Birthday parties, both directions (Mila & Friends, Episode 1)

Birthday parties are where gluten-free eating meets other people’s kitchens. Episode 1 of Mila & Friends looks at both directions: the party you host, and the party your coeliac child is invited to.

Same cake, both parties

Every gluten-free family meets the birthday question twice. Once when it is your turn to host, and the other parents wonder what their children will eat. And once when the invitation comes home in the school bag, from a kitchen you have never cooked in. Both times the plan starts in the same place: one cake that everyone eats, and the right words said early.

Our party

When the party is at your house, you decide what goes on the table, and that makes it the easier direction. The guide covers what helps most:

• The host script for the other parents
• The same-but-gluten-free cake plan: buy or bake, and what to ask a bakery
• Why the shared knife matters
• Eight games without flour, pasta or cereal
• The invitation wording you can copy

Their party

The other direction is harder, because the kitchen is not yours. Here the guide gives you words more than recipes:

• The RSVP wording you can copy
• What to send with your child, and how to say it
• The party-bag question, answered kindly

The Birthday Party Guide

Both directions are in one guide, in English, German and Italian: three PDFs, instant download, 4.99 EUR.

Get the Birthday Party Guide

Next Sunday: Mila turns seven, and the cake is a volcano. Read Episode 2.

For parents: start with the free article

Our free article on gluten-free birthday parties, joining in, not just watching, is the place to start. The guide adds the scripts, the cake plan and the games, ready to copy.

Read on

• Gluten-free birthday parties: joining in, not just watching
• The Gluten-Free Birthday Party Guide (EN, DE, IT)
• Episode 2: Mila’s Big Birthday Party
• Episode 3: Sunday at Nonna’s
• All Little GF Adventures episodes