Nourished Beginnings provides nutrition training and menu planning for early childhood services that are ready to raise the bar and become industry leaders in providing wholesome nourishing food for our children.
We take the stress out of the all too time consuming job of planning nutritious meals for your child care centre.
What if you didn’t have to worry about:
Constantly finding new, quick and easy recipes.
Keeping your food coordinator up to date with nutrition training.
Making sure all meals are nutritionally balances.
Keeping parents happy by addressing multiple food sensitivities and allergies.
….. all whilst keeping within a very tight budget!
That’s where Nourished Beginnings comes in. We here to do all of that hard work for you!
What does this mean for you?
No more stress or time wasted in planning new and exciting menu’s.
No more parent concern about their child’s specific dietary requirements being met (they can be directed straight to this website to be reassured about the quality of food their children are eating).
Your food coordinator will be fully trained in nutrition and whole food concepts specific to the needs of a child care environment.
You will be setting a new standard in Australian child care nutrition – what better marketing tool is there?!
You will be exceeding parents expectations (happy parents = higher enrolment numbers!)
Educated staff = healthier staff = greater productivity and workplace morale.
How can Nourished Beginnings help you?
You know you want only the best for the children you care for.
You know that their parents demand and expect only the best.
You know that providing a variety of healthy, nutritious meals is hard work
(you’re expertise are in child care NOT nutrition, right?)
You know that you want to be a leader in making positive change.
You know you want someone else to do all of the hard work for you so you can just enjoy watching those enrolment numbers thrive and your children flourish…
Well, with our Nutrition Consulting Packages I am here to help you do just that.
Professional Development Courses
What is it?
Our Professional Development Courses are designed specifically for child care Food Coordinators who are ready to further their education in nutrition and whole food basics.
The aim of this training is to provide your Food Coordinators with the tools and knowledge they need to prepare nutritionally balanced, nourishing meals for the children in your care, all whilst keeping within a tight food budget.
Who is it for?
Long day care, family day care, all early childhood services!
Food coordinators, early childhood educators and centre managers. Everyone will benefit from learning more about early childhood nutrition.
Topics covered:
Whole food concepts – specific whole food ingredients and how to implement them in a child care kitchen.
Nutrition basics – proteins, carbohydrates and fats. What are they and how do they affect the 0-5 age group.
Digestion and immunity – how food affects the development and maintenance of healthy digestion and immunity in children.
Allergies & food sensitivities – how to manage multiple allergies in a busy kitchen.
Catering for the 0-2 age group – foods to avoid and foods to include for thriving, healthy babies.
Menu planning – how to realistically implement a healthy menu that not only will the children love, but is also affordable and practical
Making a healthy change – how to ease the transition into making a healthy change (getting staff on board and making it a joyful experience).
+ Live cooking demonstrations to show you just how easy it is to include whole food in your busy child care kitchen.
+ Any other topics that are specific to your needs may also be included in the training session.
Investment: from $400
Email [email protected] to book your professional development course today.
* Our Professional Development Courses run for 2 – 4 hours dependant on your needs and the topics to be covered.
* The total cost of our Professional Development Courses will be dependant upon the length of the course and the number of attendees. This will be discussed and agreed upon prior to signing your contract.