Holding onto New Year's Resolutions

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Feb 1, 2001

Many of you with excellent intensions made a New Year’s Resolution a few weeks ago to eat better, lower your fat content and be heart friendly! I also suspect the many of you have had difficulty following this resolution and might need a little help getting back on track?

Those of us with chronic medical concerns or disabilities really don’t need to add to our already complex lives. Taking on the challenge of low fat cooking without reducing the flavour in our diet can seem like an onerous task. You’d like to be a good gal or guy but really don’t know how to start the ball rolling. Recently I had to take on this challenge myself, as my husband required a diet change due to high cholesterol. Naturally I let my fingers fly to online search engines to come up with some helpful sites that would help us cope with this dietary change in our lifestyle.

My first online stop was a visit to the Looneyspoons.com site. If you are in Canada you might be familiar with this recipe book written by two sisters in Ontario. I’d heard excellent reviews of their two low fat cookbooks (Looneyspoons and Crazy Plates) and decided to see exactly what they had to offer. I was relieved to find a few “test” recipes on their website that my husband could sample. After a few trial meals my hubby was yelling for more and I quickly had to run to the nearest bookstore and grabbed their latest book (Crazy Plates). It’s now a staple recipe book in our household.

After using my Crazy Plates book for a month or so and reading it from stem to stern I felt confident enough to attempt converting some of our own traditional recipes into low fat versions. Again, I turned to the net searching for a site that could give me fat gram values for most common foods. Mike’s Calorie and Fat Gram Chart for 1000 Foods was a happy surprise! You can look up foods sorted alphabetically or by, fat gram content, cholesterol or carbohydrate values. Naturally not all recipes can be converted into low fat delights, but even cutting some of the fat out of your diet is better than not cutting it at all. Discovering how much fat is in that midnight snack of peanut butter toast will soon convert you into discovering a lower fat alternative such as a homemade fruit cup.

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