Healthy Eating FAQ

To encourage healthy eating, it is important to reduce overall snacking and concentrate on providing healthy family meals.

Fruit, vegetables, plain scones, breadsticks and bagels are a few healthy options.

For further information have a look at our snack ideas for children resource and the food and drinks for healthy teeth section of our website.

You can begin to use a cup and introduce solids when your baby:

• can sit up
• begins to pick up food and puts it in his/her mouth
• has better hand-eye coordination

Health experts now recommend that at around six months old, most babies are ready for other foods in addition to milk.

For more information, visit the drinking from a cup or weaning sections of the Childsmile website.

To support healthy eating, Parent Club have a meal planner with a selection of tasty recipes:

• Information on planning meals can be found at Parent Club – Meal Planner.
• Or look for tasty recipes at Parent Club – Recipes

There is information online to support infant feeding which can be found at the links below:

• Baby’s first drink – Childsmile
• Your feeding options | Parent Club

Or contact your Health Visitor or local Childsmile Coordinator for information on local support groups.