Need more good fat!

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gghost571
gghost571 Posts: 11 Member
in Food and Nutrition
How can I get more good fat in my diet? Any thoughts would be helpful and greatly appreciated. I need to increase my fat intake but don't want to do it with the wrong foods. Thanks for your help!

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  • Nightfall_30
    Nightfall_30 Posts: 6 Member
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    Snack on nuts like almond, have some nut butter, put avocado in your food (I eat it with eggs and wholemeal bread), slightly more olive/coconut oil when you're cooking?
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
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    Peanut butter
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
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    Good fats include these:
    ~butter, walnut oil (good for cooking because of a low smoke point)
    ~full fat yogurt, full fat cheese and milk,
    ~nuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, chia seeds, dry roasted or boiled soybeans, tofu,
    ~salmon, tuna, sardines,
    ~brazil nuts, macadamias,
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
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    Full fat dairy
    Fatty fish - tuna, salmon, trout, mackerel, herring etc
    Fatty cuts of meat - chicken with skin, pork chops, minced meat etc
    Nuts and seeds
    Eggs and mayo
    Oils

    Spread butter on bread if you eat bread, sprinkle parmesan on pasta, use vinegar and olive oil on salads, snack on nuts, dip pieces of fruit in nut butters, have real and tasty meat for dinner, drink whole milk, eat full fat cheese and yogurt.

    Steer away from foods fried at high temperatures, and margarine.
  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
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    Nuts, avocados, fatty cuts of meat.

    Cook with olive oil or coconut oil instead of sunflower oil.

    Look for foods high in saturated and monounsaturated fats and limit your polyunsaturated fats.
  • gghost571
    gghost571 Posts: 11 Member
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    Thanks appreciate your time:)
  • softblondechick
    softblondechick Posts: 1,276 Member
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    My fat comes from eating an avocado every day, and two tablespoons of almonds in my yogurt.
  • beastmode_kitty
    beastmode_kitty Posts: 844 Member
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    Almonds and Avocados!!
  • Capt_Apollo
    Capt_Apollo Posts: 9,026 Member
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    avocado spread on your sandwich instead of mayo.
  • beccamh
    beccamh Posts: 85 Member
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    If you currently buy fat free dairy consider switching to whole milk, full fat yogurt, etc. I find them much more filling and an easy way to incorportate more healthy fats into your diet. To maximize benefits look for grass fed dairy when possible!
  • beccamh
    beccamh Posts: 85 Member
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    Oh also, check out the book "Get Your Fats Straight" which is a quick read and gives tons of good ideas/recipes.
  • bizarrefish
    bizarrefish Posts: 41 Member
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    Lard is pretty good. I generally use it for everything that doesn't need to taste buttery.

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