My daughter received a few items from the Just Like Home range from Toys R Us for her birthday and Christmas last year and one of those items was the mega food play set - and mega it really is!!

There are 120 pieces in this set and there is a great range of foods - there are vegetables such as corn, chillies, carrots, lettuce and onions, fruits such as grapes, pears and apples, and then other foods such as pizza, fries, burgers, chocolate, ice cream, doughnuts, cake along with packets and tins of foods and a mini salt and pepper pot. The food comes in a large clear fronted cardboard box, with the pizza being the initial thing that you see as its large in the middle of the box. The downside with the packaging is that once opened there is nowhere to put the food so i had to buy a plastic box specially.

My little girl adores this set, she loves making the meals in her kitchen and then plating them up to serve to myself and her Grandma. The set really promotes role play and imagination and I love that it does that, its a really important part of play in my opinion. The variety of items in this set is what I think really makes it a good buy however there are some very small crisps (just like pringles) which I really don't like as I feel they are too small and thin to be totally safe. The set is recommended for children aged 3 and above, but even then I think the pringles aren't all that safe as children at this age still tend to put things in their mouths.

All in all I feel this set has been a really good buy and my daughter has had a huge amount of play from it, and at £12.99 personally I think it was a bargain! There are various other sets in this range so you can just keep adding to the collection if you so wished.

I would recommend this play set as a great starter for food play, the range of food in the set is adequate for children to make pretend meals and also play shopping!