Skip the special toddler aisle
Most of what a toddler needs is already in the ordinary fruit, bread, rice, egg, and vegetable sections. Pouches and puffs are optional.
Ordinary food is the product
Spend the money on food you will cook again. The $5 app is the plan. The basket can stay simple.
You do not need a special toddler meal to feed a toddler. The foods you already cook, in a form they can manage, are the meal.
What the aisle cannot do
A pouch is not an allergy test and not a feeding plan. Labels still matter for milk, egg, wheat, and the other allergies you saved.
If a pouch is the only way a meal happens on a hard day, it can be the familiar food. It does not have to become the whole diet.
Where the money goes
Fruit, a grain they can eat, a bean or a lentil, and the one new food. That basket matches the app better than a row of special snacks.
The week, the shop list, and how to serve the food stay in the app. The aisle does not replace them.
A sentence you can say
“We’ll buy food we already know how to cook.”