List of food to have at an engagement party?!

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fresh fruit platter with a dip, little tea sandwiches, use different breads and cut off crust, one of my favorite sandwiches are 1 jar of orange marmalade mixed with softened cream cheese. It is super good on raisin cinnamon bread. I would also make a veggie platter with all the garden vegetables that are available now. Tortilla roll ups are a great hit too just serve salsa on the side. Take the little pastry cups you can but in the frozen section and fill them with different fruits or puddings. Spinach, strawberry and walnut salad with a raspberry vinagrette. Different pnnches and some sparkling wine.

It can be as simple or as complex as you want to make it. If you are inviting people to celebrate an engagement (yours?) I am sure most of them would be happy with whatever is provided as they are coming to celebrate a happy occasion and the food should be a secondary concern for most folks.

Basically though, you want to put out anything that doesn't leave people with sticky/greasy fingers and that is consumable in just a few bites without making a mess.

Popular easy low-effort options are: chips, veggies and dips. Olives. Nuts. Crackers. Bread. Pretzels. Slices of cheese and meat.

Mini pizzas. Mini quiche. Mini sandwiches - make sure the fillings will not make them soggy though; tomatoes are villains for this.

Things on sticks are usually quite popular as fingers don't get dirtied at all - cheese and pineapple chunks, meatballs, mini sausages etc Make sure you have an obvious container to dispose of the sticks in though or they tend to end up in unexpected places.

If you want to be more artistic - cherry tomatoes hollowed out and stuffed - a mix of cream cheese and smoked salmon usually goes down well. Devilled eggs. Small pastries stuffed with an assortment of fillings.... Brie and cranberry sauce in filo pastry, sausage and mustard or cheddar cheese, mashed potato and fried onions in puff pastry etc Just think about flavours that are good together - usually they can be wrapped deliciously together in a pastry.

For sweet things - mini things are again a good bet. Brownies cut small - maybe with a fancy shaped cutter? Little heart shaped cookies. Cupcakes. Little latticed puff pastries with a sweet filling - apple, cherry etc. Mini chocolate eclairs. Simple fresh fruit for people who are watching what they eat.

I don't think there is any food you should never have, but it is probably considerate not to have 'hidden' elements to a food - so people with allergies will not have issues. eg - you expect peanuts in a bowl of peanuts, you don't expect them in a breaded fried chicken nugget... but I do know a guy who puts crushed peanuts in his 'crumb' mix.

Also, with some foods there is obviously a limited 'safe' time for them to sit outside of refrigeration - meat, fish, shrimp etc so you'd have to trash them after a few hours to ensure there was no risk of food poisoning.

crab cakes
cocktail shrimp
chicken or beef skewers
pot stickers
prosciutto & melon rolls

grilled veggie skewers
cheese & fruit tray
spring rolls
veggie salad rolls
bruschetta

brownies
cookies
mini cupcakes
cheesecake tarts