Anonymous wrote:I do brunch parties - kids love breakfast food (bagels, muffins, croissants, fruit), and we have donuts instead of cake.

Agree that this is a great idea.

Will also add that I once bought pretzel rods for a preschooler party and for whatever reason, they were a huge hit.

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Anonymous wrote:We recently did chick fil a catering - nugget tray, fruit tray, and Mac n cheese tray and I would do it again.

Our party is on a Sunday so Chik FIL a is out.

You can reheat

+1. We did this. Kind of a hassle to reheat, but worked out in the end and everyone seemed to like the nuggets.

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Anonymous wrote:I make a point never to host a party during a meal time (either 10-11:30 or 2-4). That way, you just really need to serve the cake/cupcakes/donuts and some drinks. Easy and cheap!

Yes and everyone talks about your cheapness behind your back

No they don't.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I make a point never to host a party during a meal time (either 10-11:30 or 2-4). That way, you just really need to serve the cake/cupcakes/donuts and some drinks. Easy and cheap!

Yes and everyone talks about your cheapness behind your back

Everyone I know is happy to be invited to parties with or without full meals. We are cool with snacky parties.

I don’t see PP mentioning snacks though. Cake and drinks without snacks IS cheap. Any good host offers something.

DP. If it's a 2-hour party between mealtimes, why is anything more needed?

We did Zoe's Kitchen (a variety of chicken, steak, and veggie roll-ups, plain cheese quesadillas for the picky eaters, fruit salad, and hummus with pita/cucumber and it was a big hit with kids and parents.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I make a point never to host a party during a meal time (either 10-11:30 or 2-4). That way, you just really need to serve the cake/cupcakes/donuts and some drinks. Easy and cheap!

Yes and everyone talks about your cheapness behind your back

Everyone I know is happy to be invited to parties with or without full meals. We are cool with snacky parties.

I don’t see PP mentioning snacks though. Cake and drinks without snacks IS cheap. Any good host offers something.

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Anonymous wrote:We recently did chick fil a catering - nugget tray, fruit tray, and Mac n cheese tray and I would do it again.

Our party is on a Sunday so Chik FIL a is out.

Ahh bummer. I don’t always want chick fil a but when I do, it’s Sunday.

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Anonymous wrote:We recently did chick fil a catering - nugget tray, fruit tray, and Mac n cheese tray and I would do it again.

Our party is on a Sunday so Chik FIL a is out.

You can reheat

Chick fil a nuggets.

Anonymous wrote:We recently did chick fil a catering - nugget tray, fruit tray, and Mac n cheese tray and I would do it again.

Our party is on a Sunday so Chik FIL a is out.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I make a point never to host a party during a meal time (either 10-11:30 or 2-4). That way, you just really need to serve the cake/cupcakes/donuts and some drinks. Easy and cheap!

Yes and everyone talks about your cheapness behind your back

Everyone I know is happy to be invited to parties with or without full meals. We are cool with snacky parties.

Anonymous wrote:I do brunch parties - kids love breakfast food (bagels, muffins, croissants, fruit), and we have donuts instead of cake.

Op here. I love the idea of brunch food. Our party is from 10:30-12:30 or I could probably switch to 10-12.

Most parties we have been to have food at the end. I could leave out brunch food and let people eat at their leisure and just sing and have cake at the end.

We recently did chick fil a catering - nugget tray, fruit tray, and Mac n cheese tray and I would do it again.

I do brunch parties - kids love breakfast food (bagels, muffins, croissants, fruit), and we have donuts instead of cake.

We did Panda Express one year to make a change from pizza - orange chicken, chow mein, fried rice and veggie spring rolls. The kids seemed to be happy.