best place for weaning equipment that doesn't have 'Annabel Karmel' written all over it?

[BellaBear]

Anyone? I don't have anything against the woman, but she does seem to have cornered the market in weaning equipment in all the shops round here, and I wonder what premium you pay to advertise her on your ice cube trays?!

DS is only 19 weeks and I am waiting till 26 weeks, but just want to get prepared.

what kind of equipment do you think you need?
lots of bibs
a fork to mash - or mini blender -
and little baby spoons
reg ice cube trays just as fine

but someone will wax lyrical about blw in a minute as well (you don't need anything for that except bibs)

Hahaha. I used mostly Boots own brand stuff really, just as good as the more expensive stuff.
I use regular ice-cube trays, I bought loads for 50p each

you need equipment to wean?

bibs (with sleeves if you can get them)
spoons
fork/potato masher/blender to mash
cheapo shower curtain if you have carpet
lots of wet flannels for wiping
broom

never bothered with ice cube trays myself

Get an avent weaning kit - the tubs are quite big but I;ve found them great - they are the size of a yogurt pot with a screw on blue lid. YOU can buy extra pots and lids too.

A phillips hand blender and ice cube trays and freezer bags to pop them out into to use the trays. Sorted with no mention of Anabel.

I;ve had mine for over two years in and out of sterilizer and dishwasher.

I still use them for DS's meals now and he is almost three.

if you are buying new tubs try to get square ones (normal tupperwre from Tesco etc is fine) - they fit in the freezer much more efficiently than round

really useful posts, thank you all

MrsBadger - pots for carrying around food and so on - even if I do BLW, as I'm not so good at eating proper food during the day!

Would quite like to get a mouli as well.

I've just bought a Beaba Babycook. We have a small kitchen and no microwave so this was recommended. It steams, purees, defrosts and reheats and it's only small! It hasn't arrived yet but am looking forward to using it!

Apart from that, I bought a weaning bowl and spoon from Boots, some wipeable bibs, some ice cube trays and a big box of organice baby rice!

Don't get nything too expensive as this stage will fly by like the rest of them. It when you step back you can see that you been well and truely done! For example, I spent over £20 on nice babybath set, when ds stays at my mums, she'd bath him in a storage box she got for £5. Differnt for things that others will see when you out, but same principle. Don't buy anything just coz it got a designer name on it when cheap stuff is just as good

I bought weaning spoons and bowls from Asda and boots (own brand) and they were very reasonably priced.I dont bother with bibs because i change ds after every meal. If you have normal blender, you can use it otherwise use fork to mash up things.

I buy baby food jars when we are out so i reuse them for freezing food after wards.

you can get little plastic tubs from the supermarket - not baby but fine.

I got a baby bowl and a pack of about 8 little baby pots, from poundland! I also have annabel carmel ones but preefer the
poundland ones! I also got a pack of 6 ice cube trays in there too (so £1 for all 6)

I bought an electric hand blender in tesco for about £3.50!! (the tesco value one!)

What weaning equipment?

I agree with you that you still need to carry food with you even if you do BLW, but I just had a small cool bag (was really cheap from Tesco) and took a packed lunch with me, main meals can be got from where ever you are. I would mainly take fruit around with me as it is ready food, I'd pick up pasta bowls from Boots or Tesco and I'm braindead today so can't think of other things, but I would fill my cool bag.

keen to wean (online shop) are worth a look!

Why do you need equipment?

My DCs used their fists! Grab food, shove in mouth.

i got great little tupperwares (square ones) in woolies. six for £2, as i recall. i also bought a fancy-pants tommee tippee divided bowl for purees that i never used as it was completely unsuitable for blw, which i did in the end. far too deep at the sides, and if you're puree-feeding wtf do you need a separate bowl for, you already OWN bowls that you can spoon from? der.

interestingly, you can often pick up the AK grinders and pots on MN second-hand as the grinder seems to be a pita to take apart and the lids don't fit on the pots.

Jojo maman do some cute pots and spoons and trays, also very reasonable little blender if you need one and they don't charge postage

oh, also woolies do a stick blender for 6 quid, and the sally army will sell you one for a fiver if you attend one of their weaning talks.

Mouli's a good idea Bellabear, does the best mash , if you decide not to go down the puree route!