| Healthy Eating Recommendations: | |||
| Choose any of these daily | Choose 2 - 3 times per week | Choose once a week or less | Avoid having any of these |
| Wholemeal flour, oatmeal, wholemeal bread, wholegrain cereals, porridge oats, crispbreads, brown rice, wholemeal pasta, cornmeal, untoasted sugar-free muesli, rice cakes. | White bread, white flour, white rice & pasta, water biscuits, wholemeal or oat scones, teacake, pancake. | Sugar-coated cereals, plain semi-sweet biscuits, ordinary muesli. | Sweet biscuits, cream-filled biscuits (unless cooked in rape seed oil), croissants. |
| All fresh, frozen & dried vegetables, baked potatoes (eat skin), tofu. Eat a least 5 - 7 portions per day. | Olives, avocado. | Fruit in syrup, crystallized fruit, chips & roast potatoes cooked in rape seed oil. Oven chips labelled "cooked in sunflower oil and 40% less fat" (grill if possible). | Deep-fat-fried chips, roast potatoes (unless cooked in rape seed oil), crisps & savoury snacks. |
| Chestnuts. | Walnuts, pinenuts. |
Pistachio nuts, pecan, almonds, sesame or sunflower seeds, Peanuts & most other nuts eg hazel nuts, brazil nuts. | Coconut, cashew nuts. |
| All freash & frozen fish (avoid frying), eg cod, plaice, herring, mackerel. | Fish fried in suitable oil, fish fingers or fish cakes (grilled), tinned fish in oil (drained) or tomato sauce eg sardines, tuna. | Prawns, lobster, crab, oysters, molluscs, winkles, smoked fish eg salmon. | Fish roe, taramasalata, fried scampi. |
| Chicken, turkey (without skin), veal, rabbit, game, soya protein, meat substitute, very lean red meat (grilled). | Lean beef, pork, lamb, ham & gammon, very lean minced meat. | Liver, kidney, tripe, sweetbreads. Grilled back bacon (pre-boil in water). Duck (without skin). Low-fat paté. | Sausages, luncheon meats, corned beef, paté, salami, streaky bacon, burgers, goose, meat pies & sausage rolls, pasties, Scotch eggs, visible fat on meat, crackling, chicken skin. |
| Skimmed milk, soya milk, powdered skimmed milk, cottage cheese, low-fat curd cheese, low-fat yoghurt, egg white, low-fat fromage frais. | Semi-skimmed milk, no more than 3 whole eggs per week including those in baked items such as cakes, quiches & flans. | Medium-fat cheeses, eg Edam, Camembert, Gouda, Brie, cheese spreads. Half-fat cheeses labelled "low-fat". Sweetened condensed skimmed milk. | Whole milk & cream, full-fat yoghurt, cheese, eg Stilton, Cheddar, cream cheese, evaporated or condensed milk, imitation cream, excess eggs ie 4 or more per week. |
| Spreads - see next column. | Olive oil, rape seed oil. | Margarine & shortening labelled "high in polyunsaturates" or corn oil, sunflower oil, soya oil, safflower oil, grapeseed oil, peanut (ground nut) oil, reduced-fat and low-fat spreads. | All margarines, shortenings & oils not labelled "high in polyunsaturates". Butter, lard, suet & dripping, vegetable oil or margarine of unknown origin. All spreads not labelled "low-fat". |
| Jelly (low-sugar), sorbet, fat-free home made soups. | Home made pastry, puddings, cakes, biscuits, sauces etc made with wholemeal flour & fat or oil as above, low-fat ready-prepared meals. | Non-dairy ice cream, custard mix made with water or skimmed milk. | Processed pastries, puddings, cakes & sauces made with whole milk & fat or oil as above, suet dumplings or puddings, cream soups. Packet soups. |
| Sugar-free artificial sweeteners, low-fat jam & marmalade. | Jam, marmalade, honey, low-fat soft cheese, low-fat spreads. | Boiled sweets, fruit pastilles & jellies. Marmite, Bovril, chutnies & pickles, fish & meat pastes, peanut butter. | Chocolate spreads, chocolates, toffees, fudge, butterscotch, carob chocolate, coconut bars. |
| Freshly made tea, coffee, mineral-water, fruit juice (unsweetened). | Alcohol: 3-4 units/day (men). 2-3 units /day (women). Maximum 21 units/week (men), 14 units/week (women). | Sweetened drinks, squashes, fruit juice, (sweetened), malted milk or hot chocolate drinks made with skimmed milk. | Whole milk drinks, cream-based liqueurs, coffee whitener. |
| Herbs, spices, lemon juice, garlic, pepper. | Homemade salad dressings & mayonnaise made with suitable oils as above. Low-fat or low-calorie, mayonnaise & dressings. | Parmesan cheese. | High salt intake, Tabasco, soy sauce, ordinary & cream dressings & mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce. |