Get a box. Open your pantry. Take a photograph for posterity (post a photo onto the Facebook group). Anything on the list below goes in the box. The box goes in the garage (or donated to a family in need).

 

Refined carbs: White bread etc. (Whole wheat bread is okay but prefer no bread at all for the first month), white rice, white flour, sugar, sugar products, golden syrup

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Breakfast cereals: You can keep Weetbix and Shredded Wheat if you must

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Desserts: Biscuits, lollies, cake, and ice cream, jelly, milk chocolate etc

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Dairy: Cream, evaporated milk, salad dressing, mayonnaise, etc

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Processed meat: Sausages, bacon, prosciutto, ham, pepperoni, salami etc

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Processed snack foods: Crackers, chips, children’s pre-packed anything (including anything that says it’s made out of fruit juice!), anything with more than five ingredients on the label – and anything that has ingredients that you can’t pronounce or don’t know what they are.

 

Certain oils: Processed seed and vegetable oils like canola, safflower oil etc (get olive oil)

 

Trans fats: Foods with partially hydrogenated ingredients (this means margarine, shop bought biscuits and cakes, anything deep fried from a shop). Shop bought pies, pasties – anything where the oil is heated to a high temperature.

 

Condiments: Tomato sauce, HP sauce, etc (there’s lots of things to replace these)

 

“Health foods”: Muesli bars, things that have the word “fortified” or similar on the packet!

 

All drinks except water, teas and coffee: Heave the cordial, soft drinks,(including diet drinks); fruit juices and energy drinks, and the packaged coffee mixes (you know the ones!)

 

Alcohol: Excessive alcohol consumption is a problem but if you really need to drink, see if you can go dry for a month at least, or have some nights off.

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