Whether you’re a full-time working or part-time-but-busy-as-ever new mum, making meals from scratch for your child sometimes feels like the hardest thing ever (especially if you’re hopeless in the kitchen like I am). In the age of out-sourcing everything we possibly can, I decided to give Baby Ambrosia’s freshly made baby and toddler meals a try and see if their claim to 100% natural and nutritious culinary experience could entice my little T. rex.
Price
From RM6.90 – RM11.90 with RM5.00 delivery charge.
How to Buy
The Curve
PC03, Level 1 (Opposite MPH)
No 6, Jalan PJU 7/3, Mutiara Damansara, 47810 Petaling Jaya
Kizsports & Gym
Second Floor, Great Eastern Mall
303 Jalan Ampang, Desa Pahlawan, KL
Fit For 2
Lot 3F-1B, Third Floor, Bangsar Village II
2 Jalan Telawi 1, 59100 KL
Happi Kiddo
Publika, Ug-9 No. 1,
Jalan Dutamas 1 Solaris Dutamas, 50480 KL
Happi Kiddo
F23-F25, 1st Floor, Citta Mall Ara Damansara,
Jalan PJU 1A/48, PJU 1A, 47301 Petaling Jaya
Yay
- Ordering your meals online is super easy. I’m a big fan of online shopping simply because it’s about the only ‘environmentally conscious’ thing I do on a regular basis! However, if you’re out and about anyway, you can pick up a few pots of from Happy Kiddo at Publika or Fit4 2 Café at BVII. Delivery is within 24 hours, so I suggest you plan ahead if you are going to order – and remember you can order more than a week’s worth (just stick them in freezer) for free delivery.
- Founder and chef Lee Swee Yeoh is a very hands-on businesswoman and believes that a good range and variety of foods, textures and tastes will help to develop your little one into a healthy, and happily adaptable gourmet baby. Her belief really translates into her meals with lots of interesting choices like, ‘mango chicken with mint and rice’ and ‘fish risotto with tarragon and broccoli’ (two of my top picks). Baby Ambrosia’s menu is far more extensive than I had expected it to be.
- With absolutely no added salt, sugar or preservatives and made from locally-grown and (largely) organic ingredients, the ‘lumps’ (for babies 8 months old and up) and ‘chunks’ (for toddlers) are consciously made by someone who knows her nutrition, and what tastes good to a baby.
Nay
- The meals come in plastic containers, which is pretty unsafe; glass bottles which can be recycled or returned for a discount on the next order would be a better alternative.
- Some of the ‘lumps’ were too puree-like and the ‘chunks’ were a little too exotic for my son. I know if they were any simpler, I’d be faced with making them myself at home instead so it really does come down to how you’ve trained your baby’s taste buds so far.
- Lack of nutritional information. Since there is a nutritionist on board, the brand could offer more advice to mums on the meals they choose and why they should get certain ones based on various nutritional needs.
Bottom Line
Getting food from Baby Ambrosia really makes you feel like you have a personal chef cooking for your baby, and definitely takes a load off your mind when it comes to the question, “what to cook?” It’s also good to expose your child to new tastes, outside of his usual home-cooked food and gives you the chance to sort of mix it up every other day; which is how T. rex ended up enjoying the food. It does cost a little more than making all of this on your own at home, but honestly if you find yourself really stretched for time and want fresh and nutritious food in an instant, Baby Ambrosia is the way to go.
Date reviewed: July 2014
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Michelle Lim-Chua is a banana born in New York City, who fell in love with a boy from Melaka and became a mama of one.
Image Credits: Michelle Lim-Chua and Baby Ambrosia