Little Spoon Review

The Little Spoon menu is good, but it could be better. There are 29 Plates and 8 Biteables to choose from. Some items are staples that stay on the menu, while others are updated seasonally to feature fresh, seasonal produce items. At least one new meal is rotated every month.

While that might sound like a lot of options, it can become repetitive quickly if you’re receiving a Little Spoon delivery every week. On the other hand, picky eaters like what they know, so having staple menu items is a plus for parents. Biteable and Plates can be filtered by dietary needs too. You can choose to view meals with no gluten, dairy, nuts, coconut, sesame, meat, fish, or egg. Depending on your child’s needs, multiple dietary filters can be chosen at once.

My daughter has no allergies or dietary restrictions, but the ability to filter meals is a must-have for parents with kids with specific dietary needs. Unfortunately, there is always a risk for cross-contamination since meals are prepared in the Little Spoon kitchen, where all ingredients come and go. The company uses the best cleaning practices to minimize this risk, though, and I couldn’t find any reviews where a parent has experienced a problem due to cross-contamination.

There are 15 Little Spoon smoothies to choose from, and the smoothies line is not updated on a regular basis. Again, the smoothies may become repetitive, but that’s not bad if you find smoothies your child loves! All smoothies are made with certified organic ingredients and can be filtered for no coconut, sesame, or dairy.

The BabyBlends menu features six stages of purees to grow with your child. All blends are organic and non-GMO. Stage one blends are 1 ingredient blended until very smooth, ideal for babies who are just starting to eat table food. Stage two blends are still smooth, but they include two ingredients. These blends are good once your baby has gotten the concept of eating purees down and wants more variety.

Stage three blends have three ingredients with a variety of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices. It’s been proven that introducing more flavors during the baby stage can help prevent picky eating later on, so the use of herbs and spices is very exciting to see! 

Stage four blends are slightly thicker and ideal for ages 8 months and up. The blends feature fruits, veggies, herbs, spices, oils, and superfoods. Stage 5 blends have a similar consistency to stage four blends but more ingredients. In addition to the stage four ingredients, legumes, chicken bone broth, and ancient grains are added to these recipes. Each stage 5 blend has a total of 5 ingredients.

Stage 6 blends are transition meals designed for baby-led weaning and moving your child from purees to traditional table foods. The blends are thick with whole pieces of vegetables, legumes, and ancient grains to get your child accustomed to chewing and swallowing different textures. Baby Blends can be filtered for no coconut, wheat, or meat.

There have been two recent additions to the Little Spoon menu that I’m super excited about! The first are called Snackers. Snackers are multiple-serving snacks that have no artificial flavors or GMO ingredients. All snackers have low or no added sugar, making them much healthier than similar items you’d find at the grocery store.

Snackers contain all the hidden veggies and superfoods that Little Spoon is known for, starting at just $2.32 per serving. There are oat bars, veggie loops, fruit rippers, and dippers. The dippers make snack time especially fun! These healthy snacks are the perfect addition to your child’s lunch box or a quick bite on the go.

Speaking of lunch, the second new addition is build it yourself Lunchers. We can all reminisce about the lunch packs from the grocery store, but they are filled with artificial ingredients and seriously lacking in nutrition. Little Spoon has taken the same concept for interactive kid’s lunches but made them a whole lot better!

All Lunchers have 10 grams of protein or more, and they feature familiar flavors that even picky eaters will be excited to eat. Lunchers start at $7.92 per meal with delicious options, including whole wheat PB jammies, flatbread cheesy pizza, and chicken dunkers.

The quality of Little Spoon meals is a great value for your money. Not only are the meals delicious, but they offer balanced nutrition with recipes a toddler will actually eat. All meals are designed with the help of a registered dietitian using clean, good-for-you ingredients. They leave out processed sugars and high amounts of added sodium that you’ll find in other premade meals, which made me feel good about feeding them to my child.

While Little Spoon BabyBlends are made using certified organic ingredients, Biteables, and Plates are not. The ingredients are non-GMO, though. Organic ingredients are used as often as possible for these toddler and big kid meals but not 100% of the time. Meals are well-rounded with ingredients that offer the vitamins, minerals, protein, and healthy fats a growing child needs.

