SWAP IT Sweet
SWAP FROM these types
of SOMETIMES FOODS
Roll-ups
Fruit sticks
Jelly
Breakfast based bars (E.g. LCMs, Nutri-grain Bars, Milo Bars)
Muesli bars
Chocolate bars
Sweet biscuits (e.g. Tiny Teddies, Gingerbread babies, Oreo Wafer Sticks)
Cakes, slices, sweet pastries
Dairy desserts (e.g. Yogo, Chocolate Snack Packs)
SWAP TO these types of EVERYDAY foods
Looking for some sweet everyday snack ideas that require no preparation? See below for some easy everyday snacks.
- Fresh fruit in season
- Dried fruit (small serve and occasionally). (e.g. Sunbeam, Sweet Vine, Micro Minis, Gobble Sunsweet prunes, Sun Valley, Angas Park, Woolworths or Coles).
- Tinned fruit in natural juice (eg: Goulburn valley, SPC, Sweet valley, Woolworths or Coles)
- Fruit puree pouch (eg: Golden Circle, SPC)
Reduced fat squeeze pouches (no added sugar):
- Yoplait Petit Miam
- Calci Yum
- Woolworths Select
- Chobani with steel cut oats
- Chobani
- Vaalia Kids Breakfast
- Vaalia Kids
- Coles
- Brooklea
Full fat squeeze pouches:
- Tamar Valley
- Rafferty’s Garden
- Five:am Organics
- Five:am Organics Powerpaks
- ALDI Just Organic
Reduced fat mini tubs:
- Chobani
- Rokeby Farm
- Yopro
- Yoplait for Me
- Calci yum
- Ski D’lite
- Vaalia My First Yoghurt
- Paul’s Kid’s
- Yoplait Classics
- Vaalia
Full fat mini tubs:
- Dairy Farmers Greek Style Natural
- Dairy Farmers Thick & Creamy
- Greek style Dairy Dream (Aldi)
- Ski Divine
- Gippsland
Squeeze pouches:
- Pauls Milky Max vanilla custard
- Pauls vanilla custard
Mini tubs:
- Pauls vanilla custard
- Forster Clark’s custard
- Brooklea vanilla custard
A little preparation required
Looking for some sweet everyday snack ideas that require little preparation? See below for some easy everyday snacks.
- Fruit salad
- Decant large packs of dried fruit/tinned fruit in natural juice/fruit puree into small containers
- Fruit buns (Woolworths, Coles or Bakers Delight)
- Fruit bread (Raisin Toast)
- Pikelets (Golden, Coles or Woolworths)
- Raisin bread with light cream cheese spread
- Plain, fruit or vegetable scones
- Fruit spice English Muffins
Buy large tubs of yoghurt and repackage into smaller containers or reusable squeeze pouches.
- Natural yoghurt
- Chobani
- Jalna
- Tamar Valley
- Yoplait
- Farmers Unions
- Five:am Organics
- Evia
- Black Swan
- Bornhoffen
- Coles
- Woolworths
- Vaalia
- Brooklea
- Flavoured
- Jalna
- Nudie
- Yoplait
- Five:am Organics
- Gippsland
- Woolworths Select
- Farmhouse Gold
- Ski
- Coles
- Tamar Valley
- Aldi Organic
Buy large tubs of custard and repackage into smaller containers.
- Pauls custard
- Farmhouse Gold custard
- Forster Clark custard
- Woolworths vanilla custard
- Coles custard
- Dairy Farmers custard
- Brooklea vanilla custard
High fibre breakfast cereals decanted to small serves
- Cheerios Original
- Weeties Shredded wheat
- Be Natural wholegrain bites cinnamon and original
- Puffed Wheat
Homemade fruit puree using a food processor/stick blender then portioned into small containers and frozen (a great use for fruit that is past it’s prime)
Pikelets (plain, vegetable or fruit)
Whole-wheat scones (plain, cheesy, fruit or vegetable).
Low fat custard
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