Industry & Media | First Step Nutrition

Childcare, Industry & Media

NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT FOR BUSINESSES AND COMMUNITIES

FOOD INDUSTRY

Recipe Analysis or Nutrition Facts Table creation

If your new food product requires nutrient analysis or data for the Nutrition Facts Table, First Step Nutrition can help. We use ESHA’s Food Processor nutrient analysis software to complete our calculations, and have experience working with products in both the Canadian and American marketplace. Past clients include Baby Gourmet & Honest Dumplings.

Please contact us to see if a partnership with your product is a good fit.

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Consultation to Develop New Products

Developing a new food or feeding product for babies, toddlers or children? First Step Nutrition knows what kids need and what moms want! We can help you determine if the product meets the nutrient needs of your target consumer, and if there is demand for your product.

Please contact us to see if a partnership with your product is a good fit.

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Product Promotion

Could your healthy food product or baby-feeding product benefit from having a nutrition-expert as a media spokesperson? Past clients include Baby Gourmet, Wean Green & Baby Brezza babyfood maker.

Note: First Step Nutrition only promotes products that are nutritious and are “Baby Friendly“.

Please contact us to see if a partnership with your product is a good fit.

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“Jen House has been Baby Gourmet’s go-to nutritionist since my sister Jen and I founded the company almost 8 years ago. Her insight into assisting us to ensure we provide the best tasting, highest quality and nutritional products, has been invaluable. Her attention to detail, responsiveness and entrepreneurial spirit has been a big part of our success. As a caring Mother herself, we share the values of early healthy eating habits, while not sacrificing taste!”

– Jill, Baby Gourmet

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“Jennifer was an absolute wealth of knowledge and her passion for nutrition really showed. We know we can always come to her for expert advice whenever we have questions.”

– 2 Dudes Babyfood

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PRESCHOOLS, DAYCARES & DAYHOMES

Menu Analysis or Creation

Does your school, daycare, day home or facility need help planning kid-friendly, budget-friendly meals that are also nutritious? Or want suggestions on how your current menu plan could be updated so that it provides adequate nutrition for the clients in your care? Our meal plans can help!

Please contact us for information and pricing.

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Nutrition Workshops for Early Childhood Educators

I am approved to offer two presentations as a part of the Alberta Childcare Grant funding program. Through this program, daycares/day home agencies can receive $50 per ECE employee reimbursement and 1.5 hours of release time for each workshop.

Each workshop will consist of a 60-minute presentation and 30 minute Q&A. One presentation is titled “How to Teach Picky Eaters to Try New Foods Without a Battle,” and the other is titled “How to Feed & Educate Children to Create a Positive Relationship with Food.”

Please contact us to view the learning outcomes of each presentation to book.

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talk_100px “We operate a small daycare and decided to seek the advice of a dietitian in order to ensure that we were providing the best, most balanced nutrition possible to the children in our care. First Step Nutrition designs two-week alternating menus for us, which we change three times per year. These menus introduce the children to new, interesting, healthy food choices and are very kid friendly. The children love the meals and snacks we serve them and their parents love knowing that we offer only the best food choices. The menus also make preparation easier for us. Working with Jennifer has really improved our quality of care and is remarkably affordable.”

– Jenny, owner Mockingbird Kids Daycare

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talk_100px “We have had the opportunity to work with Jennifer to analyze our menus based on the meals that we provide to our students in our program. She was very helpful in food recommendation to improve what we offer. Her expertise provided us with information regarding what to look for in labels, how to make meals less time consuming, and more. We chose to work with Jennifer because she understood what our program strive for towards providing healthy meals to children which impacts their development. Thank you Jennifer for sharing your knowledge and helping us learn more.”

– Marlene, owner 2000 Days Pre-Kindergarten

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MEDIA & WRITING

Jennifer House has been the Calgary media representative for the Dietitians of Canada 2012, 2013 & 2016 Nutrition Month campaigns.

Jennifer has contributed to: Huffington Post, Scary Mommy, CBC radio, Global National News, The Rutherford Show, the Global Calgary morning show, Global Edmonton Family Matters, CTV Calgary Morning Show, Breakfast Television Calgary, Canadian Parent magazine, Canadian Living, Canadian Family magazine, Fresh Juice Magazine, Calgary’s Child magazine, Birthing magazine, Today’s Parent magazine, Today’s Kids in Motion magazine, the Calgary Herald, national Canadian papers through Global Media and AM 770 radio.

Please contact us for written articles and interviews for print, television or radio stories about nutrition.

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“On behalf of the Calgary’s Child team, thank you so much for appearing on our segment on Monday. As always, you did a fabulous job! You are always so comfortable in front of the camera and the information/advice you gave was so easy to follow and really helpful to our viewers. I always really enjoy watching your segments. Thanks again!”

– Melissa, Calgary’s Child Magazine

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