If you're in the market for baby feeding bottles, then you really should go and take a look at these four Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature bottles on offer at Tesco - you can pick up a set of four for £10, rather than £15.99.

• Click HERE to go and take a look at the Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature bottles

Whether you're a bottle feeding mum, or a breastfeeding mum whose husband/partner/family want to get involved with the feeding of your baby then you're going to need some baby bottles.

I used Tommee Tippee bottles with all of my children and I think they're GREAT.

These particular Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature bottles have rave reviews and won numerous awards; if you want bottles you won't go wrong with Tommee Tippee bottles.

Here are just some of the comments from existing Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature bottle owners...

"I am absolutely delighted with the product, I would certainly recommend it to mothers who wish to combine breast and bottle feeding."

"I didn't get the hang of breastfeeding for a few weeks so used your pump and fed my baby using your bottles. After a while I tried him on my breast again and he had no problems latching on whatsoever."

"Many of our mums are now bringing in your bottles as the premature babies find them easier to feed from thanks to the lovely soft teats"

They have a ton of features that are too long to list here - just know these are the Rolls Royce of baby bottles as far as I'm concerned and are a bargain at a tenner for four.

Thanks to BeckyOs at HUKD 

I had a mini food chopper when my teenagers were babies and it proved to be one of the most useful little kitchen gizmos I've ever owned; Asda currently have one on sale for £5 instead of £9.96.

• Click HERE to take a look at the mini food chopper

In fact, it was so useful I think I may just buy this one - although it won't be used for baby weaning purposes.  There are plenty of times when I need to chop a small bit of something and have it very fine, it would get lost in my big beast of a blender and sometimes chopping with a knife just doesn't cut it (OHHH!  Just doesn't cut it!!  *groan*).

This mini food chopper has a 0.35 litre capacity, a locking safety lid, a stainless steel blade and a pulse function.  It doesn't promise to cook the dinner for you or show you the meaning of life, but it will make the chopping up of things, or the blending of food for babies in that weaning phase, a breeze.

The reviews are great...

"Takes the tears out of chopping onions!! Easy to use - good for chopping small quantities."

"An ideal size, excellent for those baby dinners"

"The mini chopper is a powerful and compact gadget. It's perfect for smaller items such as garlic, onions and pastes. Its compact design makes it easy to store away. Very easy to clean.I bought it in sale so got it for a very good price. A very handy, useful machine."

See, I'm not the only one who loves their mini food chopper!

Standard delivery, if you really can't get to an Asda, is £2.95, but if you can then you can collect your mini food chopper for freeee.

Happy Chopping! 

I'm well and truly stuck on the fence when it comes to the Boon Squirt Spoon - I can't decide whether it's genius or junk!

• Click HERE to take a look at the Boon Squirt Spoon

So, the Boon Squirt Spoon - it's a spoon with a a squeezy reservoir (Boon call it a 'bulb') on the end, which holds 85g of baby food and squirts the right amount onto the spoon bit when you squeeze it.

Apparently, this will make one-handed feeding much easier for parents and saves you having to remember to take a spoon AND container of food with you when you go out.  They come in various funky colours and cost £8.95 each.

My baby weaning days are well and truly over (thank goodness) and I managed to get by perfectly well with a bowl and a little flat plastic spoon.  So on this side of the fence I'd say that the Boon Squirt Spoon is just a seriously overpriced piece of unnecessary baby 'stuff'.  

Not only that, but you'll need to faff around with filling it up, then taking it apart and making sure it's super clean inside ready  for the next time.

But then I remembered all those time when little hands found their way into the food bowls which led to one, some, or all of three outcomes:

1. More food ended up on their faces and in their hair than in their mouths
2. My clothes ended up covered in their food
3. The entire bowl was upended and invariably found its way to the floor

If I'd had a Boon Squirt Spoon then these things wouldn't have happened and I wouldn't have gone out with clothes covered in dried baby food (why do you never notice before you leave the house!?).  So on this side of the fence I'd say it's genius; £8.95 well spent and why on earth did it take someone so long to come up with it?!

So what say you?  The Boon Squirt Spoon - genius or junk?

If you're an expectant parent, or know one, then it'll be worthwhile taking a look at this Tommee Tippee feeding and sterilising set; it's been reduced from £120 down to £60.

