Are you ready for a new, positive and high-quality approach to all aspects of children's mealtimes at your service?

The program is suitable for cooks and educators looking to create positive mealtime experiences for children. Joyful shared meals give children lifelong social/emotional and learning benefits – yes, even fussy eaters! This course shows you how. It also engages you in the NQF, improves your menu and cuts waste. 

Early learning centres, preschools, family day care and Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) services all find value in the program, which takes a whole-child approach and connects food experiences to every aspect of the National Quality Framework.



There are four teaching modules, each leading you to one of the key outcomes below. Most lessons include a mix of video, audio and text materials to cater for the different ways adults learn.  You can study via any desktop or mobile screen, at your own pace, watching your progress as you complete each lesson, module and task.  


The self-assessment and benchmarking tasks are very practical and can often be incorporated into your work day. You’ll be able to ask questions via the course directly to Bec, or jump into the closed student group on Facebook for our live sessions each week.


You’ll also get access to a special Library Module which is always growing with resources specially curated for cooks and educators in children’s services.  And don’t forget, online students get a discount on any face-to-face workshops UnYucky offers - forever!

  • Inspiring Joyful Mealtimes

    Why do meals matter?
    Common barriers to joyful meals
    Practical strategies for positive mealtimes in any service
    Evidence for the doubters

  • Plan Menus with Confidence

    Inspiration: at home and abroad
    Budget approaches from $1 per child to unlimited
    State and territory requirements
    Seasonal eating resource kit
    Introduce new ingredients and styles
    Documentation and marketing ideas

  • Collaborate with communities

    Inspiration: local collaborations that work
    Balance respect and responsibility with families
    Connect with your local cooking community
    Find your foodie tribe (around the world)

  • Engage with the NQF

    Much more than an element!
    Map your meals to the National Quality Standard (template)
    Compliance self-assessment resources
    Integrate with your service Quality Improvement Plan (template)
    Create or improve on your:
    - Service Food Philosophy
    - Food Alternatives (fussy eater) Policy

  • Online Library

    Includes resources from ACECQA, state and territory health departments, recipes, checklists, policy and menu templates, recipe ingredient multipliers, research papers and more. Download your PDF copy of Bec Lloyd’s The Flawsome Family Mealbook from this module – it’s free with your course enrolment.

  • Plus

    An extra induction module to give you the very best chance of success. Student support and feedback from presenter Bec Lloyd via email or weekly ‘live’ sessions in our closed Facebook student group. Online students are also eligible for discount tickets to face-to-face Unyucky day workshops and overnight tours on the Sunshine Coast (Qld) and Central Coast (NSW) and elsewhere by demand.

$199 incl. GST 

OR 4 x monthly payments of $55

Learning is self-paced (flexible) but it's also important to have a deadline (you know it!) so you have up to 200 days to finish the course and receive your Certificate of Completion. 

Ready to make mealtimes joyful for everyone?

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Pay in full and save $41!

We begin 27 March 2020


Bec Lloyd

UnYucky is the brainchild of Bec Lloyd, a writer, home cook, early childhood communication specialist , and mum-of-three awesome teens who, like most human beings, don’t like every single food on the planet.Use this area to describe the image or provide supporting information.

Bec grew up in a family that only ate together on Christmas Day, when the table inevitably became a battleground of relative strangers. Determined her own family of five wouldn’t fall into the same habits, Bec still struggled to get meal times working until she learned one simple thing that flipped everything she’d been told upside down.

Bec’s knowledge of early childhood education and wellbeing principles, nutritional study and network of cooks in children’s services – along with being a writer, a foodie and a mum – make UnYucky stand out from the hundreds of Australian programs designed to build healthy eating habits.

Enroll Now

Pay in full and save $41!

We begin 27 March 2020