Dr says husband must get his cholesterol down OR ELSE.
Its not THAT tragic, but I do agree that it needs to come down.
MOST of what they recommend, we already do. Others, we've had workarounds for other reasons, so will go back to (specially cooked chicken meat for breakfast instead of eggs, for example). And some things there IS no workaround for... like cheese. (He is European. Cheese is the real thing, or NOTHING.)
Anybody got some good ideas to get around a few really difficult challenges?
1) cream - as in cereal cream... which is the ONLY thing he's had on cereal, all his life. Don't say "switch to bread"... he already has BOTH, and bread doesn't stick with you. Switching to milk is doubly not going to work... he drinks 2% which is already "way too thin" for on cereal... the doctor insists on him switching to skim, which means he won't be drinking milk.
2) ice cream - well, we already use the "cheap" stuff, because its cheap - but its also lower in fat etc. What else works?
3) DESERT. In our house, this is going to be the WORST problem. Because... most deserts either need ice cream to be desert (think fruit salad, apple chrisp, etc.), OR use eggs.
For example, we have a great carrot cake recipe - based on canola oil - but 4 eggs! I've tried it with the "two egg whites instead of one egg", but it does NOT work AT ALL (total flop). And besides, what do you do with 8 egg yokes?
Brownies and ice cream - oops, he can't have either.
The first two - we can have stuff that works for him and the kids can still have the real thing, but... that doesn't work for desert. And I'm stuck with a teenaged boy with a voracious appetite that NEEDS heavy-duty calories, so low-cal is OUT. (husband doesn't have any extra weight on him either - this is NOT a calories issue.... for THEM. <me, well, that's another story>)
Help???
TIA
Its not THAT tragic, but I do agree that it needs to come down.
MOST of what they recommend, we already do. Others, we've had workarounds for other reasons, so will go back to (specially cooked chicken meat for breakfast instead of eggs, for example). And some things there IS no workaround for... like cheese. (He is European. Cheese is the real thing, or NOTHING.)
Anybody got some good ideas to get around a few really difficult challenges?
1) cream - as in cereal cream... which is the ONLY thing he's had on cereal, all his life. Don't say "switch to bread"... he already has BOTH, and bread doesn't stick with you. Switching to milk is doubly not going to work... he drinks 2% which is already "way too thin" for on cereal... the doctor insists on him switching to skim, which means he won't be drinking milk.
2) ice cream - well, we already use the "cheap" stuff, because its cheap - but its also lower in fat etc. What else works?
3) DESERT. In our house, this is going to be the WORST problem. Because... most deserts either need ice cream to be desert (think fruit salad, apple chrisp, etc.), OR use eggs.
For example, we have a great carrot cake recipe - based on canola oil - but 4 eggs! I've tried it with the "two egg whites instead of one egg", but it does NOT work AT ALL (total flop). And besides, what do you do with 8 egg yokes?
Brownies and ice cream - oops, he can't have either.
The first two - we can have stuff that works for him and the kids can still have the real thing, but... that doesn't work for desert. And I'm stuck with a teenaged boy with a voracious appetite that NEEDS heavy-duty calories, so low-cal is OUT. (husband doesn't have any extra weight on him either - this is NOT a calories issue.... for THEM. <me, well, that's another story>)
Help???
TIA