Avocado toast faces
- Age: 2–3 years (Little cook)
- Texture: Finger food
- Prep: 5 min
- Cook: 2 min
- Makes: 1–2 portions
Ingredients
- 2 slices wholemeal bread
- 1/2 avocado, mashed
- a few cherry tomatoes, quartered
- a few cucumber slices
- 1 tbsp sweetcorn, squashed
Contains: Wheat
Method
- Toast the bread and spread with avocado.
- Your child makes a face — tomato eyes, cucumber ears, a sweetcorn smile. Cut into quarters.
Safety: Sweetcorn squashed. Whole grapes, cherry tomatoes and blueberries are quartered lengthways until at least four. Whole nuts wait until five.
Storage: Serve fresh.
Tip: Jobs for small hands: the face. Nobody refuses a toast they drew.
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