If you’re more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under 4, you may be entitled to get help to buy healthy food and milk. If you’re eligible, you’ll be sent a Healthy Start card with money on it that you can use in some UK shops. We’ll add your benefit onto this card every 4 weeks. You can use your card to buy:
- Fresh, dried, and tinned pulses
- fresh, frozen, and tinned fruit and vegetables
- infant formula milk based on cow’s milk
- plain liquid cow’s milk
You can also use your card to collect:
- Healthy Start vitamins (these support you during pregnancy and breastfeeding)
- vitamin drops for babies and young children (these are suitable from birth – 4 yrs)