Few things are more important than a healthy heart. These heart-smart swaps can help reduce sodium and saturated fat in your diet.
| Instead of | Do this for your heart |
| Pouring regular milk over your morning cereal | Switch to Dairy Farmers Heart Active milk or Pura Heart Active, as they contain plant sterols to help lower cholesterol. |
| Regular table margarine | Try Flora Pro-activ Light. It has less than 50% fat and contains 8g plant sterols per 100g to help reduce cholesterol. |
| Plain Kellogg’s Corn Flakes | Swap to Kellogg’s Guardian cereal. It has 5.4g more total fibre than regular corn flakes, and contains psyllium and barley, to reduce cholesterol. |
| Serving up beef steaks at your next BBQ | Opt for kangaroo steaks, as they contain only a fifth of the saturated fat. |
| Snacking on 30g salted nuts | Choose unsalted nuts, as they contain 38 times less sodium. |
| Using regular Bega tasty cheese | Try Bega So Extra Light tasty cheese. You’ll save 2g saturated fat per 20g slice. |
| Baking cookies and cakes with butter | Switch to canola oil and cut out 46g saturated fat per 100ml. |
| Boosting food flavour with salt | Lower your sodium intake, but keep the flavour, by swapping for fresh or dried herbs. |
| Trident Coconut Milk in curries | Pour in a can of Carnation Light & Creamy Coconut Flavoured Evaporated Milk and cut the saturated fat by 92%. |
| Making sandwiches with Mighty Soft white bread | Swap for Bürgen’s Wholegrains & Oats bread. It has 33% less sodium, 51% more fibre and contains betaglucans to help reduce cholesterol. |
| Polishing off a packet of Smiths chips | Air-pop Riviana popcorn – you’ll drop 10 times the saturated fat per serve. |
| Topping pasta with Barilla Napoletana pasta sauce | Stir through Raguletto Napoletana pasta sauce and cut the sodium by 50%. |
| Making soups and stews with regular stock cubes | Save 200mg sodium per 100ml with Campbell’s reduced salt chicken stock. |
| Adding a tin of Greenseas tuna in brine to your lunchtime salad | Try John West’s mackerel in brine. It has 3000mg more omega-3s per 100g. |
| Using Primo’s mild salami on pizza | Top pizza with Don’s 97% fat free shaved turkey. It has 11g less saturated fat and 440mg less sodium per 100g. |