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SWAP FROM these types
of SOMETIMES FOODS

Roll-ups 

Fruit sticks 

Breakfast based bars  (E.g. LCMs, Nutri-grain Bars, Milo Bars) 

Muesli bars 

Chocolate bars

Sweet biscuits  (e.g. Tiny Teddies,
Ginger
bread babies, Oreo Wafer Sticks) 

Cakes/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.
 

  • Dried fruit snack packs - Sultanas, dried apricots, dried prunes
    • Southern Grove
    • Sunbeam, Woolworths
    • Angas Park
    • Sunsweet
    • Coles

Ensure you choose fruit that is in natural juice only, not syrup. Remember to be mindful of the size and choose the smallest portion.

  • Tinned / Canned Fruit: Two fruit, peaches, mangoes, pineapple, pears, apricots, rockmelon and fruit salad in natural juice tubs
    • Woolworths
    • Goulburn Valley
    • SPC
    • Sweet Valley
    • Golden Circle
    • Dole
  • Fruit purée pouches
    • Mamia
    • SPC crush ups
    • SPC puree
    • Golden Circle

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

  • Uncle Toby’s Fruity Bites

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A little preparation required

Looking for some sweet everyday snack ideas that require little preparation? See below for some easy everyday snacks.

Buy large containers of dried or stewed fruit and repackage into small containers.

Dried fruit - sultanas, prunes, apricots, apple and figs.

  • Woolworths
  • Angas Park
  • Sunbeam
  • Coles
  • Sunsweet
  • Southern Grove

When buying tinned or stewed fruit, such as two fruits, peaches or pears, ensure you choose fruit that is in natural juice only, not syrup.

  • Golden circle
  • Woolworths Select
  • Dole
  • SPC
  • Goulburn Valley

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

Buy large packs of cereal and repackage into smaller containers.

  • Be Natural Golden Wholegrain Bites Original
  • Freedom Foods ‘Active Balance’
  • Cheerio’s
  • Weet-bix Bites

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Banana Pikelets

Flavoured Greek Yoghurt

Fruit Kebabs

Fruit Scones

Pumpkin Scones

Vanilla Custard

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  • SWAP IT SWEET
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  • PACKING AN EVERYDAY LUNCHBOX
  • EVERYDAY SANDWICHES
  • EVERYDAY LUNCHBOX PLANNER
  • SEASONAL FRUIT AND VEGETABLES
  • MYTHBUSTING PREPACKAGED FOODS
  • EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST
  • RECIPES
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