Trapp Trapp owning BLWers - what do you put on the table for your DC to eat from?

[DeJaVous]

I've just traded in our ponce-mobile highchair for a Tripp Trapp and I'm most impressed, I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to use as an eating surface/table protector though.

I've been using a piece of oilcloth but DD just pulls it off and waves it around. I can't let her eat directly from the table either, it's an old wooden one with little gaps between the planks, it just wouldn't be hygienic.

So, what do you do?

Oh, and I didn't get the fabulous Antilop because we're used to DD sitting right up at the table with us and didn't want to annex her!

I use the table, but with a hippomat on it. Don't use a plate or a bowl, the food goes straight on it.

The hippomat is already stained red (we've only been doing it for 3 weeks!), I dont want my table stained red just yet

Thomcat - Because it's an old wooden one with verging-on-flaky varnish and gunge traps between the planks. I'm not clean crazy, but that just isn't healthy as a plate.

Actually, DP randomly came home with one of these from Stokke, which is brilliant and has totally solved the problem. Can't find a decent picture anywhere, just lads of blurb. It really sticks and manages to pretty much contain the mess

babyOcho - doesn't stain either...

lads of blurb? Sound like an interesting lot

Meant loads, obviously.

I've got a hippomat but it doesn't stick to our wooden (unvarnished so open-grain and would stain v quickly from spag bol) table, and DS just lifts it off and gnaws it when bored with the food on it.

I am thinking of getting an oilcloth for the whole table but the only ones I can find at dunelm mill and john lewis are really patterned. Does anyone know anywhere else to get one from? There seem to be loads on the websites/ebay but I'd rather buy it in person.

I went to Dunelm Mill this morning and the ones that you buy on the roll weren't that heavily patterned - cream with med-sized dots on them. I think they were £6.99 p/m

Yeah I saw those but I have a small dining room, even beigy spots covering my 5 by 3 table could be a bit too much. Think I'll get some off a website instead...

I got mine on Ebay...vinyl tablecloth that is!

Before I git the fantastic stokke thingy, I got some clear plastic table cloth off the roll. I just couldn't be doing with any sort of pattern TBH.

I'm not in the UK but it must be available there.

We had a hippomat and just put her food straight on there. Plates got thrown on the floor and that plate sucker thing is useless. The hippomat comes off easily but it's so big she never thought about it.