Healthy Recipes, Healthy Eating Ideas

To get the most from these recipe suggestion please read the explanation below.

We are, quite literally what we eat, all other things being equal expect your diet to make an impact on your overall health. The fat that we eat can broadly be divided into saturated and unsaturated. Saturated fats include; lard, butter, cheese, whole milk as well as the white fat you can see marbled in certain meats and meat products. There is now a well established connection between the long term over-consumption of saturated fat and coronary heart disease. Unsaturated fats are viewed as a healthier alternative to saturated fat, in fact many are seen as health foods in themselves. 

To quote Wikipedia

"Various fats contain different proportions of saturated and unsaturated fat. Examples of foods containing a high proportion of saturated fat include animal fats such as cream, cheese, butter, and ghee; suet, tallow, lard, and fatty meats; as well as certain vegetable products such as coconut oil, cottonseed oil, palm kernel oil, chocolate, and many prepared foods."

When thinking about low fat recipes you're obviously looking to keep saturated fat levels to the bare minimum and ensure that there is a balance of healthy ingredients in the meals as a whole. The recipes we present here are those which can be successfully completed using low levels of saturated fats and ingredients likely to be associated with a balanced diet (fresh fruit and vegetables for example).

In the recommended recipes below always use low fat ingredients where they are available and use the best quality and freshest ingredients possible. You'll find that healthy recipe ideas can deliver food that is good for you and your heart.

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