After being unable to find a tasty, healthy drink for children, Clippy McKenna enlisted her daughter’s help to create a low-sugar drink that’s about to go national
Finding something that tastes good and is also healthy for her daughter to drink proved so problematic for Clippy McKenna she made one for herself – and it was so good it’s about to go nationwide.
"I had my daughter Rosie five years ago, of course at the beginning children just drink milk and water, but then she started to get to the stage where she wanted squash or juice,” said Clippy, 40.
"I knew that cordials have a lot of sugar, while squashes are full of additives. I couldn't find anything as an alternative.”
So the mother from Sale, Manchester, along with her partner Paul Gorman began scouring her kitchen cupboards for ingredients and trying out different recipes.
"We had to try all our recipes out on Rosie, it doesn't get anywhere otherwise,” said Clippy.
"When I started out she would say 'Oh mummy I don't like it'. We would give her the drink while she was doing something else - I didn't want her to wear a white coat and hair net like I had to,” she added.
"Once I got the recipe I liked I tried it out on Rosie and the neighbours kids and it proved a hit.”
In 2011 she decided to launch a range of cordials based on the recipes she concocted in her kitchen, sold as Clippy's Cordials, they contain 37% less sugar, 37% fewer calories than other cordials and have no artificial sweeteners, colourings or flavourings.
"I didn't want to just make it for myself and give it to Rosie - I wanted everyone else to taste it,” she said.
The couple still run their business from their tiny spare room at their home and they’ve just hit shelves in 220 Tesco stores across the UK.
"The cordials have gone from being a recipe I was trying out in the kitchen of our semi-detached house to being in supermarkets up and down the country,” Clippy said.
"It is a weird feeling - but great."
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