Leftovers & Lunches

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Posted on June 18, 2012
One of the big challenges of eating a low or no cholesterol diet is what you eat for lunch (assuming your main meal is in the evening). Sandwiches and snacks that you can buy easily on the high street or in supermarkets are often hideously unhealthy - fast food burgers and deep fried chicken out are terrible for you - and even seemingly innocent salads are bad for you when you start looking at labels about saturated fats contained in their dressings etc. The answer may be to have an apple in your handbag at any given moment - but in case you don't use a handbag, or you do but it doesn't contain an apple...

Lunches

  • Yesterday’s supper
  • Toast with Tuna
  • Low Fat Salads

Lots of the food featured on this blog is great cold the next day as leftovers: Roasted Potatoes, Roasted Peppers (these are really good on toast with a drizzle of olive oil), Bean Salad, Chickpea Fritters (great with chilli sauce), BBQ Onions and Flatbread (with yoghurt), Pizza and loads more…

Equally – there is some good low or no-cholesterol mileage to be had from tins of tuna (mixed with 0% greek yoghurt, some chopped red onion and herbs, a big squeeze of lime or lemon juice and some salt & pepper – on toast – delicious)

Cheese is most definitely off the menu if you are watching your cholesterol – but at some big supermarkets you can buy Extra Light Philadelphia and this, used in much moderation, is pretty good with apricot jam on some toast (homemade bread is definitely best)

Seafood in general is quite high in cholesterol – but as a treat, prawn and salad open sandwiches are good with a dollop of the omnipresent 0% greek yoghurt.  I work on the basis that foods containing natural cholesterol are better than processed ones if you are going to eat them

If you are out and about, and you have no geeky tupperware with any of the above in your bag (and you are near a high street) – M&S do a reasonably good salad with less than 7% of your daily saturated fat in it….

 

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