Biteables, Plates, and Smoothies all have high-quality recipes that are unique compared to other premade meals for kids. It’s clear that the food is prepared, packaged, and shipped in a timely fashion because it all arrives looking and tasting fresh. The flavors, portions, and ingredients in Little Spoon products are all fantastic.

Some of the fan-favorite menu items we haven’t tried yet are the chicken pot stickers, chicken super nuggets, sweet potato carrot poppers, and the purple carrot acai bowl. Even after completing this Little Spoon review, the meals on the menu have me excited to order more for my child to try!

Overall, the taste of Little Spoon meals was a big hit with my four-year-old! The smoothies were by far her favorite item, which was surprising because she’s never been a fan of pouches. All the smoothies are sweet, not savory, but there’s a food range of flavors from one pouch to the next, so she wasn’t bored. 

The smoothies are an easy addition to a packed lunch for daycare or school. They can be enjoyed alone for a snack or as a side with a meal, which I love. The cookies and cream smoothie with oat milk and chickpeas were her favorite, and the strawberry banana shake with coconut milk was a close second. I’ve already placed an order for more smoothies because it’s so rare to find a healthy snack she’s excited to eat!

The Biteables were good, but you can definitely tell they’re designed with younger toddlers in mind. The flavors were very mild, but not in a bad way. My daughter can be picky at times, so mild flavors are easier to get her to try. The shredded fajita chicken with black beans and corn was one of her favorite meals that I’ll definitely be reordering. She was also a big fan of the mini white mac & cheese with herb-tossed carrots and peas. 

Plates have bigger flavors for bigger kids, but the taste still passed the picky-eater test in my house! Little Spoon does a fantastic job of incorporating hidden veggies in their recipes, so my daughter ate some foods I know I’d never be able to get her to eat otherwise.

The mac & three cheese with invisible butternut squash and carrots is a vegetarian plate that was a clear favorite. I tried a bite of this after heating it up, and it’s so good I’d order an adult serving if I could! The purple carrot blueberry oat balls and baked apples were the first meal she wanted to try when we unpacked the delivery, and she ate them so fast that I didn’t have time to snap a picture. If that’s not a good sign, I don’t know what is!

The pizza pocket with cauliflower and Romanesco broccoli was a plate she wasn’t as crazy about. I don’t think she disliked the flavor, but the texture. I microwaved this plate just like the others, but the pizza pocket turned out quite soggy. There are oven directions on the package too, and I think the oven is the best cooking method for certain meals that you want to have a crispy finish. 

For me, cooking a premade meal in the oven takes away some of the convenience factors, so this is an area that Little Spoon could improve on for sure. The best way to go about it may be by marking certain meals as oven meals or clearly highlighting that the oven is the preferred cooking method for a certain meal on the package. 

Plates require less than 10 minutes in the oven once it’s preheated, but again, that’s not nearly as convenient as 90 seconds in the microwave. Also, you have to move the food from the plate to an oven-safe dish before heating.

Portion sizes were one of my biggest questions going into this review. A portion size that’s too large would create food waste, while a portion size that’s too small would leave a child asking for more. Thankfully, Little Spoon has absolutely mastered serving sizes for toddlers and young kids.

The Biteables were just enough food for my daughter, who finished 99% of the food on the plates. Portions are larger on the Plates, which makes sense since they’re marketed toward older kids. My 4-year-old finished about ¾ of the servings on most Plates, which I was happy with! There was minimal food waste, but still extra food, so the servings will be able to keep her full as she gets older too.

There were a couple of Plates she had only finished half of, and I put the rest into a storage container to keep in the fridge. Those leftovers heated up just as well as the plate did the first time around and made the perfect afternoon snack. The pasta Plates seemed to be the ones she didn’t eat as much because she got full quicker.

While I can’t attest to the serving sizes of BabyBlends, I will say they seem to be a similar size to the premade baby food you buy at the grocery store. Unopened BabyBlends are good for up to 14 days in the fridge and should be consumed within 48 hours of opening, leaving plenty of time to feed your baby multiple smaller servings if they can’t finish the blend in one sitting.

