Early Eaters Club

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09/08/2026

🐟 Fish night, zero fuss. One pan, every age at the table.

Quartered tomatoes stewed down soft, a tin of coconut milk, and cod gently poached right in the sauce. Ten minutes of actual effort. The fillet for you, and for little ones flake it through the rice with plenty of sauce, bones checked.

What this dinner is doing nutritionally: cod is lean, gentle protein with iodine for the developing thyroid and brain, plus selenium and B12. The coconut milk brings the energy and fat little bodies run on, and tomatoes add vitamin C and lycopene. Creamy, mild and genuinely nourishing. 💛

And the skills side, because that is where meals like this earn their keep: flaked fish in sauce is a brilliant in-between texture, soft enough to manage, varied enough to teach real chewing. The rice, flakes and sauce ask little mouths to sort mixed textures, which is exactly the practice wary eaters need. It loads beautifully onto a spoon or fork for self-feeding. And everyone eating the same dinner is modelling at its best.

Fish once or twice a week is the aim. Recipes like this are how it becomes a favourite rather than a fight.

Save this for your next fish night 📌 Is fish loved or refused at your table right now? 👇

🧇 I said I would never own a waffle iron. I wish I got one sooner!Savoury waffles are one of the easiest ways to get veg...
07/08/2026

🧇 I said I would never own a waffle iron. I wish I got one sooner!

Savoury waffles are one of the easiest ways to get veg, protein and wholegrains into a small person who is convinced they do not like veg, protein or wholegrains. The shape stays familiar and fun, so a wary eater feels safe, and the good stuff goes right in.

I swap the plain white flour for wholemeal, spelt, oats or chickpea, for fibre and slow-burn energy. Swipe for six favourites: chicken, potato, pumpkin, oat and cheese, courgette, and cheese and curd.

Make a big batch in one go and freeze them flat with a sheet of baking paper between each. They keep for up to 3 months, and you cook them straight from frozen, no defrosting, just a few minutes in the toaster, oven or air fryer until piping hot and crisp.

A month of breakfasts sorted in one afternoon. ❄️

Cut into fingers they are lovely for baby-led weaning too, just go easy on the salt for the littlest ones.

Which flavour is your little one trying first? 👇

🌍 A peanut puff, a sea bream, a stone for strong teeth.Every culture starts solids differently, and some of them rewrote...
05/08/2026

🌍 A peanut puff, a sea bream, a stone for strong teeth.

Every culture starts solids differently, and some of them rewrote the science.

Israeli babies snacking on Bamba led researchers to the LEAP trial, which cut peanut allergy by around 80 per cent and flipped world guidance from avoid to introduce early.

Japanese babies meet umami before sweetness.
French babies get one vegetable at a time, taste education from spoonful one.

I have added my honest take on each, what I would keep and what I would tweak. No culture is doing it wrong. But the evidence does point one way on timing (around six months, with readiness signs) and on building those first bowls on veg, protein and iron rather than fast starch.

Swipe through, borrow what fits your table, and tell me: which country’s approach would you happily steal? 👇

🤖 I use AI every single day. I would still never hand it your child’s meal plan.It is genuinely brilliant at some things...
03/08/2026

🤖 I use AI every single day. I would still never hand it your child’s meal plan.

It is genuinely brilliant at some things. Summarising a dense guideline, turning my notes into something clear, making an idea look beautiful. That part I love.

But AI is built to agree with you. A Stanford study found the models endorsed the user’s position around 49% more often than a human would, and backed clearly harmful choices 47% of the time.

Ask it if your fussy eater’s diet is fine and it will tend to reassure you, not challenge you.

And ask it for a meal plan? Something is always missing. The iron, the iodine, your child’s actual history. It pattern-matches, it does not reason like a clinician, and the functional, whole-child approach simply is not native to it. Every line needs checking.

Use it as an assistant, never an authority. And if you want a real answer, ask it to argue against you. Or ask me :)👇

“No salt for the baby.”Fine. But why? 🧂Nobody ever finishes that sentence. You get “their kidneys can’t cope” and then s...
31/07/2026

“No salt for the baby.”
Fine. But why? 🧂

Nobody ever finishes that sentence. You get “their kidneys can’t cope” and then silence. No number, no mechanism, nothing about what actually happens if they have some.

So I went digging, spoke with a few university proffessors, and the real answer is far more interesting than the scare.

Your newborn cannot taste salt at all. The receptors switch on around four months. So the taste for salt isn’t something babies arrive with, it’s something that gets built, and you’re standing right there while it’s being built.

Here’s the part that changed how I cook. Salt doesn’t really add flavour, it mutes bitterness. You already know this from salted caramel and salt on grapefruit. Which means when you salt the broccoli, you’re pressing mute on bitter, and bitter is the exact taste your baby needs the most practice with 🥦

Swipe for where the salt actually hides (it was never your pinch), why the pretty pink salt is the wrong pick, and the thing about oat milk that nobody mentions when you make the switch.

