We love this set of LR play food for our toddler! All of the LR sets we have are great quality. This particular set would be a great starter set for play food for a toddler or really kids at any age. The foods included have tons of playability and can work for all the meals of the day. You get two slices of bread, which could be used to make a sandwich or as toast. The two slices of cheese could be snacks or used to make a grilled cheese sandwich. The orange, apple, banana, and blueberries could be stand alone snacks or sides to meals. They are also great for promoting healthy eating. The carrot could be a side or snack as well. The bowls of cereal and macaroni are adorable! I love the textures that feel so much like actual cereal or noodles, as much as plastic can anyway. These also come with little spoons that my daughter loves to use to feed her dolls. She’s 20 months right now and got this set for Christmas. We love the yogurt cup as well since it isn’t labeled. It can be yogurt, a smoothie, or strawberry ice cream. The cookie is a great weight as well and holds up well to teething. The juice box is probably our least favorite piece from this set just because my daughter has never seen an actual juice box. So she doesn’t really recognize it as a drink. I would rather have had a juice bottle that she could have used as juice, soda, medicine, or pediasure (which she drinks a lot). I can see her having more fun with the juice box in the future though. Since it’s not labeled, I guess she could use it as juice or maybe a hospital water mug or something? If the no label thing really bothers you, you could just make your own label for it. I know some people have been really bothered by the muffin, but this is one of my toddler’s favorite parts of the set. She absolutely loves taking the top off and on the muffin cup. I think it’s adorable that the blueberries can fit inside the muffin top, and my little loves pulling them out of it. I think it’s a great way to teach kids that whole ingredients make up our food as well since blueberries in an actual muffin aren’t terribly recognizable as the raw blueberries they might eat on the side of a meal. Since the muffin is pretty plain on top, you could pretend it’s a cupcake if you wanted to as well. Some people have been concerned that a few of the pieces have small holes in them, almost like a bath toy. Let me be clear here, the quality of the materials used here is far superior to a bath toy. Some of the pieces do have little holes in them though. And my toddler did discover those holes and was having a blast sucking on them and getting spit inside the toys. I took away the pieces she was doing that with for a while, mostly the banana and apple. I just squoze them out until the air coming out was totally dry. I wasn’t sure what else to do. I’d be interested to know if anyone has tried microwaving them for a short time, you know, like you do with pacifiers sometimes. Anyway, I recently gave the apple and banana back to my daughter, and she hasn’t been sucking on the holes anymore. My one wish with this set is that it came in a basket like the breakfast, lunch, and dinner baskets. We have a basket from the dinner set and just trade sets out in it. The food we’re not using goes in a bigger bin under her crib. She loves filling the basket and dumping it out again, something I think most toddlers love. So I think that would improve this set significantly. It is still pretty great on its own though, and it has some great possibilities for expanding vocabulary and teaching colors. It’s also a fun way to introduce your toddler to feeding themself with a spoon without a huge mess. I think it’s also a great set to grow with kiddos since none of the foods are terribly babyish. I would highly recommend! Also, it comes in a nice box with a front display, so it would be good for gifting.
