I found inspiration for choosing baby names by looking in my fridge.

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Chardonnay, Champagne and Stella jumped out at me right away though they may be a little European for some.

Olive is a good old fashioned sounding name that we don't hear much these days, well not since On The Buses finished.

The cooling fruit gave us a number of really trendy names, Peaches, Mango, Apples etc but these aren't to everybody's tastes.

The one I eventually chose for my daughter was Danone, a nice healthy sounding name and funnily enough we fed her with plenty of yoghurt during her formative years.
It's a real shame she's now a bit on the fat side but your shape can't always reflect your name, though my teenage son Pizza probably wouldn't have agreed.

Now I'm feeling hungry and broody. That can't be good.

I called my son Bread, people think it's old fashioned and I should have gone for Pain-Rustique. Quite frankly that name will sound dated soon and people will want to use Bread again.

Bread is a bit dated Orangepudding. Hovis has a more classic feel about it. I also love Brioche but we're not French so I wouldn't use it.

What do you all think of Ginger-Beer for a boy? I think it has that nice vintage, Enid Blyton feel to it.

I'm fed up of having to correct people on Little Sausage Rolls name. They say it so commonly

I obviously like old fanshioned names then, bump is either going to be Stork (DD) or Spam(DS).

He'd get comments about "lashings of Ginger-Beer" at school, atthewelles. What about Ginger-Ale or Root-Beer? They have a similar feel to them but wouldn't open him up to as much teasing potential.

MY DSis has a Ginger Ale already and Root Beer is considered a bit chavvy over here in Ireland. We were thinking of Lemonade. It was very popular when I was at school but seems to have slipped down the list in favour of Seven-Up and Redbull so it would be nice to revive it.

DP and I really wanted to give our PFB something just a little bit different.

And in any case we couldn't find any fridge names that seemed to suit her iyswim.

We looked outside of the fridge for inspiration and eventually settled on 2 names: rice (has such a lovely Eastern feel to it) and root-veg (so earthy, so sweet).

We eventually settled on Rice as she seemed to just grow into this name and it really does suit her. All my friends say her name seems to just fit her too so its not just us!

I'm a bit miffed that my best friend's sister is also going to call her daughter Rice but my DP tells me not to be so silly and possessive over "our" name. I know I shouldn't be but I can't help it.

I just wanted it to be special to her iyswim! Sigh.

Looking in my fridge, I could only name the twins Sam and Ella.

My ds Tom ato and dd Sal ad, they are so happy our surname is Dressing.

My Uncle Ben gave all his children rice names. There was Tilda and Basmati -- and Long Grain and Short Grain whom no one can believe are actually twins.

His wife wanted to call one of her children Pearl Barley but Uncle Ben wouldn't hear of it as "it's not really rice."

We had originally decided to name our dd Crouton. But when she was born she looked much more like a Dumpling so we went with that. She's seventeen now and has really lived up to her name - I just couldn't imagine her being called anything else. She just is a Dumpling.

Am liking Pesto for a boy, Tarama for a girl.

Schmear for my boy. You might say it's unisex but it's not!

Pesto would indeed suit the current trend of names ending in O, alongside Rollo, Arlo, Otto, Cosmo. Good and original thinking.

Shallot could be my own spelling for that rather outdated Charlotte.

Am also wondering about Maracuja (f) and Blinis (m).

i think you can really tell my age
by the fact i like good old traditional names
so my three are called
Milk, cheese and butter
and 4th will be called
eggs

Am really liking Balsamico (m) and Framboise (f) now...

"own brand" names such as Tesco and Sainsbury are really popular amongst our friends. Lots of children called "Value" in my DSs Reception class.

We are an aspirational family so imagine our relief when Waitrose started their own brand name line! We call her Rose for short

We decided we'd go for an intelligent sounding name for our DS and called him Brains Faggots. We thought it best to drop his middle name as it was causing trouble at school. DD is simply called Spam (alot).

oops meant to strike through and not underline!

Bonsoir would you use Taramasalata on the birth certificate?

I prefer alternative interpretations of names. So my DD is called Cilantro instead of Coriander and my DS is called Methi which sounds so much more butch than Fenugreek.