
How to reduce your child's sugar intake
According to Public Health England children aged 4 to 10 years should have no more than the equivalent of 5 to 6 cubes of sugar each day, but are consuming on average 13 cubes. They go on to say that "Too much sugar can lead to weight gain, obesity and tooth decay, a third of children leave primary school overweight or obese, while around a quarter of 5 year olds suffer from painful tooth decay. Children above a healthy weight are more likely to remain so as adults, increasin

Cooking With The Kids
My daughter inspired this post having yesterday picked some plums from our plum tree in the garden and asking if she could cook something by herself! She decided that she wanted to make a healthy plum crumble which sounded delicious to me so I thought why not. What amazed me was she really did want to make it herself, deciding what she wanted to put into her healthy crumble topping. It tasted so good that I thought I would share it with you and hope to inspire you to get cook