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Posts tagged “meal time goods”

Baby Shower Cookies

In a moment of fearlessness, I volunteered to co-host a friend's upcoming baby shower. The last few weeks have meant more babies on the brain syndrome than usual. While surfing for shower ideas, I s...

ABC Personalized Placemats by AlphabetLove

Call it wishful thinking, but we're wondering if cute and educational placemats like these would give our son something to focus on during meals other than rolling grapes off the table and styling h...

Five Hook-On High Chairs

Many parents love hook-on high chairs for their portability, but they win big points with us for being space savers. There aren't many to choose from in the U.S. and most have similar features and ...

Booster Chairs
Roundup

There's that in-between stage when your child is too big (or feels too old) for a highchair, but is not quite ready (or tall enough) to use a full-size chair. Enter the booster chair. Here are ten...

Everyday Tips and Tricks

...including this neat little way to make those pancakes extra special. Cathe from Just Something I Made shares some tips and tricks for the kitchen......

mOmma

It's not often we stop to admire the smooth sleek lines of a baby bottle as if it were a Maserati that just pulled along side us with Hugh Jackman helming the wheel, but the feeding line of Italian ...

DIY Food Face Plates

If Food Face plates made you smile, these DIY versions will put a huge grin on your face. Not to mention the laughs and giggles coming out of your kids. Kalleen made these herself based on family ...

ABC Paper Cups

We're enamoured with these ABC Paper Cups making their way through the blogosphere. They're a great for a party - assign a letter to each guest and you won't have to deal with mixed up drinks and was...

Grain Sack Kitchen Towels DIY

We love the look of vintage grain-sack linens that we seem to be seeing everywhere lately, but they're expensive and not the kind of thing we'd want to be wiping up toddler messes with. So- this idea...

Munchkin Wooden Feeding Set

We were surprised to see this wooden feeding set for babies made by Munchkin. We say surprised because we're used to seeing colorful plastic products from the Munchkin label....

Another Rainbow Cake

Yesterday's rainbow pancakes caused a bit of a stir here at Ohdeedoh. Controversy or not, we're still craving color, especially since we have six more weeks of winter to endure. Enter this sophistic...

Message-in-a-Cookie Cutters
Williams-Sonoma

While we enjoy browsing Williams-Sonoma's cute baking accessories (like their plethora of cake pans: acorn, beehive and train to name a few), we just can't justify the cabinet space for something th...

King of the Jungle Cookie Jar

As parents we're always happy to find things that make our little ones happy while pleasing us big kids as well. We think this King of the Jungle cookie jar is a perfect example....

Lil Diner Plate Holder
Hot or Not

Whoa - this is for parents serious about a tidy table. We must admit we thought this was a joke, but this is a real product for sale. We're all for suction bowls, but this seems a bit, well, inten...

What to do with Leftover Breast Milk Storage Bags
Good Idea

There's been lots of cleaning and reorganizing leading up to the holidays. We're finally sitting down to look at the few things we didn't giveaway, donate or throw out. One of the spared items is a ...

Beaba Dinnerware

We still haven't invested in child-size dinnerware for our son and are dutifully exploring our options. We're looking for something hard to break, safe to eat on and microwave and easy to clean. ...

Muffin Tin Lunch
Good Idea

What's lunch time like at your house? If you're looking for a way to jazz things up a bit, check your baking drawer....

Suction Bowls
Transitioning to Tableware

The amount of our son's food that goes from placemat to floor is already pretty high so adding a bowl to the mix seems like asking for trouble. But transitioning to using tableware has to happen so...

Good Idea: Cutting Kids Food with Scissors

Saturday evening dinner consisted of Korean food with friends. When the beef kalbi was ready to eat, I started looking for the waitress to bring me a knife....

Good Idea: Mini Jack O' Lanterns

Last year we blogged about sending your kids something special in their lunch by writing on fruit. Just in time for Halloween, Jessica of Zakka Life creates these mini Jack O' Lanterns....

Home Somen Shop (Huh?)

Sometimes we're in awe of Japanese products because they're crazy cute, but this looks just a bit...well, crazy. We've never heard of "nagashimen" - trying to catch somen noodles with chopsticks as...

Hot or Not? Bavettone

It's a bib, it's a placemat, it's a table cloth, it's Bavettone. If you don't have children this product must look ridiculous, but if mealtime equals laundry and mopping in your house, maybe, just ...

Kidishes Tempered Glass Dishes

Our growing collection of kid dishes include ceramic, plastic, melamine and stainless steel. Each has it's pros and cons. If you're trying to move away from plastic, want something that can be micro...

Mimi the Sardine

We received a "lunch bug" from a friend for our daughter's birthday, and we were pleased to find out Mimi the Sardine carries a whole line of eco-friendly, pvc-free wipeable kids' products including a...

PlanetBox Lunchbox

We've discovered yet another great lunchbox for those of you who like to pack a lunch. It's the stainless steel PlanetBox....