No Cholesterol Diet

My husband has been in the hospital for the last week, when he is released
he will be required to go on a NO Cholesterol Diet and low fat. I'll meet
w/ the dietitian about 2 wk after he gets home so until then I'm pretty much
on my own.
I'm looking for no cholesterol and low fat main dishes. (something filling,
not just apples and carrot stix)
Any help would be greatly appreciated, he almost died this week and I really
would rather that never happen again, well at least not for the next 70
years or so 🙂
Thanks,
~Kat

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jmcquown said:

Kat said:

My husband has been in the hospital for the last week, when he is
released he will be required to go on a NO Cholesterol Diet and low
fat. I'll meet w/ the dietitian about 2 wk after he gets home so
until then I'm pretty much on my own.
I'm looking for no cholesterol and low fat main dishes. (something
filling, not just apples and carrot stix)
Any help would be greatly appreciated, he almost died this week and I
really would rather that never happen again, well at least not for
the next 70 years or so 🙂
Thanks,
~Kat

I'd be meeting with the dietitian before he gets out of hospital. IMHO it's
not possible to have absolutely NO cholesterol just as it is not possible to
have NO fat and NO carbs. Everything you can possibly eat has a little bit
of this stuff.

Cholesterol is an animal product, Jill -- vegetable and fruit products
may have saturated fat but they don't have cholesterol.
--
http://www.jamlady.eboard.com, updated 10-20-05 with a note from Niece Jo.

In article <[email hidden]>,

jmcquown said:

Kat said:

My husband has been in the hospital for the last week, when he is
released he will be required to go on a NO Cholesterol Diet and low

(snip)

Quoted message said:

I assume he'll be on medication? There will be things he isn't supposed to
eat which may interact with the medication. One would think broccoli and
spinach would be a good, healthy choice but my mom was on Kumadin and
couldn't eat broccoli or spinach. She's now off Kumadin and can eat those
beloved foods again. Talk with the doctor. He should know as well as the
dietitian.

That Coumadin and Vitamin K/green leafy vegetables thing is interesting.
A good friend had a stroke before her time and is on a blood thinner and
has information that one can have those salads and spinach but one must
have it regularly - the blood thinner dosage can be adjusted to take it
into account. I'd want more info from my own dietitian before messing
with instructions, though. It requires careful monitoring.
--
http://www.jamlady.eboard.com, updated 10-20-05 with a note from Niece Jo.

In article <[email hidden]>,

Kat said:

My husband has been in the hospital for the last week, when he is released
he will be required to go on a NO Cholesterol Diet and low fat. I'll meet
w/ the dietitian about 2 wk after he gets home so until then I'm pretty much
on my own.
I'm looking for no cholesterol and low fat main dishes. (something filling,
not just apples and carrot stix)
Any help would be greatly appreciated, he almost died this week and I really
would rather that never happen again, well at least not for the next 70
years or so 🙂
Thanks,
~Kat

Low fat fishes such as tuna are good, whitefish, cod... You could
probably google more.

I've learned recently that there are a LOT of ways to cook chicken
breast (boneless/skinless) and make it tasty.

There is an entire world of fresh veggies that can be steamed and
flavored with herbs and spices, as well as soy sauce and fat free salad
dressings.

Don't worry, there will be a lot more that he CAN eat than he can't! You
just have to get creative and it's a whole new way of looking at
cooking...

I've been following a low carb, low fat diet for awhile to get off of
the weight loss stall I've been on. It's not as hard as I thought.

Look at books by Lyle McDonald. He has some good ideas in his crash
dieting book.

Cheers!
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

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jmcquown said:

Melba's Jammin said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

(snippage)

Quoted message said:

Mom was told absolutely NO spinach, no broccoli, nothing rich in Niacin when

(snip)

Quoted message said:

OB Food: her favourite soup courtesy of Mrs. Sam Stafford of Charleston, SC.

She-Crab Soup

2 Tbs. butter
2 Tbs. flour
1 quart whole milk
2 c. blue crab meat plus roe (you may use canned crab)
dash Worcestershire sauce
salt to taste
1/2 tsp. pepper
1/2 tsp. mace
1/2 tsp. onion powder
1/3 c. dry sherry
1 c. whole cream, whipped

Melt butter and blend with flour until smooth. Add milk and whisk until
smooth. Add crab, roe, Worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper, onion and garlic
powder. Cook over very low heat about 30 minutes. Add the sherry. Remove
from heat and blend in the fresh whipped cream just before serving. Garnish
with freshly chopped parsley. Serves 4-6

Jill

Swell recipe for a NO-CHOLESTEROL diet (and thread), Jillsie. Dufus.
--
http://www.jamlady.eboard.com, updated 10-20-05 with a note from Niece Jo.

