🍓 📚 Eat Better Start Better
A voluntary guide to help early years settings and families provide balanced meals for children? It includes:

🫐 Portion sizes
🫐 Food groups
🫐 How to read food labels
🫐 Example menus
🫐 And much much more....

#NOFEssexEY #HealthyEating #EarlyYears #EatBetterStartBetter

🍊 🍏 🍓 What colours are on your plate? 🫑 🍉 🍋

👀 Have you noticed that healthy food often comes in a rainbow of vibrant colours.

👎 Brown or beige food is often less nutritious, processed, and bland in more ways than one.

#NOFEssexEY #HealthyEating #LunchboxIdeas #EarlyYearsEducation #EarlyYears

🍎 Do you feel passionately about children's access to healthy food?
🍎 Do you believe in food education?
🍎 Do you work with children under 5 in an early years setting in Essex?

🍊 Complete the survey to share your views - closes Friday 10th January - forms.office.com/e/XPAJPqQvAr

#NOFEssexEY

🍎 Happy New Year! The Nourishing Our Future project team at Anglia Ruskin University and Essex County Council are entering the final countdown for the NOF project! #NOFEssexEY Follow to keep up to date! #HealthyEating #EarlyYearsEducation

Very much looking forward to listening to this over the next few nights.

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🎄 Food is more than just food it’s memories culture, and connection. Through the Nourishing Our Future project we’ve seen how emotional food is.

👏 Thank you to all the settings involved in the project! We can’t wait to share recommendations and celebrate at the closing conference.

#NOF #EarlyYears

While the other half is at work I got the nails and the hammer out 🔨🔨 💡 💡 wonder if he’ll notice #xmaslights 🎄

We are half way through a timely, insightful, vital project that explores food provision in early years settings in Essex. Some early insights... #NOFEssexEY

❗ Survey closes on 10th January 2025.

Christmas meal at the fabulous 🎄German Gymnasium 🎄 Exceptional food and even better company 💙💛 #lovemyjob #ARUEducation @jennyfog.bsky.social @leannegray.bsky.social @rachelminett.bsky.social

I work with the best people 💙💛 They make me think, question and realise why that thing is different than I thought it might be. Importantly they care, we have vision and they enrich our work #ARUProud @jennyfog.bsky.social

🌟 Super excited to see progress in creating healthier food environments for children and their families.
👏 Early years practitioners are calling for change to support parents and children in navigating a healthier food landscape.
#NOFEssexEY

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Time to connect, relax and laugh as a team is especially important when working in a fast-paced demanding sector like Education. It was wonderful to be with the #ARUearlyyears team yesterday doing just that. #worklifebalance #ARUEducation

Fuelled by coffee ☕ inspired by many - my wonderful team in the School of Education #ARUEducation and the fabulous @kimothykimbo.bsky.social and @jennyfog.bsky.social. Passionate about early years education 🌱 childminding, action research, healthy eating in the early years and sustainable living.