Batch adding children with Tree Behavior

Is there a quick and easy way to generate children and have them auto-
associated with the respective parent, using a multidimensional array?
I have a data array structured like this (generated from a flat file):

[User] => array (

[name] => John

)

[Todo] => array (

[0] => array (
[type] => single
[note] => bread, milk, coffee
)

[1] => array (
[type] => multiple
[TodoChild] => array (

[0] => array (
[type] => single
[note] => cereal
)

[1] => array (
[type] => single
[note] => dessert
)

)
)

)

Todo actsAs "Tree" and has both a hasMany and belongsTo relationship
to itself (both relationships only have the foreignKey set to
"parent_id"). The model works fine when the user is adding children
via the webpage, but I want to find the quickest and easiest way to do
this manually or "programmatically" without having to resort to a ton
of code just to do this seemingly simple task.

The only way I thought of to accomplish this was to use a recursive
method that would save the parent, get its generated ID and set it as
the "parent_id" field for each child and then save each child.
However, that seemed a bit much just to simply add children to a
parent manually.

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