Kat said:

My husband has been in the hospital for the last week, when he is
released he will be required to go on a NO Cholesterol Diet and low
fat. I'll meet w/ the dietitian about 2 wk after he gets home so
until then I'm pretty much on my own.
I'm looking for no cholesterol and low fat main dishes. (something
filling, not just apples and carrot stix)
Any help would be greatly appreciated, he almost died this week and I
really would rather that never happen again, well at least not for
the next 70 years or so 🙂
Thanks,
~Kat

I'd be meeting with the dietitian before he gets out of hospital. IMHO it's
not possible to have absolutely NO cholesterol just as it is not possible to
have NO fat and NO carbs. Everything you can possibly eat has a little bit
of this stuff.

I assume he'll be on medication? There will be things he isn't supposed to
eat which may interact with the medication. One would think broccoli and
spinach would be a good, healthy choice but my mom was on Kumadin and
couldn't eat broccoli or spinach. She's now off Kumadin and can eat those
beloved foods again. Talk with the doctor. He should know as well as the
dietitian.

Mom ate lots of braised chicken breasts when she was put on a
low-cholesterol diet. I learned to cook with wine to add some flavour to
boneless, skinless breasts. Lean cuts of beef braised in wine... learn to
use herbs, garlic, etc.

http://www.dietitian.com/

Jill

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I'd be meeting with the dietitian before he gets out of hospital.

Finding a dietitian in a hospital on a Sunday is like finding a priest in a
brothel, they are there but hiding. 😉

Melba's Jammin said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

jmcquown said:

Kat said:

My husband has been in the hospital for the last week, when he is
released he will be required to go on a NO Cholesterol Diet and low
(snip)

I assume he'll be on medication? There will be things he isn't
supposed to eat which may interact with the medication. One would
think broccoli and spinach would be a good, healthy choice but my
mom was on Kumadin and couldn't eat broccoli or spinach. She's now
off Kumadin and can eat those beloved foods again. Talk with the
doctor. He should know as well as the dietitian.

That Coumadin and Vitamin K/green leafy vegetables thing is
interesting.
A good friend had a stroke before her time and is on a blood thinner
and
has information that one can have those salads and spinach but one
must
have it regularly - the blood thinner dosage can be adjusted to take
it
into account. I'd want more info from my own dietitian before messing
with instructions, though. It requires careful monitoring.

Mom was told absolutely NO spinach, no broccoli, nothing rich in Niacin when
she was taking blood thinners (Kumadin). They were about to take her foot
off due to cholesterol blockages in her leg. She had laser surgery in 1988
which cleared the cholesterol blockage.

Last year she had a clot removed from her carotid artery; they were very
worried about the laser surgery breaking up the clot and sending pieces of
it up into her brain (thus causing a stroke). Fortunuately the surgery went
well and she is now more healthy than I am. Mom is going to be 80 in
January.

OB Food: her favourite soup courtesy of Mrs. Sam Stafford of Charleston, SC.

She-Crab Soup

2 Tbs. butter
2 Tbs. flour
1 quart whole milk
2 c. blue crab meat plus roe (you may use canned crab)
dash Worcestershire sauce
salt to taste
1/2 tsp. pepper
1/2 tsp. mace
1/2 tsp. onion powder
1/3 c. dry sherry
1 c. whole cream, whipped

Melt butter and blend with flour until smooth. Add milk and whisk until
smooth. Add crab, roe, Worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper, onion and garlic
powder. Cook over very low heat about 30 minutes. Add the sherry. Remove
from heat and blend in the fresh whipped cream just before serving. Garnish
with freshly chopped parsley. Serves 4-6

Jill

"Kat" <[email hidden]> looking for trouble wrote in
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Quoted message said:

My husband has been in the hospital for the last week, when he is
released he will be required to go on a NO Cholesterol Diet and low
fat. I'll meet w/ the dietitian about 2 wk after he gets home so
until then I'm pretty much on my own.
I'm looking for no cholesterol and low fat main dishes. (something
filling, not just apples and carrot stix)
Any help would be greatly appreciated, he almost died this week and I
really would rather that never happen again, well at least not for the
next 70 years or so 🙂
Thanks,
~Kat

Kat, in the first place a "no cholesterol" diet is impossible for me. I
have CAD and have high chilesterol. I control it by a *lower* in fat diet,
medication and exercise. Talk to you dietition. They should be much more
help. I mean, a can of tuna in water is low fat but contains some
cholesterol. Unfortunately I also have to practice a low carb diet to help
control diabetes II. I thought I was going to have to eat air when I was
first diagnosed with the diabetes. The dietitian really helped me and I
have discovered one has to be reasonable when undertaking this type of
lifestyle.

