Got any platter ideas that don’t include finger food? No? Do away with finger food arrangements on your snack platters and place individual little containers on your snack platters with small spoons or forks instead.

Find a list of different types of small individual serving containers you could use for your snacks on our Individual Snack Servings on a Large Snack Platter page.

What types of food could you serve or present on a snack platter that need their own individual small containers and spoons or forks?

Tip:
If the individual containers you are using to serve your separate servings in are particularly small, provide extra small spoons or forks too. Perhaps even insert a little spoon or little fork into each and every individual container.

Pudding Platter Ideas

Pudding platters will go down really well with people who have a sweet tooth, or at a children’s party. It’s easier to match colours of food up with the main colour or colours of the theme of the party with puddings than it is with other foods, too.

Your pudding platters could consist of separate and individual little containers of puddings in various colours (or only one colour):

Different Puddings

jelly,
instant pudding,
ice-cream,
instant custard,
a wide variety of homemade puddings and desserts

Salad Platter Ideas

To stick with the theme of having to use a spoon or fork for eating, instead of fingers, avoid salads or salad ingredients where people may be tempted to use their fingers instead, like cherry tomatoes or slices of tomato, slices of strips of cucumber, or small blocks of cheese. Make or provide salads like runny bean salads, rice salads, and pasta salads instead.

Pasta meals or salads platters

If providing a wide variety of platter foods at your party or gathering (and not just platter puddings like you may do at a children’s party) you can provide the meat or fish ingredients in the form of pasta salads (cold) or pasta meals (hot.)

Vegetable Platter Ideas

As with the salad platter ideas, don’t tempt the party guests to use their fingers. Provide only vegetables that party guests would most likely usually only eat with a spoon or fork. Decide if you want to serve your vegetables hot or cold.

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