Heart Disease
Proper Eating
Plan healthy and enjoyable meals
The following information will help remind you to plan healthy and enjoyable meals.
This diet should be discussed with your physician to be sure it is right for you.
| Eat Plenty | Eat Occasionally | Eat Rarely | |
| Vegetables | Fresh and frozen vegetables, including boiled and jacket potatoes. All sorts of beans, lentils, and chick peas. |
Chips or roast potatoes cooked in polyunsaturated oil*. | Chips or roast potatoes cooked in solid fat. Oven chips and crisps. |
| Dairy Foods | Cottage cheese, skimmed milk, soft cheese, curd cheese, very low-fat yogurt. | Half-fat cheese (20-40% fat), eggs (3 a week). Low-fat yogurt. |
Full-fat cheese, cream cheese, cheese spread. Full-fat yogurt, cream, condensed or evaporated milk. |
| Meat | Chicken, turkey, veal, rabbit, game. | Lean beef, bacon, pork, lamb, lean mincemeat, liver. | Streaky bacon, breast of lamb, sausages, salami, duck, goose, meat pies and pastries, skin on poultry. |
| Fish | Unfried fish. | Fish fried in vegetable oil,* oysters, mussels, scampi, lobster. | Fish roe, fish fried in hard fat (such as butter or lard). |
| Fruit | Fresh, tinned, unsweetened, and dried fruit. | Avocado, pears, fruit in syrup, crystallized fruit. | |
| Bread, pastries and cakes. | Whole meal bread, crisp breads. | White bread, plain semi-sweet biscuits. |
Croissants, digestive biscuits, savory biscuits, dumplings. |
| Pasta, rice, and cereals | Whole grain rice and pasta. | White rice and pasta. | |
| Soups | Clear and homemade vegetable soups. | Packet soups. | Cream soups. |
| Desserts | Low-fat desserts (such as jelly, sorbets, skimmed milk puddings). |
Cakes, pastry and pudding made with polyunsaturated margarine. Low-fat ice cream. | Shop-bought cakes, puddings and sauces. Sweet puddings, butter and cream sauces. Dairy ice cream. |
| Sweet things | Sugar-free sweeteners. | Jam, marmalade, peanut butter, marzipan, lemon curd. Mincemeat, chocolate in any form, toffee, fudge, butterscotch and coconut bars. | |
| Sauces and dressings | Low-fat salad dressings. | Bottled sauces, French dressing, ordinary salad cream, mayonnaise, soy sauce. | Cream-cheese dressings. |
* Includes fats and oils used in food preparation, also salad dressings and nuts
