The First Taste

Every parent wants their child to enjoy food, feel confident around it, and develop healthy eating habits for life. But where do you begin?

The First Taste is more than a cookbook. It’s a practical guide combining child nutrition, psychology, and over three years of hands-on experience cooking daily for nursery children.

Inside this guide, you’ll discover:

• A gentle, evidence-based guide to introducing solid foods with confidence.
• How children’s eating habits develop and why picky eating isn’t as simple as it seems.
• Practical ways to build a healthy relationship with food without pressure, rewards, or mealtime battles.
• The importance of the first 1,000 days, breastfeeding, early nutrition, and the microbiome.
• The difference between gagging and choking, with practical feeding safety guidance.
• How to choose better everyday ingredients, understand food labels, and avoid common nutrition myths.
• Kitchen safety, food storage, cookware, plastics, and everyday habits that support your child’s health.
• Nutrition, sleep, digestion, hydration, allergies, seasonal eating, and practical meal planning.
• Over 55 family-friendly recipes, including breakfasts, lunches, dinners, soups, snacks, drinks, desserts, and healthy bakes.
• Real-life insights gained from almost four years of cooking daily for nursery children
• Bonus recipes for parents, including homemade iced coffee.
• A homemade nursery playdough recipe for creative sensory play.
• Printable weekly meal planner and notes pages to help make family meal planning easier

 240 beautifully designed pages combining practical advice, evidence-based information, and everyday          recipes to help you raise a confident eater.

Printable A4 pages – print the entire guide or only the pages you need, including the Notes and Weekly Meal Planner.