09099 Reducing your dietary fat calories
07099 Reducing your dietary fat calories
Adding a nice dressing to your summer salad is a matter of picking out a fat free dressing. A few ideas here can save you many unnecessary fat calories.
For example, plain yogurt tastes great in sauces for pasta, and sandwiches. Plain yogurt and tuna makes an excellent tasting sandwich spread. This is certainly better for your heart than mayonnaise. For a snack, bagels and bread are tasty when topped with fat free cream cheese. Pureed cottage cheese offers a nice smooth spread.
Substitute beans as your protein one or two meals a week, this automatically cuts down on the fat content. Add them to your salads, or soups for a healthy change. These are high protein, low fat and the best part is they have no cholesterol.
If you are unable or unwilling to try eating more beans and legumes during the week then use lower fat cuts of meat. Beef sold as select rather than choice or prime is much healthier for your heart.
Buy the extra lean ground beef, or for another taste treat try the ground chicken or turkey. Speaking of chicken and turkey, peel the skin off before or after cooking. This will save you many calories that in most cases aren’t needed in your diet. Another option is to pick up a pound or two of Canadian bacon instead of the regular fat filled bacon.
Fish is excellent as the main course for a meal. Adding a nice dressing to your summer salad is a matter of picking out a fat free dressing. A few ideas here can save you many unnecessary fat calories. Choose salmon, mackerel or herring not only for their lower than normal fat content but because of the high omega-3 fatty acid content. This fat has demonstrated its effectiveness promoting cardiovascular health.
Even meatless products have a place in reducing the fat in your diet. Meatless hotdogs, hamburgers, and even sausage taste all right occasionally. TVP, textured vegetable protein, comes in a variety of flavors that are available in the specialty stores.
A meal is not complete without dessert. Nonetheless, it is at this time when all of your good diet conscious decisions fall flat. There are good tasting options such as fat free frozen yogurt and ice cream, sherbet and sorbet. Put a heap of wild berries on top and you’ve got a dessert made in heaven.
Read the labels on the food before buying it. If it’s high fat move on down the line until something else that is healthier shows up in the next aisle. As the saying goes, become an informed consumer.