SALT, FAT AND CHOLESTEROL CONTROLLED DIET

Purpose: The low fat, cholesterol and salt diet is designed to limit the total amount of fat, salt and cholesterol in the diet to reduce serum lipid levels and avoid excessive sodium retention

Use: It is used for persons with elevated serum cholesterol levels or those who are high-risk candidates for heart disease. It is also used for weight management.

General Guidelines

  • Eat less cholesterol (limit egg yolks to not more than 4 per week and meat, fish, poultry to no more than 6 ounces a day)
  • Reduce saturated fat intake (red meat, cheese, whole milk, butter, ice cream, etc)
  • Limit total fat intake to less than 30% of total daily calories.
  • Eat less trans fat (stick margarine, shortening, cakes, pies, French fries, snack chips)
  • Reduce salt intake to less than 2500 mg per day (canned and dried soups, fast foods, frozen dinners, pizza, processed meats and cheese)
  • Recommend 20-35 grams of dietary fiber per day from a wide variety of foods.
  • Eat more fruits, vegetables, beans, whole grain breads, and cereals.
  • Maintain a healthy weight
  • Exercise at least 30 minutes on most days (brisk walking, aerobics, biking, etc)

                                            Meal Planning Guidelines

FOODS ALLOWED FOODS TO LIMIT
MILK & DAIRY 2-3 servings each day

Nonfat Dry Milk Powder

Skim Milk (Nonfat Milk)

NuSkim

Light Milk, 1/2%, or 1%

Chocolate Milk, 1% or 1/2%

Yogurt, Plain or Flavored, Nonfat or Low fat

Yogurt, Fruit Varieties, Nonfat or Low fat

Evaporated Skim Milk

Cottage cheese (1% or 2%), low fat cheeses (labeled 2-6 grams of fat/ounce): skim milk mozzarella, skim milk Swiss cheese, and skim milk ricotta

MILK & DAIRY

Whole or 2% milk (regular, evaporated, condensed, chocolate), buttermilk, cream, half and half, most non-dairy creamers, whipped toppings, whole milk yogurt

Whole milk cottage cheese (4% fat), cream cheese, sour cream, high fat and sodium cheeses:

Whole milk cheddar, Swiss, Monterey Jack, Camembert, American, Brie, mozzarella, fete, Muenster, Neufchatel. Gorgonzola, Roquefort

Cheese spreads

FRUIT & VEGETABLES 5-9 servings each day

Fresh, frozen, canned or dried fruits and vegetables

Low sodium vegetable juices and low sodium canned vegetables

Fruit juices, especially purple grape juice

No added salt tomato products

Avocado

FRUIT & VEGETABLES

Coconut, sauerkraut, vegetables prepared in butter, cream, cheese, or high fat sauce

BREADS & GRAINS 6-11 servings each day

Breads: white, whole wheat, pumpernickel, rye, and pita

Bagels, tortillas, English muffins, sandwich buns, and dinner rolls

Hot cereals, most dry cereals, pasta, barley, bulgur, brown and white rice

Low fat, low salt crackers, graham crackers, matzo, bread sticks, rice cakes, rye crisps, soda crackers, zwieback; unsalted pretzels, popcorn

Homemade baked goods using unsaturated oils sparingly

BREADS & GRAINS

Breads, crackers, rolls with salted tops; commercially baked goods: pies, cakes, donuts, croissants, pastries, muffins, biscuits

Most snack crackers like cheese or butter crackers or those made with saturated fat; salted popcorn, pretzels, or chips; granola cereals made with saturated fats

Pasta and rice prepared with cream, butter, or cheese sauce, egg noodles; stuffing mixes, rice mixes, pasta mixes, prepared dinners

MEATS & MEAT SUBSTITUTES 2-3 servings or total of 6 oz daily

Any meat, poultry or fish that is not fried or cooked with salt or seasonings containing salt

Beef

Chuck: arm, shoulder, pot roast

Filet mignon

Ground beef (95% lean)

Loin: porterhouse steak, top loin steak

Loin: sirloin steak, T-bone steak, tenderloin

Rib: rib eye steak, rib eye roast

Round: roast, steak, tip roast

Round: Top, bottom or eye round roast (Select)

Veal: cutlet, loin chop, rib roast

Fish

All fresh or frozen fish: canned tuna and salmon (low sodium fresh water packed), Scallops, Shrimp, lobster, flatfish, flounder, crab, clams

Rainbow trout, salmon, sardines, haddock, halibut, red snapper, swordfish, sole, sturgeon,

Mussels, oysters, cod, perch, pike, crayfish

Lamb: Foreshank, braised leg, shank or

sirloin half loin, whole, broiled

Pork

Loin, tenderloin, center loin cuts

Shank or Rump Half

 

 

Poultry (light meat is leaner than dark meat)

Turkey

Turkey, breast, wing, leg (for fryers and roasters-hens and toms may be twice as fatty)

Turkey store extra lean ground breast

Chicken

Chicken, drumstick, breast

Duck, roasted (flesh only)

Cornish game hen, quail, pheasant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Organ Meats

Limit to 3 oz. per month

Eggs

Egg whites, cholesterol-free egg substitute; limit egg yolks to 3 per week

Game

Rabbit, venison, buffalo meat

MEATS & MEAT SUBSTITUTES 2-3 servings or total of 6 oz daily

Any meat, poultry or fish that is fried or cooked with salt or seasonings containing salt

Beef

Regular ground round, brisket, ribs, prime rib Fried or fatty meats

 

 

 

 

 

 

Veal: Veal cutlet

Fish

Fried, dried, canned, or smoked fish such as canned tuna and salmon, sardines, anchovies, caviar, salted cod, herring, sardines, lox, kippered salmon.

