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good to know, we';ve always had the burgers, pizza, hot dogs etc but now my daughter has a birthday in April and we're now going to look at doing what you did especially since you said it is a big hit. We went to a kids party, a 5 years old party the other week and no word of a lie . We got there and the kid was outside crying and no grown ups. We comforted the kid and then went upstairs No kids but two other couples and then the parents. One couple sat at the counter drinking their wine swishing it in one of those posh ways. The other woman had just had a child so she was nursing but she too was just sitting there with her husband drinking a beer which I had never heard of 30 mins in . -------------------------------------------------- My 3 kids looked around and asked "Dad where is the food and the kids to play with etc?" I looked around and thought that maybe the kids and the food might be down stairs in the garage so I asked one of those couples "could you tell me where the kids and food are please?" She said kids are outside. She pointed to the celery, carrot sticks, etc, I then asked where is the other food for the kids to which she replied"Some strawberries and blueberries over there" OK I'm thinking this is nuts , this is supposed to be a kids party with only 3 kids who do not even know the party kid and are not playing with them . Right away my wife starts talking to the party child and my kids start to play with him even though they're older , in one case much older. Once we got the party child happy and smiling my wife then struck up a conversation and it got around to food. The woman who pointed the blueberries out said she broke down once and let her child have a chick fil but only a bite of it. The other woman then said it's hard to know what to get your child for lunch at school and my wife replied 'well we use deli meat, peanut butter and tuna all different days." The blueberry woman said right away "TUNA you use tuna?" My wife said yes and the woman then asked how do you do it. My wife said she uses tinned Tuna ,mix it with celery etc in the early morning before work etc The woman laughed with the other woman and said 'OMG they have tinned tuna, "what a novel idea" We left two hours later, no ice cream, nothing , no games, no nothing, it was a snotty nosed elitist liberal stuck up look at me party lets out do who eats healthier party. Funny thing is that they're drowning in debt, have cars they can;'t afford and probably even haven't paid for her panties yet where as we have no debt and paid off out small house and cars. The reason why I told you is because it is good to know that there are still parents who do things for their children and not use their children to show off or make a statement, good for you. Thank you for being good parents and thank you for the tip about the platter