• Click HERE to go over to Mothercare

I read an article a while ago stating that first time parents in the UK spend on average £4000 on their first child during pregnancy and the first year. £4000!

It makes sense, to save money where you can and buy things all in one go as a set - not only does it save you money, it takes the stress away from having to faff around picking up lots of bits and pieces.

This Tommee Tippee feeding and sterilising set comes with everything you'll need to get started, whether you're planning on bottle or breastfeeding; here's what you get:

• 1x Electric Steriliser
• 1x Electric Bottle warmer
• 2x Insulated bottle bag
• 4x 260 ml bottles
• 4x 150ml bottles
• Closer to Nature Bottle Brush
• 6x Milk powder dispenser
• 2x medium flow teats
• 1x pure soother
• 1x teat tongs

If there's a baby on the way in your family, then you might be interested in these two deals currently up for grabs at Amazon.

The Philips Avent Complete Bottlefeeding system has been reduced from £120 down to £83.99 and the Philips Avent Complete Breastfeeding system is now £120 instead of £200.

• Click HERE to for the Bottlefeeding system
• Click HERE for the Breastfeeding system

It doesn't matter which way you go - breast or bottle - you really won't go wrong with one of these Philips Avent Complete feeding sets.

They both contain everything you're going to need to feed your baby.

The Philips Avent Complete Bottlefeeding system includes an electric steam steriliser, bottle warmer, thermabag, bottles, teats, milk storage cups, a bottle brush and all sorts - it really is a great way to painlessly navigate your way through the minefield of what baby feeding kit to buy.

The Philips Avent Complete Breastfeeding system includes some of the same items - bottles and teats etc - but also comes with a microwave steriliser, an electric breast pump, breast pads, breast shells and some breast-care creams.

Both these items are Amazon Deals of the Week, so the prices I've quoted are guaranteed until at least 11.59pm Sunday night (that's this coming Sunday, 9 October).

I've written about this Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature complete starter kit before; I'm always happy to tell you about it again because I think it's such a good deal.

• Click HERE to get closer to this deal

Now, Amazon are selling the Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature complete starter kit for £64.99 reduced, they say, from £99.99.  Babies R Us are also selling it for £64.99 but they state the original price as being £129.99.

Whatever the original price is/was one thing that can't be disputed are the positive reviews the Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature starter set continues to receive:

"Brought this when it was on half price offer and I'm so pleased we did. This is a well known brand and so any extras you may need are easily found. The additions in this set are great, bottle warmer is very handy, the two carriers for keeping bottles warm are brilliant and will be much used."

If you’re an expectant mum and dad and are having trouble working out how many bottles you're going to need then sets like this will be your knight in shining steam steriliser!

It comes with:

Tommee Tippee teats are designed to make the breast to bottle switch uneventful, so that their bottles can be used for expressed breast milk too.

And just to top off a great package, the Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature complete starter kit is BPA free; marvellous.

Thanks to Dcontrol at HUKD

Amazon are selling this set of six Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature 150ml bottles for £13.99 instead of £22.99.

• Click HERE to get closer to this deal

It doesn't matter whether or not you choose to breastfeed or bottle feed, bottles are an essential piece of baby kit.

If you bottle feed then that's obvious, but having bottles on hand when you're breastfeeding means other members of family can share the feeding experience too, using expressed milk.

What can I tell you about the Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature bottles...

Well, they've been designed with the help of breastfeeding experts, the Closer to Nature easivent teat mimics the natural flex, movement and softness of a mum’s breast, to make switching between breast and bottle, as and when, nice and easy for your baby.

The bottles have been designed to be held in the most natural positions during feeding and can be held in 3 ways: cradles comfortably in the hand, gripped in the same way as a traditional wide neck bottle, held from the base; making feeding comfortable for everyone.  And all parts are BPA free, which is VERY important.

This is an Amazon Deal of the Week so the £13.99 price is guaranteed to remain the same ALL this week; hurrah!

When Tilly Beazeley had her son eight years ago, she figured there had to be a simple and easy way to make healthy food for weaning. And out of that idea The Wean Machine (£19.99) was born.

It is a fairly simple device actually. Working a lot like a garlic press, you put food in it and, well, press. You can use it on your own food, so there's no need to cook separate meals. Now that's something I like the sound of.

