Family food
We all want our families to enjoy their food and be well-nourished. Learn more about healthy meals, cooking with your children, tackling fussy eating and creating exciting packed lunches, with National Family Week's pick of the web. If you fancy treating the family to a meal out, there's advice on how to choose family-friendly venues, as well as links to great offers and discounts in restaurants and shops.
Healthy eating & nutrition
There's so much information available about nutrition and health that it can sometimes be hard to know where to start. Make sure you've got the basics covered, using this selection of highly respected websites.
Simple nutritional advice for each life stage: pregnancy, babies, children, teens and adults
Food Standards Agency - Eat Well
Is low fat always good? Is a cooked breakfast always unhealthy? Common food myths are debunked here
Food Standards Agency - Eat Well
Fantastic interactive fun for 7-11s, looking at a range of healthy eating topics
Kids First For Health - Eat Smart
Mouth-watering meals
Tasty family meals needn't break the bank and take hours to prepare. For advice and ideas for easy-to-prepare, exciting meals that the whole family will enjoy, why not browse National Family Week's pick of the web?
A week of lunch box ideas using tried and tested favourites, including cost and calorie content
British Heart Foundation
Child-friendly ideas including lunch boxes, baby food and sweet treats, plus video recipes
UKtv FOOD
Cook together
Cooking lets children be creative, enjoy quality time with their family and learn more about the food that they eat. Take a look at these useful tips and inspiring ideas and get cooking!
Eating out
If the thought of taking the family out for a meal or a coffee fills you with terror, then take a look at the family-friendly restaurant recommendations and guides below. There's also advice on how to make your family meal out as enjoyable as possible.
The Café Rouge children's menu takes some beating! There are also activity packs for younger customers
Café Rouge
Little Chef offers a wide choice of tempting dishes; perfect for when you are on the road and need a break
Little Chef
Pizza Hut offers an award-winning, inexpensive, family-orientated environment with great offers for families and a tasty children's menu with hidden vegetables!
Pizza Hut
VisitBritain's choice of the country's best family-friendly restaurants, listed by region
VisitBritain
Fussy eating
Fussy eating is an issue that has left many a parent close to tearing their hair out with frustration. Family meal times don't have to be an ordeal. To tackle the problem, check out some of the best advice on the web.
Our supporters
"I am delighted to welcome National Family Week. It's full of practical ideas, and it will be great to see organisations from all sections of society join together to celebrate family life."
David Cameron, Prime Minister
"I really hope that National Family Week encourages people to take a moment to realize the importance of the people they have around them."
Amanda Holden, Britain's Got Talent Judge
"I look forward to taking part in National Family Week and encouraging others to do the same."
Antony Worrall Thompson, Celebrity Chef
"I think National Family Week is a great initiative that will encourage families to come together and realise how important every part of the family is."
Sir Terry Wogan, Radio and Television Broadcaster
"Encouraging families to get active is a subject very close to my heart, so I am thrilled and delighted to be able to show my support for National Family Week."
Sally Gunnell OBE, Olympic Gold Medalist
"National Family Week is the perfect chance for families to make time for each other and have fun while they are doing it."
Esther Rantzen, CBE, Broadcaster, Campaigner and Chair of The Family Commission
"I am pleased to endorse National Family Week and its aim of promoting and celebrating family life in Britain."
Gordon Brown, Former Prime Minister
