Food safety and healthy eating on the island of Ireland

Breaking out the BBQ?

Here are our top BBQ food safety tips.

Watch Listeria Listeria can cause serious illness, especially if you're vulnerable. Know which foods to avoid and how to handle others safely.

Watch Starting on solids With some small changes, you can use meals you are already eating as a family to wean babies onto solid foods.

Read Ready meals If you buy convenience food that needs to be heated, here's some food safety advice.

Read Why we need fibre in our diet Getting enough fibre helps lower our risk of heart disease, diabetes and weight gain.

Recipes

Barbeque recipes

We have the best BBQ recipes for you from homemade and vegetarian burgers to citrus summer chicken.

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Pork and apricot kebabs

You will need 4 wooden skewers for this recipe. Remember to soak them for 2-3 hours or overnight ideally.

Citrus summer chicken

Zing up your chicken for the BBQ with this easy marinade. Marinades are a great way to introduce flavour to meats without adding a lot of extra calories.

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Food Safety

From storing food safely to preparing and cooking food

Read Keeping food safe on a picnic

Here are our tips to help you to keep your food safe when you’re on a picnic.

Read Preventing cross contamination

Cross contamination is when harmful bacteria are accidentally transferred from raw food to ready-to-eat food.

Read How to avoid food poisoning on holidays

Nobody wants to be laid up with food poisoning on holidays.