Simple changes for healthier foods and drinks

• Offer half-size or mini-size serves of meals, snacks and drinks.
• If offering hot chips, halve the amount served.
• Avoid ‘upsizing’ deals.

Make salad or mixed vegetables the default side dish (rather than hot chips) for main meals.

Include fruit, vegetable or salad items in the cost of every meal and snack. Avoid charging extra.

Avoid deep frying. Schnitzels, falafels, chips, wedges can all be oven baked.

Replace butter with margarine for cooking and in sandwiches.

Offer low fat mayonnaise as an alternative to margarine in sandwiches.

Use reduced fat dairy products instead of full fat dairy:

• • Use reduced fat cheese in cooking and in sandwiches.
  • Make reduced fat milk the default milk type for hot and cold drinks.

Reduce the amount of oil used in cooking. Use non-stick cookware or spray oil (such as canola or olive oil).

Avoid adding salt when cooking. Flavour foods with herbs and spices instead.

Use reduced salt versions of sauces, stocks and gravy.

Use lean roast meats, or tuna in spring water instead of highly processed meats (such as salami, ham, pastrami).

Make wholemeal or wholegrain bread your default bread type for sandwiches, rolls and wraps.

If baking, replace half of the flour with wholemeal flour, bran or oats to increase the fibre content.