Parents launch #OurChildrenOurFuture manifesto on healthy children’s food, calling on all political parties for action. Polling shows 2/3 of parents worry about kids eating healthily. TastEd stands with this crucial movement for a healthier future! #HealthyEating #Foodeducation

Help us empower kids through food! Vote for TastEd in the Movement for Good awards. Let's shape a healthier future together! #SensoryFoodEducation #VoteForTastEd

What does mint remind you of? 🌿We love talking about our favourite mint memories and TastEd training always starts with a chat about what mint reminds us of!

Pupils at Wash'borough Academy got to talk all about what different herbs remind them of in their TastEd lesson.

Come to Fortnum & Mason food & drink studio to hear a 'Day in The Life of a Child Through Food'. Fab panel including TastEd Christina Adane Lindsey MacDonald from Magic Breakfast and Nicole Pisani from ChefsinSchools w/ welcome drink & 3 canapes
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Discover a world of microgreen magic 🌱✨

Small but mighty, microgreens are easy to grow indoors on a windowsill and are a brilliant introduction to the flavours of home-grown food, with only two weeks between planting and harvesting! 🪟

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It's #GrowingToEat week! What's your favourite fruit or veg? 🍅🫐

With rising food costs, growing your own can be a simple and fun way to enjoy good food.

Explore what you can grow in the #PlantAndShare toolkit 👇

📢Fully funded teacher training for Primary Schools based in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Hertfordshire or Central Bedfordshire.📢

Learn all about sensory food education and gain the confidence to run TastEd lessons in your school:
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66,000 children living in #poverty in the West Midlands are missing out on #FreeSchoolMeals

Every child should have equal access to hot nutritious food at school no matter where they grow up.
Show your support here: ➡️ bit.ly/3rlmvWK

#FeedWestMidsKids

Curiously, hummingbirds don’t have sweet receptors. They repurposed their umami receptors to detect nectar. Key Question: does nectar taste sweet or savoury to them?

A little 🧵on our fab series of blogs reflecting on 6 years of Soft Drinks Industry Levy & where we go next with a #RecipeForChange .

First off Beth Bradshaw of Food Active talked abt postcode lottery of health inequalities recipeforchange.org.uk/news-and-blogs… 1/5

After participating in TasteEd sessions, the Year 1s at St Gilbert of Sempringham 'started having those conversations on the carpet during snack time, they started doing it for themselves, or while they were eating their lunch they started just having those conversations.' #veg

Findings from #TheFoodConversation show almost half of people have been forced to cut back on the quality of food they eat due to money.

With many families struggling, citizens want government to do more to protect children from unhealthy food.

More 👇
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Great to listen to the citizens in #thefoodconversion discuss solutions for everyone. This is exactly why
Bee Wilson was asking the House of Lords to not frame discussions as an obesity crisis but to understand there is a food crisis.
#foodforall #foodliteracy #schoolmeals

Wonderful to spot a little bit of TastEd in Neha Lalchandani 's Food Futures in Education and Society! #foodeducation #sensoryeducation

Brilliant new resource helping kids learn about how bread is made, from soil to sandwich! The Chris Young, Real Bread Campaign coordinator campaign's new Grow-a-loaf guidebook packed with how to #BakeYourLawn ! Great for home, school or community projects, get your copy here: sustainweb.org/realbread/bake… #RealBread

📢Fully Funded Teacher Training for Primary Schools!

We are offering FREE TastEd (sensory food education) teacher training to schools based in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Hertfordshire or Central Bedfordshire.

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New signage and the annual pruning of our #organic #heritage apple orchard today. The ten #Lincolnshire varieties are a great resource for our TastEd lessons & learning about the importance of #biodiversity #FoodEducation Dan Saladino The Food Programme

Finally caught up with this SUPERB Lords food inquiry evidence session from yesterday.

Particularly fitting to watch on #IWD as the witnesses were such impressive women!

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Dr Vicky Sibson
Kristin Bash FFPH
Prof Lucilla Poston
Bee Wilson
Naomi Duncan
Georgie Branch
Anita Brown

It's an honour on this #IWD24 to celebrate the incredible TastEd founder Bee Wilson who spoke passionately to the House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee yesterday.

Let's be ambitious... Department For UnEducation 'We need a complete overhaul of the food education curriculum in England'

Our Chief Exec Naomi Duncan gave evidence to the House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee committee & started her evidence by asking the panel to think about one statement.

“1 and 3 kids in the poorest areas in this country are leaving primary schools with obesity.”