Food Safety and Healthy Eating

Advice on food safety in your home, healthy diet and nutrition, and tips for healthier choices when food shopping and eating out.

Find out how to prepare, cook, and store food safely at home to avoid food poisoning and choose foods to improve your health and protect the environment.

 In this section...

• Eating Out - search food hygiene ratings in Eastbourne online or download the mobile app for Android or iPhone. Find out how to complain about hygiene standards at a food premises, information about guide dogs in restaurants and advice about making healthier choices when eating out or having a takeaway

• Food Shopping - information about traffic light food labels to help you make healthy choices, choosing local and seasonal produce and Fairtrade products, and how to complain if you have a problem with an item of food you have bought

• Food Safety at Home - find out about keeping food safe - preparing, cooking, cleaning and storing at home, to avoid food poisoning. Advice on summer food safety outdoors and safe barbecues

• Healthy Eating - advice on nutrition essentials and losing weight through safe and sustainable lifestyle changes, instead of food fads and crash diets. Healthy eating for children, teenagers and students