Another thing is; your husband will rebel if you become too militant over
his diet. I would say lots of lean meats would be in order and pastas would
be okay. There is a ton of help to be found on the 'Net. Just Google it up.
You did not say what your husband's condition is or maybe I could be more
help.

Michael

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They were about to take her foot

Quoted message said:

off due to cholesterol blockages in her leg. She had laser surgery in
1988
which cleared the cholesterol blockage.

Last year she had a clot removed from her carotid artery; they were very
worried about the laser surgery breaking up the clot and sending pieces of
it up into her brain (thus causing a stroke). Fortunuately the surgery
went
well and she is now more healthy than I am. Mom is going to be 80 in
January.

OB Food: her favourite soup courtesy of Mrs. Sam Stafford of Charleston,
SC.

She-Crab Soup

2 Tbs. butter
2 Tbs. flour
1 quart whole milk
2 c. blue crab meat plus roe (you may use canned crab)
dash Worcestershire sauce
salt to taste
1/2 tsp. pepper
1/2 tsp. mace
1/2 tsp. onion powder
1/3 c. dry sherry
1 c. whole cream, whipped

Melt butter and blend with flour until smooth. Add milk and whisk until
smooth. Add crab, roe, Worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper, onion and
garlic
powder. Cook over very low heat about 30 minutes. Add the sherry.
Remove
from heat and blend in the fresh whipped cream just before serving.
Garnish
with freshly chopped parsley. Serves 4-6

Jill

hello .. no woder she had Cholesterol problems.

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Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

jmcquown said:

Kat said:

My husband has been in the hospital for the last week, when he is
released he will be required to go on a NO Cholesterol Diet and low

(snip)

Quoted message said:

I assume he'll be on medication? There will be things he isn't
supposed to eat which may interact with the medication. One would
think broccoli and spinach would be a good, healthy choice but my mom
was on Kumadin and couldn't eat broccoli or spinach. She's now off
Kumadin and can eat those beloved foods again. Talk with the doctor.
He should know as well as the dietitian.

That Coumadin and Vitamin K/green leafy vegetables thing is
interesting. A good friend had a stroke before her time and is on a
blood thinner and has information that one can have those salads and
spinach but one must have it regularly - the blood thinner dosage can
be adjusted to take it into account. I'd want more info from my own
dietitian before messing with instructions, though. It requires
careful monitoring.

I was on Coumadin for 6 months after the TIA last December. Barb, you are
correct. Careful monitoring is a must. I had blood tests done 2x weekly.
Finally after 6 months I was taken off the medication. It's some scary
stuff. A paper cut took hours to stop bleeding. I carried medical ID with
me in case of an emergency, like if I was in a car accident or something.

Michael

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Kat said:

Quoted message said:

My husband has been in the hospital for the last week, when he is
released he will be required to go on a NO Cholesterol Diet and low
fat. I'll meet w/ the dietitian about 2 wk after he gets home so
until then I'm pretty much on my own.

Use cholesterol free oils for cooking. Becel margarine is good or try some
other brand.. just make sure to read the label. that is another thing that
is going to help. Learn how to read the labels. There are good and bad
fats and you totally want to avoid the transfats. Remove the skin from
chicken. Web searches on cholesterol will give you lots of information. My
cholesterol was up and I got lots of good advice on the Canadian heart and
stroke websites. There are links to recipes and other helpful sites. Good
luck.

Debbie

"The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and
stupidity." Harlan Ellison

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Kat said:

"jmcquown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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They were about to take her foot

Quoted message said:

off due to cholesterol blockages in her leg. She had laser surgery in
1988
which cleared the cholesterol blockage.

Last year she had a clot removed from her carotid artery; they were very
worried about the laser surgery breaking up the clot and sending pieces of
it up into her brain (thus causing a stroke). Fortunuately the surgery
went
well and she is now more healthy than I am. Mom is going to be 80 in
January.

OB Food: her favourite soup courtesy of Mrs. Sam Stafford of Charleston,
SC.

