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By thinking ahead about your meals and snacks, you can help to avoid unplanned eating of extra serves, reduce waste and save money.  \nCreating a Menu  \n• Create a menu plan for a few days, a week or even a month in advance.  \n• When planning your meals and snacks aim to choose items from the 5 food groups:  \no Vegetables; a variety of colours  \no Fruit; a variety of colours  \no Grain (cereal) foods;  \nchoose wholegrain and/or high fibre varieties.  \no Lean meats; poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts and seeds and legumes/beans.  \no Milk, yoghurt, cheese and/or alternatives; choose reduced fat options  \n• Once you have decided on your mealsand snacks write a list of all the items that you need to buy.  \n• Save time by cooking meals in advance and freezing individual portions that can be reheated when you are short on time.  \n• Use supermarket catalogues to guide menu planning to help you save money.  \nRecipe Ideas  \nWebsites:  \n• [http://www.eatforhealth.gov.au/](http://www.eatforhealth.gov.au/)  \n• [http://healthier.qld.gov.au/](http://healthier.qld.gov.au/)  \n• [http://](http://www.daa.asn.au)[www.daa.asn.au](http://www.daa.asn.au)  \n• [http://www.heartfoundation.org.au](http://www.heartfoundation.org.au)  \n• [http://www.diabetesqld.org.au/](http://www.diabetesqld.org.au/)  \n[Books & Magazines](Books & Magazines)  \n• Australian Healthy Food Guide  \n• ‘Symply Too Good To Be True’  \n• Women’s Weekly ‘Good Food Fast’  \n• CSIRO‘Total Wellbeing Diet’  \nShopping Tips  \n• Stick to your list; only buy the items that you need to reduce temptation at home.  \n• Avoid shopping when you are hungry; this often leads to buying extra foods.  \n• Keeping staples with a long shelf life can help to reduce waste, save money and are great for last minute convenient meals e.g. frozen or canned vegetables (low salt) and dried/canned beans/legumes (low salt) . Refer to ‘handy pantry staples’list.  \n• Markets or fruit and vegetables shops often have cheaper and fresher produce.  \n• Buy in bulk & freeze to save money and have supplies available.  \nCooking Tips  \n• Steam, microwave, poach, grill or dry roast to reduce added fats.  \n• Switch to a spray oil for when you do  \n• need to fry items.  \n• If using oil, choose unsaturated oils  \n• like olive/canola/rice bran/sunflower  \n• When cooking extras for leftovers, serve the meal then store or freeze the rest to avoid going back for seconds.  \n• Flavour meals using herbs, spices, chilli, lemon or garlic to flavour meals instead of using salt and sauces.  \n• Add legumes (e.g. beans and lentils) orgrated vegetables (e.g. carrot and zucchini) to your meat recipes to lower the cost and bulk up the meal. Legumes and vegetables are also a great source of fibre, important for bowel health and help you to feel full.  \nHealthy Plate Guide  \nThe healthy plate guide is an easy way to guide the amount of different foods served at main meals. 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