Healthy eating
Our Early Years Practitioners in Lewisham Family Hubs have all been trained in HENRY which is a program to support healthy eating for parents with children under 5 years.
HENRYs vision is ‘that children have a healthy, happy start in life to flourish throughout childhood and beyond.’
We run a number of programmes and workshops in Lewisham Family Hubs, rotating them throughout the year.
Healthy Families: Right from the Start Programme – This 8-week programme is designed to support parents and carers of children aged 0-5, helping them build healthier lifestyles and more confident parenting habits. Its solution focused. Families also receive a free HENRY toolkit full of resources and practical tips to help them along the way and a Healthy Families Right from the Start Handbook, which they use at each session and at home. Book onto our next course here
Professionals can refer families to the course via our referral form, see the bottom of the Accessing Support page for details.
HENRY Starting Solids On-line 90 Minute Workshop – Guidance on introducing first foods and making mealtimes enjoyable. Getting your baby off to the best start with solid foods, which to offer, which to avoid, top tips and resources to support baby's journey with solid foods.
Starting Solids face to face 60 minute workshops
Fussy Eating face to face 60 minute workshops - Tips and strategies parents can use to help make meal times more relaxing and to help support their child to eat a wider variety of foods.
Portion Size face to face 60 minute workshops - Looking at the recommended food portion sizes for babies, children and adults and why portion sizes are important.
Healthy Packed Lunches face to face 60 minute workshops – looking at healthy pack lunches/ boxes for children.
Eat Well for Less face to face 60 minute workshops – How to eat well for less, looking at budgeting, making the most of left over food, how to keep food fresher for longer,
If you would like to get any support with your child’s eating please see our timetables for information on when we are running our next courses and workshops.
The HENRY website for parents is full of easy recipes for a healthy balanced diet, with tips on eating well for less for:
https://www.henry.org.uk/tips/eatingwellforless
Here is a range of other websites with information and recipes:
https://www.nhs.uk/change4life/recipes
https://www.henry.org.uk/homepage/resources/healthy-recipes
Store cupboard recipes - BBC Food
https://cookingonabootstrap.com/category/recipes-food/
https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/category/books/keep-cooking-and-carry-on/