Did anyone ever give you a proper reason, or were you just told no? 👇

🥚 Muffin-tin egg bites, the little lifesaver that makes breakfast and the lunchbox sort themselves out.Pick a base, add ...
27/07/2026

🥚 Muffin-tin egg bites, the little lifesaver that makes breakfast and the lunchbox sort themselves out.

Pick a base, add whatever veg needs using up, bake, and pop them out. One tray, endless combinations, barely any washing up. 🙌

How to bake: grease the tin well, whisk your base, stir in your fillings, and spoon into the cups about three-quarters full. Bake at 180°C (fan) for 18 to 20 minutes, until set and golden and springy to the touch. Cool for a few minutes, then pop them out.

Mix and match to your heart’s content. A few of our favourites: 🧀 cheese and courgette, 🍅 tomato and spinach (pizza-style with a pinch of oregano), 🌽 sweetcorn and red pepper, 🥦 broccoli and cheddar, or mushroom and chive. Same easy method, brand new bite every time.

Why they work for little ones: eggs bring protein and healthy fats for growing bodies and brains, and blending in cheese or cottage cheese keeps them soft for small mouths. Soft, easy to grip and lovely for self-feeding from around six months (skip the added salt for the littlest ones).

They keep in the fridge for a few days and freeze beautifully. ❄️

Save this for your next batch-cook, and tell me what is going in yours 👇

🍽️ Mealtimes can go from calm to chaos in seconds. Food on the floor, screaming in the highchair, and you just want it t...
26/07/2026

🍽️ Mealtimes can go from calm to chaos in seconds. Food on the floor, screaming in the highchair, and you just want it to stop.

When the meltdown hits, most of us reach for one of two things. We tell them off and demand they stop. Or we rush to distract with a snack, a toy or a screen. Both work in the moment. Both cost something bigger. 😬

Telling them off does not calm the feeling, it swaps frustration for fear.
Distracting ends the upset before your child has ridden it all the way through, so they miss the lesson that matters most:
I felt awful, and then it passed. 🌱

During a meltdown the amygdala (the alarm centre) is at full power, and the prefrontal cortex (the thinking, reasoning part) has gone offline. So your child genuinely cannot hear your words, reasons or deals. Not will not. CANNOT. 🧠

Every mealtime meltdown is practice for their nervous system. Upset, peak, come through, settle. That full loop is how self-regulation is built.

So what helps? Stay close. Say less. Breathe slowly. Let the feeling run its course. Then name it once they settle: “You were so mad the pasta was too hot.” That switches the thinking brain back on. 💛

Save this for the next hard mealtime, and go gently on yourself too. 👇

Stop cooking separate meals for you, your toddler and your baby 🫣We are half way through summer holidays, and my days ar...
24/07/2026

Stop cooking separate meals for you, your toddler and your baby 🫣

We are half way through summer holidays, and my days are busy with work and feeding the fam. 😵‍💫

So here are a few of my go-to’s. Simple, balanced, showcasing produce and teaching kids what real food is. Less work for you - cooking wise… And dealing with rejections at a later stage.

23/07/2026

Your child won’t eat without cartoons, toys or a full song-and-dance routine? There’s a way out, and it doesn’t involve going cold turkey. 🎪

First, why this backfires. Distraction switches your child’s attention OFF. Food goes in on autopilot, past the fullness signals, without any of the looking, touching and tasting that builds real eating skills. Some kids sit with food parked in a cheek, too absorbed to swallow. And because dinner only happens with a show, the show becomes part of dinner.

Nobody plans this. It starts with one hard week and one trick that worked. Here’s how to unwind it:

1. Shrink the show, don’t cancel it. Volume down a notch, the phone a bit further away each week. Swap the screen for calm audio along the way, a Tonies box or gentle radio stories give company without hijacking the eyes. Steps small enough that nobody riots. 📻
2. Hand them the job. A child being fed while watching is a passenger. Their own spoon, a dip to dunk, two options to pick from. Busy hands don’t need a screen. 🥄
3. Let hunger arrive first. No grazing for a stretch before meals, water only. A hungry child needs far less entertainment.
4. Eat with them, same food, same time. Other people eating is the best show at any table. Connection fills the space the cartoon leaves. 💛
5. End meals flat. Eating stops, meal ends, no chasing spoon, no negotiating. Next food at the next set time. Week one is protest week. Week two, it settles.

The circus started for a reason, a scary weight check, reflux, lack of appetite after an ilness, teething. No guilt here, just an exit map.

One flag: if meals collapse completely without a screen, every time, that’s one for a feeding professional, not a lonely battle.

What’s playing at your dinner theatre tonight? 👇

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