toppings for biscuits? party questions

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From: "Nic" [email hidden]
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Hi I have been lurking around here every now and then
and Have learnt some great stuff. I am holding a party
for my 4 yo.

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Four-year-olds generally don't like change. What sort of
food does your group generally eat? I wouldn't give children
new food at a party. Too much novelty isn't fun for them.

E. P.

Oh my. That's a lot of food!! But what a variety -
sounds great.

For sandwiches you can have a make-your-own sandwich platter
- slices of deli meat, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, mayo,
mustard, etc. If you'd rather prepare ahead, most little
kids are okay with peanut butter and jelly (barring any
allergies), you could also do regular stand-bys of
chicken/tuna/egg salad (little rolls would be great for
this) , or the deli meats. I've made sandwiches for picnic
parties where the filling was cream cheese mixed with
apricot jelly, butter lettuce, and ham - a big hit!

I'm not sure what cruskits or jatz are - are those crackers?
If so, you could lay out something like cheese/salami/summer
sausage, artichoke dip, even the egg/tuna salad fillings for
people to add themselves.

As for another dessert - I'd keep it simple and just offer
the cake and ice cream. Usually people choose one or the
other. You could have some sliced fruit/fruit salad if you
were ambitious enough to prepare another dish.

This sounds like a lot of work, though - hope you have
some help!

N.

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I hope this makes sense, and I hope some great idea's will
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Thanks in advance. If you need more info just ask

Nic

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Nic said:

Hi I have been lurking around here every now and then and
Have learnt some great stuff. I am holding a party for my
4 yo. We have both adults and children attending. (approx
35 heads to feed) I put byo drinks on the invite which I
think is fair. (and Christmas time no one complained)

Whatever makes you happy, but for a birthday party that I
would host, I would never ask the invitees to bring
anything, including drinks. If it was just a casual
gathering for friends, not for a special event, it seems to
me that asking people to bring their own drinks would be
okay, but not for a birthday party. That's just me though.

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My aim is simple, Finger food and not much else. I will
have the birthday cake after lunch. This is for lunch
time. In winter//colder weather. Our Christmas one was
summer and I had lots of salad and bbq food. This time we
are having party pies, sausage rolls, veggie triangles,
meat balls, chicken dipping (like nuggets), cocktail
spring rolls, mini dim Sims, and some cocktail franks. I
will also add some fairy bread.

Sounds good, although I have no idea what "fairy bread" is.

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I was thinking about doing sandwiches, but I need Idea's
for sandwich fillings ?????

It sounds like you already have a lot of items on your menu
so i don't think you would really need sandwhiches, but for
a kid's party, certainly hamburgers and hotdogs would be a
good choice if you want to serve hot sandwhiches. For cold,
there's the usual roast beef, tuna salad, ham, turkey, and
cheese; all very easy to serve and fairly inexpensive.

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I was also thinking about doing some plates, Eg one plate
with carrot sticks, celery sticks, cubed cheese and some
dips (eg corn relish or something tomato/ and // or
supermarket bought) Eg second plate with clicks (Savoy's
cruskits, jatz etc or whatever they are called where you
live) to the plate, I know you can dip these biscuits in
to the dip but what if people wanted to put something on
top of them other then cheese ? What would I add ?

I don't serve this type of thing at a kid's party. It
already sounds like you have a very filling menu so why add
more stuff that's likely to increase your left overs?

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And last part, Would you have another desert option other
then birthday cake ( considering I have all these food
options) and if you would have something else, what would
you have ???

Sure, for kids, ice cream is the perfect dessert at a kid's
birthday party. This is assuming the part is really for the
birthday child and not mearly an excuse for you to throw a
party for your adult friends, but you can't go wrong by
adding one or two kinds of pies to the dessert menu. Apple
pie and cherry pie are two of the more popular and they both
go well with ice cream and both are liked by kids and
adults, alike.

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Oh my. That's a lot of food!! But what a variety -
sounds great.

For sandwiches you can have a make-your-own sandwich
platter - slices of deli meat, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes,
mayo, mustard, etc. If you'd rather prepare ahead, most
little kids are okay with peanut butter and jelly (barring
any allergies), you could also do regular stand-bys of
chicken/tuna/egg salad (little rolls would be great for
this) , or the

deli

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meats. I've made sandwiches for picnic parties where the
filling was

cream

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cheese mixed with apricot jelly, butter lettuce, and ham -
a big hit!

I'm not sure what cruskits or jatz are - are those
crackers? If so, you could lay out something like
cheese/salami/summer sausage, artichoke dip, even the
egg/tuna salad fillings for people to add themselves.

Yes crackers. Thanks for those idea's.

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As for another dessert - I'd keep it simple and just offer
the cake and

ice

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cream. Usually people choose one or the other. You could
have some

sliced

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fruit/fruit salad if you were ambitious enough to prepare
another dish.

This sounds like a lot of work, though - hope you have
some help!

Yep the oven as most of it is oven food. And it is being
delivered by a company. so no hassle with shopping for
it either.

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I hope this makes sense, and I hope some great idea's
will come from

within.

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Thanks in advance. If you need more info just ask

Nic

nb if this is in the wrong newsgroup please direct me to
the right one.

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From: "Nic" [email hidden] Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking

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Hi I have been lurking around here every now and then
and Have learnt some great stuff. I am holding a party
for my 4 yo.

[ . . . ]

Four-year-olds generally don't like change. What sort of
food does your

group

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generally eat? I wouldn't give children new food at a
party. Too much novelty isn't fun

for

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them.

E. P.

Im not sure what our group normally eat as I normally hold
christmas parties in summer with summer food. Some of our
group have not been to our house before so I dont know
what they eat.

I assume the parents would help the child pick out what they
want to eat or decide for them. I was looking for idea's
mainly for the adults of the party as Im sure they wouldn't
want 3 options (pies pies and more pies) for lunch.

Nic