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Just some gadgets to aid you get food on the tabular array as Ms. Rachel and Bluey do their thing in the setting .

1.ANessie ladleas functional as she is charming. Her little “flipper legs” are perfect for sitting upright on a spoon rest or paper towel without fear of one of your kids hitting a ladle handle and splattering food all over the wall.

2.Asilicone clip-on colanderif one of your fam’s main food groups is mac ‘n’ cheese and one ofyourmain food groups is making your life easier.

3.AGROWUP plant milk makerI, a parent, can personally shout about because we’re high-key obsessed with it over here. My kid now calls it “the snack machine,” and it’s hard to tell which he likes more:Makingthe oat milk or drinking it with a bit of chocolate syrup mixed in at the end. It’s doubly great because, unlike the nut milks you get at the store, this little gadget keeps all those nutrients where they belong: In your and your fam’s bodies!

4.A pack ofmini silicone hand tongsto keep your kids from getting ~handsy~ with communal food dishes.

5.Ananti-fatigue, nonskid kitchen matso you don’t have to worry about slipping and sliding on your kitchen floor if your offspring accidentally spills their drink.

6.A pack ofmagnetic chip clipsnearly as versatile as you! Use them to keep snacks from going stale, to hang notes and recipes on your fridge, or to hold open a cookbook!

7.ALetPot smart countertop indoor gardenif you’re tired of constantly buying repeat veggies and herbs you would totally grow at home if you weren’t A) Always busy taking kids to practices and school and EVERYWHERE and B) Had the space and energy to do it. Enter LetPot, your new countertop growing assistant! Once you get it up and running, this handy gadget will take care of the watering, the lighting, and the reminders of when it needs attention via the LetPot app.

8.Anapple sliceror, as we call it in my house, the apple squisher. If apple slices are one of your little’s fav snacks, this will get you there in one “squish” motion instead of six or seven knife slices.

predict review:“It ’s the good thing in the account of apples!It cuts the apples in perfect sizes for fry ( and even me ) , and the bottom Qaeda that makes it simple to push the blade all the way down is a game - modifier . I always detest cut back apple because the last push was annoying and made slices fly everywhere . This is easy and keeps them all mostly sequester . Love love jazz it ! " — jbug

Get it from Amazon for$11.95 .

9.Or afruit and veggie dividerthat’ll cut everything from berries to carrots into four lengthwise quarters for the perfect snacking (and girl dinner!!) size.

Check out aTikTok of the yield and vegetable dividerin action .

Promising review : " If you have toddlers , get it — especially if you ’re on the fence . I needed something for grape , blueberry bush , blackberries , and other small fruit and veggies we go through so much . My breakfast was flummox cold long before I was done cutting fruit for two toddlers . Most cutting tool only do one grape or berry , but this one can do several grapes and a small fistful of blueberry . We will decidedly be get a lot of manipulation out of it in this menage . " — Kindle Customer

Get it from Amazon for$9.90 .

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10.Anostalgic snow cone maker— fall may be just around the corner, but what fam is going to say no to an easy, sweet,coldtreat?

11.A pair of cutebat kitchen shearsbecause my life was changed when I realized you could use scissors onanything:Chicken breasts, those annoying stumpy parts of lettuce, shrimp tails,tomatoes.Nothing is stopping you from using scissors instead of a knife to expedite cooking for your fam, and I swear it can be so much quicker. (And satisfying!)

12.Arotating pizza ovenif pizza is on the menu tonight and many nights thereafter. This rotates to evenly cook homemade OR frozen pizza and saves up to 60% of the energy of using the Big Bad Oven. (Which also takesforeverto preheat, especially with hangry kids waiting, let’s be honest.)

13.Anair fryerthat’ll make you the diamond of your family’s season when you pop out crispy mozzarella sticks and chicken nuggets with the touch of a button.

14.Afast-prep kitchen slicerperfect for cutting chicken, tomatoes, and other weirdly-hard-to-slice foods with ease and speed so you can get back to the other chores that accompany the care-and-keeping of tiny humans.

Promising review:“Really well made . Easy too clean . I cook dinner party for my   family   of five at least five nights a week , and I pack my two oldest girls ' lunches for school , and I habituate this at least once a sidereal day . I care it better than the Pampered Chef one that I used at a PC company once ! " — Angell Bare Stödberg

Get it from Amazon for$15.95 .

15.Aset of two food storage containersyou’re gonna want to buy several of that I personally endorse because there are few things I can stand less than stained food storage that forever looks like it has spaghetti sauce in it. (Not to mention that it can give kids theickfor no reason if they catch you reheating something that’s “the wrong color.") I’ve had these for literal YEARS and they’ve not stained once.

