Your sporting organisation can make many small changes to make a greater choice of nutritious food and drinks available. Even just changing the way you display, price and promote food and drinks can encourage others to make healthy choices.
Some of these small changes you could put into place right away could include:
- Increasing the visibility and promotion of water over sugary (Red) drinks.
- Creating Green food and drink meal deals.
- Reducing or stopping added salt to freshly prepared foods.
- Reducing serving sizes of Amber and Red foods.
The following links contain great ideas for quick and easy changes that may suit your canteen.
Case Study - Making water the drink of choice in sport
“We decided that any positive change that we could make to our club was worth doing.” Port Fairy Golf Club
Many sporting organisations have used VicHealth’s Healthy Sporting Environments program to apply healthy eating to their canteen. These are some of the simple changes they have made:
- Replaced white rolls/bread with wholemeal or multigrain rolls/bread.
- Introduced salad rolls or made more salad rolls available.
- Switched to steamed rather than fried foods.
- Replaced full fat milk with low fat milk for tea and coffee.
- Provided fruit for sale.
- Introduced salt-reduced versions of food and condiments.
- Removed pies, pasties and sausage rolls from the menu.
- Reviewed portion or serving sizes.
‘A fruit bowl was positioned on the front counter of the canteen.’ – Broadford Football Netball Club