes in a wave of nostalgia 😂

Or make a cheese and charcuterie platter with fancy bread, crudités and fruit for the adults with a non alcoholic cocktail if you want to be more sophisticated.

I'm not at all worried about being sophisticated haha and I'm happy to feed them the same.y question was more what is going to be cheaper, doing boxes, and if so do I just give the adults boxes too??, or just do platters.

I wouldn't give adults a box.

Hmm… it’s swings and roundabouts 😂

Boxes mean that you control the portion size so you don’t have to make extra in case someone takes more than their fair share. I wouldn’t fancy eating leftovers from a food box though as you have no idea if it’s been handled or dropped or flies have crawled over it so any leftovers will be wasted.

If you do platters, you can put out a small amount and top up from the picnic hamper or cool bag as needed so any non perishable leftovers can be taken home and used up.

Refilling the platters is a great idea thanks @BobandRobertaSmith

You’re welcome!

I would probably make 1 sandwich per adult plus a few extra, as sandwiches won’t keep. That is more than enough for a light lunch with crisps, biscuits, cake, fruit, veg sticks, maybe sausages etc that you can put out in small batches that you top up.