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Kids' Birthday Parties

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crimsonviolet Apprentice
crimsonviolet
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We're going to my niece's birthday party today. I just talked to my sis and she's getting Cici's pizza for the party. I miss pizza. My kids know they can't eat it and they'll be fine. My sis is great - she offered to bring something we can eat, but she has to feed almost 30 people so I told her not to worry.

I was already planning to bring gluten-free muffins for my kids to eat instead of the cake. Now I need to bring something for the kids to eat when everyone is having their pizza, too. /sigh

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kareng Grand Master
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Is there somewhere you can bet a gluten-free pizza to take? We have several places. You could get some frozen crusts and make them a pizza to take. Easiest if they feel and look like they are eating the same thing everyone else is.

crimsonviolet Apprentice
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No place close enough to buy a ready-made pizza. We can get crusts but I'll have to run to the store. Probably right, it is best if they have something similar to eat.

Darn210 Enthusiast
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If your kids can have dairy . . . something that I do with my daughter is send the snack size nachos lunchable from Oscar Mayer. It's the one that contains only tiny corn tortilla chips, salsa and cheese. Then she's eating something that the other kids can relate to.

The other thing she likes . . . we call them pizza dippers. We use the pizza flavored breadsticks from Glutino which she dips into a little container of ragu pizza sauce and then sprinkles some shredded mozerella on top and pops them in her mouth. Not something that I would eat ('cause I think pizza kinda things should be warm and melty) but she likes them.

Juliebove Rising Star
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I am sooo sick of pizza at the parties. I usually make it. Now we have Garlic Jim's. I can order gluten-free pizza, but it is expensive. There is also Bostons's where I can get it to go.

CeliacMom2008 Enthusiast
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I always send kiddo with his own individual gluten-free pizza and his own piece of cake. We make pizza once a week. It's really not that hard. If you mix up batches of the dry ingredients and put in ziplock bags it really doesn't take that long. As for the cake, when we have cake I always cut a few pieces, wrap them in plastic wrap, and then freeze them. When a party comes up, just pull one out of the freezer and pair it with the individual pizza and you're good to go. The pizza freezes really well, too. Then all you have to do is heat it up right before you go.

A benefit my kiddo has found - he always gets HIS favorite cake and pizza, instead of what the birthday kid likes. He loves ham, pineapple, mushroom pizza. Let's face it, you're not going to find that at many birthday parties!! He's not a huge fan of white cake, so he always takes chocolate. He likes always having chocolate. And when he was younger I would always decorate his in a way he would like - use his favorite color, put Skittles on top, make it look like a Lego piece, etc. He really liked that.

crimsonviolet Apprentice
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I made a quick run to the grocery store and picked up some frozen gluten-free pizza crusts (Conte's pasta co?), pepperoni and cheese. We already had pasta sauce at home, so prep was easy. First pizza I've had in months and it was quite good.

DS is quite bloated now though - the pizza was the only suspect thing he's eaten. He's also sensitive to tomatoes though and we were so excited to eat pizza I didn't even think to make him some without sauce. I hope it's the tomatoes and not the crust because I can't handle a glutening. Eek!

The party went much longer than planned and we actually left before cake was served so the kids didn't really miss anything. But I had yummy pumpkin muffins ready for them to eat instead of cake.

My 3yo is silly... at one point he had a minor meltdown because he wanted cake, not a muffin. He was very upset when I told him the cake had wheat in it and he insisted "my cousins CAN'T have wheat!!" I finally got him calmed down and he was fine after that. Poor kid knows he can't have wheat, but is still learning that others can. :(

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Beth03456 Newbie
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Yeah, its hard. My 4 yo keeps asking when he can go back on his wheat diet, and its been over a year now. Its just so hard sometimes.

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