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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Green Living / Real Food Toys For Children

Real Food Toys For Children

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

Do you have a little play kitchen or toy tea set for your toddler or young child to cook up and serve imaginary meals?

Did you find yourself frustrated as I was when you bought the huge box of play food to go along with the kitchen set only to discover that the toy foods overwhelmingly included unhealthy choices like boxed cereal, processed condiments, french fries, fast food boxes, and pasteurized milk cartons?

I don’t know about you, but I certainly didn’t want my children playing with these fake food toys as I felt it would establish an unhealthy subconscious memory in their minds.

In the end, I ended up throwing away over half the play food I had purchased keeping only the vegetables, fruits, eggs and chicken drumsticks!

Now there is no need to waste money on play food that you don’t want. You can get real food toys so that your children can role play basic cooking skills in a truly healthy way!

I was thrilled over the weekend to receive an email from a reader names Bess Taylor who recently turned her sewing hobby into a business.

real food play toysShe hand sews the most beautiful little healthy play food you’ve ever seen!   She even told me that her healthy fats play food set shown in the picture to the right was inspired by my post Five Fats You Must Have in Your Kitchen!

If you’ve been looking for safe, healthy toys for your children that promote the correct nutritional message into their little developing brains, these toys are worth checking out!

Just remember that these lovely toys are hand sewn so if you want them for a birthday or Christmas gift, order ahead of time to give Bess time to prepare your order!

To see the full line of BessMess toys, click here.  She even has a little toy jug of raw milk for your child’s play refrigerator!

Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

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Category: Green Living, Healthy Pregnancy, Baby & Child
Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: Amazon #1 bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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  1. Tellulah

    Jul 8, 2012 at 9:21 pm

    Thanks for posting this. My 2 year old got a play kitchen for Christmas with a box of “food”. There was an egg in there, sunny side up…but the rest was french fries, donuts, pizza, burgers on buns, cherry pie…it’s amazing! I love to sew and am now excited to make some real food for my kids…!

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  2. chicknlil

    Apr 19, 2012 at 2:37 pm

    Great idea! Going to make a set for my niece and nephew as well as a friend who’s expecting!

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  3. Michele

    Apr 17, 2012 at 12:39 pm

    So cute! A few Christmases ago I made an advent calendar for my kids where each day was a clue to find one piece of felt food I had made for them. Strawberries, kiwi, eggs, bacon, carrots, chicken legs, etc. By Christmas they had a whole basket of cute felt foods that they loved playing with. I had fun making them too, but they were a lot of work. 🙂

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  4. Patrick

    Apr 16, 2012 at 8:26 pm

    As bugs bunny would say, that’s adora-BULL. lol

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  5. Peach

    Apr 16, 2012 at 5:35 pm

    Now, if only the “healthier” natural toy makers would realize that microwaves need to be eliminated from their catalogues… (:

    Reply
  6. Heather

    Apr 16, 2012 at 4:04 pm

    Very Cute!

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