Party food for adults

[optimisticmum4]

My daughter's party is between 2-4pm. I'd like to have some vegetarian food options for the adults (although I know not necessary).

I was thinking of having:

• biscuits/cookies
• packets of crisps/popcorn

AND

• cream cheese cucumber sandwiches OR dominoes pizzas.

What would you go for - sandwiches or pizza? Grateful for any other food ideas.

I probably wouldn't eat any of those things at that time of the day. Maybe a biscuit with a coffee but that would be it. If you have plenty on the kids spread then adults would be happy to pick at that if they were peckish.

I always believed that the only good thing about Other Kids' Parties was being able to snaffle beige party food!

I would definitely do extra for the parents but keep it very close to what the kids are eating.

I can’t imagine many adults want a meal between 2-4 pm. They will eat lunch beforehand and then just wait surely?

Snacks of cookies and drink is plenty

You really
Don't need to, it's not over a mealtime and will probably go to waste. Definitely not pizza.

Not pizza I would go for carrot and cucumber sticks with some tortilla chips and marks and Spencer tex mex dip. That’s it

You don't need to feed the adults. Don't bother with sandwiches or the pizza. Put out biscuits if you must.

Id do something like dips with tortilla chips, veggie batons etc, anything but beige food, plus it avoids the issue with gluten free as vegetables are. Perhaps a cheeseboard would be nice too, and grapes

We did croissants and a cured meat/cheese platter for the adults at our little ones birthday party they went down very well.

I'd choose the pizza, you say you want it to be vegetarian, so you could just serve margarita and if it doesn't get eaten have it for dinner or lunch the next day, which is what I'd do anyway - cater what I thought was plenty and if there's leftovers use them for the next dinner/lunch.

For everyone who says 'no adult would ever eat before 2 - 4 pm' you have people who didn't have time for lunch and would like something or who would just eat because it's there or they enjoy the food and would prefer something like pizza to biscuits.

Most parties like that which I've been to ordered an extra pizza for the adults. Some will have it, some won't.

Don't get this at all. It's really nice and hospitable to put out a few bits for adults.

At that time of day I'd put out crisps and dips, biscuits and make sure there's plenty of cake to go round along with tea and coffee. Cheeseboard sounds great too.