Birthday party advice

Some of you may remember me mentioning that both of my girls are having a party this month. We plan on having a cookie cake for the kids, BUT I also have a few bariatric patient friends and a few kids with diabetes coming to the party. I'm looking at trying to have a little something for everyone. I'd hate for people to feel left out because all we have is sweets and carbs. I'm thinking of a veggie tray with homemade ranch dip (ranch packets in lowfat plain yogurt), and some fruit trays. We doing this after lunch time, so I don't think we'll need a whole arrangement of foods.

Any ideas on what kinds of fruits and veggies I should include? I'm going to have Crystal Light and water set out for drinks, and maybe some sodas for the "normal" adults. Thanks!

A deli meat tray with some assorted cheeses is always nice at a luncheon.

Pinterest has tons of ideas...my step daughter had a mickey themed party for the baby & she had "Daisy's vegetable garden" (veggie tray), etc. 

For fruit -- berries are the lowest carb fruits, pretty much.  You could also look up recipes for a yogurt dip and make with greek yogurt for both veggies ( savory version) and fruit (sweet version).

You could also make sugar free cheesecakes in mini cupcake pans (with the liners!) using either no crust or a nut crust.  If you google sugar free (or low carb) cheese cake, you'll get the recipes.  Here, there is a new cream cheese/greek yogurt blend that I've bought to try in cheesecake -- but I haven't tried it yet!

The other thing I've done is get big strawberries, core them and pipe in a sweet greek yougurt, protein powder and SF cheesecake mixture -- I think that is on eggface's blog.  You can also fill raspberries with it.

Ooohhh that sounds yummy!!!! Thank you!

Read Eggface's blog (someone linked to it yesterday best thing ever)

Links to her sweets recipes:

http://theworldaccordingtoeggface.blogspot.ch/2009/06/its-national-donut-day.html

http://theworldaccordingtoeggface.blogspot.ch/2009/06/strawberry-cannoli.html

http://theworldaccordingtoeggface.blogspot.ch/2012/05/national-strawberries-and-cream-day.html

I'm still exploring so many ideas! This women is amazing.

We created our own edible bouquet out of fruit since we don't live in a delivery area for that company. It was fun cutting out shapes and stringing them onto skewers. I will definitely try the stuffed strawberries. Thanks for the tips!