This is a you problem. So what that you had to race from event to event and showed up hungry. Plan your day better.

This again? Grownups, you really need to stop expecting a meal at a kid’s birthday party. Just have a bowl of cereal when you get home. You’ll be fine.

The hosts assumed it woukd be a drop off

If it wasn’t enough food for the kids, sounds like an honest mistake. And I would assume they ended that early (versus 7 or 7:30) to give families time to go home for dinner and bedtime routines. It does suck to be trapped somewhere and hungry, but mistakes happen.

The party ended at 6:30. Can’t you just eat dinner when you get home? Dump your kid in the bath and eat. If they’re old enough for camp they’re old enough to be in the tub alone.

Hosting a playground party for my son this afternoon after camp and planning - 1 platter chicken tenders, 4 pizzas, platter veggies and platter fruit skewers. That should suffice, right? There are only @12 kids including mine coming and probably about as many adults, though we are picking up a few after camp if their adult can’t come til later. Kids are 7-8 range.

We’re they expecting it to be a drop off?

Anonymous wrote:I never take my child to a birthday party expecting to get my own dinner. The party is for the kids.

Unless it’s a preschool age group where the parents are expected to stay.

I never take my child to a birthday party expecting to get my own dinner. The party is for the kids.

Maybe they just screwed up and wished they’d gotten more … my experience is that kids don’t eat a ton at parties anyway

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Anonymous wrote:Aren’t the kids young? 5 pizzas should be 64 slices. Were kids eating more than 1 slice? I would’ve gotten 8 pizzas, but I also wouldn’t eat a slice of pizza at a kids play place for dinner at 5:30.

5 x 8 = 40 not 64.

The kids ranged from 5-10 years old.

Good point. No caffeine yet. Yes, they were being cheap, but those places do charge like $20/pizza.

Sorry you couldn’t gorge on cheap pizza.

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t the kids young? 5 pizzas should be 64 slices. Were kids eating more than 1 slice? I would’ve gotten 8 pizzas, but I also wouldn’t eat a slice of pizza at a kids play place for dinner at 5:30.

5 x 8 = 40 not 64.

The kids ranged from 5-10 years old.

Aren’t the kids young? 5 pizzas should be 64 slices. Were kids eating more than 1 slice? I would’ve gotten 8 pizzas, but I also wouldn’t eat a slice of pizza at a kids play place for dinner at 5:30.

I took my child to a birthday party last night. It was from 4:30-6:30, which meant I had to rush from work to camp pick-up straight to the party. When it was time for food, there were five pizzas (in total) for 25 kids and another 20ish adults. There wasn’t even enough pizza for the kids, much less any adults. This is just the hosts being cheap, correct? If the party was daytime on a weekend, I wouldn’t have cared but it was at one of those indoor playgrounds directly during dinner time! How do you not have food for the adults who managed to get their kids to a party on a workday.