Shop Smart.
A smart way of spending your money on food
to balance your diet and your food budget.
About FOODcents
FOODcents aims to teach people how to get value for money and achieve a balanced diet.
The FOODcents model recommends spending money across the food groups in set proportions, spending the most on fruits, vegetables and plain cereal foods.
Spending with FOODcents ensures that most money is spent on the foods we should eat most of and least being spent on the foods we should eat least.
Interested in learning more?
The following organisations in Western Australia run community workshops and/or advisor training on nutrition and food budgeting based on the FOODcents principles.
The Cancer Council WA conducts FOODcents advisor training, available for all health and community professionals. Community FOODcents workshops are available in regional areas and cover healthy eating, food budgeting, cooking and a supermarket tour. Participation is open to all who wish to attend.
Regional workshops can be organised for the following regional centers: Broome, Karratha, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Midland, Bunbury and Albany.
Contact us if you would like to attend a community workshop or advisor training.
The Cancer Council WA and Diabetes WA have been contracted by the Department of Health WA to coordinate the FOODcents program by maintaining resources including this website and coordinating the FOODcents network.
The Australian Red Cross FOODcents Program engages families, adults, young people, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and Cultural and Linguistically Diverse communities. This accessible healthy lifestyle program addresses the risk factors related to the prevention of chronic diseases, in order to assist participants to achieve improved health and wellbeing outcomes. The program can be delivered in groups or individually in a participant’s home.
The program has a health eating, healthy weight and physical activity focus, which still enables participants to learn how to make changes to the way they allocate their food budget to achieve a healthy diet/lifestyle, to save money on their food bill and to increase their economic self-reliance.
Acceptance onto the program is through referral from a health professional or community agency. Participants can also self-refer.
For more information contact Narelle Little on (08) 9225 1984
The Foodbank WA Food Sense ProgramTM (FBWAFSP) is a practical food budgeting program which has been developed for Foodbank WA’s extensive school and community networks. The program supplements the WA Department of Health FOODcents nutrition budgeting program with cooking and taste education, and aims to increase knowledge, skills and the intention to purchase, prepare and consume a variety of nutritionally preferable foods. The program covers a range of food related topics including basic nutrition principles, food budgeting, cost/taste discernment, cooking facilities and skills as well as food sourcing. The program provides pictorial resources that can be used by a variety of groups in the WA community, and also advocates for the development of school and community gardens and community kitchens. For more information about the Foodbank WA Food Sense Program follow the Nutrition link at the School Breakfast Program Website .
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