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CONVERT TO SUGAR FREE OPTIONS

Or live without sugar.

Such as sugar-free soft drinks, cordial, artificial sweeteners or better yet, go without sugar in coffee/tea. Drink water.  Not bottled flavoured water (which may have kilojoules/calories).

READ THE LABEL & REPLACE BAD OPTIONS WITH HEALTHY ONES

COMPARE the high fat options you buy now, such as whole egg mayonnaise or tartare sauce and replace them with the 97% or 98% fat-free alternative.  Be careful to read the labels, as some choices are high in sugar, and consequently kilojoules/calories, so buy only the lowest fat and kilojoule/calorie alternatives. If you really don’t like the taste of the alternative, then use the 50:50 rule, and go for a month with half the old (full fat) and half the new low-fat alternative until you adapt. Remember it takes 3 weeks to form a habit.

REPLACE

Replace white bread with multigrain bread (lower GI).

Replace white potatoes with sweet potatoes (lower GI)

Rice has high kilojoules/calories for a small amount, so we have chosen to forego it altogether and this was difficult as we used to have rice three times a week.

Pumpkin has high sugar content, replace with sweet potato or zucchini.

GET RID OF YOUR BAD FOOD ON HAND

If you start with the first couple of rules, such as halve the bad food and don’t throw good money supporting bad habits, you will gradually get rid of the cheese, butter, chocolates, etc in your house and you won't be replacing them. 

Give away food to visitors, such as chocolates, biscuits, frozen products you don’t want to keep.  Or when you have visitors, feed them those foods you don’t want to keep and you eat what you choose to eat (healthy).