Kids party menu & shopping list
So you've read all our ideas for kids party food and feel
like you have information overload? Well here's a fool proof
menu & shopping list as designed by Zuki for her 7th
birthday.
Menu
The most popular even with the fussiest eaters are highlighted in bold.
Savoury
- cruditee (raw veg): baby tomatoes, carrot sticks, cucumber sticks, crisp lettuce, seedless grapes
- corn on the cob - sawn into short sections
- crisps (see Kids' party food article for vegan flavours)
- chopped sausages (in order of preference): Fry's hot dog sausages, Taifun tofu weiners, Vegi Deli sage & marjoram sausages
- sandwiches: marmite (yeast extract), peanut butter, vegan marg
- mini pizzas, with a selection of toppings, using: pizza bases or pitta bread, tomato puree, Super Melting Cheezly (Mozzarella or Gouda style) vegan pesto or mixed herbs, spanish black pitted olives, pineapple, sweetcorn, Cheatin' Ham
- herby garlic bread : made with olive oil or vegan marg with finely crushed garlic and mixed herbs
Sauces & dips
- ketchup
- egg-free mayo (eg Plamil)
Sweet
- cake - strawberry and coconut
- scones with marg & strawberry jam (eg Liz Cook recipe)
- Waitrose or Sainsbury bourbon biscuits
- vegetarian fruit jelly (made from crystals)
- Swedish Glace ice cream
Party bag and/or party prize ideas
- satsumas or clementines
- seedless grapes
- 'Free' chocolate bars (the ones in the lilac wrappers in the free prom section of a supermarket)
- fruit leather
- packets of Lyme Regis fruit squares
- plain Panda liquorice or similar
- other vegan sweets - use the Animal Free Shopper for the widest variety, or our list for a few ideas
- birthday cake wrapped up in serviette or foil
- pads of paper, pens/pencils, hair ties & clips, small toys
Shopping List
Supermarket
- Pure margerine (either blue, green or yellow tub in chiller area), olive oil
- fruit & veg: tomatoes, iceberg lettuce, cucumber, grapes, carrots, clementines/satsumas
- Marmite, peanut butter, tomato ketchup
- plain pizza bases or pitta bread ( check they are dairy & egg free)
- pizza topping: tomato puree, mixed herbs, sweetcorn, tinned pineapple, Spanish black pitted olives
- cake and scone ingredients, eg: self-raising flour, baking powder, rapeseed oil, strawberries, dessicated coconut, jam, soya milk, sultanas
- bourbon biscuits (Waitrose or Sainsbury's own brand)
- Swedish Glace ice cream (black octagonal tubs)
- 'Free' chocolate bars (with lilac wrappers and in rice crispie or mandarin varieties, found in the Free From area)
- party extras, eg: serviettes, cutlery, cups, party poppers, candles, kitchen towel, party bag & prize extras (if necessary)
Perhaps in a supermarket but more likely in a health food shop
- vegan marg, if you didn't get it in th supermarket, eg Pure, Suma or Biona brands
- sausages: Fry's hot dogs (Holland & Barrett), Taifun tofu weiners (health food shop), Vegi Deli sausages (Holland & Barrett, some supermarkets, specialist shops). Note: avoid Linda McC (awful) or Quorn (not vegan) sausages.
- egg-free mayo, such as by Plamil - sometimes in the supermarket's Free From area otherwise in any health food shop
- pizza topping: vegan pesto (eg Zest Vegan Pesto), Super Melting Cheezly (not standard Cheezly), Cheatin' Ham
- vegetarian fruit jelly crystals
- some vegan sweets and chewy bars
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