Low Cholesterol Recipe Books?

[Willowman]

I’d be most grateful for recipe book recommendations. Also any good books on how to lower bad cholesterol levels. Recovering from a heart attack and two stents 10 months ago. Aged 58 but recovering ok apart from constantly fiddling with the meds and dosage levels to counter the side effects. Great forum and really helpful. My first post.

[Milkfairy Heart Star]

Hello Willowman

Welcome to the forum.

The BHF website has loads of information including heart healthy recipes.

bhf.org.uk/informationsuppo...

Here is the BHF list of recipe books

giftshop.bhf.org.uk/home-ki...

Heart UK is a charity supporting people aiming to lower their cholesterol blood levels.

heartuk.org.uk/

I hope this helps.

[Willowman in reply to Milkfairy]

Many thanks

[Willowman]

Many thanks

[-007-]

After my heart attack in 2016 I had a cholesterol check and it was 7.3. Around four months later, when I had my 5 stents, it was 2.7.

My wife was wonderful, she spent an hour longer each time she went shopping reading the back of everything for the sat fats (the co-op product is very good for food with less sat fats)

I stopped eating chocolate (maybe one square on a Saturday night). Nothing containing coconut milk.

Changed the oil we cook with to Rice Bran oil (it lowers cholesterol).

No more butter, we now use ProActive with plant sterols.

A handful of almonds, walnuts etc. a day as nibbles.

Skimmed milk from semi-skimmed.

Lamb is now a rarity and beef is very lean and the size of a packet of playing cards not the amount I used to have.

Porridge and Benicol yogurt and milk drinks are a part of my diet now.

You’d think that duck is a fatty meat but take the skin and fat off before cooking and it’s not so bad.

Don’t eat the skin on chicken and even better remove the skin before cooking (unless it’s a whole roast of course, it’s not right to cook a naked chicken).

Recipes are important, of course they are, and you can learn a lot from them but most of us live on a day to day basis eating ordinary food like chicken and chips (only low fat oven chips come into our house now and cooked in a Phillips air fryer, no oil or fat at all).

We use "Lo-Salt" instead of ordinary salt.

Half sugar instead of ordinary sugar.

We make our own bread in a Panasonic bread machine (the best bread maker out there) using a mix of wholemeal and white flour (and a bit of malted seeded flour thrown in) as it’s better for you than white bought from the shops, especially when we use Lo-Salt, half sugar and Bertolli butter (it has olive oil).

What I’m saying is... it’s lifestyle choices that we live with everyday.

Unfortunately for me, even though my cholesterol was very low, ten months after having those 5 stents I had angina pains again.

In 2019 I had a quintuple (5) bypass (my family suffers from hereditary heart disease).

Now my cholesterol is 3.7.

I occasionally have a home made beef burger (with low fat beef, low fat cheese [not too much now] and onions).

Last night I had a home made curry made with Spice Tailor or Holy Cow sauces (check the pack for sats) with chicken and a pilaf rice (mmm lovely).

Being a Friday night, I had a G&T and a couple of glasses of wine (a little more than I should have but hey!)

I’m 67 years old and I live well. It’s all down to lifestyle choices.

Hope this has given food for thought (forgive the pun).

[Qualipop in reply to -007-]

Thank you for that t ip about bread. I have a bread maker sitting unused and do worry about shop bought bread

[-007- in reply to Qualipop]

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[Willowman]

Wow great reply thank you for taking the time to do this.

[-007- in reply to Willowman]

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[5stents]

Have a recipes book "Eat Your Way to Lower Colesterol" by Ian Marber & Dr. Laura Corr in association with the Daily Mail got lots of helpful information and recipes also uses clesterol lowering products.

[Willowman in reply to 5stents]

Thank you

[Lovefrance in reply to Willowman]

Hi. I would definitely recommend the book Eat your way to lower your cholesterol. It is a fantastic book. The recipes are great and lots of advice.Please consider it.

[Willowman in reply to Lovefrance]

Just ordered the book online

[-007-]

Ahah I need to get one of them timelocks. That’s why I stopped eating chocolate, once I start!!! I have the self control of a peanut. I do really enjoy the Saturday treat though.

Some good reading on this subject is on the BHF site...

bhf.org.uk/informationsuppo...

[GavraM]

See the following low-cholesterol meals:

· Fresh Basil and Kalamata Hummus

· Triple-Pepper and White Bean Soup with Rotini

· Taco Salad

· Hearty Fish Chowder

· Chicken Pot Pie with Mashed Potato Topping

· Balsamic Braised Beef with Exotic Mushrooms

· Grilled Pizza with Grilled Vegetables

· Stovetop Scalloped Tomatoes

· Puffed Pancake with Apple-Cranberry Sauce

· Mango Brûlée with Pine Nuts

· Chicken casserole: sweetandsavorymeals.com/che...

[Squiggle2023]

I am looking for the same and hugely disappointed that the book I bought from BHF ‘Heartfelt’ by Pippa Middleton doesn’t show cholesterol levels with her recipes. And unclear on calorie values per portion. Unless I am missing something I am very disappointed that BHF are selling it.