Lorna Kemble Pregnancy and Birth

The Balance of Good Health

• Start Creating Your Own Family Tree Today
• Get Pregnant Quickly and Naturally Within 2 Months
• The Look Good Feel Great Pregnancy Kit

Fruit and vegetables

Try to eat at least five servings a day. This can include a glass of pure fruit juice. This food group includes fresh, frozen and canned fruit and vegetables, salads, dried fruit, fruit juices.

Meat, fish and alternatives

Eat one or two servings a day. Choose lean meat, remove the skin from poultry and cook using the minimum of fat. Try to eat oily fish at least once a week. This food group includes meat (except liver), fish, poultry, eggs, beans, pulses, nuts (except peanuts).

Meat, fish and alternatives

Bread, other cereals and potatoes

Foods containing fat, foods containing sugar

Foods containing fat, foods containing sugar

Limit the amount you eat. This food group includes all spreading fats, oils, salad dressings, cream, chocolate, crisps, biscuits, pastries, ice-cream, cake, puddings, fizzy drinks.

Bread, other cereals and potatoes

Make these the main part of every meal, eat wholegrain varieties when you can. This food group includes bread, potatoes, breakfast cereals, pasta, rice, oats, noodles, maize, millet, yams, cornmeal, sweet potatoes.

Milk and dairy foods

Try to eat several servings a day, using low-fat varieties whenever you can. This food group includes milk, yoghurt, fromage frais.