Best Weaning & Food Prep UK

This category splits into ready-made food, and the tools for making your own. Ella's Kitchen's pouches (£26 for 7) are the zero-effort option — organic, single-ingredient purées suited to early allergen introduction with no prep or cleanup, at a real cost premium per portion over anything you'd batch-cook yourself.

For home prep, BEABA's Babycook (£85) is the most complete single appliance, steaming and blending in the same jug so there's minimal cleanup, though its small batch size means cooking fairly often. Tommee Tippee's Quick-Chop (£24) and the Baby Bullet Turbo (£35) are both blend-only — you cook the food separately first — with the Tommee Tippee the cheaper, more compact option and the Baby Bullet better suited if you're already batch-cooking on the hob or in a steamer and just need a reliable blender.

Annabel Karmel's freezer pots (£8) and babymoov's reusable pouches (£16.49 for 20) are both storage solutions rather than prep tools — the pots sized for early 80ml first-taste portions with a built-in date wheel, the pouches larger at 175ml and rewritable for tracking dates, though neither is microwave safe, so reheating means decanting first.