drinks/beverages: Have a variety. Put some bottles of soda out. You can set coffee as well. To make things more festive, you can even include punch. For punch, you can combine soda such as sprite/gingerale with juice such as pineapple.....and then add some scoops of sherbert ice cream in it. If you don't want to make punch....then just soda, juice, and coffee would be good. You can even include hot chocolate. You'll have a mix of warm and cold.
Snacks: Have a mix of sweet and savoury. Cookies and brownies and minni muffins are a good ideas to satisfy a sweet tooth.
Other simple suggestions for **sweet **snacks:
1) fruit. You can either cut up fruit and put it on a platter or make fruit salad
2) Mixed nuts. You can buy a can/jar of mixed nuts.....which make a good snack. Or even a trail mix packet which contains a mix of nuts, pretzels, candy, etc.
3) If you find that getting enough minni muffins might be expensive......then you can consider getting a simple cake (cheese cake, carrot cake, lemon cake, etc)....and the guests can cut slices.
Ideas for savory snack items:
1) Minni samosay are a great idea, as you've already mentioned in your thread. Since you're busy with your baby, you can get the premade frozen variety. Another alternative is to buy the premade Pepperidge Farm pastry sheets....and stuff them with keema/chicken and bake according to instructions (stuffed pastries).
2) **Vegetable platter: **You can easily buy a pre-made vegetable platter from the grocery store. You will have to do absolutely NO choping, arranging, displaying. And it already comes with the dip. Simply, uncover the plastic cover and serve. This will save you time.
3) Hummus with wedges of pita bread. You can buy hummus and pita chips/crackers from the store. OR you can buy pita bread.....cut them in wedges....and toast them in the oven. That would make a nice companion to the seven layer dip and chips.....because it will provide a different texture and flavor.
4) **Finger sandwiches. **Get some bread of your choice. And make a simple filling. For example, you can make cucumber sandwiches.....egg salad sandwiches......chicken sandwiches (shred cooked chicken and mix it with mayo, finely chopped onion, finely chopped lettuce, salt/pepper to taste, dash of hot sauce).
Many of these things........you can buy premade from the grocery store to save you time as you're busy with your baby. Just keep it simple. You can choose to have 3-4 sweet items and 3-4 savory items.....make it equal if it makes things easier for you.