Party Food Boxes

Miss_Kitty_Fantastico

After getting so much good advice on this forum my daughter's wizard of oz 4th birthday party is nearly sorted

I am considering party food boxes for the food and I wondered if anyone had any ideas on what to include. So far i have biscuit/chocolate dip to put in and im considering the dreaded fruit shoots that seem to be mandatory at kids parties.

I don't want to give too much food as the party is in the afternoon between lunch and dinner time.

I have been left with lots of food before so this seems a good way of minimising waste.

Thanks in advance.

yabajaz

ther has been a thread - so worth filling in the search tool.
asda/tesco do great little rolls in their value range. you can offer jam/ham/cheese as a choice on the invite if you think this will work for you.
we add:
a plain buttered roll,
pick-your-own pepparami/cheese string/rolled ham filling
tiny packet of own brand crisps
party rings (biscuits)
sticks of cucumber + carrot in a lil bag
apple juice carton
possibly a mini sausage roll
and a napkin !

Miss_Kitty_Fantastico

thanks yabajaz i'll try searching again and thanks for your reply very helpful

savingmonkey

I think the food boxes are a great idea. We went to a party recently and they did them, I liked the fact we could take the food away easily if we wanted so it didn't go to waste as my 2 girls were too distracted to eat much!

How about:
mini babybel
mini cheddars
grapes
box of raisins
innocent fruit tube
yogurt - in squeezy tube

some of these are expensive so could be dependant on finding deals!

Lou05

We done these for our DDs birthday last year. We put 2 quarters of ham and 2 quarters of cheese sandwiches, packet of hula hoops, a chocolate cupcake (think it was baling boys ones as they are individually wrapped), a small bag of strawberrys and grapes and a fruit shoot - think that was about all. HTH.

Miss_Kitty_Fantastico

thanks a lot for both your great ideas

wookeyhole1

I am doing this for my daughters birthday. i have included:

a flavoured water cup drink (12 for £1 iceland)
a packet of animal biscuits (75p half price for 6)
a muller jelly pot & spoon (12 for £1.66 at tesco atm)
mini cupcake or muffin (bakin boys 12 for £1 atm asda)
2 quarters of a sandwich cheese (i will make up some ham too and offer as an alternative on the day)

im not sure if i will add anything else maybe raisins but the above comes to approx 50p per box.

if you dont mind me asking where are you getting your boxes from? the cheapest I can find is approx 40p each on ebay.

Miss_Kitty_Fantastico

wookeyhole1 wrote: »

I am doing this for my daughters birthday. i have included:

a flavoured water cup drink (12 for £1 iceland)
a packet of animal biscuits (75p half price for 6)
a muller jelly pot & spoon (12 for £1.66 at tesco atm)
mini cupcake or muffin (bakin boys 12 for £1 atm asda)
2 quarters of a sandwich cheese (i will make up some ham too and offer as an alternative on the day)

im not sure if i will add anything else maybe raisins but the above comes to approx 50p per box.

if you dont mind me asking where are you getting your boxes from? the cheapest I can find is approx 40p each on ebay.

thanks a lot - what a great price you are doing the food for. the boxes i am considering are: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/170761989649?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649#ht_600wt_905

im hoping to negiotate a postage discount as i need so many but its still working out cheaper than the plates and cups i wanted x hth x

Lunar_Eclipse

Miss_Kitty_Fantastico wrote: »

I don't want to give too much food as the party is in the afternoon between lunch and dinner time.

I would keep the contents at a snack level, instead of a meal level then.

I would include:

* A drink: water, fruit juice or smoothie cartons
* 1 or 2 items of fruit/veg: grapes, small banana, carrot sticks
* A dairy item: babybel cheese, frube or small pot of cream cheese for the carrot sticks
* Pudding: muffin, cheddars, flapjack, small pack of biscuits, twiglets

If you want to offer more items, I'd consider a couple of sandwich triangles, a wrap sandwich chopped into small rounds, or cocktail sausages.

I would not provide more than 1 treat item or fruit shoots (or any drink with added sugar or sweeteners at such a young age for that matter.) If your daughter would really like fruit shoots, I'd happily let her have one with her birthday dinner.

Alternatively, I'm wondering of you could choose food items in keeping with your party theme and label them appropriately: a small lion bar, a (100% fruit juice) Caprisun (represents tin man due to foil packaging), potato stick crisps or carrot sticks (straw man), a red babybel (Dorothy's favourite colour due to her magical shoes) and perhaps something like yoghurt raisins (Toto's favourite dog sized treat.) I think this idea is brilliant, but I'm sure you could come up with much better food items!

Have fun! I love children's parties.

Miss_Kitty_Fantastico

Lunar_Eclipse wrote: »

I would keep the contents at a snack level, instead of a meal level then.

I would include:

* A drink: water, fruit juice or smoothie cartons
* 1 or 2 items of fruit/veg: grapes, small banana, carrot sticks
* A dairy item: babybel cheese, frube or small pot of cream cheese for the carrot sticks
* Pudding: muffin, cheddars, flapjack, small pack of biscuits, twiglets

If you want to offer more items, I'd consider a couple of sandwich triangles, a wrap sandwich chopped into small rounds, or cocktail sausages.

I would not provide more than 1 treat item or fruit shoots (or any drink with added sugar or sweeteners at such a young age for that matter.) If your daughter would really like fruit shoots, I'd happily let her have one with her birthday dinner.

Alternatively, I'm wondering of you could choose food items in keeping with your party theme and label them appropriately: a small lion bar, a (100% fruit juice) Caprisun (represents tin man due to foil packaging), potato stick crisps or carrot sticks (straw man), a red babybel (Dorothy's favourite colour due to her magical shoes) and perhaps something like yoghurt raisins (Toto's favourite dog sized treat.) I think this idea is brilliant, but I'm sure you could come up with much better food items!

Have fun! I love children's parties.

thanks lunar - no she doesn't normally get fruit shoots other than at parties she attends - so she wont miss them

thanks for all the ideas especially the themed food - love it xx

Lunar_Eclipse

Miss_Kitty_Fantastico wrote: »

thanks lunar - no she doesn't normally get fruit shoots other than at parties she attends - so she wont miss them

thanks for all the ideas especially the themed food - love it xx

You're welcome. Yeah, go themed!

I don't have a huge issue with fruit shoots, nor are we angels in this house diet wise with anything being banned, I just assume all parents (silently) groan when their kids are given lots of sugary snacks and drinks at parties, which seem to come several weekends in a row at times, with little else. I understand a party is a party, but at 4, it won't create any peer group issues if most options are healthy ones and they're at such a critical growing age.