Your anti-cholesterol menus

When you suffer from cholesterol, you have to relearn how to eat well. Even "on a diet", you can still make good lunches and good dinners! Here are some ideas and suggestions that will allow you to eat (almost) like everyone else, and without depriving yourself! You just have to know how to make the right choices! Find out who are your best allies at the table.

Cholesterol: the foods to favor for your meals

Here are some tips for eating healthy with pleasure!

Breakfast

Rather than	Choose
Coffee and croissant	Coffee and brioche or Coffee and toast + honey or jam
Butter bread	Bread (preferably wholemeal) + vegetable margarine
Cheese	Light cheese, a "light" yogurt

For your snacks

Rather than	Choose
A chocolate or cereal bar	Gingerbread
cookies, chocolate	An Apple

To eat "on the go"

Rather than	Choose
A cheeseburger and fries	A burger-salad
A rillettes, or ham and butter, or gruyère or salami sandwich...	A ham and pickle sandwich (without butter) or a club sandwich with less than 15 g of fat (check the label)
A Croque-monsieur	A ham and mushroom pizza.
A cheese pie	A ham bun au gratin
A puff pastry (or a croissant) with ham or cheese	A slice of country bread (unbuttered) + raw ham + pickles
A milkshake	A fruit salad

As an aperitif and as a table drink

Rather than	Choose
Alcoholic drink	Tomato juice, fruit juice, sparkling water
Appetizers, small canapes, peanuts	Cherry tomatoes, small vegetables
Crackers, crisps, diced cheese	A few olives
Wine	If possible, no more than one glass of wine per meal

Entrance

Rather than	Choose
Varied raw vegetables + mayonnaise or other cold sauces	Mixed raw vegetables (or + vinaigrette) as often as possible Melon
Deli meats: pâté, galantine, pâté en croute, fish terrine, rillettes... Sausage + butter	Raw ham + gherkins or pickles Dried meat + green salad
Radish + butter	Plain radish (or + low-fat garlic and herb cheese)
Terrine or rillettes of fish Puff pastry of fish, seafood	Mussels marinière, natural shrimp Seafood platter
fish in oil	Natural fish, rollmops, fish in white wine
vegetable cream	Vegetable soup
Jelly egg	Lean ham in jelly Hard-boiled egg white + shrimp in jelly
Accompaniment of buttered bread	"Plain" bread (or + light margarine)

For the main course

Rather than	Choose
Fish in sauce, breaded fish	Fish poached, steamed, baked, grilled, if possible 2 to 3 times a week (all fish are recommended, especially those from cold seas: wild salmon, tuna, sardines, etc.)
fish mayonnaise	Fish in jelly
Grilled rib steak	Grilled lean flank steak
Ground beef at 10% or 15% fat	5% fat ground beef or butcher's ground beef
Lamb chops	Leg of lamb
Pork shoulder, roast pork, pork chop	Defatted pork tenderloin, grilled lean pork
Veal chop, veal tenderloins	Roast veal in the tenderloin, veal cutlet
Poultry in sauce	Roasted poultry (do not eat the skin) Poached chicken breast
Fries, hash browns or sautéed potatoes	Steamed new potatoes, plain rice
Pasta with butter, Gruyère	Pasta with tomato coulis, light Gruyère cheese
classic sauerkraut	Fish sauerkraut, sauerkraut + defatted pork knuckle
sausage lentils	Pork tenderloin with lentils
Mutton stew	Sauteed veal with vegetables

At cheese time

Rather than	Choose
classic cheese	Light cheese with less than 30% MG 1 to 2 times a day maximum
40% fat fresh cheese	Fresh cheese with 20% fat (smooth or strained) or lean white cheese
Whole yogurt (plain or with fruit) or classic bifidus yogurt	"Light" yogurt (plain or with fruit) or lean bifidus

For dessert :

Rather than	Choose
An ice cream, a frozen dessert	Fresh fruit at least once a day
A pastry, a crème brûlée, a crème caramel	A fruit sorbet A fresh fruit salad, fruit in syrup or compote