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As you would know I am the low fat queen and firmly believe that having a low fat diet balanced with moderate calories and exercise are the answers to successful weight loss and good health. I have used many techniques to reduce the fats in many of our favourite recipes such as evaporated light milk and coconut essence instead of coconut milk, using apple sauce and bi carb soda in cakes and muffins instead of butter and oil and cooking spray to cook with are but a few ideas I created many years ago whilst experimenting in the kitchen.

Having a low fat diet is ideal for those who are interested in weightloss and good health. Having said this it is really important to make sure you get an adequate amount of fats in your diet otherwise your skin will become dry and flaky. You may also find that your hair can become brittle and break easily and another side affect of not having enough fats in your diet is being constipated.

The most important thing to focus on is reducing the saturated fats in your diet. The good fats such as avocado, nuts and vegetable oils are a good inclusion to your eating regime but animal fats need to be closely monitored such as butter, hard and soft cheeses, palm and coconut oil and red meat. These all have a high percentage of saturated fat.

One of the worst types of fats that are used in many commercial products such as biscuits is Trans Fats. The good news is that in all my recipes you have the total fat and saturated fats listed separately so you can see how amazingly low fat my recipes are.

Here are some tips to reduce the bad fats in your diet:

1)    Reduce or omit the amount of butter you consume or better still replace with monounsaturated or polyunsaturated margarine.

2)    Have reduced fat or skim milk instead of full fat milk. Only children under 2 need full cream milk.

3)    Fish is a great protein and very low in saturated fat so have at least 2-3 serves a week.

4)    Trim as much fat off meat as possible. Go for the heart smart choices in your supermarket.

5)    Forget dripping and lard in cooking, instead use sunflower oil for cooking and virgin olive oil for dressings.

6)    Spread avocado on sandwiches instead of butter.

7)    A handful of nuts are a great way to include healthy fats into your diet.

8)    Avoid donuts, croissants and pastries as they are very high in saturated fats.

9)    Use low fat margarines for anything that you would use butter for; and finally

10) Read the nutritional information on products to find out what fats are being used.

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  • Informative and good alternate option tips.

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  • Wish Iiked avacado.

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  • Some very useful and informative facts, thanks =)

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  • Thanks again for sharing; have been using the avocado idea and simply love it. :)

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  • Interesting article with important tips, thanks for sharing.

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  • Really good alternatives to use here

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  • Have come to your article a few times, finally printed it out haha, thanks so much for sharing.

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  • Maybe the low fat queen needs to take on board the new information about fats. How old is this article anyway? For all we know she might not still even promote all these ideas any more!

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  • Its good to differentiate between good and bad fats.

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  • This is getting quite confusing! I just read in another article to remove margarine and use butter.. But here it’s the other way around! Argh!!

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  • Love using avacodo in place of butter.

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  • I pretty much do all these things anyway….go me :)
    Ive learnt that my big issue is portion control :(

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  • I can never remember which one is which after, but thanks, one day it will sink in

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  • Good read thanks for the information

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  • Love your ideas. My kids will not eat margarine on anything.

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  • there is always confusion about the good and bad fats

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  • Very informative. Love avocado on toast. Only problem is like butter with it! Luckily my kids don’t seem to want butter or marg on their toast. We never put butter or marg on sandwiches and love avocado with just about any salad sandwich.

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  • 80 per cent good stuff is a good approach

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  • Aim for 80% good stuff, fresh vegetables, fruit, nuts etc and allow yourself 20% tasty fun stuff and the balance normally works out ok.

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  • I love Annettes articles…you are symply amazing :)

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