So you've read all our ideas for kids party food and feel like you have information overload? Well here's a fool proof menu & shopping list as designed by Zuki for her 7th birthday.

Menu

The most popular even with the fussiest eaters are highlighted in bold.

Savoury

• cruditee (raw veg): baby tomatoes, carrot sticks, cucumber sticks, crisp lettuce, seedless grapes
• corn on the cob - sawn into short sections
• crisps (see Kids' party food article for vegan flavours)
• chopped sausages (in order of preference): Fry's hot dog sausages, Taifun tofu weiners, Vegi Deli sage & marjoram sausages
• sandwiches: marmite (yeast extract), peanut butter, vegan marg
• mini pizzas, with a selection of toppings, using: pizza bases or pitta bread, tomato puree, Super Melting Cheezly (Mozzarella or Gouda style) vegan pesto or mixed herbs, spanish black pitted olives, pineapple, sweetcorn, Cheatin' Ham
• herby garlic bread : made with olive oil or vegan marg with finely crushed garlic and mixed herbs

Sauces & dips

• ketchup
• egg-free mayo (eg Plamil)

Sweet

• cake - strawberry and coconut
• scones with marg & strawberry jam (eg Liz Cook recipe)
• Waitrose or Sainsbury bourbon biscuits
• vegetarian fruit jelly (made from crystals)
• Swedish Glace ice cream

Party bag and/or party prize ideas

• satsumas or clementines
• seedless grapes
• 'Free' chocolate bars (the ones in the lilac wrappers in the free prom section of a supermarket)
• fruit leather
• packets of Lyme Regis fruit squares
• plain Panda liquorice or similar
• other vegan sweets - use the Animal Free Shopper for the widest variety, or our list for a few ideas
• birthday cake wrapped up in serviette or foil
• pads of paper, pens/pencils, hair ties & clips, small toys

Shopping List

Supermarket

• Pure margerine (either blue, green or yellow tub in chiller area), olive oil
• fruit & veg: tomatoes, iceberg lettuce, cucumber, grapes, carrots, clementines/satsumas
• Marmite, peanut butter, tomato ketchup
• plain pizza bases or pitta bread ( check they are dairy & egg free)
• pizza topping: tomato puree, mixed herbs, sweetcorn, tinned pineapple, Spanish black pitted olives
• cake and scone ingredients, eg: self-raising flour, baking powder, rapeseed oil, strawberries, dessicated coconut, jam, soya milk, sultanas
• bourbon biscuits (Waitrose or Sainsbury's own brand)
• Swedish Glace ice cream (black octagonal tubs)
• 'Free' chocolate bars (with lilac wrappers and in rice crispie or mandarin varieties, found in the Free From area)
• party extras, eg: serviettes, cutlery, cups, party poppers, candles, kitchen towel, party bag & prize extras (if necessary)

Perhaps in a supermarket but more likely in a health food shop

• vegan marg, if you didn't get it in th supermarket, eg Pure, Suma or Biona brands
• sausages: Fry's hot dogs (Holland & Barrett), Taifun tofu weiners (health food shop), Vegi Deli sausages (Holland & Barrett, some supermarkets, specialist shops). Note: avoid Linda McC (awful) or Quorn (not vegan) sausages.
• egg-free mayo, such as by Plamil - sometimes in the supermarket's Free From area otherwise in any health food shop
• pizza topping: vegan pesto (eg Zest Vegan Pesto), Super Melting Cheezly (not standard Cheezly), Cheatin' Ham
• vegetarian fruit jelly crystals
• some vegan sweets and chewy bars