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Cooking for Toddlers

How hard can it be to cook for toddlers? Not very, you think. Small people, fairly simple tastes, limited portions. So you buy a recipe book, choose a recipe, buy all the ingredients and dutifully cook up twelve portions of one dish. You proudly present it to your toddler feeling smug in your excellence as a parent. Said toddler then promptly spits it out and clamps their mouth shut, leaving you serving emergency cheese on toast and staring balefully at the remaining 11 portions. Sounds familiar?

We all have the idea that we'd like to cook fresh food for our toddlers but reality very often gets in the way. 'Toddler' recipe books quite often have a long list of ingredients needed for a dish that makes a large number of portions, not to mention the time needed to cook them. That's all very well if you have the time to buy all the ingredients, time to cook and have the space to freeze everything. But what if you don't?

This website aims to give you recipes that should take around 15 minutes to prepare using simple ingredients. I am not a nutritionist, nor a childcare expert, just a mum of a particularly fussy toddler who would like to share her recipes (and take the opportunity to expand my repertoire!)
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