I Need Some Recipies of Easy Food for a Birthday Party

Mini Pizza's - use english muffins, spagetti sauce, cheese and pepperoni - put out all the ingredients and have everyone make their own. You just pop them in the oven until things are melted and brown

Pigs in blankets - hot dogs (I like the all beef) and canned crescent rolls, roll the crescent rolls around the hot dogs and bake according to the directions on the rolls can - just have ketchup and mustard as a side

Also, I have made a huge pot of sloppy joes (I have a great recipe. If interested just send me a note) and those are a big hit for all ages. My seven year old LOVES them and has for years and her 19 year old sister LOVES them and so does dad.

Just remember - keep it simple, you don't need a bunch of food. It is about the birthday boy!!!!!

Good luck and ENJOY this special time.

For our daughter's 1st birthday (and every birthday since because it was such a hit) we made hot dog octopus and shells and cheese for them to sit on. It is the cheapest, easiest, and most entertaining meal. Fresh veggie sticks with ranch and the meal is complete. You can add chilly or chicken kabobs for the adults if you want, but most are fine with this.
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There is a spinach dip recipe on the back of Knorr's Vegetable Soup Mix (it's in a green and yellow box) that I make all the time. For presentation, buy one of those round Hawaiian bread loafs, but out the middle of it (leaving just the outer rim and the bottom) so that it looks like a bowl and put the spinach dip inside. With the bread you cut out, tear it into little pieces for use in dipping and also serve with butter crackers. I always have to double the recipe because everyone loves it so much. It takes less than 5 minutes to prepare and even the kids love it. Another quick and easy dip is to get a block of cream cheese and pour hot sauce over it. For the substance part of your meal, you can either put together a real quick meat and cheese tray or go to the freezer section and buy some plain chicken tenders and heat them. To spice them up, buy a couple of different sauces (on the aisle with the ketchup, etc. and the aisle with the oriental food/sauces) to dip them into. Another meat that is quick and easy is to buy those little sausages and pour some flavored BBQ sauce on them while heating. Set these things up in a buffet style setting and everyone will think you've worked all night to get the food ready when all of these things will take less than an hour. Have fun!!

pizza, hot dogs, or pigs in a blanket :)

I like chalupas when I'm in a hurry. Buy shredded cheese and lettuce mix already done for you. Buy some picante sauce and tortilla shells. Warm up some canned beans and cut up some tomatoes. You could also buy chopped canned tomatoes if you're really in a fix. You can make it a little fancy if you get sour cream and guacamole, if you want to delight some guests. It's a complete meal that both adults and kids like.

Here are some ideas that are quick and delicious. They have large casseroles at Sam's Club, or other grocery stores - some HEB's too. My aunt got a wonderful lasagna-vegetarian and we had it when we visited her in Connecticut- so they have these prepared foods all over the country. We could not believe that it was not home made. You can order cakes from bakeries- HEB, or Sam's Club again. Make a salad to go with the lasagna and have people serve themselves. Use paper plates. Also, if good friends are coming, you could ask them to bring extras like chips and salsa. Get some Italian bread and heat it up in the oven. Viola. A quick and easy meal that everyone will enjoy and you don't have to put too much work into it. J. K.

Go to www.familyfun.com. They hav a ton of recipies and kid friendly birthday fun and ideas.

Good moorning M. G.,

You can't fo wrong w/ Lime Sherbert and GingerAle. Per pint of Lime Sherbert add 1/2 bottle of Ginger Ale.

Also to make quick nachos

Brown ground meat and pan sausage, add diced rotell
After done through in the crock pot and add small block(diced) of velvetta cheese.
Serve over fritos,doritos or plain nacho chips

Hello M., You really did not indicate if this was finger food or sit down dinner. So the answer could be a wide variety. Could you let me know which and I have some I am sure that could work.

In the last year, I've discovered the joys of morning-time parties. Cut up fruit, croissants, perhaps some donuts, and I also threw some taquitos in the oven.

WIther it's finger foods or a sit down dinner, a hit I've seen around here is raspberry chipotle sauce (I get it at Kroger, sometimes in the meat dept and sometimes in an end aisle display towards the back of the store, but you could always ask for it.) Put a block of cream cheese on a dish, surround it with raspberry chipotle or a bowl of jalepeno jelly, and add a bowl of triscuits or other similar crackers next to the plate. It's a Texan fave!

Are you in the Odessa/Midland area?

Making your own pizza is quick and simple. Just buy you some flat bread, a can of tomato sauce, shredded cheese, meat or veggies. Just put them together and bake for 10-15 minutes, cut and place on a platter.

You can also do veggies and ranch dip, chips and salsa, rolled up deli meat and cheese, fruit salad, and burgers please almost everyone.

Dear M.,

Everybody loves spaghetti. Get a bag of frozen meatballs, and put in crockpot. Cook on low. Later add spaghetti sauce. Cook noodles in big pot on stove. Wa-La! A meal.

Or, hot dogs and chili and buns. Fritos.

Or, stacked salad. Cook ground beef with taco mix. Buy bagged salad, pour into a bowl. Put out cherry tomatoes, sliced avocado, shredded cheese, more salad type vegies, and, be sure to end with Chinese noodles. And dressings.s Everyone builds his own salad.

Have fun!
J.

You could purchase cheese tortollini. Usually for sale in the cold pasta section of the grocery store or you can purchase it frozen. You just boil it. Have (HEB Brand is good)marinara sauce (just microwave) and keep it warm in a crock pot that people can put on top of the tortollini or the kids may want to dip into it. Have some grated parmesan on the side.

Have a giant salad for the parents and veggies and dips for the kids, a fruit platter is also good. Warm Italian or french bread, with a garlic butter on the side.

I went to a little boy's party once and the theme was fire trucks. The mom served '3 alarm chili' in a crock pot. Serves lots of guests cheaply and easily and also is perfect for the recently cooler weather...

Cheese and crackers are also a big hit w/ little kids and adults.

You don't need to plan a meal for everyone! Finger foods will do! I always serve the rotelle dip: grab a croc-pot throw in a bar of velvetta and a can of rotelle (I also add in 1 lb of cooked ground beef) Everyone always loves it! Add a bag chips and there is snack one! Pigs in a blanket are great and easy! Grab a can of biscuits, cut each in half and roll up the little sausages, cook em and your done! Just provide snacks! Chex-mix etc... Good Luck!

I made these one time after I saw a chef friend make them for a party. They're easy and tasty and they look like you spent a lot of time.

All you need: bread, cocktail sauce and smoked baby oysters or baby shrimp (the kind in a tin can - usually by the canned tuna).

You toast the bread and cut it into small rounds (he used a lid from a large juice bottle to make the little cut outs of bread - about the size of a silver dollar). Dobble some cocktail sauce and drop an oyster or shrimp. That's it!

Adults and kids can eat fruit, as well as cheese and crackers. You can make a fruit dip out of cream cheese and marshmellow creme (one part cream cheese to one part marshmellow). Brew flavored tea for adults and juice boxes for kids. You can usually find some kind of juice on sale.

Good luck!