Phosphate Swap Shop
AVOID |
TRY INSTEAD |
Meat
Liver, kidney, pate, sausages, salami, meat pastes |
Fresh Beef, Lamb, pork, chicken, turkey |
Fish
Crab, sardines, kippers, whitebait, fish roe, monk fish, sea bass, prawns, bones of tinned fish |
Fresh Cod, Whiting, plaice, lemon sole, tuna, salmon |
Bread, rolls and scones
Naan bread, soda bread, scones |
Ciabatta, garlic bread, pitta, white sliced bread, wholemeal or wholegrain brown sliced bread, baguettes, croissants, granary rolls, soft & crusty white rolls. |
Breakfast Cereals
All Bran, Branflakes, muesli, cereals containing nuts or chocolate, wheat germ. |
Porridge, Weetabix, Oatibix, Shredded Wheat, Cheerios, Special K, Rice Krispies, Cornflakes, Frosties |
Sweets / snack food
Chocolate and foods containing chocolate such as cakes, bars or sweets, fudge, toffees, cereal bars, nuts |
In moderation.
Boiled Sweets, marshmallows, jellies, mints, Turkish delight (no chocolate)
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Beverages
Horlicks, Ovaltine, Drinking Chocolate, Complan, Build Up, Cola Drinks |
Tea, lemonade, tonic water, lucozade, ginger ale. You can use most dilutible drinks – check the label and avoid those with a fruit juice content of more than 12% |
Biscuits, cakes, pastry, buns
Rye crispbreads, and biscuits containing nuts or chocolate, scones, cake mixes, waffles, cakes containing nuts or chocolate, instant dessert mixes.
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In moderation
Gingernuts, custard creams, jammy dodgers, Jam rings, Shortcake, Shortbread, Madeira cake, pastry, doughnuts, jam tarts, crumbles, tarts, lemon meringue pie More suitable in moderation on a reduced sugar diet Rich Tea, Marietta, Lincoln, Digestives, water biscuits, cream crackers Please note: that a considerable number of the above suggestions are a source of added phosphates and should be considered as “treat foods”. |