We know how important healthy eating is to you and your family, so we’ve teamed up with Annabel Karmel MBE, the UK’s leading author and expert on children’s food, to offer you a wider choice of well balanced meals, which are healthy and fun.

Children can help themselves to dishes such as hidden vegetable lasagne, sweet & sour meatballs and baked macaroni cheese with ham. These tasty kids meals will be available from special Annabel Karmel ‘food pods’ in Ocean Drive and Coral Beach, our self-serve restaurants, for all guests staying on a dinner, bed & breakfast basis.

Our self-catering guests will also have the chance to enjoy Annabel Karmel’s children’s menu; our Sun and Moon family pubs, on all three Resorts, and both out hotel restuarants at Bognor Regis - the South Coast Family Bar & Grill at the Shoreline Hotel and the Kaleidoscope Restaurant at the Ocean Hotel - will be serving a range of Annabel Karmel meals.

The idea is to help families enjoy healthy eating, and wherever possible, include ‘hidden vegetables’ (vegetables pureed into sauces) to make it easier for children to achieve their ‘5 a day’ and make healthy eating fun AND delicious.

Our expert chefs will also be preparing Annabel Karmel noodle dishes, right in front of you, in our Yacht Club restaurants (available to all Gold dinner, bed & breakfast guests), which means adults can also enjoy Annabel Karmel’s delicious recipes, including Singapore Chicken and Vegetable Noodles.

And you can enjoy these dishes when you get home too - there's a range of Annabel Karmel recipe books available to buy on Resort with lots of healthy family meal ideas for you to take home.  You can also visit Annabel Karmel’s official website for more great recipes and fun food ideas www.annabelkarmel.com

We’re so excited about Annabel Karmel’s recipes coming to Butlins; it goes hand-in-hand with Butlins healthy eating campaign ‘Eat Well, Feel Good’, where we encourage our younger guests to eat five pieces of fruit or vegetables a day. We’ve awarded over 300,000 special Butlins badges to happy healthy children. Ask inside any of our Resort restaurants and start collecting our ‘Eat Well’ stamps.

_{“I’ve really enjoyed the challenge of creating a range of healthy freshly prepared meals for children at Butlins that taste so delicious the children will prefer them to junk food. It can be really difficult getting fussy eaters to eat vegetables so on the menus will be dishes like my hidden vegetable pasta and freshly prepared pizza with a veggie topping. My aim is to broaden the range of food that children enjoy as well so there will also be dishes such as Pad Thai Noodles, Paella and Teriyaki Chicken with Broccoli. Instilling a love of healthy food at an early age is so important for children’s future wellbeing” Annabel Karmel}