Low fat or full fat

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  • MistressPi
    MistressPi Posts: 514 Member
    Full fat everything. I'd rather do without than eat fake butter, or nasty, watery skim milk. Low fat yoghurt is disgusting. Fat leaves me satiated. The low fat fake substitutes for the real thing just make me hungry.
  • zeal26
    zeal26 Posts: 602 Member
    Milk- Fat free. I only use it in my oatmeal so see no reason to add extra calories.

    Cheese- If I'm just snacking on it or putting it on crackers, full fat all the way. But if I'm making a dish with it (like mac and cheese) then I use fat reduced. I don't notice the difference in that way and it saves a lot of calories.

    Butter- We have amazing butter here in Ireland so it's hard to give that up. But I do use butter spreads for sandwiches etc, and real butter when I'm actually going to taste it straight out (like on potatoes)

    Yoghurt- Not really into yoghurt, but I buy the lowest calorie ones when I do get it.

    Mayo- I have mayo maybe once a month, even less, and Extra Light is all we have in the house.

    Sour cream- I can't find fat reduced sour cream anywhere around here. I wish I could.

    Cream- I've never seen low fat cream here... but I have it like, 3 times a year so I go for the proper stuff anyway!
  • LividMuffin
    LividMuffin Posts: 47 Member
    I eat cheese as a source of protein so I always opt for the low fat version (cottage, hard cheese mozzarella). I get plenty of fats from coconut oil, peanut butter, butter, eggs etc. so I need to go low fat in other things to fit my macros.
    And we only drink coconut or almond milk and never get mayo so no dilemma there..:)
  • Mrsbeale11
    Mrsbeale11 Posts: 126 Member
    I go for full fat baby :0)

    Only because although the low fat has less calories the added sugar knocks the carb content up and I like to keep my carbs for bread rice pasta potatoes...you get me drift

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  • Shropshire1959
    Shropshire1959 Posts: 982 Member
    Full fat, smaller portions is the way I try to go..... Life is too short to eat tasteless crap.
  • saltedcaramel86
    saltedcaramel86 Posts: 238 Member
    Everything full fat (unless it's a rare occassion in work where I've forgotten my whole milk and there is only staff's semi-skimmed for tea/coffee :))

    Prefer the taste of full fat, it's more 'natural' for me and I could actually do with the calories!
  • madbrainDotCom
    madbrainDotCom Posts: 193 Member
    Full fat preferably.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    depends on what it is...

    Ice cream....no frozen yogurt for me...
    Milk ...skim...can't stomach full fat
    10% cream in my coffee or half n half
    hard cheese low fat/light
    butter all the way
    soft cheese full fat
    cream cheese low fat unless I make a cheese cake then full fat
    whole eggs + egg whites

    It's actually about what I can eat...my stomache does not do well with some full fat items...ie whole milk...it's just too rich...but I do want cream in my coffee...go figure.
  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
    Full fat - apart from cola diet every time.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,282 Member
    Full fat, smaller portions is the way I try to go..... Life is too short to eat tasteless crap.

    I don't find low fat milk tasteless - in fact I now find full fat milk too creamy so my tastes have adjusted to actually prefer low fat milk.
    Low fat mayo tastes fine to me and so does low fat yoghurt.
    Ive found a low fat ice cream I like so I buy that.
    I still like my original cheese so that is full fat.
  • hellodmo
    hellodmo Posts: 23
    Full fat unless the lower fat option isn't filled up with unpronouncable chemicals.

    In other words, full fat on everything but milk.
  • helen195
    helen195 Posts: 90 Member
    I read the ingredients on everything I buy. The fewer the ingredients the more natural is it.

    Most time the fat is replaced with added sugar in one form or another and loads of chemicals to make it taste OK.

    I would rather eat less of a natural product than more of unnatural ones.

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