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Spice up your mini meals!
Do you ever feel that you’re stuck in a bit of a ‘food rut’? The same old meals week in and week out?? It can be hard enough to keep our own weekly menus exciting and enticing, let alone being creative with your child’s food.. However recent research suggests that parents in the UK are…
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Introducing the Ten Steps for Healthy Toddlers
Try the Infant & Toddler Forum’s Ten Steps for Healthy Toddlers and look out for a monthly article, shining a spot light on each step. Toddlers need a healthy, balanced diet to thrive. Importantly, the foods they learn to like in their early years can help shape eating habits that influence their health in later…
The crucial role of red meat in our children’s diet
Research has highlighted how important the role of red meat is our diet, in particular affecting our children. The study revealed tha millions of people in the UK are putting their health at risk because of inadequate intakes of vital vitamins and minerals. Meat has been a staple part of the human diet since the…
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STEP 3: Offer foods from all 5 food groups each day.
Each of the five food groups provides different nutrients. When toddlers eat from all five food groups each day, they will get all the nutrients they need for their health, growth and development. The only exception is vitamin D, which comes mainly from sunshine on the skin – only very small amounts are found in…
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Recipes: It’s a wrap!
Children’s food doesn’t need to be expensive or take a long time to make, scrambling an egg takes less than five minutes and an egg costs less than 40p. As eggs come conveniently packaged in their own shell, it also means you can cook small portions with little waste. Mealtimes should be enjoyable and fun,…
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Recipes: Baby Omelette
One of the benefits of eggs is their versatility. As well as boiling, scrambling and making omelettes; French toast, pancakes and egg fried rice are all egg recipes that small children enjoy and they can help kids to get used to different textures and flavours from a young age. Here, Annabel Karmel shares her recipe…
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Recipes: Popeye’s Baked Egg
A delicious egg-tastic weaning recipe from Annabel Karmel that your 9-12 month old will love!! Eggs can be combined easily with vegetables, which all mums are keen to make sure their child is getting enough of. Add diced onion, courgette, sweet pepper and tomato to omelettes or make tasty vegetable fritters with sweetcorn, grated cheese…
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Are we missing out on eggs?
With so much news coverage and doubts raised about eating eggs during pregnancy or in the first stages of weaning, you’d be forgiven for playing it safe and avoiding eggs completely. It would seem that’s exactly what many pregnant women and mothers are opting to do, but at what cost to their diet and wellbeing?…
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Meals on the go made simple
Every once in a while a product comes along that we genuinely get excited about, something that will make life as a busy mum just that little bit easier, that will make being out and about with your little one simpler and therefore for fun. So when the Fill n Squeeze arrived in our inboxes,…
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Introduce solids without impacting breastfeeding
As your baby gets bigger and seems hungrier, you may wonder how or when to introduce solids without impacting breastfeeding. There are different approaches you can take to introducing solids, such as baby-led weaning, the traditional method of introducing new tastes in puree form or a combination of both. Regardless of which method you decide…
