The Cosy Shopper Joins The Designer Baby Show ~ As Seen On Dragons Den

The Cosy Shopper is a new unique innovative new baby product which launched in September 2007. It is a funky protective seat cover with matching blanket set used on both baby bucket seats on supermarket shopping trollies and infant carrier car seats. The Cosy Shopper have designed funky seat covers and matching blanket sets to keep little ones SAFE, CLEAN, COMFORTABLE AND FREE FROM GERMS

The Cosy Shopper will be featured on BBC2' Dragons Den on the 9th September at 10pm! watch and see how the cosy shopper gets on with the Dragons'.

Designer and creator Lisa Penn will be at The Designer Baby Show on stand A7

www.thedesignerbabyshow.co.uk

Babycotpod joins The Designer Baby Show

About Babycotpod™Babycotpod™ Limited was formed in 2008 when founder Shaun Milburn became a dad for the second time. Shaun noticed that the only product on the UK market for a newborn baby to sleep in was the Moses Basket, and although they are widely popular, they are also very traditional in style. With a lot more sophisticated prams and highchairs arriving on the market lately, its clear the baby sector is embracing more high-end products. So with that in mind Shaun designed a range of modern carrycots that would provide an alternative to the traditional Moses Basket or Bassinet.

The Babycotpod™ was born!

"My dream is to see the Babycotpod™ in almost every home with a newborn baby. It's such a modern, funky and unique looking piece of nursery furniture, and I thoroughly believe people will love it as much as I do." - Shaun Milburn, Founder and Director.

Babycotpod™ products are currently in development and will hopefully be available to buy at the end of the year '09.

Come and visit Babycotpod at The Designer Baby Show 15th November 2009 on stand B21

http://www.thedesignerbabyshow.co.uk/Babycotpod.html

Annabel Karmel Braised Beef with sweet potato

BRAISED BEEF WITH SWEET POTATO ~ 100 Top Baby Purees ~ Ebury Press - £9.99

Suitable from 6 months
Suitable for freezing
Prep time 8 minutes
Cooking time one and a quarter hours

One of the best ways to introduce red meat is to combine it with a sweet tasting root vegetable like sweet potato.

20g butter
1 leek, washed and sliced (approx 150g)
125g braising steak, cut into cubes
1 tbsp flour
275g sweet potato, peeled and chopped
100g button mushrooms, sliced
300 ml chicken stock
juice of one orange (about 120 ml)

Melt the butter in a casserole and saute the leek for about 4 minutes until softened. Roll the meat in the flour, add to the leek and sauté until browned. Add the mushrooms and sauté for one minute. Add the sweet potato, stock and orange juice. Bring to the boil and transfer to an oven preheated to 180C / 350 F/ Fan 160C for 1 ¼ (one and a quarter hours) or until the meat is tender. Blend to the desired consistency.

MAKES 6 PORTIONS

Annabel Karmel Introducing Fish - 100 top Baby Purees

Annabel Karmel - INTRODUCING FISH - Top 100 Baby Purees (Ebury Press - £9.99


Babies and toddlers needs are different from an adult’s – a low-fat, high fibre diet is good for adults but not appropriate for babies or young children as they need more fat and concentrated sources of calories and nutrients to fuel their rapid growth.

It isn’t a good idea to continue giving only fruit and vegetable purees for too long .
Babies also need nutrient dense foods like meat, chicken, cheese etc.. They also need iron which is found in red meat and essential fatty acids that are found in fish

Iron is very important for your baby’s mental and physical development. A baby is born with a store of iron that lasts for about 6 months. After this it is important that your baby gets the iron she needs from her diet. Iron in foods of animal origin like red meat or poultry are much better absorbed than iron in foods of plant origin like green vegetables or cereal. Combining meat with sweet root vegetables is appealing for babies and cooking it slowly gives it a delicious flavour and makes it very tender. If you are bringing your baby up on a vegetarian diet, lentils are a good source of iron and you can make delicious baby purees using lentils and vegetables.

It’s hard to find jars of puree containing fish, however fish is a fantastic food for babies. Oily fish like salmon is particularly important for the development of your baby’s brain, vision and nervous system. A baby’s brain triples in size in the first year and so its important to include oily fish in your baby’s diet from 6 months.

Here is one of my favourite ways to introduce fish.

COD WITH BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND CHEESE SAUCE

This is a good puree for introducing your baby to fish. Cheese sauce and butternut squash go well together . You could use mature Cheddar instead of parmesan and you could use plaice or hake instead of cod. The puree has a fairly runny consistency so if you are making this for older babies you could reduce the amount of milk you add.

