Simple breakfast swaps for children

This week the NZ Heart Foundation released a statement about encouraging children to eat a healthier breakfast. The media release contains the usual sobering stats on the state of children's diets. What I really liked about the second part of the media release was the idea of simple breakfast swaps. I.e. swapping a less healthy option for a healthier one. To make it easy for parents, the Heart Foundation have launched their "TICK" programme which provides an easy system to identify healthy choices in the supermarket (just look out for the "tick" from the Heart Foundation). Swapping standard breakfast options with the ones that fit the "Tick" Programme can remove more than a teaspoon of saturated fat and about as much salt as found in a packet of potato chips from your child’s breakfast every day, according to the Heart Foundation.