According to the website it is BPA, Phthalate and PVC Free.

I gave The Wean Machine to Emily, to try out with her 8 month old baby.  To start with, Emily did what I probably would have done. Took the Wean Machine out of the box and used it without reading the instructions. Or rather, tried to use it.

"It was a little bit daunting trying to figure it out, until I realised it was just kind of like a large yellow garlic press. I had a fiddle and then realised that I had better read the instructions to make sure I didn’t break it before it even had a chance to squish some food!"

Although it doesn't say on the website what you get exactly with this product, Emily told us that it came with three sizes of grid for various consistencies of food. "I used the one with the largest holes as I am trying to get baby to eat lumpier food."

She had a little trouble when it came to swapping from one grid to another. "I had a problem the first time I did this, as I didn’t realise there was a little notch, and I was trying to put the grid on the wrong way round. On further inspection, I noticed the notch and was able to add the new grid with ease. If only I’d read those instructions in the first place…"

Overall, Emily found that The Wean Machine was really easy to use. "I popped the cooked veggies in the little bowl, and squished them up well." She first tried it with potato, parsnip, sweet potato, carrot and broccoli. However she did have a little bit of trouble with the last two vegetables. "I hadn’t cooked the carrots to death, so they were a little harder to press through the squishing grid, as was the broccoli."

She also found that when the food was pressed through the grid, there was a little bit left in the food holder. You’ll have experienced the same when you use a garlic press – there’s always a little bit left in the bottom that hasn’t managed to go through the grid. But this didn't go to waste. "I was able to scrape out the little bit of food in there, and just use it in the dinners as normal. It was pretty well squished up."

According to the manufacturer, The Wean Machine is easily sterilised and 'top-shelf dishwasher safe'. It is not suitable for microwave sterilisation. Cleaning The Wean Machine was a concern that Emily had, but she needn't have worried as it turned out.  "I was simply able to rinse it under hot soapy water, and it was fine."

Emily's overall verdict was a positive one. She liked how useful and portable it is.  "I haven't yet taken it to a restaurant with me, but I will be trying that soon. Sometimes I want to take a banana for baby's lunch, and on occasion I've brought a little bowl and a fork with me for mashing. The Wean Machine is totally handy – I can just bring it instead."

And finally

You can buy a Wean Machine Grills And Spoon pack, to add to your Wean Machine, for £4.99. The site also sells a book called What Am I Eating, which it describes as "new fun way to educate and share the joy of eating healthy fresh food. Beautiful images with simple, pure and quick recipes. Fun facts too!"

Tommee Tippee are selling their own Closer To Nature Steam Steriliser for £20 whilst stocks last.

• Click HERE to steam over to Tommee Tippee

This is a rather nice price as all the other ususal suspects are selling this Tommee Tippee Closer To Nature steam steriliser for upwards of £32.99, which is Amazon's price, Tesco are selling for £40.99 and Boots are the most expensive at £43.99.

I read an article a while ago stating that first time parents in the UK spend on average £4000 on their first child during pregnancy and the first year. £4000!

That's crazy, so whether you’re a frugal parent or a ‘must have everything’ parent, getting ready for a baby can be incredibly expensive, and new mums and best friends to expectant mums should jump at the chance whenever a good deal comes along.

This Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Steam Steriliser is just one of those deals.

It has a new and clean-looking oval shape, to mimic the shape of the Closer to Nature bottle, and takes up less space on the kitchen worktop.  It will hold six bottles, teats and even dome tops, it also has space for the tube attachments from the Closer to Nature anti-colic pus bottles if you use those.

There’s a single push button which glows orange when switched on and goes off when the cycle is finished after five minutes.  If you keep the lid closed the contents will stay sterile for a full 24 hours, so you can switch it on at bedtime and have clean bottles waiting for you in the morning.

Not only that, the Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature steam steriliser is BPA free; it comes with one bottle to get you going, a pair of teat tongs and a bottle brush too.

Now, delivery.  Standard delivery costs £4.95 but hotstuffs on HUKD says, "if you register they send you a thanks for registering email with a discount code took £4.00 off my order making delivery only 95p."

Marvellous!

Thanks to hotstuffs at HUKD