Author name: Sophia W. Whitman

Home › Recipes & Guides › Everyday recipes Low-Fat Meatloaf: 6 g of Fat a Serving, Still Moist in the Middle Meatloaf is the dish people quietly give up on when they start watching fat. It is built on fatty mince, and everyone has eaten the low-fat attempt: grey, dense, dry enough to need a

Home › Recipes & Guides › Everyday recipes Low-Fat Chicken Stir-Fry: 5 g of Fat a Serving, Crisp Not Greasy Stir-fry is supposed to be the sensible order. Then it arrives from the takeaway glossy, with a slick of oil pooling at the bottom of the carton, and a single portion can carry thirty grams

Home › Recipes & Guides › Everyday recipes Low-Fat Turkey Chili: 3 g of Fat a Serving, Still Thick and Deep A pot of chilli made with regular beef mince runs to 18–22 g of fat a serving, and a fair amount of that is the layer you can see pooling on top. Swap in

Home › Recipes & Guides › Everyday recipes Low-Fat Chicken Parmesan: 9 g of Fat a Serving, Baked Not Fried Classic chicken parmesan is a cutlet shallow-fried in oil, buried under whole-milk mozzarella and served on buttered pasta. Done that way it lands somewhere near 30 g of fat a serving, most of it from

Home › Recipes & Guides › Everyday recipes Low-Fat Beef Stroganoff: 8 g of Fat a Serving Without Losing the Sauce Stroganoff is soured cream and butter poured over beef, and every low-fat version I had tried before this one split, went grainy, or tasted like beef in yoghurt. Which, to be fair, is what

Home › Recipes & Guides › Everyday recipes Low-Fat Chicken Pot Pie: 8 g of Fat a Serving, No Pastry Required Pot pie is one of those dishes people give up on first. The fat is not really in the filling — it is in the pastry, and in the butter-and-flour roux that makes the

Lasagne at 5 g of fat per serving – extra-lean turkey mince, blended low-fat cottage cheese in place of ricotta, and mozzarella only on top.

Creamy macaroni cheese at 5.4 g of fat per serving – a cornflour sauce and blended butternut squash replace the butter roux, with sharp cheddar for flavour.

Eight weeknight dinners, every one under 3 g of saturated fat a serving — the number that actually moves LDL, with total fat and calories listed for each.