 

 

 

 

Pork

Pork rinds

Ham, sausage, bacon, jowls, fat back, salt pork, cured pork, pork rinds, pickled pigs feet

Chitterlings

Loin, Blade

Poultry

Cured, salted, canned or smoked poultry

Duck, Roasted, (flesh and skin)

Goose, Roasted, (flesh and skin)

Poultry packed in broth

Processed meats:

Frozen dinners

Cured, salted, canned or smoked meats processed meats such as:

Headcheese

Pate

Frankfurter, turkey, chicken, beef or pork

Corned beef

Bacon

Luncheon meats such as bologna and salami

Chorizo (Mexican sausage)

Beef jerky

Link Sausage

Pepperoni

Braunschweiger, liverwurst, bratwurst

Kielbasa, Pastrami (Beef)

Caviar

Roe

Regular canned or corned beef

Organ Meats

Liver, kidney, sweetbread, brain (More than 3 oz. per month)

Eggs

More than 3 egg yolks per week

Nuts & Beans

Dried beans and peas, lentils and tofu

Low sodium peanut butter

Soups

Homemade cream or meat broth soups made without salt or high fat milk products

Nuts & Beans

Canned beans, peas and lentils

Regular peanut butter

Salted nuts

Soups

Regular canned soups, stews, or bouillon cubes, cream soups made with whole milk, cream, or half-and-half and salt

Dried soups

FATS & SNACKS (use sparingly)

Unsaturated vegetable oils: corn, olive, peanut, canola, safflower, sesame, soybean

Margarine or shortenings, non stick or tub (with unsaturated vegetable oils as the first ingredient)

Salad dressings, low sodium and low fat or fat-free

Cream cheese, low fat or fat free

Mayonnaise, low fat, low cholesterol, or fat-free

Imitation sour cream

Poly rich® non-dairy creamer

Baking cocoa

Cakes, cookies, or pies made with small amounts of unsaturated oils. Low fat frozen desserts such as ice milk, sherbet, sorbet, frozen fruit bars, fruit ice, frozen yogurt, Popsicles, fruit bars, and Fudgsicles;®

Low fat cakes such as angel food cake or other varieties

Low fat cookies such as fig bars, vanilla wafers, molasses cookies, animal crackers, gingersnaps

Low fat candy such as jelly beans, gum drops, candy corn, gummy bears, marshmallows, Good & Plenty, cotton candy, hard candies, peppermint sticks, Candy cane, fruit rolls, lollipops, candied and glace' fruits, licorice, fruit chews

Unsalted low fat snacks such as plain popcorn and pretzels (soft or hard)

FATS & SNACKS (use sparingly)

Butter, coconut and palm oils, lard, bacon fat

Margarine or shortenings made with saturated fat listed above.

Dressings made with egg yolk, coconut, or chocolate

Nondairy cream substitutes

Coffee whitener/cream substitute

Cream (light, cream, or table)

Sour cream, cream cheese, whipping cream

Regular salad dressings (sour cream base, French,

Ranch, blue cheese, cheese based dressings)

Salad dressing mixes

High fat frozen desserts such as ice cream, frozen tofu or custard, most store bought cakes, and cookies, candy, chocolate bars

Potato and corn chips prepared with saturated fat, buttered or cheese popcorn, prepackaged microwave popcorn

MISC.

Non-fat beverages like carbonated drinks, water, juices, tea, and coffee; lemonade, Kool-Aid, punch

Sugar, syrup, honey, jam, preserves or marmalade; low sodium mustard, low sodium catsup, low sodium soy sauce; vinegar, cooking wine, cream of tartar, yeast, low sodium herbs and spices

MISC.

High fat beverages such as frappes, milk shakes, floats, and eggnog

Marinade sauce

All commercially prepared and convenience foods such as TV dinners, box mixes, canned entrees, Hamburger Helper, meat pies, Chinese diners, pizza, Shake’n Bake mixes

Party spreads

Pickles

Relish

LABEL INGREDIENTS

Carob

Cocoa

Oils, like corn, cottonseed, olive,

Safflower, sesame, soybean, or sunflower

Nonfat dry milk, nonfat dry milk solids, skim milk

High fructose corn syrup

LABEL INGREDIENTS

Animal fat, like bacon, beef, ham, lamb,

Butter, lard

Chocolate

Cocoa butter

Coconut, coconut oil, palm kernel or palm oil

Cream

Egg and egg-yolk solids

Hardened fat or oil

Hydrogenated vegetable oil

Meat, pork, chicken or turkey fats,

Shortening or vegetable shortening

Unspecified vegetable oil (could be coconut, coconut oil, palm kernel or palm oil)

Monosodium Glutamate

Sodium Benzoate

Sodium Caseinate

Sodium Citrate

Sodium Nitrate

Sodium Phosphate

Sodium Propionate

Sodium Saccharin

  CONDIMENTS

Accent

Alka-Seltzer

BBQ sauce

Catsup

Celery salt

Chili sauce

Garlic salt

Horseradish

Kitchen Bouquet

Lemon pepper

Meat tenderizers

Onion salt

Regular ketchup

Regular mustard

Salt

Seasoning salts

Soy sauce

Steak sauce

Tartar sauce

Teriyaki sauce

Worcestershire sauce