Fatty & Sugary Foods, how to reduce your intake

• Offer spreads made from monounsaturated fats such as olive, vegetable or rapeseed oil as an alternative to butter.
• Promote diet or reduced sugar drinks or better still offer fresh fruit juice as an alternative to full sugar fizzy drinks.
• Provide artificial sweeteners as well as sugar for tea and coffee, these are usually much lower in calories.
• Try whipping ricotta cheese or low fat cream cheese with vanilla or fruit purees to replace whipped cream.

Hints, Tips and Ideas..

• Try filo pastry instead of high saturated fat options like short crust or puff.
• If you do use a pastry higher in saturated fat then only pastry the top of the rather than top and bottom.
• As an alternative to pastry try using pancakes or crepes (made with a mix of wholemeal and white flour) or use mashed potato/sweet potato/pumpkin or vegetables as an unusual pie crust.
• When making pizzas try using a wholemeal crust. Use lots of vegetable toppings such as tomatoes, spring onion, mushrooms, pepper and sweetcorn. Use small amounts of reduced fat cheese finely grated or small amounts of very strongly flavoured cheese such as parmesan.
• Limit ingredients high in saturated fat such as salami and pepperoni, use lean ham, beef and chicken or seafood instead.