Nourishing our future (NOF)
Nourishing Our Future (NOF) is a pioneering programme led by Essex County Council and Anglia Ruskin University, working with early years settings and specialist agencies to improve nutrition and the food environment in PVI settings. It supports settings to embed the new EYFS Nutrition Guidance (DfE, 2025) and build stronger foundations for children’s health and wellbeing.
We are excited to be taking part in NOF and working towards achieving the NOF Award within our setting. As part of this, we are also enrolling in TastEd (Taste Education), which supports practitioners to deliver simple, sensory-based food activities using fresh fruit and vegetables. Children explore food through sight, smell, touch, sound, and taste, helping to build confidence and positive relationships with healthy eating.
“Since TastEd has been at the nursery’s, I’ve noticed big improves with my daughter’s confidence around food how she has always been very nervous with trying new things. I think this all begun from having a very over sensitive gag reflex from first being weaned and continued from there, but since this class has been part of her group on Friday’s I’ve noticed she’s becoming more and more confident regularly around all kinds of foods and how she eats them.””