New Belle & Boo goodies

Scream! I can’t get enough of Belle & Boo‘s retro stylings and the dynamic duo’s latest are no exception. Available in two designs, Pirate Party and Ava’s Tea Party, the tin lunchboxes are divine (and a mere £9) – how cute will Alfie look venturing to nursery with this? I am also snapping up a [...]

Lunchbox – the story of your food

Lunchbox – the story of your food (£8.99 from Walker Books) is a great but very simple book: it takes each ingredient in a typical lunchbox and explains where it has come from. So we learn about flour-making in mills, tomato-growing in hothouses, and cheese production processes. Like many parents, I suspect, I worry about [...]

My Friendly Lunchbox

If there is one memory of packed lunches which remains from my childhood it is the faint taste of plastic and banana which tainted the food. Frustrated by leaking containers and a poor selection of BPA, PVC and phthalate free lunch products on the market, Mama Anna set about finding out what the rest of [...]

Hot UK Preview: DwellStudio

When I first started Bambino Goodies, the DwellStudio collection (back then it was called DwellBaby) of co-ordinated textiles for babies and kids was one of the first brands that let me breathe a great whopping sigh of relief that a baby need never enter this world onto dodge bedding. Since then, the UK has really [...]

Lunchboxes by Rice

These lunchboxes by fair trade and ethical Danish homewares and accessories favourite Rice, remind me of lunchboxes of yesteryear. Even though they’re ‘cute’, they don’t make my teeth ache and feature animals de jour, horses and the ever present owl. The horse print is a two piece set and the forest one is a set [...]