‘I WANTED TO HELP OTHER BUSY MUMS’
Hanna Dilley, 40, runs toddler food company Benji’s Bites, and lives in Harrogate with her husband, Mark, 51, and their children, Benji, seven, and Reuben, five.
Rocking my newborn, Reuben, in my arms, I tried to quieten his cries. It was 2017, and while on maternity leave from my accountancy job, I was finding it difficult to balance being a mum to a newborn as well as my toddler, Benji, then two. I had little time and energy for cooking, but I didn’t want to turn to ready meals or junk food to keep Benji fed.
Instead, I began batch cooking whenever my husband, Mark, then 45, was home and able to entertain
