ABOUT
Nourishing Families offers unique and inspiring workshops and programmes for parents and caregivers to transform their approach to food and mealtimes leading to more relaxed and enjoyable mealtimes and ultimately happier and healthier children.
Nourishing Families is a Totnes based project working towards becoming a social enterprise, which means that any profits are reinvested back into the organisation or to subsidising places.
Nourishing Families is a Totnes based project working towards becoming a social enterprise, which means that any profits are reinvested back into the organisation or to subsidising places.
Anna Thomson
Nutritionist Anna Thomson is Nourishing Families director and founder, and mum to three young children. She developed the programme using her experience of coaching clients to make positive changes to their diet with the reality of what it's like to feed a family day-in, day-out. Her aim is to support parents create changes relevant to their own unique family situation and to have some fun while doing it.
Anna gained a diploma in nutritional therapy from the College of Natural Nutrition in 2003; she went on to complete a BSc (hons) in Nutritional Medicine at The University of West London.
A seasoned cook, Anna has always been around good food. She first started teaching cookery classes whilst working as an English teacher in Japan over 20 years ago, where she also learnt to make authentic Japanese dishes. She has held cooking sessions for children and adults through Sure Start and other groups.
During a recent two year stay in Japan, she ran a guesthouse in rural Kyoto and set up Anna's Kitchen, teaching English though hands-on cooking workshops. It was while teaching English in three primary schools that she really noticed the care and attention placed on Japanese children's food and culinary education. This experience has been invaluable in setting up Nourishing Families.
Anna's recipes were regularly featured in the Guardian's Cook supplement which asked for recipes on a theme each week, with the best ones tested and featured. One of her recipes was recently the winner in a special issue on feeding kids.
Anna is registered with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) and is a member of the British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy (BANT). She has nutritional therapy practices in Exeter and Totnes.
Anna gained a diploma in nutritional therapy from the College of Natural Nutrition in 2003; she went on to complete a BSc (hons) in Nutritional Medicine at The University of West London.
A seasoned cook, Anna has always been around good food. She first started teaching cookery classes whilst working as an English teacher in Japan over 20 years ago, where she also learnt to make authentic Japanese dishes. She has held cooking sessions for children and adults through Sure Start and other groups.
During a recent two year stay in Japan, she ran a guesthouse in rural Kyoto and set up Anna's Kitchen, teaching English though hands-on cooking workshops. It was while teaching English in three primary schools that she really noticed the care and attention placed on Japanese children's food and culinary education. This experience has been invaluable in setting up Nourishing Families.
Anna's recipes were regularly featured in the Guardian's Cook supplement which asked for recipes on a theme each week, with the best ones tested and featured. One of her recipes was recently the winner in a special issue on feeding kids.
Anna is registered with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) and is a member of the British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy (BANT). She has nutritional therapy practices in Exeter and Totnes.