Cook one meal for the table
A separate toddler menu every night is how parents burn out. Cook the family food in a form their age can manage, and add one food you know they will eat.
One pot is the sustainable plan
The app is there for the week when you want that plan written down. Tonight can still be simple.
Cook the lentils and rice you are eating. Give them a soft portion and the banana, bread, or potato they already accept.
Age still changes the form
Younger toddlers need the family food softer. Older toddlers can take pieces closer to yours. The app says how to serve a food for the age you saved.
This page will not walk through the cuts. If chewing worries you, keep it soft and talk to your child’s doctor.
What you stop cooking
Stop running a second dinner after they refuse the first. Offer the familiar food from the same meal, then end it.
A plain second helping of the food they accept is not a second menu. A new dish invented at 7 p.m. is.
A sentence you can say
“This is our dinner. Your potato is here too.”