Dishing up fresh and healthy food from around the globe, Giraffe has a menu of mini dishes for under-sevens, plus a Young Adults menu to make older children feel special. Kids Placemats provide table-top entertainment.

. While raised blood pressure is unlikely to be a health threat in itself in otherwise healthy children, it’s a sign that the heart is already enlarged and beginning to strain at the damage going on in the blood vessels. The research also found cholesterol levels

, what would it be? Just like adults, babies and young children eat with all their senses so, by creating organic, handy and fun foods and healthy eating habits that will last a lifetime, Ella’s Kitchen is good in every sense. Why do you think parents

Baby ZilliAldo Zilli, Co-Founder and celebrity chefWell done on being shortlisted, why do you think Baby Zilli stood out from the competition? I’m the first well-known chef to come up with a baby food range, which I have tested on my own children

Healthy Food For Young Children by c (£12.99, Usborne) is the latest from the Usborne Parents’ Guides series. It’s beautifully illustrated and filled with recipes and tips on how to get children to eat well from an early age, including

, with fresh ingredients from scratch, he has imbued his own children – George, five, Johnnie, two, and Dory, one – with a love of food, too. “They are quite young so I cook with them sitting by me and get them to do a bit of chopping, but we always eat

, Raymond caters amply for young guests, with not one but three menus for children: for Bébé Blanc, there is free organic carrot purée;  Petit Blanc, for up to eight years, has a choice of grilled chicken, fishcakes, salads or macaroni cheese, followed

provide a happy distraction from any discomfort.Create comfort foodTry making mealtimes a source of comfort and pain relief by giving her hard, cold foods to gnaw on. Refrigerated slices of apple, pear, carrot and cucumber are all healthy and should

was the very heart of the house. From about five or six years, my siblings and I were already helping our father in the garden. We were five children and we didn’t have much money, so the garden was very important; it was the garden that produced our food

-year-olds suffering from tooth decay, many parents are becoming aware that cutting down on sugary foods is not enough. “The only drinks that are healthy for teeth are milk and water,” says Dr Nigel Carter, chief executive of the British Dental Health Foundation