Birthday party ideas?

[Guest guest]

Hello all,

I'm planning my daughters birthday party

and so far I only have fruit kabobs and homemade vegan cake (which BTW if anyone

has a good recipes please share =))

They will be turning 2 and 4, so parents will be there and I'm struggling with

coming up with something that will please and feed everyone...Please help! Would

love to stay away from the normal pizza.

Thanks in advance,

Kim

[Guest guest]

Roll ups with vegan cream cheese and diced apples or carrots and raisins or

dried cranberries

Hummus and veggie sticks

If you wanted to do a meal, stuffed shells or a baked pasta is always good.

 

Cassie

" life's a garden, dig it! "

 

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On Nov 29, 2009, at 11:09 PM, " kimguest1 " <kimguest1 wrote:

 

Hello all,

I'm planning my daughters birthday party

and so far I only have fruit kabobs and homemade vegan cake (which BTW if anyone

has a good recipes please share =))

They will be turning 2 and 4, so parents will be there and I'm struggling with

coming up with something that will please and feed everyone...Please help! Would

love to stay away from the normal pizza.

Thanks in advance,

Kim

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I have a couple of suggestions that are easy to make and kids love them.

Plus, they can help in the process if you want them to (optional). Read

about them here:

 

http://www.vegblogger.com/blog/2009/10/vegan-english-muffin-pizza.html

 

http://www.vegblogger.com/blog/2009/10/vegetarian-kids-lunch-ideas.html

 

Jacqueline

[Guest guest]

What about a (lentil) taco bar?

 

 

 

 

________________________________

kimguest1 <kimguest1

 

Sun, November 29, 2009 10:09:04 PM

Birthday party ideas?

 

 

Hello all,

I'm planning my daughters birthday party

and so far I only have fruit kabobs and homemade vegan cake (which BTW if anyone

has a good recipes please share =))

They will be turning 2 and 4, so parents will be there and I'm struggling with

coming up with something that will please and feed everyone...Please help! Would

love to stay away from the normal pizza.

Thanks in advance,

Kim

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi Kim,

 

You have lots of options on the birthday party food. Of the food I have tried,

peanut butter sandwiches and pasta dishes seem to have gone over fairly well. I

served a vegan mac and cheese most recently, and that was pretty well liked.

 

Unfortunately, most kids do not seem to appreciate the value of a whole grain

confection with a fabulous tofu/maple syrup cream icing. This has been a

disappointment to me, as well as my kids. However, most kids (including mine) do

seem very happy with a plain ol' vegan white flour vanilla cake with a more

tradition margarine-confection sugar icing. Chocolate cakes are great too,

except my son strangely hates chocolate.

 

VRG has some good recipes (http://www.vrg.org/recipes/vegancakes.htm). A few

years ago I found a vanilla cake with a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar on the

web. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find it now. Also, frozen fruit pops are a

hugely popular alternative or supplement to vegan cake.

 

As a parent who has now hosted nine vegan birthday parties for kids, I have an

additional piece of advice. I have found that vegan food is not necessarily the

most popular selection with the three to eight set--especially whole grain vegan

food. Nevertheless, even if the kids don't much like the food, they still have a

great time. Food is not the most important part of a party. It's being with

friends, running around, giggling, and playing games. Relax and enjoy the show.

Oh--and put something fun in the goodie bags.

 

--

Sharon

 

 

On Behalf

Of kimguest1

Sunday, November 29, 2009 11:09 PM

 

Birthday party ideas?

 

Hello all,

I'm planning my daughters birthday party

and so far I only have fruit kabobs and homemade vegan cake (which BTW if anyone

has a good recipes please share =))

They will be turning 2 and 4, so parents will be there and I'm struggling with

coming up with something that will please and feed everyone...Please help! Would

love to stay away from the normal pizza.

Thanks in advance,

Kim

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

When I know I won't have time or feel up to preparing food, I make the time of

the party in between meal times, such as 1:30 to 3. That way, they parents

should know that meals won't be provided and I make it easy on me! Snack/finger

food is the easiets to make available. Put out a fruit and veggie platter with

some dips and maybe (soy) yogurt (along with other options such as grapes and

bananas). Then parents and kids can snack as they please while eating healthy

foods!

Good luck!!

[Guest guest]

Thank you all for your tips. I really appreciate it!

I've decided to go with finger foods, hummus, falaffel, dips etc. And cake of

course...

For some reason I put the pressure on myself to not have the foods scream vegan

or different, and also prove that a vegan birthday will have good foods. Silly,

I know. No one will starve, and it'a all about the kids playing and having a

good time anyway. (So now I just have to come up with the games and favors, ah

=))

Thanks again,

Kim

[Guest guest]

I know I'm late weighing in here, but my vegan kids are nine, five, and two and

we usually have parties with 75 - 100 people (counting adults) and everyone goes

away fed and happy.

 

I make my kids' favorite foods as long as they don't have allergens for the

guests (we have a lot of friends with allergies so nuts and other foods are

unfortunately out). I don't really worry too much if the guests' tastes except

for allergies, but I still get clamours from the children for me to give their

parents the recipes. We've served everything from black bean tamales to stuffed

grape leaves to kale puffs to pinto bean empanadas, etc. We sometimes have

cake, sometimes not. The key for us to have what the birthday child really

enjoys and the other kids can't resist the ethusiasm.

 

Try not to get too stressed and make it easy on yourself.

 

Enjoy!!!!

 

Linda

http://veganlinda.blogspot.com/

 

On Dec 2, 2009, at 3:18 PM, " kimguest1 " <kimguest1 wrote:

 

Thank you all for your tips. I really appreciate it!

I've decided to go with finger foods, hummus, falaffel, dips etc. And cake of

course...

For some reason I put the pressure on myself to not have the foods scream vegan

or different, and also prove that a vegan birthday will have good foods. Silly,

I know. No one will starve, and it'a all about the kids playing and having a

good time anyway. (So now I just have to come up with the games and favors, ah

=))

Thanks again,

Kim

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Google " Lola's Amazing Social Justice Cake " to find recipe for the

classic chocolate " volcano " cake that everyone likes. Frosting recipes

easy to find vegan on the web. For our kid party, my wife made amazing

" ice cream cones " with vegan chocolate cake baked into cones with

sprinkles on top.

 

Order sprinkles with natural colour from www.eatit.ca

Don't know if they ship outside Canada.

 

P

 

kimguest1 wrote:

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> Hello all,

> I'm planning my daughters birthday party

> and so far I only have fruit kabobs and homemade vegan cake (which BTW

> if anyone has a good recipes please share =))

[Guest guest]

You can get vegan/natural sprinkles at Whole Foods Market and some other

natural food stores. I just used some a couple of weeks ago to make

Christmas cookies and the kids decorated with the sprinkles. Here's the

ones I used:

http://www.edwardandsons.com/ld_shop_sprinkelz.itml

 

Jacqueline

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