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Early Start Nutrition, East Ham (2025)

12/05/2025

🌟It's Salt Awareness Week 2025🌟

🧄This year, we're taking a look at how to add flavour to meals for little ones, without adding salt or salty seasonings

🌟This is important as children really don't need much salt at all, and worryingly, if they have too much it can increase their risk of health issues later on in life

😮We also know that if children are introduced to having salty foods early on, it can shape their eating habits both now and later on in life!

👍You may worry that without the presence of salt, the meals and snacks you offer will lack flavour. However, there are so many ways to add extra flavour to the meals that you prepare!

🧅Take a look at the ingredients that can be used in children's food, such as: different vegetables, citrus fruits, herbs and spices!

👶Don't forget to check out image 5, which explores information on adding herbs and spices to food for babies

⬆️For more information, check out our blogs:
🍋 'How to Add Flavour Without Using Salt'
🍋 'Salt Recommendations for Children and Adults'
📲 https://linktr.ee/earlystartnutrition

03/02/2025

🎉 February Parent Nutrition Webinars now available to book!

Our family webinars are FREE to attend and we provide follow-up support and resources.

We run two webinars:
✅ Weaning Your Baby – discussing foods to offer, textures, managing mealtimes, reviewing the Start for Life resources.

AND

✅ Toddler Meals and Snacks – discussing mealtime routines, meal and snack idea,s and tips to encourage children to eat well.

👉Each webinar is around 45 minutes
👉Webinars are free to attend.

November dates:
👶 Weaning Your Baby, Tuesday 18th February at 1:30pm

🧒 Toddler Meals and Snacks, Thursday 27th February at 7:30pm.

Our webinars get booked up quickly, and so please only book if you're able to attend.

If you're a Health Care Professional, we have lots of training modules you can access, and so kindly ask that you leave the webinar spaces for families.

If you're unable to attend a webinar, you can also complete our FREE online nutrition courses for parents, covering the following topics:
✅Feeding your Baby in the First Year
✅Good Nutrition for Your Toddler
✅Fussy Eating Strategies
✅Eating Well in Pregnancy.

💻Book here- https://www.earlystartgroup.com/nutrition/parents-page/

28/01/2025

🎉 We've got some very exciting news to kick off our 2025!!

😍 We’re thrilled to announce that we are FINALISTS for Early Years Nutrition Legend in the Children's Food Campaign Awards 2025!

🏆🍎 Winners of the awards will be announced on 25 Feb, so we'll keep you posted! https://www.sustainweb.org/childrens-food-campaign/award-finalists/

❤️ Here at Early Start Nutrition, we're so passionate about all children having the best possible start in life. We absolutely love working with early years settings to help them develop and embed good nutrition practices and supportive eating environments, and it's wonderful to see the positive impact this has on children!

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04/12/2024

🕯️The beginning of December means one thing, it's officially advent calendar time and we're so excited to launch our Nutrition Advent calendar for 2024!!

🎄For the whole of December you can unwrap our favourite festive treats and each morning you'll find a new recipe hiding behind our interactive advent calendar.

🎅All recipes are easy to make,great fun and perfect for little chefs

*Please adapt recipes to ensure the size and texture is suitable for children's abilities

🎄To reveal what's behind each door and find the recipes, visit our website- https://www.earlystartgroup.com/nutrition-services/nutrition-advent-calendar/

🎅 Don't forget to tag us if you make any of our recipes

27/11/2024

🎉 FINAL FAMILY WEBINARS OF THE YEAR- now available to book!

Our family webinars are FREE to attend and we provide follow-up support and resources.

We run two webinars:
✅ Weaning Your Baby – discussing foods to offer, textures, managing mealtimes, reviewing the Start for Life resources.

AND

✅ Toddler Meals and Snacks – discussing mealtime routines, meal and snack idea,s and tips to encourage children to eat well.

👉Each webinar is around 45 minutes
👉Webinars are free to attend.

December dates:
👶 Weaning Your Baby, Tuesday 3rd December at 1:30pm

🧒 Toddler Meals and Snacks, Monday 16th December at 7:30pm.

Our webinars get booked up quickly, and so please only book if you're able to attend.

If you're a Health Care Professional, we have lots of training modules you can access, and we kindly ask that you leave the webinar spaces for families.

If you're unable to attend a webinar, you can also complete our FREE online nutrition courses for parents, covering the following topics:
✅Feeding your Baby in the First Year
✅Good Nutrition for Your Toddler
✅Fussy Eating Strategies
✅Eating Well in Pregnancy.

💻Book our webinars and courses here- https://linktr.ee/earlystartnutrition

19/11/2024

🌟Sugar Awareness Week 2024🌟

🌟It's and we're supporting Action on Sugar in asking manufacturers to reduce the sugar in their products

🍩Children and parents are bombarded with sugary foods where ever they go, often with misleading claims, so it's easy for children to get used to the sweet taste of food from a young age, which can influence their future health.

