Oscar’s 3rd Birthday Party was a great success! We had wonderful weather, so the party could go ahead in the park and Oscar and friends had a great time. The food also went down well, although we do have quite a bit left over to take to work tomorrow.
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| Oscar blowing out his candles |
The menu included:
- Schweppes lemonade (no preservatives)
- Plain salt chips (Kettle and Red Rock Deli)
- Rice Crackers (gluten free)
- Arnott’s Jatz crackers
- Edam and Colby Cheese (Amines)
- Celery sticks
- Carrot sticks (moderate salicylates)
- Castlemaine Dips Mediterranean Carrot Dip (gluten free, dairy free, no artificial preservatives, colours or additives, salicylates – see below)
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| Birthday Party Platter |
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| Birthday Party Baking |
The dip is the first dip I have found that is even remotely close to being Oscar friendly. The 3 main ingredients are Carrots (21%), Chickpeas (53%) and sunflower oil (10%). The remaining 16% of ingredients are lemon juice, vinegar, sesame seeds, salt and spices, all very high salicylates except the salt. Oscar has never been interested in eating my home made dips, but I wanted to have something that he could eat if he saw the other kids eating and this seemed worth a try as the very high salicylates were quite a small percentage. He didn’t try any at the party, but he has just had several dips with a couple of rice crackers while I’ve been writing this post, so maybe I have finally found a way to tempt him
Kids really love cup cakes.