Food swap ideas
Switch your food for healthier options as often as possible
Pizza FOR change the base, try cauliflower or quinoa, and reduce the cheese
Crumbed chicken FOR make your own crumbing from almond meal and herbs and spices
Fish n chips FOR home made tastes best!!
Taco salad FOR reduce the corn chips/shells
Pasta FOR zoodles, buckwheat, chickpea or protein pasta
White rice FOR brown rice, quinoa, cauliflower rice
Dairy Milk Chocolate FOR Raw Chocolate
Salted Nuts FOR Raw Activated Nuts
Sour Cream FOR Coconut Yoghurt
Cows Cheese FOR Goats Cheese
Bread FOR homemade nut & seed breads
Regular flour FOR almond meal or a mix of almond meal and other flours such as buckwheat, chickpea, coconut etc
White or brown sugar FOR dates, honey or rice malt syrup for sweetness
Traditional lasagna sheets FOR eggplant, or zucchini or a mix of your preferred veggie
Mayonnaise FOR mustard
Potatoes FOR Cauliflower rice
Potato Chips FOR Kale Chips
Beef FOR chicken and fish
Toast FOR Sweet potato slices
Chips FOR Roasted chickpeas
Cool drink / Soda FOR sparkling water, green tea, or kombucha
Cereal FOR Chia pudding, or a yogurt, or bircher muesli
Lollies / candy / chocolate FOR Dried fruit, energy balls, or dark-chocolate-covered fruit
Tomato sauce / ketchup FOR salsa, seasonings with herbs and spices
Cheese FOR nutritional yeast flakes
Cheese FOR cashew cheese
Store bought condiments and sauces FOR tahini, tamari, extra virgin olive oil, fresh lemon squeezed juice, apple cider vinegar, herbs & spices
Ice cream or creamy dessert FOR coconut based frozen desserts such as “nicecream” ,Chia seed puddings
Processed spreads and dips FOR nut butters made from almond, cashew, hazelnut
Store bought dips FOR Homemade hummus or homemade pesto dips
Couscous FOR brown rice, Quinoa, cauliflower “rice”
Wheat breads / crackers FOR wholegrain crackers made from brown rice, quinoa, millet, amaranth, buckwheat, coconut flour, or chickpea flour.
Boxed breakfast cereals FOR cereals made from amaranth and quinoa - make your own bercher muesli with nuts and seeds and GF grains, or homemade granola.
Porridge FOR chia seed puddings, bircher
Soy Sauce FOR Tamari or coconut aminos
Sourcream FOR Coconut yoghurt
Beef mince FOR lentils
Puff pastry FOR Tortillas
Cow’s milk FOR Nut milk
Palm, Vegetable, Peanut oils FOR Avocado, coconut, olive oils
Need more support in your food choices? Confused what to eat? Really want to eat healthy but don’t want to give up your favourite foods? You need to check out Switch To Healthy program!!