SCHOOLS across Herefordshire will be receiving a new cook book, created by county pupils, encouraging busy families to eat healthily.

Good Food Fast includes recipes ranging from smoothies to stews, from kedgeree to pizzas, all of which can be produced in about 30 minutes.

In a drive to promote healthy living, and to endorse their Healthy Schools Status, pupils aged three to 11 at Lord Scudamore School in Hereford submitted their favourite recipes to compete for a range of prizes sponsored by local businesses.

The best ones were selected by Rebecca Stanners, community dietician at Herefordshire Hospitals.

The book has been put together with help from Herefordshire Council's heal-thy schools team as part of the Year of Food and Farming, a campaign to promote healthy living by giving young people direct experience of the countryside, farming and food.

Every primary school in the county will be given a copy of the book, courtesy of the healthy schools team, and the remainder will be sold by the school with all profits being used to fund the school's eco-garden.

Tess Boyes, healthy schools co-ordinator, said: "Children at Lord Scudamore School have taken their Healthy Schools Status very seriously and we're delighted to have worked with them on this project. Being healthy is about feeling good in both mind and body and eating well is very much part of this."