👧With an increasing number of children access childcare, it's essential that settings take steps to offer healthy, balanced and nutritious meals and snacks, and are mindful to reduce the amount of sugar present in the foods they serve

Take a look at our tips to reduce sugar in your early years setting, and some of the key recommendations around choosing:
✅low sugar cereals
✅tooth-friendly snacks
✅nutritious desserts.

For more information, check out the following resources:

Blogs
✳️Reducing Sugar in Children’s Meals and Snacks
✳️Know your Labels

✳️Online Menu Planning Training for Early Years settings:
✅Complete this training to learn more about how to plan nutritious menus for your early years setting that meet the Eat Better Start Better guidelines. Explore topics including how to: develop and review your menus, cater for special dietary requirements and support children at mealtimes and create an encouraging dining environment

✳️Child-Friendly Recipes and Cooking Activities- check out our huge range of fun, tasty and nutritious recipes

Click here to access the links to the resources above- https://linktr.ee/earlystartnutrition

31/10/2024

⭐Tea recommendations for early years settings⭐

🍽In today’s post we’re sharing recommendations around planning TEA to meet the EBSB guidelines:

✅Each tea should include a main course & dessert each day
✅Provide a starchy food as part of tea each day & be sure to provide at least three different types each week, such as pitta bread, potato, couscous

✅Provide vegetables and/or fruit as part of tea each & be sure to provide a variety across the week, such as pepper sticks, cucumber fingers, mashed banana

✅Provide protein foods as part of tea each day, such as baked bean, chicken, tuna

✅It’s best practice to provide three portions of milk & dairy foods each day, & one of these can be as part of tea, such as grated cheese, yoghurt

✅Provide only fresh tap water & plain milk for children to drink.

Tips:
📝Be clear on what’s included in each dish. For example, instead of ‘vegetable curry’, you could say ‘lentil curry with butternut squash, aubergine, peas & tomatoes, with brown rice’

⭐Mealtimes are a great time to involve children in the preparing, cooking & serving of the food (where appropriate). For example, they can help to chop vegetables, set the table & serve elements of the meal themselves

⭐Talk to families about the timing of tea so that they can plan their child’s routine at home in the evening

We've lots of support to help you meet these guidelines:

➡️Our online Menu Planning training explores topics including how to: develop and review your menus to meet the EBSB guidelines, cater for special dietary requirements, support children at mealtimes & create an encouraging dining environment

➡️Menu Review- have your menu reviewed by our team of expert registered nutritionists, who will provide recommendations & suggestions to help you update your menu to bring it in-line with the guidelines

➡️Blog- Menu Planning FAQ’s & Common Pitfalls

➡️Example menus- to provide tea ideas & menu inspiration.

➡️Access the support resources here- https://linktr.ee/earlystartnutrition

🌟Photo credit- food images by First Steps Nutrition

29/10/2024

🎉 November Parent Nutrition Webinars now available to book!

Our family webinars are FREE to attend and we provide follow-up support and resources.

We run two webinars:
✅ Weaning Your Baby – discussing foods to offer, textures, managing mealtimes, reviewing the Start for Life resources.

AND

✅ Toddler Meals and Snacks – discussing mealtime routines, meal and snack idea,s and tips to encourage children to eat well.

👉Each webinar is around 45 minutes
👉Webinars are free to attend.

November dates:
👶 Weaning Your Baby, Tuesday 12th November at 7:30pm

🧒 Toddler Meals and Snacks, Monday 25th November at 1:30pm.

Our webinars get booked up quickly, and so please only book if you're able to attend.

If you're a Health Care Professional, we have lots of training modules you can access, and we kindly ask that you leave the webinar spaces for families.

If you're unable to attend a webinar, you can also complete our FREE online nutrition courses for parents, covering the following topics:
✅Feeding your Baby in the First Year
✅Good Nutrition for Your Toddler
✅Fussy Eating Strategies
✅Eating Well in Pregnancy.

💻Book via our website, here- https://www.earlystartgroup.com/nutrition/parents-page/

23/10/2024

🎃 Spooktacular Halloween Recipes

🎃 Check out our tasty Halloween recipes! We’ve got a range of snacks and puddings, from pumpkin cupcakes to petrifying pizzas!

🎃 These are fangtastic recipes to make with your little ones at home, or as part of food based activities in your early years setting!

