What food/drink did you serve at DC's first birthday?

I'm having his party in the backyard and I went from having a BBQ, to having the pizzeria cater it. Now I'm thinking 6 ft hero, baked ziti, salads.

If you had a party for DC's 1st birthday, what did you serve and how many people did you have? Did you do the cooking or have it catered?

Thanks for the help!

Re: What food/drink did you serve at DC's first birthday?

We had it catered. Baked ziti, gemelli pasta with artichokes and sundried tomatoes, barbeque ribs, eggplant parmagian, chicken franchaise and meatballs. Green salad and rolls. Cake and fruit.

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We had about 17 people. We had 3 hot dishes and a hero.
It was catered.
The hot dishes I believe were Penne A la vodka, Eggplant Rolatini and I think chicken francaise. My MIL made a huge green salad.

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We had 15 people - we did chips and various dips (spinach, guacamole and salasa my aunt made who was visiting from TX,) veggies and dips, hamburgers, kielbasa, sliced grilled steak, grilled vegetables, bbq chicken, salads (potato, etc), a mixed green salad.

Followed by cake, cookies and fruit

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we had DD's catered by Big Daddys with cajun food. it was great.

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We had a ton of people -- DH grilled dogs, sausages and burgers.
We served Cole Slaw, Potato Salad, Macaroni Salad, Baked Beans, Sauerkraut, Pickles, Green Salad....

Plenty of food and people enjoyed a simple BBQ

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We made all the food ourselves. We had a cold-cut platter and rolls for people to make sandwhiches. Baked ziti, chicken franchaise, roasted potatos, chicken fingers and mini pizza bagels.

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We had a luau theme so the best I could come up with was catered chinese food. I got fruity type chinese dishes.
Unfortunately I forget exactly how much we ordered.

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That is the question of the week. DD's party is Saturday. We too went from a BBQ to hot food & hamburgers/hot dogs to this:

Baked Ziti
Sausage & Peppers
Hot dogs
Baked Beans
Chicken nuggets (kids)
french fries/or tator tots

Cold pasta salad
macaroni/potato/cole slaw

Tossed Green salad

8 foot hero

My MIL is making all the hot stuff!

We're having about 50 adults & 20 kids

Message edited 7/3/2008 10:54:17 AM.

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We had around 50 people including kids.

The food was catered. DH has a friend that owns a catering business. They went to school together. We had:
Baked Ziti
Penne Alla Vodka
Eggplant Parm
Chicken Parm
Chicken w/artichokes and sundried Tomatoes
Veal Marsala
Sausage and Peppers
Broccoli Rabe

3 Ft Hero in the shape of a 1 and then another 3ft hero (not in the shape of a 1)
Tossed Salad
Potato Salad
Macaroni Salad
Tortellini Salad
Cole Slaw

We ended up having a lot of food cuz DH's friend threw in a lot of extras...

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This is currently my dilemma too. DD's 1st birthday party is july 26 at our house/backyard. Originally we planned on a full BBQ, that changed and right now I am leaning towards

Penne ala vodka
Sausage and peppers
Chicken cutlets
sliced steak
corn on the cob
ribs?
mac and cheese for the kids
(green salad, pasta salad and possibly potato salad)


For appitizers we were doing veggies and dip, chips and dips, pigs in a blanket, BBQ wings, tomato and mozzeralla

However I am not 100% sure of this and kinda like the hero option as well with some hot food.

We are having around 60-70 people and if we do just hot food were thinking around 2 trays of each

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We had a BBQ backyard party

- hamburgers/cheeseburgers
- Hotdogs
- Brats
- Steak
- Potato salad
- Macaroni salad
- fresh lettuce with cucumber and tomatoes

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we had it catered.
We didn't have enough seating for everone- so I didn't want to get anything that had to be cut or that you HAD to sit down.

So we had an antipasta
assorted foccachia breads and mini pizzas
chicken fingers for the kids
a pasta w/ chicken & veggies for adults
assortment of wraps and sandwiches for the adults (roastbeef, grilled veggie, chicken salad, turkey, etc).
big green salad.

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we're doing a BBQ.

I hired a guy to come with a gigantic grill. He supplies all food and paper goods and he cooks and cleans up. I think we're having burgers, hotdogs, sausage&peppers, chicken and crab cakes.

I'm going to make potato, macaroni and pasta salad. And probably have some chips and dip.

Not sure what else we're making yet.

Then cake, cupcakes and fruit platter and maybe cookies.

Oh, and snow cones.

ETA - as for drinks we're planning on water, soda, beer and wine. And then coffee.

Message edited 7/3/2008 12:56:45 PM.