Healthy Christmas Dinner Top Tips

1. To reduce your fat intake, cut the skin off your turkey. It will make a fat saving of 50%. If you really do love the skin on the turkey, then to reduce your fat intake take a supplement such as Proactol.

2. Instead of a huge plate of roast potatoes, serve baked pototoes instead which only contain 0.4g of fat instead of 9g if you stick to your roast potatoes.

3. Say no to streaky bacon and you will save yourself 84 calories and 6.7g fat.

4. If you are a bread sauce lover, you are able to save yourself another couple of grams of fat by making your sauce with semi-skimmed or skimmed milk rather than whole milk.

5. Go large on brussel sprouts and carrots. Low in fat and high in antioxidant nutrients which will fill you up meaning you won’t be tempted to go for seconds.

6. Have your Christmas pudding but instead of brandy cream or butter, use custard with semi-skimmed milk. That’s almost a 50% reduction in the fat content.

Christmas dinner is not all bad, for one it tastes fabulous and another it means you are eating a balanced meal. A meal that means you are eating most of the required servings of veggies recommended that you eat a day. Also the glass of red wine you drink is a good source of antioxidant
nutrients, which can help protect you against the risk of heart disease.

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