You are exhausted. The toddler has rejected five foods since breakfast, and your own dinner has become a bowl of cereal eaten over the sink. This book is not about making separate meals or convincing a two-year-old to love kale. It is about feeding both of you, together, with the least possible fuss. Every recipe starts from the same base so you can share a main dish with adjustments that take seconds, not a second cook. You will find dishes that survive being ignored, that reheat without complaint, and that let you eat something hot while your child eats something familiar. All of them use ordinary pans, supermarket ingredients, and timings that fit between a tantrum and bathtime. No special equipment, no health-food store pilgrimage, no guilt about the occasional fish finger. This is cooking for survival, not for Instagram, and it works. Part of The Tired Cook's Library.