UK MNer with a child aged 1-2? Want to try the latest healthy food for DCs from Little Dish? £300 to be won for feedback! NOW CLOSED

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Little Dish have asked us to find 250 Mumsnetters with a child aged 1-2 to try their brand new range specially designed for little ones - and to share their feedback on MN.

Hillary, founder of Little Dish says, “We’ve taken great care in developing this new range and we would love Mumsnetters to be the first to try it. We’ve found feedback from the Mumsnet community to be extremely useful in the past, so we’re really looking forward to hearing what you think.”

This product test is open to all UK Mumsnetters who have at least one child age 1-2 and are available w/c 8th and 15th May to trial the products.

Testers will be required to try 4 recipes and to add their feedback about the range on a thread on Mumsnet. We’d also love to see photos of your DC enjoying them, so please do share them on the thread if you are selected. As well as posting your thoughts on the feedback thread we will also need you to complete a short survey on the products.

Everyone who gives feedback as required will be entered into a prize draw to win a £300 John Lewis voucher!

If you’d like to take part click here to sign up.

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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Ours have arrived. Three of DSs favourite foods and one (mac & cheese) that he hasn't tried before. We like the packaging-I love fancy looking packets :) and the apron which DS doesn't really understand what to use it for yet but we are going to make cakes tomorrow so will probably use it then! It's very cute.

Package arrived! Excited to try it. The apron is so cute. Dc loves an apron!

First time having soup in a bowl (always did it in a cup etc) and it's going down a real treat!

Tad messy, but the thickness is perfect. Makes it easy for little hands to spoon.

It smells lovely too, reminds me a little of vegetable soup. That savoury-ish smell.

Dd is making lots of "yummmmm" and slurpy poses

Haha apparently she "Lubs soup".

Got mine yesterday too and already tried the baked beans and soup - both went down a storm with my 1-2 yr old but my very fussy 2-3 yr old can't be tempted. Pleasantly surprised to find they are all storecupboard goods for a quick lunch or tea rather than big hearty dinners. Big portions too - baked beans served both kids + snack-sized portion for me!

Was so excited to receive our trial, loved the apron and packaging but my heart sank when I saw the food. Ds stopped eating beans, hoops and soup aged about 10 months. I tried to get him to eat macaroni a few weeks ago but he wouldn't. Should I pass the pouches on to someone else? We opened the hoops but he is too fussy (he won't eat 'wet' food) and I don't want to waste the others. Sorry

Tried the baked beans today. My one-year-old loved them. They were so easy to prepare, and a perfect on the run meal.

Portion size was a bit odd, as this either made two quite small meals, or one absolutely massive meal. Considering most of these would need to be served with something, like toast, I'm not sure why the servings are so large. Even my four-year-old wouldn't have managed a whole packet.

These are great backups to have in the cupboard though, especially as my one-year-old is now a bit old for the pouches. Sometimes we do just really need to grab something quickly.

Picture attached.

The macaroni was well received, lots of "yum yum". But she has (this week) stopped eating tomato based meals.
However, I tried the soup and hoops and they were very yummy indeed.
The beans are being kept aside in case she changes her mind!
The prep time for each meal was great, we so often get stuck making sandwiches for lunch because they're quick.

I liked the packaging, ingredients easy to read and the whole thing was easy to store.

I liked that there was lots of hidden veg inside the sauces.

She loves the macaroni cheese, wolfed it down, I thought it was perhaps too runny.

She wasn't keen on the spaghetti hoops. Think it just threw her that they didn't taste like Heinz.

The soup also went down well too. Her official feedback ' mmmm yumMMeeee'

She doesn't like beans at the moment so I couldn't get her to try them. I thought they were nice though

Overall would give 4/5

I also agree with the comments about portion size. The macaroni cheese made one meal but was about a quarter left over same with the hoops.