Joey's Family Food

Joey's Family Food Food for Early Years & Up.
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28/09/2026

Delighted to talk to the Summertime Nursery AGM in Dorchester this evening about feeding children, ultra-processed food and picky eaters. We really do appreciate being invited in, and we’re always happy to chat about these topics and more!

25/09/2026

Taste testing has turned out to be the favourite part of Jack’s work placement with us job. We can’t think why 😉.

Has your little one tried our chana dal yet? We’re confident they’ll give you the same verdict as Jack!

September has well and truly kicked in. Clubs, lessons, pick-ups at all hours, and somehow everyone still needs feeding....
25/09/2026

September has well and truly kicked in. Clubs, lessons, pick-ups at all hours, and somehow everyone still needs feeding.

This message from one of our parents sums up why we do what we do. The veggie pie and pumpkin pancakes went down brilliantly, but it’s the bit about having tea ready on the busy days that really got us.

If your week looks like slide one, we can help. Browse the menu through the link in our bio, or drop us a message and we’ll help you pick meals your little one will actually eat.

23/09/2026

Fewer hours spent on ordering lunches = more time spent with the children.

That’s what’s changed for Claire’s team at Happy Feet Nurseries since they started using Joey’s. No more juggling ingredients or checking who can eat what. Just meals that arrive ready, cooked from scratch, dietitian approved, and labelled for every allergy.

Thank you, Claire, for such kind words. If you’re running a nursery and could do with less stress around lunchtime, send us a message.

One week into his placement and Jack’s already elbow-deep in celeriac - not a vegetable he’d ever encountered before. It...
22/09/2026

One week into his placement and Jack’s already elbow-deep in celeriac - not a vegetable he’d ever encountered before.

It might not be the prettiest vegetable in our kitchen, but it’s one of the most useful. Celeriac is packed with fibre, vitamin K and vitamin C, and it’s a good source of potassium too, so it earns its place well beyond just bulking things out. This batch is heading into the Shepherd’s Pie, where it adds natural sweetness and body to the base sauce without needing extra salt or anything artificial to thicken it up.

Precisely why Jack’s now a big fan of this star ingredient knobbly root vegetable!

I found this lovely book by Orlanda Bettison My Brain Books¼ | Orlanda Bettison in a waiting room recently. “My Mindful ...
18/09/2026

I found this lovely book by Orlanda Bettison My Brain Books¼ | Orlanda Bettison in a waiting room recently. “My Mindful Brain”, with a whole page on eating a snack properly. I read it about four times and it really got me thinking


Most of us eat on autopilot. Distracted, half-watching something, finished before we’ve noticed we started. When you’re not paying attention while you eat, you miss the cues that actually tell you you’re full, or satisfied, or still hungry. And a lot of the time it’s not really hunger driving it anyway, it’s stress or boredom, and slowing down helps you tell the difference.

There’s a kid’s version of this too, and it’s not that different. Slowing down to notice colour, smell and texture is how young children explore new food anyway, before pickiness sets in. A lot of fussy eating isn’t even about taste, it’s overwhelm. Giving a child a moment to actually notice a food, rather than being told to just get on with it, sometimes takes the pressure off and gives them more of a chance to enjoy it.

And here’s the bit that struck me: it’s not really about the food at all. It’s about attention. You can’t show a child how to eat slowly and notice things if you never get a still moment yourself, and a rushed home tends to produce rushed eating on both sides of the table. That’s what made this page stick. It’s written for the child. But it’s the adult reading it over their shoulder who needs it.

What do you think?

16/09/2026

You know that feeling when September hits and the routine just... clicks back into place?

That’s us this week.

Summer at the shop has been a bit of a patchwork, honestly, especially when childcare and school holidays didn’t quite line up. We were just two parents juggling a shop and their own kids’ summer holidays like everyone else!

But we’re back to our proper hours now. Open Monday to Saturday, 10am to 2pm, closed Sundays as usual. Come and say hello! Online shop open 24/7 as ever!

Please welcome Jack! He’s studying at SWRAC and has joined us for a work placement. Jack would love to work in a cafe on...
16/09/2026

Please welcome Jack! He’s studying at SWRAC and has joined us for a work placement. Jack would love to work in a cafe one day so he’s finding out what it’s like working in our kitchen.

He’s supporting us with cooking, and has proved a dab hand at peeling potatoes, chopping peppers, topping and tailing courgettes, browning the meat, labelling packaging and dishing up our products. It’s so lovely having someone working with me in the kitchen, he’s a star! ⭐

16/09/2026

21 years. That’s how long it’s taken since first stood up and said school dinners needed sorting, to the government actually setting out new rules for them this week.

Deep-fried food is being cut. Puddings will need to come with fruit, not instead of it. Sugary drinks and things like ice cream and waffles are being reined in. It’s not law yet, that comes later this year, with schools expected to be working to it from September 2027. But it’s happening, and that matters.

Closer to home, Ofsted has just started using an updated inspection toolkit for nurseries and preschools too, with a much sharper focus on how settings handle weaning, mealtimes and everyday eating. If your nursery or preschool doesn’t do hot meals and you wish they did, get in touch. We can get in touch with them directly and see if they’d be interested in working with us.

We’ll say what we always say: get a child’s nutrition right in those first 1,000 days, and the fussy eating and sugar habits that so many parents battle later on are far less likely to take hold. That’s not a slogan, it’s the actual reason Joey’s exists.

Glad to see the wider system FINALLY catching up!

14/09/2026

Guilty as charged.

At Joey’s, every ingredient earns its place. No fillers to bulk our meals out. No mystery flavourings doing what real herbs and spices should be doing. Just real food.

Because when you’re feeding a one-year-old, “mostly natural” isn’t good enough. You want to know exactly what’s going into their tummies.

So yes, we’re obsessive about it. We make no apologies.
Curious what’s actually in your little one’s favourite Joey’s meal? Ask us, we love talking ingredients. Or take a look at our website: everything’s listed there. Click the link in our bio.

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17 Antelope Walk
Dorchester
DT11BE

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 2pm
Tuesday 10am - 2pm
Wednesday 10am - 2pm
Thursday 10am - 2pm
Friday 10am - 2pm

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+447437351007

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