Help with catering for a childrens party please

Bronnie

Cake.....have you got a rectangular swiss roll type baking tray or can borrow?

Use the all-in-one method to make up 3 rectangular cakes. (you can make and freeze ahead and decorate from frozen later). Lay them side by side flat on a foil or pretty paper covered cardboard tray or board and top the cake with coloured butter icing, roughed up with a fork and decorate with sweets and candles. A large flat cake is easier to cut into squares too! Very MS and easy if you use Stork marg and "value" ingredients and if your daughter is only 7, a useful skill to practice for the future years!

calleyw

Have you checked to see if any of the child have special dietary needs ?

I know that morrisons are doing ribena at half price per litre so £1.25 a bottle better than fizzy pop.

Yours

Calley

archiesdad

Hi can you ask the kids what sandwich they would like? My friend sent out slips with the invites, asking if parents were staying if not for a contact number and giving the kids a choice of ham, cheese or marmite sandwich. She made them up using one slice of bread (as in my opinion and experience kids tend not to eat sandwiches much) she put on a plate wrapped in cling film with child's name on.

Do you have access to a kitchen? perhaps you could use a deep fat fryer and cook some chips? just an idea. For pudding rather than buying loads of little cakes etc could you perhaps get a big tub of icecream and some cornets did this for my son's party and went down a treat.

Instead of buying a big cake why not buy some small fairy cakes and stick some buttercream on them and a sweet of some sort. Much easier than cutting and wrapping loads of pieces of cake, could just by a small cake for happy birthday and use this for the family.

Just a few ideas hope they help.

iamana1ias

nosierosie wrote: »

as for cake do you live near a costco, they have a massive birthday cake £12 there brill and really nice

It's a cheek to call that muck cake ((shudders))

SAVVYMUMMY_2

I wish you luck in getting sorted. When my kids have parties, I found that the kids didn`t always eat the sandwiches just 1 or 2. They went for sausages, sausage rolls, a few crisps and one or two fairy cakes each and Value squash (2 diff flavours). I`ve also always made the birthday cake, just something really simple. All I did was baked a chocolate sponge and decorated with a few sweets (dolly mixtures/ smarties), cut out small pictures of their fav character, stuck these on to cocktail sticks and stuck into the cake (just be careful the candles aren`t to close to the pictures). Good Luck and HTH

ubamother

Kids don't always eat that much at parties - its the adults who love the 'children's style' buffet - perhaps it reminds us of our youth!

As she's slightly older how about hotdogs and buns (if the venue will let you heat up the hotdogs) - you can get veggie ones if needed. Hotdogs, buns, ketchup with paper napkins followed by an iced fairycake or muffin would probably be more than enough - and you are less likely to have lots of wasted bits of food. (and this way if the kids' parents are all staying you're not feeding them for free!!!). Jug of squash and you're done.

Hope you have a great party whatever you decide to do.

pollyanna24

Chocolate Rice Krispie cakes have got to be fairly cheap if you use Tesco own krispies and cheap choc.

wssla00

Cream cheese pin wheels are good. Take a slice of brown value bread cut off the crusts spread with cream cheese and roll up cut into pin wheels and secure with a cocktail stick. They look nice and you get about three from each piece of bread. You can also add thin value ham if you like.

Also what about a hedgehog? A bit eighties but still.... half a melon cut side down, face put on it any way you like then loads of cocktail sticks with cheese and pineapple making up the spikes

Also sparkling jelly? Jelly made the normal way but instead of topping it up with water, top up with value lemonade so there are bubbles in it.

Erm... potato salad and pasta salad? Easy to make and cheap too

What about value whip stuff in Asda or Tesco? 9p a packet and you could put it in individual cups?

Sausage rolls- you can get them frozen in Asda, morissons etc

Cold pizza cooked and cut into slices- especially value cheese and tomato ones

value quiches cooked and sliced

Enjoy the party I would personally but a cake.

RAS

If you have two weeks to go, then you need to work out when stuff in the supermarkets is whoopsied. Sausages, bread, cakes can all be frozen for the day.

Some of the poundland shoops do paper plates at 50 per £1.
Jellies go down well.
Cheap crisps. Carrot sticks?

LilacPixie

Lidl potato salad/pasta salad things are nice and cheap. They for skinless raw sausages for about 60p for 20, buy a few packs and cook the night before, chill and serve cold. Lidl pizzas also nice, serve cold. Lidl squash or even the ambiant tropical fruit juice (1.5l around £1)