"Fuelling the Movement" in white text on black background.

Children and a caregiver slicing bananas and vegetables on a yellow cutting board during a cooking activity.

Moving with Nutrition

At Move Early Learning, we believe good food fuels happy, healthy children. Our onsite chef prepares fresh, seasonal meals daily, ensuring every dish is nutritious, delicious, and balanced.

We embrace a garden-to-plate approach through the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program, where children plant, harvest, and prepare food, learning about sustainability and where their meals come from.

By making healthy eating fun and interactive, we empower children to develop lifelong positive food habits.

Variety of fresh vegetables, salad, and pasta bowl prepared for pasta making

Learn about our Kitchen Garden Program

As part of our commitment to inspiring healthy habits, Move is proud to be part of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program. Children help plant, grow, harvest and prepare fresh produce from our own garden - learning where food comes from, how it fuels their bodies, and building life skills along the way.

Two children wearing colorful hats and blue shirts gardening with green plants outdoors.

Two young children, a boy wearing a blue t-shirt and a girl wearing a pink and white checkered shirt, are outdoors looking at green plants with broad leaves. Both children are wearing colorful hats, and the boy's shirt has the words 'Move Early Learning' printed on it.

A woman watering a small bird with a blue watering can in a garden, with a young girl wearing an orange hat and pink pants standing nearby, surrounded by plants and enclosed by black metal fencing.

A young girl with curly hair, wearing a pink hat, red shirt, pink skirt, and pink sandals, is tending to a green plant in a garden bed.

Table with colourful salad, sliced vegetables, cheese cubes, falafel, and a bowl of sauce.

Our Approach to Nutrition

Chef-Prepared Meals:
Made daily with seasonal, high-quality ingredients.

Local and Sustainable Ingredients:
We use fresh, locally sourced produce.
Inclusive & Safe – Catering for allergies, intolerances, and dietary needs.

Interactive Meal Times:
Encouraging independence and social engagement.

Mealtimes at Move

A colorful vegetable salad with tomato slices, avocado, radishes, cucumber, spinach, carrots, red cabbage, and bell peppers on a plate. Grated cabbage and kitchen utensils are visible nearby.

Inclusive

Meals include a variety of textures and tastes appropriate to the developmental stages of different age groups.

Smiling child with short hair at a table, surrounded by plants and a star decoration in the background.

Relaxed

Mealtimes are relaxed and supervised to encourage healthy eating practices.

Assorted salad ingredients including spinach, kale, lettuce, broccoli, tomatoes, Brussels sprouts, olives, corn, beans, chickpeas, red peppers, green peppers, shredded cheese, mushrooms, beets, and artichokes displayed in bowls and trays.

Independent

Supporting independence with self-serve stations and positive social interaction.