Health pioneers and TV medicinal chef provide easy meal ideas for parents

Health pioneers have teamed up with the UK’s top medicinal chef to get the nation cooking nutritious meals from scratch, after shock Government statistics reveal how few parents make fresh meals for their families.

The Department of Health questioned 2,000 mothers for its Change4Life Be Food Smart campaign, which encourages the public to think about the ‘hidden nasties’ in everyday foods so they can better manage the amount of salt, fat and sugar in their diets.

The results found that a lack of time and confidence in the kitchen means that only one in six parents make a meal from scratch every day, leaving youngsters being served unhealthy convenience foods such as chicken nuggets, sausages and pizza.

Obesity costs the NHS £5 billion each year with 40,000 people dying of conditions attributable to being overweight or obese. The Government’s latest figures show that the number of children who are overweight or obese doubles during primary school.*

Most convenience foods are laden with saturated fats, sodium and sugar and provide little to no nutritional value.

But Dale Pinnock’s collection of easy-to-follow recipes, being given away alongside BetterYou TotalNutrition, aims to help parents provide simple, nutritious meals to their children.

The TotalNutrition Recipe Book includes a range of quick and easy meal ideas, including BetterYou’s renowned Mean Green Morning Smoothie, potato ‘power’ boats, superfood frittata, spinach and feta wraps, and oat and seed bars. All recipes use TotalNutriton to help both adults and children feel the benefit of a nutrient rich diet.

BetterYou's TotalNutrition is a unique organic raw food formula which provides a natural food state blend of essential vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids- an ideal body booster for the millions of people, like those questioned; whose busy lifestyles mean their nutritional intake is taking a hit.

The unique combination of 100 per cent organic superfoods has been individually selected for their nutritional balance and optimal bioavailability, helping to replace some of those lost from processed meals.

Andrew Thomas, founder and managing director at BetterYou, said: “Dale has demonstrated through years of expert research and analysis that what we eat can have an untold impact on the way our bodies deal with a range of medical complaints.

"What these recipes do is make the task of the parent, the patient, the chef, that bit easier, providing our bodies with the superfoods they need in ways that can be seamlessly incorporated into our everyday diets."

TotalNutrition retails at £15.30 and is available from Holland & Barratt, independent retailers across the UK and www.betteryou.uk.com.