Debra Shipley, Labour MP for Stourbridge, will present the private member's Bill, which will call for regulations on food quality, the composition of school meals, food education and skills.
It will also call on the Food Standards Agency to create criteria for healthy and unhealthy food that consider food production techniques.
A spokesman from Sustain, the alliance for better food and farming, said the Bill would challenge industry. "If it is going to design foods for children, it will have to make sure they fall within these criteria," he said.
Sustain wants the Government to publish an annual plan to promote healthy foods and will call for a ban on marketing unhealthy food to children.
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