When baking, it is possible to remove the butter too, by adding mashed banana, or pureed prunes, or you could use apple sauce. This does two things. It reduces your fat intake, but it also adds more fruit to your diet, and that can only be good! By reducing fat, you will also be reducing your blood cholesterol level too.
If your recipe calls for cottage cheese, or cream cheese, try to use the non-fat varieties, and the same applies to sour cream. In fact you could try using non-fat cottage cheese, or non-fat yogurt in place of cream or sour cream, and reduce your milk to skim or 1 percent milk instead of whole milk or 2 percent milk. You may get some arguments from your family for doing this, but just weather the storm, and they will soon get used to it. Either that, or they have to do the food shopping themselves!
If you are sauteing vegetables, you could use other liquids, even instead of olive oil. For example you could use defatted broth to cook foods in, or even a little cooking sherry.
When buying cheeses, look for the lower fat ones, preferably those that have less than 20 per cent milk fat. This is written on the food label, and is something that you need to get used to checking when you are grocery shopping.
When you are preparing meats and poultry, remove as much of the fat as you can. Animal fat is very bad for your cholesterol levels, so remove the skin from poultry too, as this is high fat. If you remove the fat before cooking, there will be less fat in the meal, but you can always reduce the fat intake gradually, by removing the animal fat just before serving for a few meals, and then before even cooking after that. Your family might not even notice a difference, but you will be helping their cholesterol levels.
Use more legumes like dried peas, beans and lentils in your cooking. These can make nutritious healthy soups, but you may find that the legumes give you a lot of gas. I found a method of reducing this, thanks to the Mayo Clinic, by between 75 to 90%. You just place one pound of beans into a stock pot containing at least 10 cups of boiling water, and boil them for 2 or 3 minutes. Then remove from the heat, and cover the pot tightly, and set aside overnight. The next day remove the liquid from the beans as this will have 75-90% of the indigestible sugars dissolved into it, and it is this which causes most of the gas. Then cook the beans as you normally would, remembering that they do take a while before they become soft enough to eat.
So there you have it, a few hints and tips about low cholesterol recipes, which hopefully you can put to use, while lowering your cholesterol and avoiding heart problems.
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