And He was STILL Hungry

As I said in my previous post, I kept the decorations low key because I wanted the focus to be on the food. For each item, I had a little place card that said, "On ______ he ate through _____ ."

The books starts out on Sunday and a little egg was on a leaf... I decided to start the food off with some very hungry caterpillars...

Monday he ate through an apple, Tuesday some pears, Wednesday a few plums, Thursday four strawberries, and on Friday even more oranges.

What I did was make sugar cookies, and then iced them with a powdered sugar icing.

Saturday was when he was REALLY hungry.

He ate through...

One piece of chocolate cake....

...An ice cream cone... We set out the cones and had the ice cream pre-scooped and waiting in the freezer until it was time to eat. 

...A pickle, Swiss cheese, and salami...

...A lollipop...

...A piece of cherry pie {instead of baking a whole cherry pie, we made mini cherry pie bites}...

...Sausage... {which I don't have a picture of, but we cooked Italian sausages on the grill}

...A cupcake...

...And finally, a slice of watermelon.

The spread...

The food was fantastic and everyone seemed to enjoy it...especially the birthday girl. The ironic part of the party? The birthday girl spent about half of the party, sitting in her chair eating! What a fun party!

The Chuck Wagon

I love to prepare food for people. For this party, I wanted to prepare food that I immediately thought of "Western."

Let's start with drinks... We drank from "The Water Hole." We had water, lemonade, and chocolate milk.

For lunch we had a meal off of the "Chuck Wagon" of chili and cornbread, sheriff badge cookies, s'more pops, and, of course, cake.

 

 

Next time, I will talk through some of the details and games.

 

Have a Bite

Food is an easy way to keep a theme going. It can be fun and imaginative or straight forward and practical... there is no limit to what your food can be.

For the Under the Sea party, I wanted the food to really show off the theme. But finding food that was really convincing as "Under the Sea" wasn't coming to me right away. So then I went to my good friend Google to get a few ideas.

First off, I made an "Ocean in a Cup," otherwise known as blue gelatin and graham style crackers. Slightly labor intensive, but the end result was too cute to pass up. First, crush the crackers into crumbs and put in a clear plastic cup. Then prepare and cool the gelatin...once it is mostly set, pour it into the cups. Voila! Ocean in a cup!

We also had clam shaped cookes and strawberries that we called "Sea Berries."

Finally came the octopus hot dog...it was something my daughter had done in preschool one year when studying the letter "O." Here's what you do... take an uncooked hot dog and from the middle down to one end, cut it in half. Then, cut each on of the halves in half. Throw it in boiling water and POOF, the ends curl up to make an octopus!

Here was how the plates looked once they were all put together.

 



And of course, I can't forget the cake. With an EASY {VERY easy} DIY fondant recipe, cookie cutters, and wavy candles...it was a lot of fun to put together. Oh, and a few more crushed graham style crackers for "sand." It was a fun way to put the final touch on the food.