Healthy Eating

We’ve pulled together some top tips to support you to feed your family on a low budget, along with some easy to follow recipes so the whole family can get involved in making healthy meals together!

Top Tips for Feeding Your Child(ren) and Family on a Low Budget

Providing healthy nutritious meals for your family on a tight budget can be a challenge for everyone. This information gives some top tips to help you to do this. It covers;

l the kinds of foods you could include in your shopping basket l managing your food budget to make it stretch further l low-cost meal suggestions for breakfast and lunch l cooking on a low budget

Ideas for Breakfast

It might be tempting to cut breakfast out of the day, especially if you are trying to save money. However, this is not a good idea, whatever your budget. Breakfast is a very important meal for everyone. Here are some low-cost healthy breakfast ideas to try;

Breakfast ideas

Simple cooking required Super easy to prepare

Soft boiled egg and bread Cereal and milk (ideally wholegrain wheat or oat based cereals)

Scrambled egg on toast

Toast and spread/butter

Mini pancake with fruit, or mushrooms and tomatoes Fresh, frozen or canned fruit

Low sugar yoghurt

125mls of fresh orange juice

Poached eggs on toast Glass of milk

Always carefully check ingredients when choosing breakfast cereals and yoghurts, as they can be full of hidden sugar. Try to stick with cereals like wholegrain wheat, or oat-based cereal as they contain a lot less sugar than chocolate coated cereals.

Why not try the following recipes:

Breakfast recipes (Change 4 Life recipes)

Easy ways to cut down on calories and sugar intake

Swap from Swap to

Higher sugar juice drink No added sugar juice drink - a swap will cut more than half the sugar from your juice

Swap from Swap to

Chocolate cereal Shredded wholegrain cereal - swapping cuts more than half the sugar from your cereal