What we offer
The Early Years Nutrition Support service provides everything you need to esure your setting is delivering consistently healthy meals and snacks: from menu reviews and recipe development support to expert guidance from experienced registered nutritionists.
Plus: with settings expected to ensure that food provided from home “aligns with the healthy options offered by the setting”, our resources also include vital support on how to meet this requirement.
You can mix and match the resources that work for you – and once you’ve made your first purchase, you will get access to the Early Years Nutrition Support ‘Committed’ logo to display on your website and any promotional material, demonstrating your commitment to good nutrition.
Support is tailored and nuanced towards the demographic of each particular setting and community in which it operates, recognising each early years setting is different with its own unique challenges.
Our nutrition packages are bespoke for your setting, rather than offering a prescriptive, rigid programme, we provide flexible support tailored to your needs.
As such, it’s always best for you to get in touch with us so we can consider what support you need and guide you towards the most suitable package.
Here’s an example of what our packages might include for you:
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Additional support is also available on a bespoke basis. Would you like to discuss which option suits your setting best, or understand more about how we could put together a bespoke package for you?
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The fundamentals of health and nutrition in early years settings
Providing healthy and nutritious meals in early years settings
Packed lunches, other food from home, and snacks support
This informative, accessible and engaging resource pack provides a roadmap to help providers navigate nutrition in their setting.
– for settings offering meals cooked and prepared in-house
In addition to guidance in the above resource pack, this also includes sample menus and recipes as well as an hour of support from a registered early years nutritionist.
This package consists of two hours of support from an experienced registered nutritionist to help your staff feel confident to support children that bring food from home and to encourage healthy eating habits. It includes a live virtual session for families and support around your snack provision to complement food packed lunches.
Menu review and recommend
Menu and recipe development
Virtual bespoke in-house training session
During this three-hour service, an experienced registered nutritionist will assess your menu in its entirety and provide recommendations for positive changes. We can help ensure that you have a good understanding of how to provide a variety of snacks and meals suitable for your provision.
This four-hour recipe development service will include a dedicated nutritionist working with you to develop a suitable menu and/or develop recipes to meet your requirements. It also includes opportunities to create individual menus to meet children’s unique requirements.
This bespoke training session with the Alliance will help your team better understand nutrition. We will develop the session together to meet your setting’s unique needs.
If you're a little further along in your nutrition journey already, you may be interested in our menu assessment and quality mark accreditation schemes:
Menu assessment
This package consists of seven hours of support from a registered early years nutritionist and includes two menu reviews, a virtual webinar for staff on menus, access to helpful guides and recorded resources and a half-termly newsletter.
Quality mark
This is the full nutrition package which consists of 20 hours of support from a registered nutritionist, including menu reviews, support with recipe development and staff training throughout the year, all bespoke to your setting.