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Dr Kay Aaronricks @drkayaaronricks.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

🍓 📚 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

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Dr Kay Aaronricks @drkayaaronricks.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

🍊 🍏 🍓 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

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Dr Kay Aaronricks @drkayaaronricks.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

🍎 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

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Dr Kay Aaronricks @drkayaaronricks.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

🍎 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

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Dr Kay Aaronricks @drkayaaronricks.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

🎄 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

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Dr Kay Aaronricks @drkayaaronricks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

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

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Dr Kay Aaronricks @drkayaaronricks.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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.

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Dr Kay Aaronricks @drkayaaronricks.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

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

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Dr Kay Aaronricks @drkayaaronricks.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

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

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Dr Kay Aaronricks @drkayaaronricks.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

🌟 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 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Junk food: Porridge and crumpets fall under new ad ban - BBC News

Some foods typically considered healthy are classed as 'junk food' under new legislation.

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Dr Kay Aaronricks @drkayaaronricks.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

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

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Dr Kay Aaronricks @drkayaaronricks.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

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.

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