Suitable for Freezing
Suitable from 6 months
Prep time 10 minutes
Cooking time 15 minutes


30g onion, finely chopped
15g butter
85g peeled and cubed butternut squash
15g plain flour
150 ml milk
50 ml vegetable stock
100g fillet of cod, skinned cut into small cubes
30g fresh grated parmesan


Steam the squash for about 7 minutes or until tender. Melt the butter and sauté the onion for 3 to 4 minutes. Stir in the flour and cook for 1 minute. Gradually add the milk and stock, bring to the boil and simmer for one minute. Add the steamed squash and chunks of cod cook for 3 minutes. Blend to a puree and stir in the cheese.

MAKES 4 PORTIONS

Clare Byam-Cook Joins The Designer Baby Show

We are delight Clare Byam-Cook will be another one of our special expert guests at the show. Clare will be offering advice and giving an expert talk about breast and bottle feeding.

Clare is a trained nurse and midwife with over twenty two years experience with the last two decades spent at Christine Hill’s antenatal practice in London. She is a breastfeeding expert whose celebrity client list includes Natasha Kaplinsky, Kate Winslet, Trinny & Susannah, Elizabeth Murdoch, Helena Bonham Carter, Gabby Logan, Nicola Formby and Daisy Donovan.

Her success rates in helping mothers to breastfeed are phenomenal: a dept of Health survey in 2000 found that only 42% of new mothers who start breastfeeding are still doing so at 6 weeks. However for those mothers with existing breastfeeding problems who consult Clare, at least 87% of them are still breastfeeding 6 weeks later.

‘I just can’t praise her enough’
Kate Winslet

‘Clare is a true ‘baby whisperer’ who will save you and your baby hours of torment. Her kind, common-sense and amazingly informed advice was as essential to me as breast-pads and chocolate.’
Kate Beckinsale

‘I booked Clare to come round the day my fourth child was born, and the breast-feeding has, for the first time, worked from the first day.’
Emma Freud

‘Breast-feeding is one of those things you go through life assuming to be natural and easy, but when I was pregnant I began to hear lots of horror stories about bleeding nipples and awful pain. So I booked Clare to come and see me by way of a pre-emptive strike. It was fantastic. She showed me how to place the baby at the right level using a pillow and pretty early on I was able to feed him, hands-free.’
Helena Bonham Carter

Tickets now on sale

Annabel Karmel To Open The First Designer Baby Show

We are delighted to announce our celebrity guest will be Annabel Karmel MBE.

Annabel is the world's leading expert & best-selling author on Baby & Children's food & nutrition. Annabel has written 17 books, selling in excess of 2 million copies world wide. The Complete Baby And Toddler Meal Planner was first published in 1991, today it is the number one bestselling book on feeding children and has been translated into 20 different languages.

Annabel also writes for newspapers including The Times, The Daily Mail and the Sunday Mirror as well as contributing to Practical Parenting, BBC Good Food and Sainsbury's Magazine. She is the children's celebrity chef on the BBC website & also appears frequently on radio & television as the UK's expert on nutritional issues including BBC1's Saturday Kitchen and BBC2 s Working Lunch. Recently, she completed a series on the Richard & Judy Show, This Morning and Sky.

Annabel will be opening the November Designer Baby Show and giving two talks at 11am & 2pm. Tickets are onsale now http://www.thedesignerbabyshow.co.uk/

Working From a Serviced Office

Working from a Serviced Office

For some businesses working from home will not be suitable. However, your business my not be in the position to commit to taking on your own premises. In these circumstances the flexibility and affordability offered by serviced offices may well be the answer.

Serviced offices are usually available for either occasional hire, or on a part time or full time basis. This flexibility can be important in the early years of your business and can help save money. The amount of space required can usually be changed at fairly short notice, so as your business grows you can take on more space without needing to move offices.

Professional Image

Having a serviced office may give your business a more professional image, by providing a separate business postal address, a fax number and a receptionist to take telephone calls.

The IT and communications facilities are usually up to date and likely to be in excess of those a small start up business would be able to afford in its own right. You may also want to take advantage of the secretarial services on offer, or make use of the meeting rooms.

All of the above factors will mean that you are working in a professional office environment, which should focus your mind on your business, without the distractions that working at home may bring.

The rental payments will vary depending upon the amount of use, the length of your contract and what services you require, but they can be very reasonable when you consider that there are no separate business rates or service charges payable.