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5 A Day
Find out more about the benefits of eating 5 A DAY and how you can get involved.
Eat Seasonably
This website celebrates eating the right things at the right time of the year.
Each fruit or vegetable has a prime time when it’s at its seasonal best. That means extra flavour, extra crunch, extra juiciness - all super-fresh and great value. So, find out what’s at its best each month and access exclusive tips and recipes from the top chefs supporting the campaign.
Food - a fact of life
The site provides a progressive approach to teaching about healthy eating, cooking, food and farming from 3 to 16 years.
Free the fruit and veg.
Five of the PCTs in the West Midlands have teamed up with Heart FM to create the "Free the fruit and veg" campaign. The website has fun games, exciting competitions, easy recipes, fascinating fruit and veg facts plus top tips. Most importantly you can help to free the fruit from the evil Baron Von Junk Food.
Healthy Start
With Healthy Start, people on certain benefits can get free vouchers every week which can be exchanged for milk, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and infant formula milk. You can also get free vitamins. Healthy Start replaces the Welfare Food Scheme.
Obesity
British Heart Foundation
Charity fighting heart and circulatory disease. The BHF funds research, education and life-saving equipment and helps heart patients.
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Healthy Schools
The National Healthy Schools Programme is an exciting long-term initiative which is making a significant difference to the health and achievement of children and young people. The National Healthy Schools Programme supports the links between health, behaviour and achievement; it is about creating healthy and happy children and young people, who do better in learning and in life.
Food for Life Partnership
The Food for Life Partnership is a network of schools and communities across England committed to transforming food culture.
Let's Get Cooking
Let's Get Cooking is a national network of cooking clubs across England, helping children, their families and the wider community to learn and develop new cooking skills.
School Food Trust
The trust was established by the Department for Education and Skills in September 2005. Its remit is to transform school food and food skills, promote the education and health of children and young people and improve the quality of food in schools.
National School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme
The School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme is part of the 5 A DAY programme to increase fruit and vegetable consumption. Under the Scheme, all four to six year old children in LEA maintained infant, primary and special schools will be entitled to a free piece of fruit or vegetable each school day.
Million Meals campaign
A revolution is underway in school food. Since September 2006, every pupil taking a school lunch is guaranteed, by law, a balanced, nutritious meal. We now need to make sure they are eating them and the 'Million Meals' campaign aims to do just that.
Food in Schools
The food in schools primary training programme provides teachers with an excellent opportunity to enhance and develop their knowledge, skills and understanding about food and cooking in the primary curriculum.