Food Preparation & Storage

The Lindam night and day feeding system

Advantages: was able to keep it in my room so didnt have to go down stairs, storage for the bottles.
Disadvantages: It took kinda long to heet up the bottles.

The lindam night and day feeding system is an excellent product i bought it when my wife gad twins and it was an excellent product. We were able to keep it right in our room. it cost thirty dollars and was worth every penny. It only took 6 minutes to heat up a bottle and it made it the perfect temperature for our children so they were able to fall asleep right after they drank it. I also liked the safety feature they had, it would turn off automatically ...

Trevorbuck 30.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Lindam Night & Day Feeding System

Very good even for bad cooks.

Advantages: Very easy to use. Makes tasty food in 10mins!
Disadvantages: Quite expensive

I looked over quite a few different products to make my babies food. And there's not too many options out there. I wanted to buy something so that I could prepare his food in something separate from ours so that our herbs and spices wouldn't contaminate his food in the early stages. To buy a blender alone was going to cost me about £30, then I would need a saucepan etc. So i took a chance on the baby cook. At £65 its not exactly cheap but its well ...
...makes it very easy. Pick a few ingredients, cut them up throw them in with the correct amount of water and turn to steam. In up to 10 mins in will be cooked. I was very sceptical about this to begin with. I didn't think 10 minutes would be long enought to safely cook chicken along with the vast amount of veg i had used. I was pleasantly surprised when i found the food to be cooked perfectly. Then you just tip it in to the bottom and blend it to the ...

oldgroveway 16.04.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Beaba Beaba Babycook

Avoid late night disasters.

Advantages: easy to use
Disadvantages: none really

Babies like their food warm, and if you feed them breast milk stright from the breast, this is easily arranged. However, if you use formula, or expressed breast milk, getting it to the right temperature can be a bit of a challenge, especially at three in the morning when your brain refuses to work. You can make up formula with some cold boiled water, some just boiled, and you can, with a bit of skill get the right temperature. This method requires ...
...formula you made up earlier, the usual trick is a saucepan full of boiling water. Now ask yourself, does a saucepan full of boiling water sound like a sensible thing to have when you are half asleep and trying to deal with a wailing baby? No? I struggled on for the best part of a month until I was given a babytech bottle warmer. I haven't looked back. The bottle warmer is bigger than a bottle, can take large bottles or small - there's a stand ...

Bryn_Pearson 18.09.2002 · Read full review
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Review of Babytec Food & Bottle Warmer

The long way to warm a bottle!

Advantages: Useful if you have no other methods of heating
Disadvantages: Far too slow

As a first time parent I bought the shop!! Thinking that you need everything I bought one, especially when these were recommended by the mid wife. It was said to be a safe and easy way to warm food and milk. I was specifically told not to use a microwave as it can unevenly heat the milk and will have hot spots, which can burn your babies tongue. I found the product to be too slow, my baby would cry himself to sleep before he had any chance of getting ...
...before the heater got up to temperature. This is a long time for any baby to wait especially in the middle of the night. Not only that but I would often forget to turn it off and boiled it dry several times. The thermostat control was often pure guesswork that it would be the right temperature and had to keep checking every few minutes to make sure that it was not too hot. On numerous occasions I over heated the milk and had to run it under the cold ...

elston 01.09.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Mothercare Bottle Heater

the grinder that doesn't grind - useless

Advantages: cheap
Disadvantages: lots: the main being that it doesn't do what it claims to!

...little nutritional value, in fact Annabel Karmel herself has been busy writing about it in her books! I bought this product mainly for the purpose of ridding husk/skin off garden peas, dried apricots etc - something that a blender doesn't do. It states on the box that this food mill does precisely that - complete LIES. I tried with peas (that I cooked for a little longer than usual to make sure they're soft enough for this mill) but again I was ...
...baby that. I have Annabel Karmel's books on weaning and have found them very helpful so I guess I expected this product to be as reliable but as it turns out I was a fool to think that. This is a cheap product (£8 in Boots) so I didn't expect amazing results when I bought it, but it really is quite useless. Save your pennies and use a fork instead! :) In summary, this food mill works on: overcooked root vegetables, floury potatoes, overripe bananas ...

Lini_M 04.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Annabel Karmel Baby Food Grinder