Playground birthday - what do you serve?

[Anonymous]

OP. We did cupcakes, water, coffee, granola bars, and some fruit. Parents just drank coffee. It was at 10. We got lucky and weather was nice, so people ended up staying later. In retrospect I wish I had done pizza at 11:30/12, but I thought it would be pretty quick and not bleed into a mealtime given that it was outside in February. Oh well. It was fine.

To the "cheap-o" comment - I find it kind of weird to view kids' parties as so transactional, but if it matters we asked for no gifts and people respected that.