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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We've done scrambled eggs with veggies in a casserole dish, cheese melted on top and mini bagels with plain cream cheese and smoked salmon (optional), tomato (optional) and green onion (optional).  Cream cheese is already on the bagels, so that I don't have to worry about knives on the floor, crumbs in the cream cheese, etc.
I hate the premade veggie trays, so I do my own combined trays with exotic fruits and veggies, kids try things they've never seen or tasted.  We've done pomegranate seeds, dragonfruit, cherimoya, papaya, lychees, ataulfo and haden mangoes, starfruit, casaba, canary and santa claus melons (kids always get a kick out of eating something named for santa claus!), pattypan squash (steamed, kids were laughing while scooping them out!), kohlrabi stems, jicama, tomatilloes.  The best thing about exotic trays is that you only need about 1-2 bites per child, so it's fairly cheap to do.
I refuse to do sugary fruit drinks or pop, so we do 100% fruit/vegetable juice (diluted about 2 parts juice to 1 water) and almond milk and water.
I make the cakes, and I guarantee your child won't get a sugar rush.  It's quinoa instead of wheat, plenty of eggs, almond milk instead of cow's milk, dried fruit instead of refined sugar, unsweetened cocoa powder, and ground nuts (as long as I know all the kids can have nuts, otherwise I leave them out).  None of the kids realize it's healthy, all they know is that it tastes good and they're usually allowed a second piece if they are still hungry enough to eat it.[/quote]

I forgot to mention: you won't ever find a pizza at any party I host.  My kids don't eat take-out pizza with me, we make dough and add cauliflower to it, but since I don't want to do that much work for a slew of kids, in addition to everything else, no pizza.[/quote]

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