She-Crab Soup

2 Tbs. butter
2 Tbs. flour
1 quart whole milk
2 c. blue crab meat plus roe (you may use canned crab)
dash Worcestershire sauce
salt to taste
1/2 tsp. pepper
1/2 tsp. mace
1/2 tsp. onion powder
1/3 c. dry sherry
1 c. whole cream, whipped

Melt butter and blend with flour until smooth. Add milk and whisk until
smooth. Add crab, roe, Worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper, onion and
garlic
powder. Cook over very low heat about 30 minutes. Add the sherry.
Remove
from heat and blend in the fresh whipped cream just before serving.
Garnish
with freshly chopped parsley. Serves 4-6

Jill

hello .. no woder she had Cholesterol problems.

Yeah. She should have left the flour out...
Eating cholesterol does _not_ raise you serum cholesterol, but eating
simple carbs such as starch and sugar does:

http://www.newtrendspublishing.com/Ravnskov/

Funny, I can eat bacon and eggs and draw a blood specimen an hour later
(if I've been staying on my low carb diet) and Cholesterol will be
normal.

If I eat bread, pizza, pasta, potatoes, sugar, it'll stay elevated for
about 3 days. Alcohol will do it too.

Cheers!
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

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Quoted message said:

Kat said:

Quoted message said:

My husband has been in the hospital for the last week, when he is
released he will be required to go on a NO Cholesterol Diet and low
fat. I'll meet w/ the dietitian about 2 wk after he gets home so
until then I'm pretty much on my own.

Use cholesterol free oils for cooking. Becel margarine is good or try
some other brand.. just make sure to read the label.

I've never heard of Becel and not seen it around here. I use Benecol which
is also suggested by my cardiologist. Maybe you meant Benecol.

Quoted message said:

that is another
thing that is going to help. Learn how to read the labels. There are
good and bad fats and you totally want to avoid the transfats. Remove
the skin from chicken. Web searches on cholesterol will give you lots
of information.

The dietitian can really help with the label reading. Something that is
advertised as no cholesterol, low/no fat etc. may actually contain
cholesterol and fat.

Michael

Quoted message said:

My cholesterol was up and I got lots of good advice
on the Canadian heart and stroke websites. There are links to recipes
and other helpful sites. Good luck.

Debbie

"The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and
stupidity." Harlan Ellison

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Michael 'Dog3' Lonergan said:

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"Debbie" <[email hidden]> looking for trouble wrote in
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Kat wrote:
>> My husband has been in the hospital for the last week, when he is
>> released he will be required to go on a NO Cholesterol Diet and
>> low fat. I'll meet w/ the dietitian about 2 wk after he gets
>> home so until then I'm pretty much on my own.

Use cholesterol free oils for cooking. Becel margarine is good or
try some other brand.. just make sure to read the label.

I've never heard of Becel and not seen it around here. I use Benecol
which is also suggested by my cardiologist. Maybe you meant Benecol.

I'm in Canada and we have Becel which is the big one suggested by lo
cholesterol diets. I could never get into the Becel thing.. so I use
butter, I have just cut down on the amount by about 90%. I'm not sure if
we have Benecol here or not.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

that is another
thing that is going to help. Learn how to read the labels.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

The dietitian can really help with the label reading. Something
that is advertised as no cholesterol, low/no fat etc. may actually
contain cholesterol and fat.

Reading labels is getting to be almost a new science. I find any time that
there is big letttering denying a certain ingredient there is more than
enough of a different ingredient that should be avoided or reduced to make
up for the lack of the first. sigh
I usually go straight to the Nutrition facts and forget the other claims.

Debbie

"The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and
stupidity." Harlan Ellison

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In article <[email hidden]>,
"Kat" <[email hidden]> wrote:

Funny, I can eat bacon and eggs and draw a blood specimen an hour later
(if I've been staying on my low carb diet) and Cholesterol will be
normal.

If I eat bread, pizza, pasta, potatoes, sugar, it'll stay elevated for
about 3 days. Alcohol will do it too.

Cheers!
--

Isn't that true? My husband had elevated liver enzymes (?) and the doctor
was really worried that he'd need a liver transplant. He went on Atkins and
started taking Milk Thistle. Boom! He's at normal levels. If he eats
bread, pasta, rice or potatoes, his levels go up instantly (as well as his
weight). <g> The difficult part about this diet is sticking to it.

kili

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In article <[email hidden]>,
"Kat" <[email hidden]> wrote:

Funny, I can eat bacon and eggs and draw a blood specimen an hour later
(if I've been staying on my low carb diet) and Cholesterol will be
normal.

