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Healthier Choices Canberra: sign your business up

Healthier Choices Canberra makes it easier for Canberrans to find tasty, fresh, and healthier food and drink options. We partner with local businesses to increase the visibility and appeal of healthy food and drink for Canberrans.

Canberrans have told us that they’re looking for healthier options at the places they visit regularly – such as supermarkets, licensed clubs, restaurants, and cafes.

This page is part of the Healthier Choices Canberra campaign.

How you can help

Pledge to take action to increase the visibility and appeal of vegetables, fruit, and water by making simple changes in one or more of these areas:

  • presentation
  • product
  • placement
  • promotion
  • price.

Find out more about taking the Fruit 'n' Veg Pledge.

Why make a difference

Being part of the program is low effort and high reward. It’ll give you the healthy glow of these benefits:

  • promoting your business across our media channels
  • free support and in-store tools
  • be top-of-mind with menu items that help your customers feel good
  • boost staff pride and loyalty by doing good for your community
  • be a local leader in your community by prioritising the health and wellbeing of your community.

You're probably already promoting a healthier Canberra without knowing it.

Other businesses use ideas like these:

  • Make fruit and veg the star in some of your specials and post them on social media – use cheaper seasonal produce.
  • Happy to fill customer water bottles? Promote yourself under Refill Canberra. Free publicity is good publicity.
  • Swap things up, so bright and fresh options are front and centre – placement can increase impulse buys.

Sign up our list of businesses who want to boost their reputation and Canberra's wellbeing by filling out this simple form.

Download these posters to find out more:

Find out what other businesses have pledged

Download the following posters for information on quick wins for your business:

Hear what other businesses have to say

This short video shows people from food businesses in the ACT. They talk about the benefits of Healthier Choices Canberra.

Testimonials from Healthier Choices businesses.

Transcript

Jordan [Venue Manager, Plumb Café and Eatery]: “I would recommend other businesses getting on board just because of how easy it was. It was very minimal effort, but the outcome of what we get is just an extra helping hand if you need it as well. They’re always really supportive.”

Mike [Venue Manager, The Alby]: “I think it sort of made us sort of more creatively think, let’s put a healthy choice too, to make sure we have enough healthy options because they are so much more highlighted.”

Dara [Sous Chef, Gungahlin Lakes Club]: “It makes you stop and think about the things that you’re putting in there and gets you to try different things just to see what different clientele like in this moving market.”

Jordan: “The word choice I really like as well. Having those options on the menu rather than, you know, forcing people to have a healthy option all the time is very important.”

John [Chef, Gungahlin Lakes Club]: “People have learned that, you know, healthy food is actually a good thing. My main goal is always to see that, you know, they leave feeling better that the way they were before.”

Jordan: “The changes that we’ve made and implemented here have just been so positive.”

End of transcript.

Take the Fruit ‘n’ Veg Pledge

The Fruit ‘n’ Veg Pledge is a super simple process to help Canberra eat healthier.

Your business chooses easy actions that work for you and that make healthier options accessible to your customers.

Then we promote you as one of our Healthier Choices Canberra venues. There are lots of ways to promote healthier options, which range from zero to low cost to implement.

Healthy food and drink display ideas for supermarkets

Use these resources to create end of aisle displays that feature some of your shelf stable Healthier Choices products.

Healthy breakfasts

Products suitable for this display

  • Breakfast cereals, muesli and oats
    • Use products with a health star rating of 4.5 or more.
  • Milk
    • Use reduced-fat cow's milk or plant-based milks that have added calcium.
  • Liquid breakfast drinks
    • Use products with a health star rating of 4.5 or more.
  • Nut butters
    • Use varieties with no added sugar, salt or confectionary.
  • Baked beans
    • Use salt reduced varieties.
  • Canned fruit
    • Use fruit canned in juice and not syrup.

Recipe

  • Feature a recipe in your end of aisle display. You can arrange the recipe ingredients nearby to assist customers.

Fact sheet

Healthy lunchboxes

Products suitable for this display

  • Fresh fruit
    • For example: berries, bananas, apples, mandarins.
  • Tinned fruit in juice
  • Dried fruit
    • Use 40g portions with no added sugar.
  • Veggie snacks
    • For example: cherry tomatoes, baby carrots, baby cucumbers.
  • Baked beans
    • Use salt reduced products.
  • Canned fish
    • Use products canned in spring water or olive oil, unflavoured.
  • Juice poppers
    • Use 99% juice products in 250mL portions.
  • Long life milk poppers
    • Use plain (unflavoured) full cream, reduced fat cow’s milk, or calcium fortified plant-based milk.
  • Liquid breakfast drinks
    • Use products with a health star rating of 4.5 or more.
  • Muesli bars
    • Use products with a health star rating of 4 or more, no confectionery.
  • Biscuits and crackers
    • Use products with a health star rating of 4 or more, wholegrain versions.
  • Bread products
    • Use wholegrain or high fibre breads, wraps or rolls.

Recipe

  • Feature a recipe in your end of aisle display. You can arrange the recipe ingredients nearby to assist customers.

Fact sheet

On the go lunch and snacks

Products suitable for this display

  • Ready to eat meals
    • Use products with a health star rating of 4 or more.
  • Fruit tubs
    • Choose fruit tubs that contain juice and not syrup.
  • Dried fruit
    • Use varieties that have 40g portions or less, and no added sugar or confectionary.
  • Nuts
    • Choose unsalted, raw varieties.
  • Rice cups
    • Use whole grain or low GI varieties such as brown rice or basmati rice.
  • Muesli bars
    • Use products with a health star rating of 4 or more, with no added confectionary.
  • Biscuits and crackers
    • Use products with a health star rating of 4 or more, with no added confectionary.
  • Canned fish
    • Choose products that are canned in spring water or olive oil.

Recipe

  • Feature a recipe in your end of aisle display. You can arrange the recipe ingredients nearby to assist customers.

Fact sheet

  • Share a fact sheet with your customers.
Winter warmers

Products suitable for this display

  • Canned soups
    • Use products with a health star rating of 4 or more.
  • Dried or canned legumes (lentils, beans, peas)
    • Use unflavoured varieties.
  • Stock
    • Use salt reduced varieties.
  • Tinned tomatoes, passata and tomato paste
    • Use no-added-salt varieties.
  • Pasta, cous cous and noodles
    • Use wholegrain or high-fibre varieties.
  • Rice
    • Use whole grain or low GI varieties such as brown rice or basmati rice.

Recipe

  • Feature a recipe in your end of aisle display. You can arrange the recipe ingredients nearby to assist customers.

Fact sheet

Contact

To contact the Healthier Choices Canberra team, email healthierchoicescanberra@act.gov.au.