SWAP IT Savoury
SWAP FROM these types
of SOMETIMES FOODS
Chips / Crisps
Pretzels
Flavoured biscuits / crackers (e.g. Shapes)
Coloured popcorn
Noodle snack
Crackers and cheese/sweet dip
(e.g. Le Snak or Dunkaroo)
SWAP TO these types of EVERYDAY foods
Snacks that require no preparation
Looking for some savoury everyday snack ideas that require no preparation? See below for some easy everyday snacks.
- Woolworths and Coles carrot and celery sticks
- Cob’s sea salt
- Coles original
- Cool popcorn
- Cool Pak original
- Woolworths original
- Mini rice cakes – Damora mini brown rice bites, Healtheries rice wheels, Sunrice mini bites
- Damora rice cracker snacks
- Rice crackers
- Babybel
- Bega cheese stingers
- Bel kiri cream cheese
- Cowbells cheese streamers
- Dairylea cheesestik wedges
- Dairylea fridge sticks
- Dairylea cheese strips
- Dairyworks cheese sticks
- The Laughing Cow
- Woolworth cheese sticks
- Woolworths cheese cubes
- Dairylea Colby cheese and rice crackers
- Mainland on the go cheese and crackers
- Westcare snack n go cheese and water crackers
- Woolworths cheese and water crackers
- Macro wholefoods snack packs: sassy chickpeas, eda-yummy mix, buzzin beans, corn kernals, cheeky chickpeas
- Macro air puffed fav-va beans: bbq, salt, pizza
- The Happy Snack Company: roasted fav-va beans (pizza, lightly salted, salt and vinegar, sea salt and balsamic vinegar, red pepper and chilli), roasted chickpeas (lightly salted)
- SPC baked bean pot, Heinz baked bean mini can
- John West tuna to go
- John West tuna and beans
- Small canned tuna (95g) – Woolworths, Coles, Aldi, Sirena, Safcol
- Black Swan grab n go– lavosh crackers with beetroot tzatziki, roast garlic hummus
- Chris’ mini dips: hummus, tzatziki
- Chris’ mini snack pack – water cracker and hummus
- Deli originals (Aldi) snack n go
- Obella grab n go – wholegrain rice cracker with hummus, tzatziki or beetroot dip
- Obella mini dips – hummus
* Before packing nuts, remember to check your school’s policy as many schools have a ‘Nut-Free policy’.
A little preparation
Looking for some savoury everyday snack ideas that require a little preparation? See our list below for snack ideas that require a little preparation.
Buy snack size vegetables or chop regular vegetables and store in small containers.
- Baby cucumbers, cherry tomatoes
- Vegetable sticks e.g. carrot, capsicum, cucumber
Buy large tubs of dip and repackage into smaller containers.
- Hummus: Chris’ dips, Pilpe, Willow Farm, Yumi’s, Obella, Black swan, Dari’s table, SSS, Black Swan, Woolworths, Coles, Little salad bar
- Tzatziki: Chris’ dips, Willow Farm, Little salad bar, Woolworths, Coles, Black Swan
- Beetroot: Chris’ dips, Pilpel, Yumi’s
- Guacamole: Obella
Buy large blocks of cheese and cut into cubes or slices ready for the lunchbox.
- All brands of reduced fat cheese
Buy large packages of popcorn and repackage into smaller containers.
- Cobs sea salt
- Kettle sea salt
Buy large cans and repackage into smaller containers.
- Heinz baked beans
- Coles baked beans
- SPC baked beans
- Wattie’s baked beans
- Woolworths macro baked beans
- Corale baked beans
- Plain unsalted nuts and seeds to create your own trail mix
Buy large packets and repackage into smaller containers.
Corn thins
- Real foods
- Coles
- Pureharvest
- Woolworths
- Damora
Rice cakes
- Sunrice
- Coles
- Woolworths
- Damora Ceres
Crispbreads
- Vita Weats
- Premiums
- Ryvita
- Cruskit
- Salada
Rice crackers
- Ceres
- Sakata
- Peckish thins
- Woolworths
- Fantastic
- Coles
Water Crackers
- Woolworths
- Captains’s Table
- Waterthins
- Waterthins lavosh
- Coles
- Carr’s
- Tuckers wholegrain snack bites
*Before packing nuts, remember to check your school’s policy as many schools have a ‘Nut-Free policy’
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