7 EASY SWAPS TO MAKE YOUR DIET HEALTHIER

Peanut Butter

Swap your supermarket bought peanut butter for natural peanut butter. The difference? No added oil, sugar or salt. Natural Peanut Butter is exactly that…just peanuts! You can take it a step further and get organic peanuts to ensure you are getting a clean, chemical free product.

Honey

Swap that runny clear honey for a raw honey. The raw honey hasn't been heat treated, meaning it will be quite thick in comparison. Plus the raw honey still has its medicinal value of honey, bang a strong antimicrobial.

Yogurt

Read the nutrition panel of the yogurt in your fridge. How much sugar per 100g is in it? 13g? 20g? More? To put it into context…a teaspoon of sugar is approximately 3g. So if your yogurt has 13g of sugar per 100g, and a serve is 100g, you are getting over 4 teaspoons of sugar per serve. Swapping a yogurt which is high in sugar for a yogurt like Jalna Biodynamic Organic Plain yogurt which has 4.1g of sugar per 100g. See the difference?

Bread

Is your bread white and fluffy? I have some bad news for you. If your bread feels lighter than air, then its time to swap it. Swap it for a dense wholegrain loaf or even better, a dense sourdough loaf. When choosing a bread look for as few ingredients as possible, with as few preservatives as possible. Looking for other breads made from flours like rye, oat, spelt and kamut are great ways to give your body a break from wheat as well.

When our bread has been refined and is white and fluffy it is converted to sugar very quickly once we consume it. Swapping it for a less refined loaf of bread will reduce the effect of blood sugar.

Fruit juice

Does your family love their juice? Fruit juice on its own is very high in sugar, as all the fibre and the other good stuff found in fruit has been discarded. Swapping a fruit juice for a veggie juice, or at least a combination of fruit and veggie juice ensures that more nutrients are getting in without the excessive load of the sugar.

Processed meats ie. bacon, salami etc

These foods are high in all the bad stuff. They are high in preservatives like nitrates, as well as sodium, saturated fats and more. So best consumed in moderation. If you are finding them as regulars in your kitchen then swapping them for good quality meats like organic, nitrate free bacon is recommended. Otherwise, lets just save it for meals out only…ok?

Chocolate

A simple swap, but a great swap. Swap your sugar filled milk chocolate for a high percentage dark chocolate. Cacao was originally used as an appetite suppressant, so finishing your meal with a small piece of very dark chocolate will help to reduce any further cravings for sweets. A ark chocolate should be to rich for you to demolish the entire block, plus it is packed with antioxidants from the high amount of cacao/cocoa.