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Heart Healthy Recipes
Feel better. Look better. Live longer.
Here’s a handy checklist of food facts that can help put you on the right road to feeling less fatigued, more energized, and more alert.
Low Fat Foods
Limit your consumption of oils, butter, margarine, mayonnaise, salad dressings and peanut butter.
Eat more starches such as grains, beans and root vegetables. These will help fill you up.
Learn to use seasonings such as fat-free, butter-flavored powders and low-fat dressings.
Steer clear of croissants, butter rolls, pastries, doughnuts, biscuits and most dinner yeast rolls.
Check directions on baking mixes and choose those you can adapt to be lower in fat.
Keep a variety of whole-grain cereals on hand, since these are generally low in fat (except for most granolas).
Look for packaged snack foods that are baked rather than fried.
If you must have the taste of margarine or butter on your bread, look for reduced-fat versions and use them in moderation.
Choose items within each food category in this guide that are lowest in fats.
Try fruits, fruit juices, or non-fat yogurt for dessert.
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The Three Types of Fat: Knowing the differences between them – and which foods contain which types – can help you make better choices. Key point: LIMIT SATURATED FATS! Saturated Fat (“The Bad Fat”)
Raises your blood cholesterol more than anything else you eat
Usually solid at room temperature
Found in foods that are made from animal – fatback, lard, whole milk, fatty meats, bacon drippings, shortening, butter, cheese
Also found in the “tropical oils” – palm, palm kernel and coconut oils
Polyunsaturated Fat
When used in place of saturated fat, it may lower both “good” or “healthy” (HDL) and “bad” (LDL) blood cholesterol
Liquid at room temperature
Sources – corn, safflower, sunflower, soybean & sesame oils
Margarine, mayonnaise and salad dressings are high in this type of fat
Monounsaturated Fat
May lower only “bad” (LDL) blood cholesterol when used in place of saturated fat
Liquid at room temperature
Best source is canola oil
Other sources – peanuts, peanut and olive oils
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Heart Healthy Recipe Substitutions
Changing your favorite recipes to be heart healthy can be fun. Experiment with these hints below for ways to lower fat and calories without sacrificing good taste.
Instead of: Use:
Butter, lard, bacon, chicken fat, fatback, & shortening
Margarine or liquid vegetable oil; butter flavored granules; vegetable oil cooking spray
Sour Cream Non-fat plain yogurt or fat free sour cream
1 ounce baking chocolate 3 Tbsp cocoa powder plus 1 Tbsp oil
1 medium egg ¼ C egg substitute or 2 egg whites
Coffee creamers Evaporated skim milk; nonfat dry milk powder
Cream cheese Fat free cream cheese; Neufchatel cheese; in cooking – part-skim, ricotta or cottage cheese
Cream Evaporated skim milk
Here are some helpful pointers about Soluble Fiber:
Sources – oats, oat bran, rice bran, dried beans and peas, oranges, apples, prunes, many vegetables, whole grains & wheat bran
Choose more foods rich in fiber (20-30 grams of fiber a day is recommended).
Fiber can help lower blood cholesterol levels.
Fiber makes you feel full so you may eat less!
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What’s on the menu?
Reading Menus
Confused about how to make lower fat choices when eating out? The table below can help you identify which words on the menu mean “low-fat” and “high sodium.” Looking for this terminology can help you find the healthy choice on your favorite menu.
Low-Fat Low-Fat, but High Sodium High Fat and/or High Cholesterol
Steamed, Roasted, Baked, Broiled, Grilled In Its Own Juice, Garden Fresh
Pickled, Smoked, In cocktail sauce, In broth, In a tomato paste
Buttered , Sautéed, Breaded, Creamed, Au Gratin, Prime, Fried, Scalloped, Béarnaise, Crispy, Pot Pie, Hollandaise, In cream sauce, In cheese sauce, In its own gravy, In butter sauce
The Power of One
When reading a nutrition label, and calculating the amount of calories you’re taking in, be sure you are counting by the serving, not by the plateful or bowlful. There might be a big difference between the two! (For example, some individual size packages of snack foods contain more than one serving – you might be taking in double or even triple what you think you’re eating!
What Is One Serving?
Bread, Cereal, Rice & Pasta 1 slice of bread or ½ a bagel or ½ cup of rice or pasta
Vegetable ½ cup of chopped raw or cooked vegetables or 1 cup of leafy raw vegetables
Milk, Yogurt & Cheese 1 cup of milk, yogurt or pudding or 1-1/2 to 2 oz. of cheese
Fruit 1 piece of medium-sized fruit or ¾ cup of juice or ½ cup of canned fruit or ¼ cup of dried fruit.
Bread, Cereal, Rice & Pasta 1 slice of bread or ½ a bagel or ½ cup of rice or pasta