Yesterday I went to John Lewis with the aim of purchasing a cup for my little one. He’s coming up to 6 months and we thought it was time to introduce an alternative to his bottle. John Lewis stock a couple of brands but I loved the simplicity of the brother max 4 in 1 cup. We already use some of their products for our homemade baby food so I was keen to check out what else they made. This cup can be used from baby to toddler as the teat and handles can be removed for different stages of…
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We started weaning at 17 weeks according to advice from our Health Visitor. We tried some baby rice and quickly progressed to vegetable and fruit purees. Almost two months later and our little one will happily have three meals a day wherever we are. I’ve learned to stuff the changing bag with jars of food as well as milk, a change of clothes and several bibs. We’ve been working our way through the Plum goodies we won recently and Edward will happily munch through half a pot of the vegetables followed by half a fruit pot. Today we stopped to…
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This morning we were very excited to receive two big boxes full of beautifully packed Plum baby food! I love filling in questionnaires and apparently we won the prize for telling Plum our opinion of fromage frais! The prize was £50 of Plum baby food and we were sent meals, cereals, fromage frais and sauces which we can use now as well as more varieties to use at 7 months +. This was such an amazing prize and fun to open through the layers of tissue paper! Of course we had to sample one so Edward had Raspberry and Rosehip…
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I spent this evening making some vegetable purees for my little boy. Over the last few weeks we’ve been working our way through some tasty foods from Hipp Organic and Plum which have gone down very well. However I really want to make my own purees so I read Annabel Karmel’s Top 100 Baby Purees for some inspiration. Today I stopped off at the local supermarket and bought a butternut squash and a bag of carrots. I washed, peeled and cooked the vegetables separately and then pureed butternut squash, carrots and some leftover mashed potato in our blender with a…
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While I was pregnant I joined lots of clubs to help me decide what products I should use. One of my favourite is Hipp Organic and we have been sent some great samples of baby foods. I try really hard not to succumb to marketing gimmicks but I genuinely like Hipp Organic as it is an established brand, the food is pure and simple with no added nasties and the recipes are nice and simple. So it didn’t take me long to purchase a weaning kit when I was thinking about weaning a few weeks ago. Look at all the…
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As Edward is now 17 weeks (where’s the time going!?) we decided to start him on some baby rice. He can sit up in his new Stokke highchair, he puts things in his mouth, and watches us eating. We gave him one spoonful of baby rice mixed with 10 spoonfuls of milk. It looked quite gross but must have tasted ok as he ate a couple of spoonfuls 🙂 He took to the spoon really well and could have eaten a lot more than the recommended spoonful!