Simple Swapouts

Some foods are nutrient dense, fuel and medicine for our bodies, and some are inflammatory, nutrient poor and energy sapping. With a few simple swapouts, we can increase the nutrient intake for whole family, while reducing intake of foods which can cause issues.

We can see food as our fuel – if we put the right fuel into our engine, things will run smoothly. If we regularly put the wrong fuel in (eg diesel into a petrol engine) – problems begin to occur.

Food is absolutely essential to living a healthy life, and there are a few simple things we can do to.

Here are some ideas - switch:

• Wheat flour for almond, buckwheat, coconut, chickpea flour

• Sugar or artificial sweeteners for honey, stevia, rice malt syrup

• Dairy milk for almond, coconut, oat or hempseed milk

• Packaged snacks (chips, chocolate, lollies, cakes, biscuits) for nuts, fruit, veg sticks with hummous, bliss balls, home baking with above swapouts, trail mix, seed crackers, hard boiled eggs, smoothies

• Fizzy drinks / Alcohol for kombucha, soda water with fruit, mocktails, water

• Coffee for spiced chai, turmeric latte, herbal teas

• Pasta for pulse pasta, lentil pasta, quinoa pasta

• White rice for brown rice or quinoa

• Breakfast cereals for homemade muesli, porridge, eggs, smoothies, pancakes with swapout ingredients, fruit salad with yoghurt, stewed fruit with muesli

• Bread for homemade seedy bread, keto bread, paleo bread

• Processed meats (ham, salami etc) for leftover meats from the night before

• Lunchtime purchases (pies, fried foods etc) for leftovers, sushi, roast veg salad, wraps filled with meat and veg, omelettes, soups, pesto pasta, seedy bread with nut butter or chia jam

• Sugary deserts for chia pudding / avocado mousse / raw choc / fruit and coconut yoghurt

These are just a few ideas, there are so many easy ways to get the most from our food – helping the whole family to feel great! I have many more ideas, feel free to email me and I can send you a handout I made called ‘Healthy Eating Inspiration’ which contains quick, easy meals and snacks for kids or adults.