Fresh and fast: the baby food for busy parents.

The first time I had a baby I did a lot of pureeing. It was hard and mostly a waste of time. I felt very worthy going to the grower’s market, buying the fresh fruits and vegetables, coming home, cooking them up, mashing them, putting them in little ice-cube trays, sometimes mixing in some meat or chicken which I’d stewed seperately. Maybe some pasta. Rice.

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Then I’d put all the little cube-y things into the freezer, wait for them to become solid and then bag them up into individual freezer bags which I would then label and stack in my freezer drawers.

This took a long time. It was expensive. And I’m not a great cook.

But so what? Nothing was too much trouble for my baby. I wanted him to eat delicious, nutritious, lovingly prepared food.

There was just one problem. Someone forgot to tell my precious toddler how much trouble I’d been to. Because my precious toddler threw my lovingly prepared meals across the room, onto the floor and dumped them into his lap. He rubbed them into his highchair, into his hair and fed them to the dog.

By the time my second child came along a few years later, there were more food options. Those squeezy things in tubes and organic jars of baby food and other pre-prepared bits and pieces. I used them all a lot and they were great because with one older child and a toddler, who was going to make two lots of meals?

Not me. But I still had niggles. I wanted something fresher.

Fortunately, Luke Mangan is a mind reader.