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Hi...help with Party Food

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Good Morning All.
I am the partner of a lovely lady who is Type 2 and is managing her blood sugars very well at present.
We are grandparents to 3 lovely children and have birthday parties coming up for a 3 and 4 year old. Any tips on party food that won't spike blood sugars is very much appreciated.
Thank you
 
Are you envisaging a buffet? In which case your wife can do a range of foods to suit everyone, with things like chicken drumsticks and high meat content sausages, sliced hardboiled eggs, then a bowl of salad for the grown ups (I've not known kids touch salad at a buffet) and sandwiches for kids and people who aren’t watching their blood sugars. A small slice of birthday cake after a protein/salad base won’t do too much damage. You may find you’re both so rushed off your feet you won’t have time to eat much!
I have to ask, with your user name, are you from Preston?
 
Morning Robin.
Thank you for your reply and suggestions. They are helpful.
We are planning a family buffet and I was just checking to see if anyone had recent experience of foods that are to be avoided whilst balancing against a kid's birthday celebration event so all recommendations are welcome.
I like the idea of hard boiled eggs along with meats and salad.
Proud adopted Prestonian...
16 years and counting.... long suffering PNE FC supporter for more than 35 years!!
 
Deepdale Dai said:
Proud adopted Prestonian...
16 years and counting.... long suffering PNE FC supporter for more than 35 years!!
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Thought you might be. I’m married to an exiled lifelong PNE supporter. When we go back up for family parties etc, the buffet always features pork pies! But also meats and salad, so you don’t have to limit the provision of anything, just keep an eye on what you take to eat. As a Type 1, I have to do a rough estimate of the carb content of what I'm about to eat, and I just take a plateful of whatever I've eyeballed and added up, inject for it and eat, and avoid picking at stuff from the buffet table apart from that.
 
Deepdale Dai said:
Good Morning All.
I am the partner of a lovely lady who is Type 2 and is managing her blood sugars very well at present.
We are grandparents to 3 lovely children and have birthday parties coming up for a 3 and 4 year old. Any tips on party food that won't spike blood sugars is very much appreciated.
Thank you
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I would suggest some meet options for snacks, but I tried making kale chips for a party and they were absolutely delicious.
 
Deepdale Dai said:
Good Morning All.
I am the partner of a lovely lady who is Type 2 and is managing her blood sugars very well at present.
We are grandparents to 3 lovely children and have birthday parties coming up for a 3 and 4 year old. Any tips on party food that won't spike blood sugars is very much appreciated.
Thank you
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Hi, i tried an easy recipe i saw online. Cut very fine slices of cheese then cut into small squares. Put on baking sheet and tray and put in oven for about 12 mins (gas 3), you might need to adjust slightly, you end up with cheese crisp bites, (don't use to stronger cheese), ideal for diabetics
 
Don1Tom2 said:
Hi, i tried an easy recipe i saw online. Cut very fine slices of cheese then cut into small squares. Put on baking sheet and tray and put in oven for about 12 mins (gas 3), you might need to adjust slightly, you end up with cheese crisp bites, (don't use to stronger cheese), ideal for diabetics
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Hi. Thanks for your reply and suggestion. I'll try this one and let you know what response is received from the party guests.
🙂
 
What to avoid - fondant icing!!!! Last weekend we attended a great granddaughter's 5th birthday party. Birthday cake made by her grandma, our eldest daughter and was a fantastic cake BUT........ she'd made it specifically to appeal to to little kids and even though I avoided the icing the sponge cake itself was sickly sweet to me. Hey ho, excrement occurs, and she'll never be 5 again!
 
Oh by the way - make sure the one(s) with diabetes are not hungry to begin with, so they don't need to eat all that much, and have more small portions of everything than whacking great ones. No need to avoid putting anything out - just cos it's on one of the plates does NOT mean every person HAS to eat some of it.
 
Beige buffets are my nemesis!

But salads, cold meats, eggs, cheese, etc would give lots more variety 🙂
 
I can add in celery sticks in fairly short lengths filled with cream cheese, fish mixed with coleslaw and served in small lettuce leaves with a slice of cucumber as a 'lid', and a dessert made with a sugar free jelly plus pure gelatine, or gelatine dissolved and sugar free squash added. I use just enough hot water to dissolve the gelatine, then add full fat yogurt and stir gently so that there are little patches of unmixed yoghurt, then add frozen berries making sure that they do not clump together, gently pat to spread them through the mixture - it usually sets at that point. For parties I pipe whipped cream on top and maybe add some sliced fresh strawberries as decoration. In a glass bowl it looks very good. I sometimes make some ground almond fingers to put into a lower layer of jelly after they have been soaked in the defrosted fruit (this makes for a longer process but allows for more colours and a fancier look)
I am often surprised by the amount of carby food left over when feeding my grandchildren. They really can put away a huge amount of meat and fish, and eggs too once they settle down and start to eat.
 
Cheese on sticks, coleslaw, crustless quiche . Low carb wraps. Profiteroles seems to not be too bad for some.
 
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I'm not entirely sure my kids would have been eating celery when they were 3?
Nuts are not recommended for kids under 5.
 
trophywench said:
Oh by the way - make sure the one(s) with diabetes are not hungry to begin with, so they don't need to eat all that much, and have more small portions of everything than whacking great ones. No need to avoid putting anything out - just cos it's on one of the plates does NOT mean every person HAS to eat some of it.
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Hi. Thanks for your message and suggestions. Much appreciated
 
Drummer said:
I can add in celery sticks in fairly short lengths filled with cream cheese, fish mixed with coleslaw and served in small lettuce leaves with a slice of cucumber as a 'lid', and a dessert made with a sugar free jelly plus pure gelatine, or gelatine dissolved and sugar free squash added. I use just enough hot water to dissolve the gelatine, then add full fat yogurt and stir gently so that there are little patches of unmixed yoghurt, then add frozen berries making sure that they do not clump together, gently pat to spread them through the mixture - it usually sets at that point. For parties I pipe whipped cream on top and maybe add some sliced fresh strawberries as decoration. In a glass bowl it looks very good. I sometimes make some ground almond fingers to put into a lower layer of jelly after they have been soaked in the defrosted fruit (this makes for a longer process but allows for more colours and a fancier look)
I am often surprised by the amount of carby food left over when feeding my grandchildren. They really can put away a huge amount of meat and fish, and eggs too once they settle down and start to eat.
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Hi. Thanks for your message and suggestions. They are really appreciated 🙂
 
Don1Tom2 said:
Hi, i tried an easy recipe i saw online. Cut very fine slices of cheese then cut into small squares. Put on baking sheet and tray and put in oven for about 12 mins (gas 3), you might need to adjust slightly, you end up with cheese crisp bites, (don't use to stronger cheese), ideal for diabetics
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I have seen this done with grated cheese. I think,it’s easier to,spread out grated cheese thinly than to slice it thin.
 
travellor said:
I'm not entirely sure my kids would have been eating celery when they were 3?
Nuts are not recommended for kids under 5.
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Whole nuts are not recommended for under 5s - ground almonds and peanut butter are fine from 6 months so long as they aren't allergic
 
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