party food for babies and toddlers?

Question

we are holding a tea party this week for a group off babies all aged 12 to 18 months and i have no idea wot i am going to put on the buffet can u tell me some things i could put on the buffet but remeber the babies are only 12 to 18 months please help

Answer 1

I had the same problem when planning my sons 1st bday. Most of the children wer around the same age going onto 2. What I did is made food sandwiches with cheese spread in as they could easily eat these, also things like mini sponge cakes and soft things like that. Go to a supermarket and have a look at all there soft foods, good luck

Answer 2

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party food for babies and toddlers?
we are holding a tea party this week for a group off babies all aged 12 to 18 months and i have no idea wot i am going to put on the buffet can u tell me some things i could put on the buffet but remeber the babies are only 12 to 18 months please help

Answer 3

My daughter is 18 months, and her diet is very broad. We try to give her foods that are easy for her to feed herself.

Hot dogs (cut up, of course - we use turkey franks)
Cups of fruit with the juice drained off
Soft cookies
Cake (always a hit)
Crasins (cranberries that are dried like rasins)
Cheerios
Chicken Nuggets (the smaller kids will have to have them cut up)
Grilled Cheese (Smuckers make these awesome little grilled cheese sandwiches with no crusts; they microwave in 45 seconds, and are in the frozen food area)

You can get creative, and as long as it is something that is small (or can be cut up) and is easy to hold, and not very messy (with little ones, even the neatest of foods can be messy).

Good luck!!

Answer 4

Goldfish crackers, teddy grahams, apple wheels - look in the baby food aisle, they're made by Gerber, freeze dried corn, cherry tomatoes. Lots of finger foods that are easy to dissolve should work well. Lemonade in the teacups too - you don't want to give a toddler caffeine - that can be very, very bad.

Answer 5

All sorts of fruit and veg cut in to nice chewable sticks or chunks. My son used to love ham and cheese on crackers at that age, I mean really love it!

Apple with the skins removed and sliced, carrot lengths, cucumber sticks, cheese cubes, pineapple chunks, banana chunks.

Hotdog sausages chopped up in to half inch pieces, but rinsed well because they are stored in brine water in the tin.

Sandwiches with cheese spread, fish or meat paste or a slice of ham, cut in to soldier pieces, i.e. cut in half then cut each half in to four slices.

Slices of thin ham, turkey or chicken.

Bread sticks and rusks.

Boiled eggs cut in to quarters length ways.

My Mum used to cut up oranges with the peel still on and freeze them, like a natural ice lolly. She also used to grate carrot and pour a little orange juice over it then cool it. Yummy!

Crab sticks.

Perhaps dried fruit like apricots?

Biscuits for cheese or cream crackers.

Potato wedges, with the skins on, just cooked in the oven with nothing put on them, can be served cold.

Sausage rolls.

Raisins.

If you are happy to have a few "treats" out then cheese puff crisps (chips? not sure where you are! Just seen you're from the UK so you'll know what crisps are! I mean wotsits lol) are good, and chocolate buttons, soft and able to melt. We used to love animal biscuits, little animal shaped biscuits with chocolate on one side. Homemade rice crispie cakes.

Try to keep veg and fruit raw where possible, it's much healthier for the kids. Cooked fruit and veg lose so much goodness. If you really need to cook anything to soften it (although even raw carrot is fine) then steam it if possible and only do it long enough to soften slightly. Besides, if it's over cooked it'll just turn to mush and make even more mess!

Plenty of napkins and wipes for clearing up sticky mitts and faces afterwards!

Also, it might be an idea to check in advance if there are any vegetarians or babies with allergies. Vege babies can have vege sausages instead of hotdogs for example.

Just make sure you have fun and ensure someone stays behind afterwards to help you clear up ;)

Answer 6

crisps such as wotsits quavers monster munch, sandwiches with crust cut off, pizza fingers, chicken nuggets, wafer biscuits suger free jelly, crab sticks, chocolate fingers, chips,

Answer 7

I just put together a list of foods I have fed our older children, and now preparing to feed our newer addition, great finger foods:

http://www.familye.com/food_ideas/section/6/action/view/item/23

on www.familye.com

You could do these foods on popsicle sticks as kabobs to make it feel more like party food :)

Dina

Answer 8

fairy cakes sandwiches cut into shapes like stars or moons carrot sticks cucumber sticks with some yogurt dips jelly and ice cream some sausage rolls etc

Answer 9

cut up fruit, mini sausages, french toast, juices, rusks/crackers, raisins, bread sticks, sweet potato, jelly and icecream.. Also ask the other parents what they want their children to have

Answer 10

goldfish & the big pretzel sticks are a few ideas

if you're doing hot foods, try mac & cheese & mashed potatoes

Cupcakes would be cute as well

Stay away from all nuts!!