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Here are some tips to keep your refrigerator filled with 'heart healthy'.
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Take stock of what is inside your refrigerator.
Once a month, pull everything out and separate the better-for-you foods from the rest.
Also, don't forget the refrigerator door. Choose more low-fat and fat-free dressings,
condiments, sauces and tablespreads instead of full-fat ones.
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Substitute lower-fat foods for high-fat ones.
Some examples include soft margarine for butter, skim or 1% milk for whole milk; and lean
meats, chicken and fish instead of ribs, ground meat and other fatter meats. A simple
substitution like margarine for butter over a week's time can save you an entire day's
worth of saturated fat.
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Stow away desserts and other indulgence foods in the
crisper, so they are "out of sight, out of mind." Most of the time, healthier foods like fruits
and vegetables are the ones that perish the quickest and, therefore, should be kept on the
refrigerator shelf where you can see them and eat them.
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Divide your refrigerator into different sections
of "choose more often" and "choose less often." This could be by shelf, always keeping
healthier foods up front and less-healthy foods towards the back.
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Make healthy eating fun for the family by
color coding foods with stars and other stickers - use green for heart-healthy, and red for
less healthy.
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