Before I dive into the cost of Little Spoon, I want to talk about what you’re really paying for. Of course, you’re paying for prepared meals delivered to your door, but it’s much more than that. You’re paying for meals that have been designed with the help of a registered dietitian and prepared using high-quality ingredients. You also get fully recyclable packing, reusable plates, and kids’ meals that can grow with your child.

Possibly the biggest underrated value of Little Spoon is the healthy habits you’re teaching your child. From baby foods to early finger foods and plates, Little Spoon makes it incredibly easy to make healthy eating fun for your child. They use unique ingredients your child may not experience otherwise and make it effortless to show your growing child what an appropriate serving size looks like.

Now that you know what you’re paying for, let’s get down to the nitty-gritty. Little Spoon is a subscription service with weekly or biweekly deliveries, but you can pause, cancel, or skip a week anytime in your Little Spoon account. When you sign up, you’ll choose a delivery plan. Don’t worry. You can update your plan later if you change your mind.

Delivery plans can include 4-12 plates or Biteables, 6-18 smoothies, or 14-42 blends per week. The more you order, the cheaper it is per serving. You do have the option to add additional items to your order too. For instance, if you have a Plates plan, you can add smoothies to your order a la carte.

New customers are eligible for special coupons and savings, so you can let your child try the food without investing too much to start.

I scoured the internet looking for good reviews, bad reviews, and everything in between. One thing I quickly noticed is that negative reviews are almost impossible to find because the vast majority of customers love the products and service! The most consistent complaint I found was parents asking for more variety in meals. This could be achieved if they did weekly menu updates rather than monthly, but honestly, it isn’t an issue for most parents or kids.

Little Spoon is very responsive to customer reviews too. If someone has a not-so-great experience, their customer service team reaches out quickly to try and make things right, which is always good to see.

Little Spoon has a wonderful customer service team. They’re responsive and understanding and work to ensure every customer has a good experience. Even if you aren’t a customer yet, you can reach out with questions about the service, meals, or dietary restrictions.

On a Desktop or Laptop computer:

You can contact Little Spoon customer service on your computer via email or live chat. The live chat feature can be found at the bottom of their website. Emails can be sent to care@littlespoon.com.

On a Mobile Device:

To contact customer service from your mobile device, you have three options. You can email or live chat, of course. The live chat feature and the Little Spoon site as a whole perform great on a mobile device, in my experience.

Alternatively, you can text the support team at 415-855-4155.

I was very impressed with the Little Spoon packaging! Everything arrived neatly packed in one box. The box has a layer of insulation to keep things chilled. Multiple ice packs were placed under, around, and on top of the meals, so everything was kept cold until I got home to move it to the refrigerator.

Our family is big on recycling and lowering our carbon footprint, so 100% recyclable packing is one of my favorite things about Little Spoon. The box and insulation can go straight to curbside recycling. Plates and the plastic covering on top can be recycled after being rinsed, or you can keep the plates to reuse. Personally, I kept a few Plates and a few Biteables trays, then recycled the rest. 

The ice packs have a biodegradable filling. To recycle the pack, let it thaw fully, then snip one corner and empty the filling into your trash can. Rinse the ice pack, and it’s ready for curbside recycling. I also want to point out that the ice packs are very high-quality and feature cute designs! I recycled most of them, but I did keep a couple to put in my freezer to reuse when we need to pack a cooler with lunch for a day at the zoo or pool. 

The unique liner is made from denim! That’s right – recycled jeans, which you can send back free of charge for a 2nd, 3rd, and 4th life. Read more here.

All in all, I would be thrilled to feed my child Little Spoon items again, and I’ve already recommended it to some of my mom friends. I went into this Little Spoon review with a lot of concerns about my child enjoying the food or even wanting to try it, but those concerns were quickly put to rest.

If you don’t mind paying a little more to give your child nutritious meals that you don’t have to prepare, Little Spoon is a great choice.

What we liked:

• Multiple stages of food for different ages
• Unique recipes that still feel familiar, like chicken super nuggets and mac n cheese with hidden veggies.
• Incredible customer service
• 100% recyclable packaging and plates
• Flexible subscription plan with no commitment

What we didn’t like:

• The menu could use more variety or more frequent updates
• Some items get soggy in the microwave and would cook better in the oven
• The items are a little pricey, so it’s not something every family can afford, even though the overall value is good.