i bought the fruit ($6.99) and veggies yesterday and they are GREAT! an amazing price for what you get...and so cute!

Adorable! Now when is the swedish meatball set being released?!

@shanti Ha ha!

Wow. Looks better than the food in their cafeteria.

are they made in china?

I went to IKEA a couple of days ago and noticed the various sets in their kids' dept. They really are super cute. They just don't look as cute in reality. But you really can't beat the price on them. Another thing I like is that they are super sturdy.

They also came out with a felt barn including tractors, animals, etc. Adorable.

I showed the "reality" pic on my blog in case anyone is interested.

http://littledesigncafe.blogspot.com/

have a lovely day!

I was just there and got three of the sets (they didn't have the breakfast one or I'd have gotten it too). The fruit set and the sweets set are both the same price as the vegetable set, I think $6.99.

I think they are cute. The quality is not great (as you would expect), but being play food, I think they will hold up nicely. In my opinion, there is NO competition between this and handmade felt food, and it was so cheap, that I won't feel like I can't still buy felt food.

It's nice to have a cheap alternative though, because our kitchen stock was growing very slowly!

I don't think this touches the quality or looks of the handmade felt food you can find on Etsy...the breakfast set especially is kind of ugly. But the veggies are cute and cheap. I might pick up a set next time I'm at Ikea.

I'm meh on this. Polyester stuffed food...nope, not one of the Ikea greats, like their teeny tea set is.

Etsy, now, that is some serious temptation!

Uh oh, looks like we'll be taking another trip to IKEA soon.

Good grief, I can't stay out of Ikea long enough - looks like I'll be back soon!

What Etsy sellers do you all buy your felt food from?

I gave my kids some rocks and shells to play with. She has been using her imagination till now. Sometimes they were rice, sometimes they were cake.
But do like the sound of these ones. Just wondering if she really needs play food as such. Any thoughts?

Momonflight, I'm guessing your shell-baking child is pretty young--2 or 3, tops--unless she has an incredible imagination. This kind of imaginative prop play (where a rock can be an apple, a baby, or a mountain) is more common in younger kids; as they get older, they tend to zero in on the attributes that make their play props seem "real." It's great that your child enjoys "cooking" with shells and rocks; perhaps she might want something more detailed and realistic in a year or so, but she definitely doesn't "need" them now (or ever.) The good news--that's plenty of time for Ikea to add to the range of their play food!

the ice cream, veg and fruit sets are all the same price.

to conny, i looked at your pic and it looks as if theres an issue with the supplier over in germany where you are. i work in Ikea in the UK, and the Duktig is the spit of the online pictures, for example the stitching around the pan cakes not being on the one in your pictures is very strange. i would hope that they change the quality over there so do it some justice cause they are just to die for over here! :(

Thanks "sunsoaked"!
Hm, not only do they look different, they are also more expensive over here. Sad. I wonder why that is.....
I still think they are stinking cute. Maybe I just grabbed a bad batch, who knows.
Again, thanks for letting me know. I need to mention this on my blog. :)

Although I value the quality/handmade goodness of etsy sellers. The play food is something not really in my budget until IKEA came out with it. I realize it's polyester, and probably not the prettiest...but it will offer some relief to my budget in order to invest more money on the kitchen, table and baby bertoia chairs I want to purchase for my daughter...

If they're more expensive now at your store, wait until August when everyone must adjust to the new catalog pricing. It's only ever for sale items and during July that individual Ikea's have control of their own prices.

And yes, these things are fan freaking adorable. I mean, the banana UNPEELS! OH and there's an extra animal pack you can add to the farm...it even has a swan to swin around in the pond! CUTENESS!

Heela- I'd skip those baby bertoia chairs if I was you. It isn't well balanced so it is an accident magnet for a younger child. My 3 year old is monster big and always has been and it will still be YEARS until he can use the child's chair comfortably.

Maybe I'm the only one who doesn't like them! Makes me think more dog toys than kid toys I guess. I really just don't like felt or fabric play food. When I was a girl, I had a huge bucket of plastic play food and adored all of it. Plus if my kids end up anything like me those toys wouldn't last a day without being soaked in spit and cut up with scissors.

SHUT UP! I was just thinking it's about time IKEA came out with play food. yippee!

Ok, I couldn't resist and I got them all :)
The lettuce is so cute - the leaves velcro on so it's like you're really peeling off the leaves!

And none are made in China. The veggies are made in Vietnam and the other 3 are made in Indonesia - in case anyone else cared.

I got fruit, veggies and breakfast. They are cute even scattered across the bedroom rug...
http://twitpic.com/27yf0a

Ikea Round Rock has displays of all the food sets but actually only has the fruits in stock. The edges of the display breakfasts were the cheaper unfinished kind. They had a display of the barn but none in stock, and I got the next-to-last set of extra animals.

There was also a lot of dress-up and accessory kits for the stuffed dogs.

Do Canadian Ikeas have them in stock? I have no children and I still want them all!

Some other pictures of the Ikea set :

http://libelul.com/?p=5219

from Jane in Paris / France

Some other pictures of the Ikea set : here

from Jane in Paris / France

Oh, how I wish</I> Ikea in Australia stocked even half the things you show on here, and I would be a very happy penguin indeed! But especially these... oh yes, no need for small children to justify the buying of these...