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I'm looking for ways to mitigate the effect of the expected over consumption of alcohol and want suggestions of food they are likely to eat (without having to re-heat etc.).


I haven't hosted a teen party before but do realise food needs to be subtle but available.


I'm more than happy to get a flow of deliveries/ heve an account with the pizza place but just want good ideas from successful hosts out there please!

(a) Control the alcohol consumption (there are ways, without spoiling things)


(b) when my parents kindly let me use the house at that age, something as simple as nice crusty bread (try Slatters in Sygenham), cheese, and ham worked really well

Put it on Facebook and you could get a few more...



Angelina Wrote:

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> thanks all - lots of soft drinks, crisps and dips,

> pizza, sausage rolls - like the bread and cheese

> suggestion :-)

>

> I think I have 15 coming.

It went well! Too smoothly perhaps? Everyone happy, midly hungover this morning but all good. They even left me a G&T!!!!

Best food options were veggie pizzas, olives, crisps and bananas (!). Alcohol was vodka, glitter schnapps and fruit cider. Only damage was odd bit of pizza on the wall......

Heartwarming. Oor teens ain't so bad eh.


Angelina Wrote:

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> It went well! Too smoothly perhaps? Everyone

> happy, midly hungover this morning but all good.

> They even left me a G&T!!!!

> Best food options were veggie pizzas, olives,

> crisps and bananas (!). Alcohol was vodka, glitter

> schnapps and fruit cider. Only damage was odd bit

> of pizza on the wall......

Really glad it went well.


Broadly speaking, depending on how old the "teens" are, if you are intending to provide alcohol at a party (or to "allow" it), I think you ought to discuss it with the parents of the children you're planning on inviting and giving it to.


What you might think is ok for your child might not be ok for other people. I was horrified when I found out parents of year 9 children (aged 13 - 14) were blithely "allowing" alcohol at house parties not only because of the damage that alcohol can do to young brains, the dubious message that it sends about the "correct" way to socialise, but also that those parents felt they had the right to decide things for my children.

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