This is a great idea!

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Anonymous wrote:My 12-year-old wants a Tater Tot Bar at her birthday. Which fixins would you include, besides sour cream, chili, scallions, and ketchup?

Don't forget to tell your guests that is on the menu. Some kids won't like just tater tots fyi

By 12, kids should learn to be polite and eat what's served. Out of a bar like this I'm sure even the pickiest eater can find something.

To me this sounds delicious, but if you do like not tator tots, the rest are toppings. So what would the kids eat? The hot sauce? Ketchup? A bowl of melted cheese? The point of saying the menu is not so parents can ask you to change it, it’s so parents know whether to drop off a hungry or full kid. It does not cost the OP anything to mention tator tot bar in the invite.

Plus, most kids are great at politely not eating. But this is always followed by parents insisting they kid eat or questioning them relentlessly why they are not eating or barely eating.

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Anonymous wrote:My 12-year-old wants a Tater Tot Bar at her birthday. Which fixins would you include, besides sour cream, chili, scallions, and ketchup?

Don't forget to tell your guests that is on the menu. Some kids won't like just tater tots fyi

By 12, kids should learn to be polite and eat what's served. Out of a bar like this I'm sure even the pickiest eater can find something.

Exactly, they are old enough to politely eat what's served or decline. Nobody needs to post a menu ahead of time or cater to picky eaters at age 12. Plus if they don't like it, I'm sure waiting to go home and eat or eating cake/whatever else is served will not kill them. Nobody's going to starve to death.

Agree. And I say this as a reformed picky eater and parent of picky eaters. I do not like people catering to my kid's picky habits. I'd like for them to branch out and try new things and if they are hungry and don't have other choices they might do that. The peer pressure kicks in a bit and they open their minds up a bit. So, I don't tell people in advance my kids are picky, I want them to have to to be exposed to things and give them a chance. It takes time, but it works slowly over time.

^ forgot to add that as a kid I hated pizza. Every party, team dinner, pizza! I learned to just say no thanks or eat before. But, then at around 12 at a class party I tried a piece for the first time in a long while. And realized I did like pizza.

There is a tater tot food truck but I can't remember the name. Maybe google some menus to give you some inspiration.

A sampling of flavored salts would be fun

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Anonymous wrote:My 12-year-old wants a Tater Tot Bar at her birthday. Which fixins would you include, besides sour cream, chili, scallions, and ketchup?

Don't forget to tell your guests that is on the menu. Some kids won't like just tater tots fyi

By 12, kids should learn to be polite and eat what's served. Out of a bar like this I'm sure even the pickiest eater can find something.

Exactly, they are old enough to politely eat what's served or decline. Nobody needs to post a menu ahead of time or cater to picky eaters at age 12. Plus if they don't like it, I'm sure waiting to go home and eat or eating cake/whatever else is served will not kill them. Nobody's going to starve to death.

Agree. And I say this as a reformed picky eater and parent of picky eaters. I do not like people catering to my kid's picky habits. I'd like for them to branch out and try new things and if they are hungry and don't have other choices they might do that. The peer pressure kicks in a bit and they open their minds up a bit. So, I don't tell people in advance my kids are picky, I want them to have to to be exposed to things and give them a chance. It takes time, but it works slowly over time.

pulled pork

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Anonymous wrote:My 12-year-old wants a Tater Tot Bar at her birthday. Which fixins would you include, besides sour cream, chili, scallions, and ketchup?

Don't forget to tell your guests that is on the menu. Some kids won't like just tater tots fyi

By 12, kids should learn to be polite and eat what's served. Out of a bar like this I'm sure even the pickiest eater can find something.

Exactly, they are old enough to politely eat what's served or decline. Nobody needs to post a menu ahead of time or cater to picky eaters at age 12. Plus if they don't like it, I'm sure waiting to go home and eat or eating cake/whatever else is served will not kill them. Nobody's going to starve to death.

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Anonymous wrote:My 12-year-old wants a Tater Tot Bar at her birthday. Which fixins would you include, besides sour cream, chili, scallions, and ketchup?

Don't forget to tell your guests that is on the menu. Some kids won't like just tater tots fyi

I'm sure OP has other food. There is no need to tell guests what is on the menu. 12 year olds are old enough to politely decline if they don't like something.

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Anonymous wrote:My 12-year-old wants a Tater Tot Bar at her birthday. Which fixins would you include, besides sour cream, chili, scallions, and ketchup?

Don't forget to tell your guests that is on the menu. Some kids won't like just tater tots fyi

By 12, kids should learn to be polite and eat what's served. Out of a bar like this I'm sure even the pickiest eater can find something.

Anonymous wrote:My 12-year-old wants a Tater Tot Bar at her birthday. Which fixins would you include, besides sour cream, chili, scallions, and ketchup?

Don't forget to tell your guests that is on the menu. Some kids won't like just tater tots fyi

Anonymous wrote:Get it catered

Unless they're going to bring their own deep fryer there is no point in getting a tater tot bar catered.

There is no way to transport mass amounts of tater tots and keep them crispy, and if they're using your oven to cook them in your house you're no paying like 10X the price to get someone to shake a bag of Ore-Ida onto a baking sheet.

Such a fun, inexpensive idea. To make a meal, you could add shredded chicken and/or chili to put on top.

Crab dip!

Oh yum, this sounds so delicious!