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Din Din Smart Divided Stainless Bus Platter $32.95 -
Biobu by Ekobo Bambino Kids Bamboo Dinner Set $34.95 - two colours available -
Skip Hop-Kids Dinnerware-Palette Plate $42.95 -
Dinner Winner Plate - Forest $34.95 - two other designs available -
Boon-Edgeless Nonskid Plate (3pk) $24.95 for a pack of three - two colourways available -
Penny Scallan Pear Salad Bamboo Mealtime Set $29.95 - five other designs available as well as single pieces of the set -
U Konserve Rectangle Stainless Steel Food Container with Divider $21.95. Not strictly a toddler mealtime container, but can certainly be used as one then go on to another life as a lunchbox -
Green Sprouts Learning Cutlery Set $18.50 -
Love Mae 5 Piece Bamboo Dinner Set $34.95 - other designs available -
Green Sprouts Silicone Cup $14.95 -
Oogaa Silicone Plane Spoon $12.95 -
Green Sprouts Silicone Feeding Spoon Set (2 pack) $18.50 -
Oogaa Divided plate $12.95 -
Bamboo Plate Set - Sunshine $25.95 - other colours available -
2 Easy Hold Bowls $8.95 - one other colourway available -
Dinner Time - Fire Truck $10.90 - other styles available -
Piyo Piyo Stage 1 Training Table Set $34.99 for an 8 piece set -
Skip Hop Mate Stay-Put Mat & Plate $29.95 -
Tug Bowl $19.95 -
Re-play Divided Plate $6 each -
LunchBots Cinco $55 -
Kmart 3-piece Dining Pack $9 -
Ikea Kalas plates $1.99 for a set of six
For most families, non-breakable dinnerware is a fact of life. Having your ceramic dishes thrown on the floor by an enthusiastic or resistant baby is not ideal, so it's best that hard-to-break dinnerware is used in the early years.
It does depend on the individual child, but by about age three or four, your child will be more aware of whether something is breakable or not.
Luckily, before this age, there are many BPA-free plastic and metal options for your baby or toddler to eat from.
You may want to consider bento-style metal boxes that can later be used as lunchboxes, if longevity and avoidance of plastic is what you'd prefer.
Babies and toddlers often love their food to be separately partitioned so we have included dinnerware that enables this.
Otherwise there are the more usual dinner plate sets that come with a co-ordinating bowl, plate and cup.
Click through our gallery above - each product has a link so you can click to buy or read more detail about the product.