🎃 Find the recipes in our Halloween recipes blog, here- https://www.earlystartgroup.com/nutrition-services/recipes/halloween-recipe-ideas/

15/10/2024

⭐️Snack recommendations for early years settings⭐️

In today’s post we’re sharing recommendations around planning SNACKS to meet the Eat Better Start Better (EBSB) guidelines

✅ Provide a starchy food as part of at least one snack a day & be sure to provide at least three different types each week, such as crackers, breadsticks, pitta bread

✅ Provide vegetables or fruit as part of some snacks & be sure to provide a variety across the week, such as pepper sticks, cucumber fingers, banana

✅ Avoid offering dried fruit at snack time, as it can increase the risk of tooth decay

✅ Provide protein foods as part of snacks once or twice each week, such as egg fingers, hummus, bean dips

✅ It’s best practice to provide three portions of milk and dairy foods each day, & one of these can be as part of snack, such as cream cheese, cottage cheese, yoghurt

✅ Provide only fresh tap water & plain milk for children to drink

✅ Ensure the size, shape & texture of the snacks you offer children are appropriate for their age & developmental stage

✅ Make sure that children sit down to enjoy snack, & it’s great if practitioners eat with them to provide role modelling opportunities

✅ Share your menus with families to give them ideas of snacks they could offer at home

We've lots of support to help you meet these guidelines.

➡️ This includes our online Menu planning training, which explores topics including how to: develop and review your menus to meet the EBSB guidelines, cater for special dietary requirements, support children at mealtimes & create an encouraging dining environment

➡️ Menu Review- have your menu reviewed by our team of expert registered nutritionists, who will provide recommendations & suggestions to help you update your menu to bring it in-line with the guidelines

➡️Blog- Snack Time in Your Early Years Setting

➡️Example menus- to provide ideas and menu inspiration.

Click here for the links- linktr.ee/earlystartnutrition

Photo credit- food images by First Steps Nutrition

02/10/2024

🌟Pudding recommendations for early years settings🌟

🍉In today’s post we’re sharing recommendations around planning PUDDINGS to meet the EBSB guidelines

🍶Puddings made with cereals (e.g. rice & oats), milk & fruit can be included as part of a healthy, balanced diet for young children. They provide children with energy & essential nutrients, such as calcium & iron.

What do the EBSB guidelines say?
✅A pudding should be provided as part of lunch & tea each day
✅For the main meal of the day (typically lunch), provide a variety of different desserts each week (e.g. fruit-based such as apple crumble, dairy-based desserts such as rice pudding) & limit the provision of cakes & biscuits
✅For the lighter meal of the day (typically tea) provide fruit (such as seasonal fruit salad) and/or dairy-based desserts such as yoghurt, & avoid cakes & biscuits
✅Desserts which include fruit should have 40g of fresh fruit or 20g dried fruit per portion

🌟Top tips🌟
- Limit confectionery such as chocolate chips & use only as part of cakes or desserts
-Avoid artificial sweeteners when choosing/preparing puddings- use fruit to sweeten instead
-Some sour fruits, such as stewed rhubarb, may need a small amount of sugar added to make them less sour
-If providing ice cream, choose dairy ice cream as it contains more calcium than non-dairy types & limit to once a week with fruit-based puddings

👍🏼Remember that puddings are an important source of energy & nutrients for children, so even if they don’t finish all of their main meal, it’s good practice to still offer a nutritious pudding

👶For children around 10-12 months of age, lunch & tea can start to include fruit or dairy based puddings

We've lots of support to help you meet these guidelines.
➡️This includes our online Menu Planning training, which explores how to develop & review your menus
➡️Menu Review- have your menu reviewed by our team, who will provide recommendations & suggestions
➡️Blog- Toddlers Desserts & Puddings
➡️Example menus

Access the support resources here- https://linktr.ee/earlystartnutrition

Photo credit- food images by First Steps Nutrition

24/09/2024

⭐Lunch recommendations for early years settings⭐

🍽In today’s post we’re sharing recommendations around planning LUNCH to meet the EBSB guidelines (swipe to see some of our top tips):

✅Provide a starchy food at lunch every day and be sure to provide at least three different types each week, such as pasta, rice, potato
✅It’s good practice to provide at least one wholegrain starchy food e.g. wholemeal pasta
✅Provide vegetables or fruit as part of lunch every day, providing a variety across the week, such as peas, carrots, mango. Try to include seasonal varieties
✅Provide protein foods at lunch every day, such as tuna, lentils, chicken. One lunch each week for ALL children should include pulses or meat alternatives
✅Provide oily fish, such as salmon, sardines or pilchards, at least once every three weeks (this can provided at lunch or tea)
✅It’s best practice to provide three portions of milk and dairy foods each day, and one of these can be at lunch, such as cottage cheese or milk-based puddings
✅Provide only fresh tap water and plain milk for children to drink

Top Tip:
📝Be clear on what’s included in each dish. For example, instead of simply stating ‘fish pie’ on your menu, you could say ‘salmon pie topped with mashed potato and served with peas and carrots’

We've lots of support to help you meet these guidelines.
➡️This includes our online Menu planning training, which explores topics including how to: develop and review your menus to meet the EBSB guidelines, cater for special dietary requirements, support children at mealtimes and create an encouraging dining environment
➡️Menu Review- have your menu reviewed by our team of expert registered nutritionists, who will provide recommendations and suggestions to help you update your menu to bring it in-line with the guidelines
➡️Example menus- to provide ideas and menu inspiration.

See here for more info- https://linktr.ee/earlystartnutrition

Photo credit- food images by First Steps Nutrition

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