Ella's Kitchen Smoothie Fruits perfect for fussy eaters!

Ella's Kitchen fruit puree pouches are still a favourite in our household.  The 100% natural, organic fruity snacks are a perfectly delicious way to get one of Freddy's five a day into his diet.  The colour coded flavours of the  Smoothie Fruits are really fun and the pouches themselves are perfect for lunchboxes and enjoying on the go. You can even freeze the pouches to keep lunchbox contents cool and the kids can enjoy a fruity slush at lunchtime.  Each serving provides one complete portion of fruit.  This is excellent news for anyone like myself who has a fussy eater to contend with!  Freddy loves slurping them from the pouch.

The new 'The White One' is a glorious mix which includes banana, apple, pineapple and coconut, perfect for summer.  We were sent a sample to try and it is really scrummy.  They cost £2.99 for a four pack and are available from Tesco.

Take a look at this video featuring a mini edible forest made up of fruit and vegetables.  Little ones are introduced to new tastes and textures as they explore the exciting array of fruit and veggies on display.  This is a wonderful way to introduce children into enjoying a varied five a day and eating the rainbow!  

             

The Red One

For long journeys, healthy snacking or a fruity treat try Ella's Kitchen 100% organic smoothies.
They are squishy, yummy and Freddy loves them.
RRP £2.99 for a multi-pack
www.ellaskitchen.co.uk

I'm a 36DD and other Baby Show News!!!

I've just returned from the Baby Show at the NEC in Birmingham. I'm laden down with goodie bags and freebies and I've entered dozens of prize draws...always a sign of a good day out!

These are my highlights!

Trunki
I just love Trunki and the lovely people behind the brand.  They are selling their Trunki suitcases and Playboxes and giving away fantastic goodie bags with purchases.  The Gruffalo Trunki is the most adorable thing ever!

Ella's Kitchen

Ella's Kitchen are giving away food samples if you sign up to be a 'Friend'.  There stand at the Baby Show is just lovely with a big play area shaped like a vegetable patch where Freddy enjoyed digging and watering!!  He was given a smoothie "The Green One" which was a gorgeous mix of apples, pear, kiwi and banana.  We love Ella's Kitchen!

Bras 4 Mums

After I tweeted about having an ill fitting, unfeminine nursing bra, T-J Hughes the owner of Bras 4 Mums contacted me offering me a free bra fitting at her stand at The Baby Show.  Freddy is 20 months now, but is still breastfed.  We are coming to the end of this journey, but I thought I'd go out with style and buy a sexy Hot Milk Nursing Bra with the help of T-J!  I've worn 38B bras throughout my pregnancy and ever since.  T-J took one look at me and shook her head opting for a 36DD instead.  I felt like Pamela Anderson!!  I opted for a deep red coloured bra with matching French Knickers.  I felt so much better wearing some well fitted underwear and I highly recommend every woman to get correctly fitted for a bra!

Ecover

Ecover were giving away fabulous samples of their laundry products and selling goodie bags containing full sized products, other freebies, a bamboo cloth and a tea towel in a re-usable eco-bag for £5!  They also had a prize draw to win a holiday.

Plum Baby

The Plum Cafe gave away samples of baby food with a spoon and a bib to keep babies happy.  Freddy enjoyed a Strawberry and Blueberry formage frais from their new range.

G-Tech

G-Tech were there showing their new Power Sweeper, the Nippa.  They were demonstrating how well it swept up food spills.  The natty polka dot design looks very funky!  

Prima Magazine are there with a great subscription offer with a free Tommee Tippee gift worth over £20.  If you don't want to take up a full year's subscription, you can buy the last two issues for £2 and receive a fabulous goodie bag!  Sign up to Superdrug's new loyalty card and you get a goodie bag from there too!  Both were filled with great items for mother and baby.  

We had a great day.  I even got to meet my virtual comping buddy Di from Superlucky! She was there as part of team Buggy Tag handing out samples of the brilliant pram wrist strap.  It is always lovely to meet fellow bloggers in person.  Di was exactly how I imagined she would be...fingers crossed for one of us winning one of the many prize draws we entered at the show!

The Baby Show is on all this weekend.  It's definitely worth a vist.  

Ella's Kitchen's Eco-Friendly Lunch Bags

Ella's Kitchen, the organic baby and toddler food company is doing its bit to protect our planet with the launch of new eco-friendly lunch bags made from waste food pouches.  Ella's Kitchen is establishing itself as an industry trendsetter by "upcycling" waste into these fun and funky lunch boxes, which are perfect for days out with your baby.  I was sent one and think it is fabulous...I've always loved the package designs of Ella's Kitchen's pouches and to see them used in this way is simply brilliant!

Ella's Mum, Alison Lindley says:

"We believe in 'giving stuff back' which means doing whatever we can to help protect the world we live and play in.  Our upcycling programme with TerraCycle turns waste packaging into affordable, eco-friendly new products for mums and dads."

For a limited period, Ella's Kitchen is offering a FREE cool, eco-friendly lunchbag to 500 Mums and Dads who sign up to become a Friend of Ella's via the website every month!

You can also sign up to the TerraCycle campaign which is one of Ella's Kitchen's ways of "giving stuff back".  Not only will it help our planet, it can also help raise valuable funds for your favourite charities, kids' groups and schools.  It is an inspirational idea and will also educate kids into thinking of new fun ways to recycle.  Families, nurseries, schools and toddler groups can have fun whilst doing their bit for the environment, by collecting and returning waste baby food pouches, earning 2p for charity for each one sent.  The free programme even covers postage costs with downloadable Royal Mail labels to send collected pouches to Terracycle.

As well as their own packaging, Ella's Kitchen has extended its programme so consumers can send any brand of baby food pouch to the scheme.  This will divert the whole category of waste baby food pouches from landfill.

As ever, it is great to see Ella's Kitchen doing what it does best.  This company really is "Good in every sense!"