Cow and Gate Biscuits - The Best! (Cow & Gate Milk in General)

Member Name: Vicki H

Product:	Cow & Gate Milk in General
Date:	25/09/01 (138 review reads)
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Advantages: Great value., Vouchers inside the box., Easy to hold.

Disadvantages: Very hard for younger babies., Look like dog biscuits.

I must admit to favouring the Cow and Gate range. I have been pleased with the milk formula and all the food, both dry and ready prepared. When my son reached six months I started to scour the supermarket shelves for suitable finger foods and came across the Cow and Gate biscuits.

They are suitable for babies from 6 months but a word of warning here! I gave them to my son at this age and he bit off a massive chunk and tried to swallow it whole! The biscuits are very hard and don't seem to disolve like rusks. I therefore decided to avoid them for a few months. I recently bought some more as he is now 10 months old and he copes with them really well.

The biscuits cost somewhere in the region of £1-39 for a box that contain approximately 35 biscuits. This is great value when you compare it to the price of rusks! The biscuits are inside a foil bag once you open the box and this can be resealed keeping the biscuits nice and fresh.

The box usually has some really good money off vouchers inside it too. Mine has 30p off a breakfast cereal and 75p off follow on milk. If you use this range it is certainly worth buying the biscuits for the vouchers.

The biscuits themselves are made with six cereals and fortified with calcium, iron and vitamins.

The ingredients are a follows:
Cereal flours (wheat, oats, maize, barley, rye, rice), sugar, skimmed milk powder, vegetable oil (palm oil), raising agents (ammonium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate), calcium carbonate, sodium choloride, flavouring, dextrose, iron (ferrous lactate), vitamin B1, vitamin B6 and vitamin B2.

This product is soya and egg free and contains no artificial colourings or preservatives. It is however not gluten free.

The biscuits can be given as finger food and are a good shape for small hands to grasp. They are long and fairly narrow, which enables your child to put their whole hand around them. They are convenenient to keep in
the changing bag just in case hunger strikes! The only down side is that they do closely resemble dog bisuits! We were sitting in a restaurant the other day having a meal when I handed one of these biscuits to my son. My husband was quite upset when he saw it as he reckoned people would think I was feeding him dog food!

The biscuits can also be crumbed with baby's milk to make a cereal base. You can add fruit purees to this in order to make a dessert or breadfast dish.

The product has a long best before date and therefore you don't have to rush to use them up.

Cow and Gate put a careline telephone number on the side of packaging as well as an address should you have any problems with the product.

My son loves these bisuits because they make him independent above anything else. He also seems to enjoy the taste. They are very easy for him to hold and now that he has more teeth he can chew them properly too. I would recommend these biscuits to any parent.

Thanks for reading.

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