Food Safety and Healthy Eating

Advice on food safety in your home, healthy diet and nutrition, shopping and eating out, local and seasonal produce, organic food, ethical choices and fair trade.

Find out how to avoid food poisoning and choose foods to improve your health and protect the environment.

 In this section...

• Free Leaflets and Publications - download advice on food safety and healthy eating, from the council and other organisations

• Food Safety at Home - find out about keeping food safe - preparing, cooking, cleaning and storing

• Healthy Eating - advice on nutrition essentials and losing weight through safe and sustainable lifestyle changes, instead of food fads and crash diets

• 5 a Day - keep healthy with five portions of fruit and vegetables

• Healthy eating for children, teenagers, students and older people

• Food shopping, eating out and how to make complaints about food

• Useful links to other websites with information about local, regional and seasonal produce, organic food and ethical choices - animal welfare and fair trade