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Stage 4: from 1 year +
Toddlers are more socially aware and love joining in with family mealtimes but they have different nutritional needs to both babies and adults. It’s important to keep giving them a healthy and nutritionally balanced diet, and a wide variety of food will help them get the nutrients they need. Their food preferences become relatively fixed by two years of age and tend not to change until they’re about eight. That’s why we have developed our range of Toddler Balance food. If you have any questions, contact our team.
Sam, nutritionist
Our Cow & Gate Toddler Balance Stage 4 foods have been especially tailored to your toddler's needs, when many adult foods are not yet suitable for them. Toddlers still have lots of growing to do so it's important to give them a nutritionally balanced diet while continuing to help them explore new textures and tastes.
Our stage 4 foods have been developed to help your toddler learn to feed themselves, developing their hand-to-eye co-ordination.
Our range of Toddler Balance meals are perfect for helping you give a balanced diet to your energetic, growing toddler. Just like grown-up dishes, but tailored for toddlers, there are 6 balanced meals with up to 7 vegetables per recipe to help your toddler accept a variety of tastes and textures. With chunky pieces, ideal for chewing, these ready-prepared dishes are taste-approved by mums and toddlers.
Narrow this list down to those suitable for your toddler
closeMeals in dishes
- Scrummy Sunday lunch
Chicken & turkey
- Big boys (and girls) bolognese
- Hearty pork and apple dinner
- Chunky veg & beef casserole
Meat
- Tasty tomato & bean pot
Vegetables
- Fisherman's tuna & veg bake
Fish
Sauce & pasta range
- Casserole sauce
- Tasty cheese sauce
- Tomato & basil sauce
- Tomato & mascarpone sauce
- Tomato & 6 veggies sauce
Sauces
- My storybook pasta
Pastas
Where else to look for salt
Savoury meals are an important part of your baby’s diet and, being `savoury`, they are more likely to
contain salt. Some of our baby and toddler savoury meals contain salt. This is because salt is found
naturally in some of the ingredients we use. But rest reassured: all our savoury meals are within
baby control standards and below the maximum level allowed by the EU (Directive 2006/125/EC).
To ensure that your baby’s daily salt intake stays within recommended levels, always check food
labels and remember, salt can also be listed as sodium.
At Cow & Gate we are committed to reducing the levels of salt in our savoury meals to an absolute
minimum over the coming months and help you get the best for your baby. You can click here to see
which of our meals contain salt and how much.
For more advice or information our feeding advisors will be happy to help – just get in touch.
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