If I eat bread, pizza, pasta, potatoes, sugar, it'll stay elevated for
about 3 days. Alcohol will do it too.

Cheers!
--

Isn't that true? My husband had elevated liver enzymes (?) and the doctor
was really worried that he'd need a liver transplant. He went on Atkins
and
started taking Milk Thistle. Boom! He's at normal levels. If he eats
bread, pasta, rice or potatoes, his levels go up instantly (as well as his
weight). <g> The difficult part about this diet is sticking to it.

kili

Preaching to the choir here ... I 'only' lost 175 lbs on low carb and
husband lost 80, we met in a low carb chat room and started dating ... 2
kids, 2 dogs and a house later 🙂 here we are.
What he needs isn't the question right now, we know that. It's how to get
what he needs that is the problem. ie, i don't need info on diet, but on no
cols. meals. But thanks anyway.

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jmcquown said:

Melba's Jammin said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

jmcquown said:

Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> In article <[email hidden]>,

(snippage)

Quoted message said:

Mom was told absolutely NO spinach, no broccoli, nothing rich in
Niacin when (snip) OB Food: her favourite soup courtesy of Mrs. Sam
Stafford of Charleston, SC.

She-Crab Soup

Jill

Swell recipe for a NO-CHOLESTEROL diet (and thread), Jillsie. Dufus.

At age 76 mom said, "I'm sick of baked and boiled skinless boneless chicken
breasts; I'll eat whatever the hell I want to." She'll be 80 in January.

You seem to go to more funerals than anyone I know, going so far as to buy
books about funeral food. I do love a good old cemetery but refuse to eat
as though I'm not going to wind up in one, eventually.

Jill <--yeppers, I'm a dufus (and my name is not Jillsie)

Understood, Jillsie.

My eating habits leave a lot to be desired, that's for sure. All those
funerals are part of the hazard of being born to old parents and the
youngest in a large family, not to mention the untimely deaths of seven
or nine other family members and the recent funerals of the parents of
friends. For all that, I'm thinking of making it a new hobby. Possibly
checking out the obits and attending services just to check out the
funeral lunches. Someone here suggested a place where lots of black
folks go to church. We've got some of those in town. :-)

A diabetic friend of ours died of related illness. She enjoyed booze
and cigarettes. When I learned of her diabetes, I blurted out something
about the alcohol and she said you only live once and she was going to
do what she was going to do. At her funeral, one of her kids read the
letter she'd written expressing her regret at not taking care of herself
better than she had - she acknowledged that she was sad to be going -
there were more grandchildren (likely) to be born that she would never
have the joy of knowing, and who would never know her. Why is it those
kinds of words are so often seen to be meants for "someone else?"

When Mom died, Sister Julie was fraught with guilt -- she figured she
would somehow have been able to keep our mom alive if only. . . Well,
Mom was nearly 83 and wasn't about to change her eating habits. The
dance the two of them did was hard on both of them. A dietitian I'm
acquainted with said that once a person's 80 they should eat anything
they damn well please. Seems reasonable to me.
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Preaching to the choir here ... I 'only' lost 175 lbs on low carb and
husband lost 80, we met in a low carb chat room and started dating ...
2 kids, 2 dogs and a house later 🙂 here we are.
What he needs isn't the question right now, we know that. It's how to
get what he needs that is the problem. ie, i don't need info on diet,
but on no cols. meals. But thanks anyway.

I'm glad your husband is mending. I use eggbeaters a lot and egg whites. I
don't have specific recipes as I'm on low fat/cholesterol/carb diet. I'm
hoping the dietitian gives you some useful advice and that you report back
or email the results to me. I would like to know. Back to food: I
substitue low/no fat/cholesterol food products at every opportunity. I use
canola and/or olive oil and I stir fry quite a bit. I bought a teflon
coated wok to use for everyday (or regular use) and use cooking sprays for
oil (cooking spray labels can be misleading. Talk to the dietitian about
this). The stir fry turns out pretty good. The *good* wok is reserved for
dishes I absolutely refuse to compromise ingredients. When I'm alone I
often make omelets out of eggbeaters, veggies and seasonings. I like a lot
of brown and wild rice too. I make wild rice stuffing to go with lean pork
chops etc. I use the grill *a lot*.

Basically I think what I have done with my dietary habits is listened to
the dietitian, educated myself on labels and different food groups and used
common sense in my cooking. No comments about the common sense please 😉

Good luck and let me/us know how your menu planning is progressing.

Michael

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