Top Toddler Food Cafe Distractions

Have you ever planned a cafe date with a friend (and your delightful toddler) and attempted to have coffee? Pretty fun. It always starts the same way; you convince yourself that it will be a good idea, and it will be good for you to get out. Moments later you are sweating profusely, partaking in a spoon grabbing, hot coffee dodging, sugar flying duel. Your friend who does not have children, now does not want them, and you regret leaving the house.

This was me. And I see others. What I also see, are gossip deprived mothers plying their kids with prepackaged snack after snack after snack. I did it once, and I had a bloated, crabby Harry all afternoon. So now I have at my disposal some much healthier options that aren’t too messy, and at times give me up to 20 minutes of silent-child-peace.

Cafe plan

• Leave the house when your babe is not too tired
• Make sure they are not starving, but could eat something
• Call ahead to find out if the cafe has a highchair, with four legs (preferably)
• Bring very tempting homemade snacks
• Bring a suction bowl to attach to the table
• Bring wipes
• Bring sense of humour

Top 10 healthy recipe’s kids might eat quietly before they impale fellow diner with a fork :

• Pick ‘N’ Mix fritters
• Chew-me fruit oat bars
• Mango banana smoothie
• Pick ‘N’ Mix Cheesy Triangles 
• Cheesy Vegemite Scrolls 
• Popcorn Chicken 
• Fruit ‘N’ Nut muesli Bars 
• Apricot Coconut Muesli Balls 
• Carrot Cookies 
• Vegetable Sausage Rolls

These are mine, what are yours?