16.Arectangular lazy Susanbecause this is a parenting WIN! No more of your kids digging around in the back of your fridge looking for “the other ketchup” or “my juice box I put in there yesterday.” This baby rotates a full 360 degrees, which means you and your fam can useallyour fridge space but in, like, half the searching time.

Check out aTikTok of the orthogonal Lazy Susanin action .

Promising limited review : " This works just like advertised!Fits perfectly on the shelf of my side - by - side Whirlpool fridge and now I can touch the kettle of fish in the back without doing any acrobatics or climbing on a commode . I was worried it would be a dumb mathematical product but I really care it!Especially good if you have short   kids   that ca n’t reach the top ledge or the back of shelves . You do , of course , recede a little bit of way in the street corner so the lazy Susan can rotate but this is so much better than not even remembering what you have crammed back there ! " — AMoore

Get it from Amazon for$24.99(also useable in a two - pack ) .

a reviewer photo of the sliced apple with red skin, divided using a green apple slicer, placed on a wooden cutting board

17.Anunder-the-cabinet jar openerreviewers love for its one-handed abilities, which every parent knows is A MUST if you’re constantly hauling around a velcro baby in one arm.

call inspection : " habituate it all the time . I have creaky hands and two   kids   so I ca n’t always waitress for service to arrive when a jar is stuck . With this I can open baby food jar with one hand and hold a infant in the other arm . I’ve even used it to open a stubborn toothpaste tube . " — David

Get it from Amazon for$15.99 .

18.ASouper Cubes freezer traytruly made to get you through dinner in record time, because ~meal prep~ is one of those super-parent powers we all wanna be better at actually using. Each cube has enough room for a cup of pasta sauce or soup so that you can make a big ol' batch, save the extras, and voilà! Dinner is servedagain!

Souper Cubesis a family - lam small business with a rage for effective frozen meal prep and food waste material reducing ! Plus , their product are BPA - devoid , dishwashing machine - safe , and it have fill melodic phrase on the side of the compartment for one-half and full cups .

Promising reviews:“Instead of permit food go to waste Ifreeze belittled share for those nights I ’m not in the humour to cook but have to fertilise my bambino . The portion is perfect for them . I ’d require two for myself . " — RMartinez

Get it from Amazon for$19.95(available in three colors and also a pack of two ) .

Reviewer holding green cylinder shaped cutter next to a tupperware of cut fruit

19.Amicrowave panini pressthat’ll fulfill your kid’s grilled cheese for dinner dreams in a jiff. Be sure to life-hack yourself and grab someCampbell’s microwavable soupbecause, again,this is supposed to make your life easier.

foretell review:“This thing is awful ! Now my girl can make her own grilled cheese sandwiches . I ’ve also taken it to process to make my tiffin . Any kind of bread will be toasted as long as you expend a little avoirdupois . you’re able to also fake other thing with it . At workplace I used it to ready a beefburger and deep-fried potatoes . The burger come out better than I expected and had Grill marks , so a footling number of char on it from a microwave ! So this works well for hall rooms , making tiffin at work and for little   kids   to make their own stuff too ! " — Brian

Get it from Amazon for$32.99 .

20.A set of my favLotus “trolley” bagsI know you’ll love as much as I do for their ability to keep you organized in the grocery storeandat home. At the store they open in the cart like a filing system so that you can sort to your heart’s delight. Reviewers mention using certain bags for certain kids to make sure you’ve goteveryone’sback-to-school lunches and snacks sorted!

21.And finally, aMontessori kid-safe kitchen knife setto get kids in the kitchenwith you.It might make food prep a little slower, but it’ll be all the sweeter as you watch your fav sous-chef grow into their own!

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Model using the device to quarter strawberries, carrots, and beets

Snow cone machine and assorted syrups (cherry, blue raspberry, grape) with plastic spoon straws displayed on a counter in a home setting

A hand holds a pair of black kitchen shears with a built-in bottle opener near a kitchen sink

Person pouring batter into air fryer tray

The two-piece kitchen slicer with a model’s hand holding the handle on the top with a chicken breast being sliced in the middle

The same slicer but with a number of cherry tomatoes being sliced all at once

Condiments propped on a clear plastic turning tray installed in a fridge

A model spinning the tray 360 degrees around in a fridge to show all the condiments on it

A hand is using an under-cabinet jar opener to open a jar filled with lemon slices and blueberries

The five-compartment teal container that looks like a large ice cube tray, with a perfectly rectangular block of frozen soup next to it

A reviewer’s trays full of stew, one with the lid on and one with it off

The panini press open with sausages inside

A toasted sandwich