Plum Baby

It must be summer – the strawberries are here!

amanda.hayes — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:28:14 +0000

Nothing says summer in Britain like the advent of delicious home-grown strawberries! These little red wonders have a sweet, complex flavour that few of us – kids or adults – can resist. And our long, late cold snap has resulted in an unexpected silver lining: the berries this year are ...

It’s National Smile Month – Don’t forget those baby teeth!

amanda.hayes — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:02:58 +0000

In a perfect world, most children would naturally get through early childhood and go on to lose their baby teeth without having had any tooth decay, fillings or extractions. Sadly, however, this is not the reality we live with, and these days it’s more and more common to see cases ...

Purees or baby-led weaning? Who says you get to choose?

amanda.hayes — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:55:13 +0000

First-time parents (and we’re including ourselves here) can often be sweetly, naively convinced that we have a grave responsibility to Make Big Decisions for the little people in our lives. And some of them are, indeed, our call – cloth vs disposable nappies, for instance. Or whether little boys should ...

Ten top real-mum weaning tips

amanda.hayes — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:04:34 +0000

These experienced mums have been there, done that, and successfully scrubbed the pumpkin off the walls afterward… when we asked them for their top weaning tips, here’s what they had to say: 1. “I wish I’d known how messy it would be – we wouldn’t have bothered with bibs, we’d ...

All the best deals on Plum in the coming week!

amanda.hayes — Fri, 10 May 2013 17:23:06 +0000

Tesco: Stage 1 pouches 6 for 5 (ends 3 June) Stage 3 Taste Adventures £1.50 (ends 3 June) Asda: Stage 1 pouches 5 for £4 (ends 8 July) Morrisons: Stage 2 pouches – save 20% (ends 3 June) Stage 3 Taste Adventures – save 20% (ends 3 June) Waitrose: Stage ...

A special Plum discount for the Baby Show in Birmingham!

amanda.hayes — Tue, 07 May 2013 10:30:45 +0000

The Baby Show is coming! The UK’s top parenting event will be at the NEC Birmingham on the 17-19 May, and we’ve arranged a fantastic ticket discount for our Plum parents of up to 40%! Just type PLUM into the discount code box when you buy your tickets online at http://www.thebabyshow.co.uk/, and ...

ASDA’s big Plum giveaway!

amanda.hayes — Fri, 03 May 2013 09:27:20 +0000

Psssst, have you heard? Asda’s legendary Baby and Toddler Event is now on in store and online – and to celebrate, they’re giving away a fabulous hamper of Plum worth £300! To be in with a chance, head over to the ASDA competition page and enter your details. Good luck, we hope ...

Taste Adventures tried & tested at ASDA!

amanda.hayes — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:22:12 +0000

As part of their fabulous Baby & Toddler Event, ASDA is offering our brilliant new stage 3 Taste Adventures pots for just £1 each – a good deal by anyone’s standards! They didn’t stop there, though: here’s their Tried & Tested review… “…we gave parents the chance to try Plum’s ...

Plum’s Taste Adventures in the Mail Online

amanda.hayes — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:05:33 +0000

It looks as if our 15 minutes of fame has begun… Yes, the adorable Monty, of the Mail Online’sSmall Talk blog, has given our Taste Adventures his seal of approval. As his mum Tracey reported: “We’ve had an exciting food day! Monty has moved on to Stage 3 food, largely ...

Do your kids eat better than you do?

amanda.hayes — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:03:05 +0000

The last several years have been tough on the budget, to say the least. Families have compromised, cut back, switched brands and generally done everything possible to get by on less, to make do and mend. Instead of impulse shopping, 90% of us now make a list and check it ...