If you are pregnant or have a child under four years old you could get a Healthy Start card to help buy some basic foods. This important means-tested scheme provides vouchers to spend with local retailers. Pregnant women and children over one and under four years old can get one voucher per week. Children under one year old can get two vouchers per week.

The vouchers can be spent on:

• plain cow’s milk – whole, semi-skimmed or skimmed. It can be pasteurised, sterilised, long life or UHT
• fresh, frozen and tinned fruit and vegetables including loose, pre-packed, whole, sliced, chopped or mixed fruit or vegetables, fruit in fruit juice, or fruit or vegetables in water, but not those to which fat, salt, sugar or flavouring have been added
• fresh, dried and tinned pulses, including but not limited to lentils, beans, peas and chickpeas but not those to which fat, salt, sugar or flavouring have been added
• infant formula milk that says it can be used from birth and is based on cow’s milk.

You can also get free vitamins from your local Torbay Family Hub.

Find out more at: healthystart.nhs.uk/healthy-start-vouchers/how-to-apply