Nutrition

Easy Ways to Reduce Your Fat Intake

These simple steps can help you cut down on fat.

Replace half and half for your coffee with a nonfat half-and-half creamer.
If you use butter or margarine, spread it more thinly on your bread, and buy lower fat or polyunsaturated products.
If you eat ice cream, switch to a low-fat yogurt dessert or some other lower-fat frozen alternative.
Make your own salad dressing out of olive oil or sunflower oil. Cut back on the amount of oil in your homemade dressing by adding more vinegar instead. Try rice vinegar, which has a lighter flavor than many types of vinegar.
Eat more foods that are steamed, baked or raw. And stay away from fried foods as much as possible.
Be careful in choosing snack foods. Even some that tout themselves as healthy are loaded with fat.
When you cook, try to add as little fat as possible. For instance, if you need to fry onions in oil, use the smallest amount of olive oil or other high quality oil possible.
Eat fresh fruits when you need a pick-me-up instead of a candy bar or cookie.
Make more vegetarian or mostly vegetable meals.
Be creative and cook with spices to add flavor, rather than relying on cooking methods such as frying. Use basil, ginger, turmeric, mustard seeds, sesame seeds, cinnamon and nutmeg.