Nutrition and Hydration Week: 17 – 23 March 2025

Nutrition and Hydration week is an annual event that helps to highlight and educate people about the value of food and drink to maintain good health and wellbeing. Please click here to see more information via H&D week website. 

Living Well offers lots of information on their website to help you join in making simple food swaps when you’re shopping, cooking, and snacking. These everyday easy swaps can help to improve the health and wellbeing of you and your family, with foods that are healthy and nutritious.

Some of the topics covered are:
• How to make easy healthy food swaps
• How to prepare healthier family meals
• Advice on shopping and preparing meals on a budget with easy to follow recipes
• Advice on food labelling
• Advice on ways to store foods for longer
• Ideas, top tips and simple food swaps
• Information on food groups and the benefits of reducing sugar, fats and salt in the diet
• Ideas for healthier lunch box options
• Meal planners with shopping lists

You can watch step by step films that show how to make delicious fakeaway meals at home instead of ordering expensive takeaways and also a short film with ideas for 10 easy healthy food swaps you can make.

Please click here to see Swap Well to Eat Well campaign topic resources. 

British Nutrition Foundation also offers lots of information on staying hydrated, key facts about hydration, hydration for children, healthy hydration guides and more!

Please click here to see hydration information from British Nutrition Foundation. 

Please click here for children aged 1-4 years healthy hydration guide. 

Please click here for children aged 5-11 years healthy hydration guide.