Every day ways to cut back on fat

The amount of fat you eat will vary from day to day. Some meals and some days will be higher in fat. That's okay. Even high fat meals can be in keeping with healthy eating as long as you balance higher fat meals or days with some lower fat meals or days.

It is the average intake of fat over the course of weeks and months that is important, not the fat content of every food and meal you eat.

Ways to Cut Fat

Scenario: You drink 1 glass of whole/homo milk a day.
Action: Switch to 1% milk and cut out 6g of fat.

Scenario: When you make a sandwich you butter or spread margarine lightly on the bread and use mayonnaise with the filling as well.
Action: Omit the butter on the sandwich and cut out 4g of fat (1 tsp. of butter/margarine). Use light mayonnaise, instead or regular mayonnaise and cut out an additional 6g of fat.

Scenario: You buy lean meat but you like a generous portion......about 6oz of cooked meat for dinner.
Action: Reduce the portion size to the recommended 3 oz and cut out about 9g of fat for beef, pork and lamb and 5g of fat for poultry.

Scenario: You only drink 2 cups of coffee a day but you like double cream in both.
Action: Switch to 2% milk and cut out about 6g of fat. Think about what this means if you drink more than 2 cups of coffee!

Scenario: Everyone at your house loves pizza and you order one in once a week.
Action: Choose a vegetarian pizza with single cheese instead of pizza with the "works" and extra cheese, and cut out 13g of fat for every 2 slices.

Scenario: You like a croissant sandwich for lunch.
Action: Choose almost any other bun and cut out at least 9g of fat!

Info adapted from Healthy Eating by the Canadian Cancer Society