Bunny had posted this as a comment but I feel it deserves a wider audience...


"OK, so it's not as clever as keeping dishes in the freezer (top tip!) but I'm quite pleased with myself, it's not often the brain functions these days!

My electric steamer is broken and I've been using one of those expanding thingies you put in the saucepan. Effective, but limited in size and quite slow. We've also got a microwave steriliser, and I barely use the thing these days.

Solution? Use your steriliser to steam your veg in the microwave! Works a treat, and takes much larger quantities of vegetables <wanders off, buffing shiny brain>"

Because Dizzy has a top tip for us all...

"Best thing to do with spaghetti and noodles is to present it in sort of balls. Spin it around a fork as you would if you were eating it, then plop the spun ball onto your baby's tray and take the fork out. Dizzybaby looooves noodles, she picks up the spun ball, shoves it in her mouth and sucks in the straggly ends."

Good thought, Dizzy, I must admit we were round at a friend's house for dinner last month and poor babybear got a bit frustrated with the spaghetti so she ended up with a meal of bread bolognese...