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If you need some inspiration to help you cook healthy and tasty food for your kids, try these meal ideas.

Breakfast

• Porridge or unsweetened cereal mixed with whole cows' milk or your baby's usual milk with mashed ripe pear.
• Wholewheat biscuit cereal with milk and stewed fruit.
• Toast fingers with mashed banana.
• Toast fingers with boiled egg and slices of ripe peach.
• Stewed apple, yoghurt and unsweetened breakfast cereal.

Lunch or tea

• Cauliflower cheese with cooked pasta pieces.
• Plain fromage frais with stewed apple.
• Small pieces of soft ripe peeled pear or peach.
• Mashed pasta with broccoli and cheese.
• Baked beans (reduced salt and sugar) with toast.
• Stewed fruit and custard.
• Scrambled egg with toast, chapatti or pitta bread.
• Cottage cheese dip with pitta bread and cucumber and carrot sticks.

Dinner

• Mashed sweet potato with mashed chickpeas and cauliflower.
• Shepherd's pie with green vegetables.
• Rice and mashed peas with courgette sticks.
• Mashed cooked lentils with rice.
• Minced chicken and vegetable casserole with mashed potato.
• Mashed canned salmon with couscous and peas.
• Fish poached in milk with potato, broccoli and carrot.

Fruits and vegetables
Try these ways of increasing your child's intake of fruits and vegetables:

• Put their favourite vegetables or canned pineapple on top of pizza.
• Give carrot sticks, slices of pepper and peeled apple for snacks.
• Mix chopped or mashed vegetables with rice, mashed potatoes, meat sauces or dhal.
• Mix fruit (fresh, canned or stewed) with yoghurt or fromage frais for a tasty dessert.
• Chop prunes or dried apricots into cereal or yoghurt, or add them to a stew.