Early Years Recipes

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Nutrition Advent Calendar

Welcome to our 2025 Recipe Advent Calendar, where the countdown to deliciousness begins! All December long, you can unlock a treasure trove of our favourite festive delights! Each day, pop open a new door to discover a scrumptious recipe waiting to be created! Just click on the door and voilà—you’ll be whisked to our festive…

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Herbs and spices

How to Add Flavour Without Using Salt

How to Add Flavour Without Using Salt According to the NHS (opens in new tab), high salt intakes in children can raise their blood pressure and increase their risk of heart disease and stroke in later life. Like adults, children can develop a preference for salty foods, and may refuse foods without added salt, and…

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Early start recipes: spiced carrot soup, sweet potato patties, homemade fruit scones.

Child-Friendly Recipes and Cooking Activities

In this blog we bring together all of our favourite child-friendly recipes and cooking activities and put them into free handy activity cards/ recipe videos. Each recipe outlines the ingredients that you’ll need and a detailed step-by-step guide on how to create it. Our budget-friendly recipes capture a range of cultural tastes and support children…

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Strawberry and Watermelon heart kebabs

Valentine’s Day Recipes for Kids

Valentine’s Day is the perfect opportunity to try some new recipes and activities with little chefs. We’ve pulled together some of our favourite valentine’s day recipes to make with your little ones. Be prepared to make good use of your heart shaped cooking cutters! The following recipes will be prefect for your little ones to…

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Hallow inspired recipes- pumpkin hummus and Frankenstein avocado toast

Halloween Recipe Ideas

As you probably know, we love creating themed recipes here at Early Start Nutrition, so we’ve decided to bring you a blog full of spook-tacular Halloween recipe ideas (and bad Halloween puns, sorry!). Halloween is often a time where children have a lot of sugary foods, such as sweets and chocolate. And while it’s fine…

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Easter Inspired Recipes

Easter Recipe Ideas

Easter is a time of celebration and is often marked by giving and receiving gifts, including Easter Eggs and other chocolate treats. It can be an exciting time for children, as many Easter eggs are marketed using familiar characters and include treats inside the eggs. We want children to enjoy these treats, but it’s important…

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Pancakes: 1) cheese and sweetcorn. 2) Bouncing bunny scotch pancakes. 3) Carrot and sultana pancakes.

Delightfully Delicious Pancake Recipes

We love pancakes all year round, so thought we’d create a blog to share our favourite pancake recipes. They’re quick to whip up, delightfully delicious and it’s super easy to vary your toppings! Making pancakes can also be a fun activity for the whole family, so try to encourage your little ones to help out…

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Overnight Oats

Overnight Oats 5 Ways

Breakfast, as we know, is an important meal and a great way to start the day. Along with providing us with energy, breakfast can be a good source of important nutrients such as calcium, iron and B vitamins as well as protein and fibre. Overnight oats are so simple to prepare and they are a…

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Children making homemade pizza

Swap your Takeaway for a Fakeaway!

Swap your Takeaway for a Fakeaway! As a nation seven percent of people in the UK eat ‘junk food’ every day. A further four in ten (40%) eat convenience food at least once a week, this is according to a YouGov poll (opens in new tab). Chinese, Indian and pizza are some of the most…

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