Customer Reviews

101 Piece Play Food Assortment

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I love step2 products, my daughter is only 2 yrs old but we already have MANY of their items. We decided to get her the lifestyle deluxe kitchen for the holidays this year & needed to get her some playfood to go along with it, I really wanted wooden sets but after spending over $200 on the kitchen I decided I'd go with the step2 plastic... big mistake! As another reviewer mentioned there is no retail packaging, they come in plastic bags. The plastic pieces are tiny, very thin, and sized strangely (ie a banana is smaller then an egg etc), the "boxes" are a joke, they are smaller and weaker then your typical snack size raisin box... I didn't even dare give them to my toddler as they'd have been ruined in 2 seconds. The "jars" are also very small and instead of interesting as one reviewer said they are just odd, disgusting sounding food items and very boring design. Having nothing else on hand I did give these to my daughter, she seems to like them well enough but I will be buying her some wooden playfoods soon and tossing these up on ebay or a garage sale. Not recommended.

My 16 month old loves her new groceries. The produce & sandwich parts are plastic & each piece has a wonderful texture. The canned goods are very interesting to read. They are actually labeled by a supermarket in the UK, so they are a bit different from the groceries you would find in the US. I put the cardboard frozen food items away until she is older. She has been entertained at length because each piece is so intricate. This was a great purchase.

I did A LOT of research on the Internet regarding play food before I bought this set. This set offers the largest variety of foods, covering all of the food groups, with minimal amount of desserts (I want a healthy eater). This play food set has eggplant, cauliflower, asparagus, chicken, steak, ham, hot dogs, hamburger, bacon, pineapple, lemon, honeydew and musk melons, any many more items - an incredible selection of foods. I received exactly what was shown in the picture on the Internet. The food is very high quality and just the right size for a play kitchen to fit on the play plates. My daughter, husband and I have a great time with this food. She loves making us breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. She also likes to put it in her shopping cart that we had purchased separately and ring the food up with a pretend cash register.

As for comments on the packaging...packaging costs money which is built into the cost of the food. That is why this food doesn't cost a lot, because Step 2 saves money on packaging. Plus most people toss packaging anyways after opening an item. The packaging is clear plastic so you can see all of the items.

This set has a larger variety of food than Little Tikes, Fisher Price, and Just Like Home (I never saw anything about Kid Connection play food during my research). The person who received 8 hot dogs, 12 french fries, etc. should contact Step 2 and ask for a reship. There must have been a mistake made when packaging was done (probably a rush for holidays orders). You should get exactly what is shown on the Internet.

I hope this review helps everyone. Have fun with this food! It is a GREAT buy!!

It seems like a nice complete set of playfood, except that the boxes are really flimsy cardboard, and I've thrown most of them out already. It doesn't take much to crush them. There are much nicer sets out there, and there are separate pieces sold on ebay, that are probably used but will stand the test of your kids much better. Not worth the money.

I agree with a previous review that you get what you pay for. But in the future I would highly recommend paying more once instead of having to replace this food in a few months or so. We received this as a gift and from the outside it looked like an great choice! I was very happy. But we have had this package of food for about one week and I am already taping boxes with packaging tape to keep them together. Little hands can pull apart the milk, juice and snack boxes in no time. The cans of food are so small that they topple over easily in the play kitchen. The pies, pizza, and such food are all actually hollow underneath. There is no base to them. They tell you 101 pieces but in our kit it counted 8 hotdogs (without buns), 12 individual french fries and the same on potato chips. Not necessary especially since you also get two french fry packets in a french fry container and you get a hot dog in a bun separately. Why would my child want four jalepenos too. So much of this food is not they type of thing a small child would be familiar with. Anyway, in my opinion spend the money on a smaller quantity of higher quality food or go online and find the "vintage" Fisher Price or Little Tikes food. Now those are made to last and of good size for small hands.

If you are looking for play food that is like little tikes or fisher price, this is not it!! There is a reason you get 101 pieces for 19.99!! These pieces are much smaller and made from a thinner cheaper plastic. Not at all what i expected from a quality company like step 2. To top it off, this set does NOT come in a retail box but is cheaply packaged in plastic bags. I am sure my daughter doesn't mind these are cheaply made or small but i sure as heck do. I could have bought a Kidconnection set from walmart for less money and maybe even of better quality!

My daughter was 2 1/2 when I gave this to her. I use it to teach her food groups and to encourage her to taste the real version. Pretend "invisible" food is fun, but for a little one who has a lot to learn about different foods, to touch and to see is worth 1000 words!

I purchased this set for my 21 month old to accompany the Little Tikes shopping cart. I was looking for a set of play food with variety. I found it interesting that the company for the food products is British, and so there are cans and jars of food that Americans normally would not see or have heard of. Probably why some of it sounded disgusting to another reviewer. My daughter doesn't care. She just sees the photos on the products. It was a great learning tool because as she upacked all of the food (especially the non-boxed and canned foods) she named each item correctly. And learned the names of some new foods, such as asparagus. It provides her with a great variety of foods and she enjoys "cooking" with them. Yes, there is a bottle of "brown sauce", but she thinks it ketchup. I'm certainly not going to correct her. And to compliment the items, I taped up an empty box of butter that we used, an empty Magic Eraser box (she loves Mr. Clean for some reason) and she goes to town. Now I'm looking for the perfect kitchen set and she will be totally equipped for shopping and cooking! I highly recommend this set based on the value for the money and what is currently available. One of the drawbacks is that some of the pieces are small (like single french fries) - you can always put them aside based on the age of your child.

We bought this set for our 2-year-old for Christmas to go with her new Little Tykes Shopping Cart and she LOVES it!

My first thought was "Great, like we need 101 pieces of ANYTHING around the house," but she really does love it, and the plastic pieces have helped her learn the names of foods she did not know before like "asparagus."

I do wish the plastic food pieces were a little bigger, as they are quite small, maybe about 2-3" tall as opposed to the 4-5" tall versions we are used to seeing. My daughter has pulled most of the paper labels off of the "cans" and the cardboard boxes were pretty much history the minute they hit the door. The whole point though is to foster the imagination, which they certainly do.

This food set was very disappointing. I ordered this online and was very disappointed with how the pictures of this product do not look at all like what you get. I sent the product back before even opening it, as it would never hold up to children's play and would be a waste of money.