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Low Fat Natural/Greek Yoghurt and Hard Cheese

Hi

I am trying to reduce my cholesterol. I am not over weight and I eat already mostly healthy and the areas I don't I am already making changes ie sugar laden snacks.

I cook from scratch so I don't eat ready meal type things except when we have the odd take away.

I don't eat anything 'low fat' as I have always been led to believe they are just bulked up with sugars or other bad ingredients.

However I do see a lot advice advising low fat cheese. I dont eat a lot of cheese but when I do I eat mature cheddar cheese. If I bought a low fat version would it just have some fat removed or would it be bulked up with unhealthy ingredients?

Same with natural and greek yoghurt.. I eat a little a day but is it worth changing to low fat or will nasties be replaced with the fat?

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  • tori.k
    tori.k Posts: 3,592 Forumite
    Cheese and unflavored natural yogurt will be fine only ingredients should be milk regardless if it's full fat or semi skimmed.
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