If you have taken your small one to a bday party..

[hannamaren]

We are attending a 1 yr old bday party. It is from 11-2, so I assume lunch will be served.
Would it be weird for me to call and ask what it is being served so I know if Layla can eat most of it? Should I assume she can? Should I just bring back up food anyway?

[sewpinkgal]

I would skip the call and just bring backup food in case what they're serving isn't something you'd like for her to have.

[hannamaren]

Yeah, she will definitely eat anything. I just put cheerios on a napkin. She ate the cheerios and then started to eat the napkin and is currenty eating her socks.

[mie]

Aug 23, 2012 16:26:48 GMT -5 sewpinkgal said:

I would skip the call and just bring backup food in case what they're serving isn't something you'd like for her to have.

I'd do this.

[definitelyO]

at 1yr old I always took DS's food with me. I would picture a first birthday party to have more adult food and little baby food.

[bunch]

Is she allergic to something? If not I'd just assume she can eat what theyre serving. Then again dd fell in love with hot dogs at a bday party soooo.....

[cjeanette]

Aug 23, 2012 17:16:30 GMT -5 bunch said:

Is she allergic to something? If not I'd just assume she can eat what theyre serving. Then again dd fell in love with hot dogs at a bday party soooo.....

This. I generally let the kids eat whatever is offered at a party.

[ijack]

I've never brought outside food to a party.

[bronxgirl]

I always bring snacks, but other wise I would let her eat the party food.

[Deleted]

We just let him eat whatever is at the party. But the 2 birthday parties we have been to have had raw veggies, watermelon, cheese, crackers and lunch meat, and cupcakes. I don't worry about it too much. But I always keep some cheerios in the diaper bag in case he wants those.

[statlerwaldorf]

I wouldn't call. I would just bring some backup food in case. I would usually have a bunch of snacks in my diaper bag even though DD never was too picky of an eater.

[kimibrighteyes]

We always bring backup food because of allergies. In fact we usually bring cupcakes to birthday parties to share since my kids have egg, dairy and nut allergies. That way I can be sure my kids have a treat when they can't eat the cake

[hannamaren]

Aug 23, 2012 23:05:19 GMT -5 jenny1980 said:

Aug 23, 2012 22:52:00 GMT -5 kimibrighteyes said:

We always bring backup food because of allergies. In fact we usually bring cupcakes to birthday parties to share since my kids have egg, dairy and nut allergies. That way I can be sure my kids have a treat when they can't eat the cake

Oh man! Do they each have all three allergies or is it a mix? That is so tough.

That is very thoughtful of you.

[ECB]

Aug 23, 2012 22:52:00 GMT -5 kimibrighteyes said:

We always bring backup food because of allergies. In fact we usually bring cupcakes to birthday parties to share since my kids have egg, dairy and nut allergies. That way I can be sure my kids have a treat when they can't eat the cake

I have to do the same thing due to my DS's gluten issues.

OP - outside of allergy issues, no, I wouldn't call.

[anna7602]

11-2 sounds like a safe bet they will serve lunch food, but I would still bring something as an emergency back-up.

I have been to parties at times of day I thought were lunch or dinner and only found chips, cookies & birthday cake.

[satama]

DS had an egg allergy (luckily he outgrew it) so I always asked ahead of time what would be served and brought back up snacks. I am too lazy to bake cupcakes for every party we went to so I usually brought some store bought egg free cookies so he could have that instead of cake.

[DarcyLongfellow]

At that age, I brought her food with me no matter where we were going. I did that until she was at least a year.

Now, since she doesn't have allergies, I'd just let her eat whatever was served.

[GailGoldie]

if your child is picky or has a special diet (allergies, etc) - just bring some snacks of your own in case nothing there will work. Consider the host - and how annoying it would be to have a ton of people asking "what food are you serving??".... annoying as fuck