Avoid Or Reduce Saturated Fat

 It is important to limit saturated fat because it raises your LDL (bad) cholesterol levels. Saturated fat is found in animal food like fatty meat, milk, butter and cheese. Vegetables fats that are saturated include palm oil (found in solid cooking fats, snack foods or convenience foods) and coconut products such as coconut milk or cream.

To reduce saturated fat:

•  Choose reduced or low - fat milk, yoghurt, cheese, ice-cream and custard, that is if you cannot avoid any of these

• Choose lean meat and trim any fat off before cooking 

• Remove the skin from chicken, duck and other poultry (where possible, before cooking )

• Avoid using butter, lard, dripping, cream, sour cream, coconut milk, coconut cream and hard cooking margarines.

•Limit pastries, cakes, puddings, chocolate and cream biscuits to special occasions

• Limit prepackaged biscuits savoury packet snacks, cakes, frozen and convenience meals.

• Limit the use of processed deli meat and sausages.

• Avoid pies, sausage rolls and pastries