3 yo party food

[sazzerbear]

I am having a party for 3yo dd, will this do for the menu (I am new to all this!)

Froot shoots and greggs pastries (ha ha)!

Sandwiches
Cherry toms/cucumber and carrot sticks
Breadsticks
Babybel
Mini sausages
Age suitable organix snack type things (obv not Walkers salt and vinegar crisps!)
Biccys
Jelly and ice cream
Water/milk/squash

PLus cake to take away
TIA!

What about some fruit too? grapes, strawberries or blueberries.

Are you providing snacks/food for the grown ups too?

Ah yes fruit I know there's something i'd forgotten!
Hot/cold drinks plus bics/cakes for grown ups as afternooon party

Iced gems
Party rings (those pink/yellow iced one)
Cheese cubes
Fairy cakes with buttercream icing

Monster Munch
Wotsits

And don't stress too much over the sandwiches, they never get eaten!

Went to a party a while ago and the mum had done bread and butter, with those ice-cream sprinkles on instead of sandwiches. They went down very well!!

Ah yes, fairy bread. I wouldn't bother with the fruit - extra choccie bics instead, after all a party should be all teh things you are not allowed at any other time!!

I feel under so much pressure not to serve up anything too bad!!

Tis true the children never eat the sandwiches so would only do 1 small one each child.

I would do a plate of baby tomatoes,cucumber and carrot sticks,bowl of salt your own crisps (without the blue packet of salt added), bowl of grapes,strawberries,home made number 3 biscuits and decorated fairy cakes.They never really eat much.

These trays are good for stopping waste you can just put in a sandwich with a few of the above and have the biscuits and cakes after.

Pizza fingers tend to go down well (better than sandwiches, in my experience).

second the pizza option.

serve the pizza with the sandwiches first otherwise they'll just go for the biscuits/sweet stuff and you will end up with a bunch of sugar crazed monsters !

pizza
garlic bread
hula hoops
mini hot dogs chopped up

pink wafers
jammy dodgers

fairy cakes with sweets on top

no sandwiches
no veg
no bread sticks.

do people really give 3 yr olds organix?

yes they do!

Well it's my DS's 2nd birthday on Sat and my food is almost identical:

Ham/Tuna Sandwiches (in my experience they always get eaten, poss by the older kids and/or parents!)
Mini sausages
Houmus/cherry toms/carrot sticks
Hula Hoops
Strawberries and Grapes
Fairy cake (that DD is making)

Pizza, nibbles and dips for the adults.

Sazzer, I think we all feel peer pressure to serve wholsome food at your childrens parties to make you look like a good mummy. But a few years down the line you end up bowing to the pressure from your children instead! I think people can be a bit precious sometimes. It's a party for gods sake, surely the best time to throw caution to the wind!!