Party Food

Kids’ parties don’t need to be all about sugar and fat. It’s easy to get a bit of balance with some of these tasty ideas:

5+ A Day Fruit Pizza

• Funny 5+ A Day Faces - Cut up fruit and vegetables in geometric shapes that can be used to create faces on a solid colour paper plate. Add a few nuts and cheese slices so the kids can really get creative. Give a prize to the child who turns their birthday party snack into the craziest fruity faces

• Chop up kiwifruit, apples, pears, oranges and strawberries into bite size pieces and let the kids make their own fruit kebabs – you can have dipping sauce too – yogurt works well

• Dice or grate, carrot, courgette, potato, onion and corn into savoury muffins

• Fill vegetarian sushi with avocado, finely sliced carrots, red peppers, cucumber and silver beet

• Fruit platters work well at any party chopped pineapple, orange wedges, grapes, bananas, strawberries or any fruit that is season

• Bake apples, pears or bananas for a healthy dessert

• Make smoothies by blending berries, bananas or oranges with milk, frozen yogurt or fruit juice 

• Decorate the birthday cake with chopped plums, strawberries and blueberries 

Don’t forget the adults

• Vegetable platters work well for the parents cut up carrot, courgette, red and green peppers and celery sticks and serve with hummus or salsa