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:
- 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 in 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
- Banana snacks with peanut butter and topped with seasonal fruit
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