Supermarket Swap: Party Swaps!

There is nothing better than the food at a kid’s birthday party, right? But did you know you can still let the kids enjoy a treat, without loading them with artificial colours and flavours? Try a clean version of the famous classic, Fairy Bread. These simple swaps from Supermarket Swap will reduce the amount of additives the kids are consuming from 20 to 1.

WORDS: Nabula Brdar

There is nothing better than the food at a kid’s birthday party, right?

But did you know you can still let the kids enjoy a treat, without loading them with artificial colours and flavours? 

Because we all know the behaviour that can follow those ‘treats’.

 Try a clean version of the famous classic, Fairy Bread. These simple swaps will reduce the amount of additives the kids are consuming from 20 to 1.

 They will never know the difference!

Fairy Bread Swap

BREAD

Wonder Active Low Gi Soft White Bread 

Wheat flour, Water, Modified Tapioca Starch (1412), Defatted soy flour, Yeast, Wheat Gluten, Vinegar, Vegetable gum (412), Canola oil, Soy flour, Soy protein, Iodised Salt, Fermented Wheat Flour, Emulsifiers (481, 471, 472e), Vitamins (Thiamin, Folid Acid).

fairy bread swap

Swap to:

Woolworths Extra Soft Loaf White (wholemeal is better, but we know white is the popular choice for fairy bread)

Wheat Flour, Water, Yeast, Wheat Gluten, Vegetable Oils (Palm, Canola), Iodised Salt, Yellow Pea Flour, Vitamins (Thiamin, Folate).

fairy bread swap

BUTTER

Meadowlea

Vegetable oils 60% (containing 47% canola oil), water, salt, emulsifiers [471, 322 (from soy)], milk solids, preservative (202), food acid (270), natural colour (160a), vitamins A & D, natural flavour.

fairy bread swap

Swap to:

 Buttersoft

Pasteurised Cream (From Milk), Salt.

butter soft

SPRINKLES

Dollar Sweets Sprinkles Magic 100s & 1000s

Sugar, Tapioca Starch, Colours (102, 110, 122, 123, 124, 133), Glazing Agent (903)

supermarket swap

Swap to:

Hopper Sprinkles 

Sugar, maize starch, maltodextrin, natural colours, curcumin, copper chlorophyllin, beetroot, paprika, spirulina.

hopperfoods.com.au

clean sprinkles

For more helpful SWAPS head to: 

@supermarket.swap

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