Baby shower food ideas

Hello everyone.

My baby shower is coming up fast(July first) and I want some ideas for food to serve. It's summer, we don't have a BBQ and my friend and I are doing it alone. We're going to have 40-50 women and kids, so we are trying to think of simple things, most of which can be served cold to serve.

Also, does anyone have punch recipes?

Thanks.

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Hey!! I would suggest doing finger foods... sandwiches (like chicken salad, ham salad or cold cut sandwiches) veggie trays and fruit trays.. things like that.

A good punch, we always make for weddings and baby showers.. is very simple.. and inexpensive.

Any flavor of Sherbet and Seven Up

Use your favorite flavor.. which ever kind you like..
you can get all kinds of different flavors.. orange, peach, strawberry, raspberry, lime etc.. they even have rainbow! My personal favorite is raspeberry or peach.. at our wedding we used raspberry to kinda match the color theme at our wedding.. which was actually lilac and ivory but... it was close.

But you just use one 2-liter bottle of 7 up to quart container of sherbet. So however much you need.. just remember that pattern. Some people use ginger ale instead of 7 up.. but we have always used 7 up.

For 40 to 50 people.. I would probably say it would take 5 containers of sherbet and 5 bottles of 7 up. It's still a lot cheaper than going any other way.

To make it.. just scoop out one container of the sherbert into the punch bowl.. then slowly add one bottle of 7 up.. repeat this to fill up the punch bowl.. Save the rest.. as it gets empty you can add more as you need it. Stir it around to kind of break up the sherbet.. the sherbet doesn't need to be broken up completely.. just a little mixed in and disolved. Then it's ready to serve. It's so easy and so yummy! And it's not one of those things.. if you add too much or too little of something.. it's gonna make it bad. I love things like that.. because you don't have to be so precise and it still tastes great... you don't have to worry about messing it up.. lol

I know I typed a lot for something so simple.. I hope this helps you! Good luck!

I do different cheeses and grapes with everything. Strawberrys, cantaloupe are now in the stores here (south). Celery sticks, kids called them ants on a log. celery sticks cream cheese and raisins. I have a great punch but I will have to find it. Will try to get back to you on that. Made with pineapple juice, jello, sprit, and that fizzy drink, can't think of it anyway you partially freeze it and serve it like slush. little almond flavoring. verrrrrry good.pm me if you are interested.

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I agree with the sandwich idea and if you're really crafty, you can use cookie cutters and cut your breads into pretty little shapes. I'm looking forward to that punch recipe, bfly.

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I wanted to add.. the punch I gave is just a simple and very good recipe.. I said that I use 1 quart of sherbet to 1 2-liter of 7-up.. I asked my mom how she did it.. and she does it 1 quart of sherbet to 2 2-liters of 7 up... but she said it really doesn't matter.. it just depends on how creamy and fizzy you want it. You can add to the taste that you like.. that's what's great about it.. it really is impossible to do it wrong.

The fruit that someone else mentioned was basically what I said.. with finger foods, fruit trays, sandwhiches, veggie trays... watermelon is big now... someone could do a watermelon fruit basket.. with different kinds of melon and kiwi and grapes.. and if someone has the patience.. you could cut the watermelon basket kind of into the shape of a baby carrier. I've seen those done. Cheese is great.. and I love the idea of cutting the sandwhiches.. you can find cookie cutters with a baby theme for innexpensive at places like walmart in the craft section. I have just about every cookie cutter you could imagine....

oh something else you could do... most people have a cake.. I made homemade mints for my sister in laws baby shower last summer. You can buy the wilton melting candies and you can find them already colored.. pink, blue, yellow or you could get white and color them yourselves.. you just melt them in the microwave.. stirring every 30 seconds until they are melted.. add just a few drops of mint flavoring.. which is wilton also.. the kind that I have.. I think they are the best for candy making and things like that. But as soon as you stir in the mint flavoring.... you pour them into the molds.. (you can also get from walmart or any craft store, in baby themes) you put them in the freezer for like 5 to 8 minutes and they are done.. you take them out and pop them out onto wax paper. You can make them way ahead of time.. you just want to make sure you freeze them until the night before.. and then put them in the fridge till you use them so they don't melt. That's just a suggestion.

Originally Posted by valentine

I agree with the sandwich idea and if you're really crafty, you can use cookie cutters and cut your breads into pretty little shapes. I'm looking forward to that punch recipe, bfly.

Sorry, but with cf being down, I had forgotten about it. I am going right now and try to chase it down.

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Originally Posted by bfly

Sorry, but with cf being down, I had forgotten about it. I am going right now and try to chase it down.

Punch has been posted. Wedding punch. I put it on a thread by it self so others would see it. Hope you can use it. I know you will love it.

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Another variety of punch is gingerale and sherbet.

We had little quiches that I bought frozen at Sam Warehouse. Everyone loved these. You could also have veggies and fruits. OR a meat and cheese platter and stuff for sandwiches. My mom makes some awesome meatballs that everyone LOVES, you could have those in a crock pot. I buy the frozen premade meatballs, but you could make your own.

Meatball sauce

1 12 ounce bottle of chili sauce
1 16 ounce jar of grape jelly

Mix well and bring to a boil over medium heat, add to meatballs in crockpot and simmer for 2-3 hours or longer.

Serve you favorite dip in a hollowed out round loaf of bread and use the bread that was taken out as something to dip with. Very good and popular, when you run out of bread they can tear bits off of the bowl, My mom always used dill dip, but you could use any kind.

You can also use peppers (green, yellow, or red) to serve dip in. Pretty and practical!

I do a dip that is very popular.

Layered mexican dip

softened cream cheese
refried beans
salsa or green chilis or jalpenos ( your preference)
browned ground beef or chili
diced onions, and or green, red or yellow peppers
shredded cheddar or colby cheese

In a glass bowl or casserole spread softened cream cheese as you base, top with the rest of the ingredients in any order, except cheese should always go on top. microwave until melted about 3 or 4 minutes. Serve with tortilla chips. We make this different everytime according to what we have. You do not have to use the meat. Always a HUGE HIT!

There seem to be some great recipes here. . .the braid type things made with cresents are always popular! You do not have to use "pampered chef" stoneware or stuff, you could use generic stuff.

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Thank you for all the wonderful idea! Keep them coming.

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One of my favorites is a spinach dip, served in a hollowed out pumpernickle bread round. Use the pumpernickle you scoop out of the middle for scooping the dip out of it. You need:
1 box Knorr dried vegetable soup mix
1 cup mayo (don't use miracle whip)
1 cup sour cream
1 box frozen chopped spinach
(thaw & squeeze liquid out of it)
1 small pumpernickle bread round.
Cut the pumpernickle, forming a bowl and scoop out. I cut the scooped out stuff in bite sized chunks. Mix the other ingredients well and transfer to the bread bowl. Make it about 3 hours ahead of time so the flavors blend.
Hope you enjoy your shower... God Bless.